The Odyssey box office won’t matter — it will be the biggest movie of the year regardless

A while ago, I made a foolhardy bet with a friend: I bet that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey would make more money than Avengers: Doomsday at the global box office. I think I’m going to lose that bet. (Apart from anything else, I forgot that China loves Avengers movies.) But I think I’m going to…

League of Legends “not open” to third-party skins: “The tone of your game completely changes”

I have very strong feelings about third-party skins in videogames. Warzone. Overwatch. Fortnite. Some of the biggest multiplayer titles have leaned heavily into third-party promotion; it feels like we can’t go a single week without some new Overwatch X [insert pop culture thing here] collab. As someone who believes that these cosmetics cheapen games, I…

Zuckerberg Boasts He Exploited Staff For AI Training Before Firings

I don’t know if you heard the news, but Mark Zuckerberg is a real piece of shit. One of many recent examples is the news from Futurism that the dead-eyed Meta CEO boasted to his employees that their intelligence and elite skills were unknowingly being used to train his AI model at the same time as…

PSA: You Can Pre-Order Star Fox Physically For Less Than The Digital Version (UK)

Image: Nintendo Life Star Fox is, at the time of writing, less than a month away from launch. Can you believe that? We didn’t even know about it a month ago! Yes, the remake is inching toward its release on 25th June 2026, and if you’re in the UK, you can take advantage of a…

This Xbox Series X Bundle Includes Forza Horizon 6 And A Controller For Free

We’re living in a strange time where current-gen video game consoles have only gotten more expensive, not cheaper. Fortunately, the Xbox Series X Forza Horizon 6 Bundle from Best Buy is a good deal at $648. You get a powerful Xbox to enjoy one of this year’s hottest racing games and a colorful controller to play it with. Overall, you’ll save…

‘I do think Blow misunderstood what the game is about’: Derelict Star made Jonathan Blow rage quit, but it’s the most fascinating indie platformer I’ve played for years

A couple of weeks ago on X, someone reposted Braid and The Witness creator Jonathan Blow into my feed. He was sounding off about a new indie action-platformer called Derelict Star that I hadn’t heard of, but which has quietly gained an audience among movement platformer enthusiasts since its release in early April. Blow was…

Grab 007 First Light for free, thanks to Nvidia

If you’re champing at the bit to experience the cocktail-fuelled, suit-wearing, shooting shenanigans of Mr. Bond in 007 First Light, you’ll want to pay attention to this offer from Nvidia. Sign up for its GeForce Now game streaming service, and you can get IOI’s latest for free, saving you $70. We’re still a few days…

Inefficient And Laborious – The Ongoing Path To Making Deltarune

This feature originally appeared in issue 372 (The Outer Worlds 2) of Game Informer magazine. Special thanks to Deltarune’s enthusiastic and creative community for allowing us to highlight a small sampling of their impressive fan art! When I asked Toby Fox, the developer behind the viral hit, Undertale (and now its spin-off Deltarune), if I…

Bandai Namco Warns Tamagotchi Owners About Death Glitch

Hard enough to explain to a kid what happened to their goldfish Bubbles, but imagine sitting them down for a lecture about why their Tamagotchi had to go farm too. Seems you can take the digital pocket pets out of Y2K, but you can’t get the Y2K bug out of your digital pets. This week…

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO Releasing Multiple Character Packs On Switch 1 & 2 This Week

“The fight isn’t over”. Although Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO eventually got a release on the Switch and Switch 2 last year, Nintendo players have been waiting on some paid DLC. In an update, it seems the launch date for the Daima Character Packs 1&2 and Shallot Character Pack have now been locked in for a…