How Do You Pronounce These Pokémon?

Image: Nintendo Life / The Pokémon Company After 30 years and well over 1000 Pokémon in the National Dex, coming up with snappy names for Pocket Monsters is tough. Add in all the languages the games are localised into, and potential issues around certain words and puns which don’t translate well, and it’s no wonder…

All Of The Best Cosplay From Lvl Up Expo 2026

2026 is truly raising the game for cosplay. After the extraordinary outfits we featured that appeared at WonderCon, we’ve got another extraordinary gallery of incredible costumes from 2026’s Lvl Up Expo, via the photography magic of Mineralblu. The Vegas show, which is all about pop culture and gaming, has cosplay at its core, and people…

Hit 2023 PS5 Action Game 70% Off in PS Store Deal, Lowest Price

An award-winning, universally-acclaimed 2023 PS5 action game is 70% off in a limited-time PS Store deal that ends tomorrow, May 7, 2026. Remedy Entertainment’s horror adventure Alan Wake 2 is at its lowest price once again, so those who missed out on the PS Plus freebie should grab this deal. GOTY nominee Alan Wake 2’s…

Elon Musk said Gabe Newell gets ‘two thumbs up from me’ for the OpenAI board but Jeff Bezos is ‘clueless’

The legal fight between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman has seen much internal documentation from the firm’s earliest years released to the public. One minor revelation has been the serious involvement of Gabe Newell from the start, who gave the company over $20 million and was the sole member of its “informal advisory…

Critical Role officially reveals when Campaign 4 tables will reunite

Campaign 4 of Critical Role has been a whirlwind since it debuted on Oct. 2 last year. After a four-episode Overture introducing the cast, characters, world, and lore of Aramán (a world entirely different from the previous campaign’s Exandria), the 13-player cast split into three tables: Soldiers, Seekers, and Schemers. Over the past few months,…

Steam Controller took “easily hundreds” of attempts to get its layout right, but did Valve nail it?

The Steam Controller was first envisioned almost as soon as the Steam Deck landed, and, according to Valve product designers Lawrence Yang and Steve Cardinali, those early stages of its development involved “easily hundreds” of initial prototypes. Wanting to create a product that harnessed the brilliance of the dual-trackpad controller design of the Steam Deck,…

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Review: Not Enough Content Or Conflict

When I was around eight years old, I had an ant farm that I kept in my room. Unlike standard ant farms, where ants could burrow into layers of dirt and hide from whatever wide-eyed child had put them there, mine was filled with a transparent blue gel that served as both the material the…

Fanatical’s Legendary Bundle makes Frostpunk 2, The Alters, and Chernobylite 2 cheaper than ever

As someone with a Steam backlog, that I’m constantly filling up with games I’ll ‘play later’, I don’t typically pay full price unless I really want the game – I already have too many games. However, when deals like the Fanatical Legendary Bundle come around, it’s hard to say no to so many excellent games…

Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes Announces Major Game Update, Releasing Alongside New DLC Fighter

Arc System Works and developer French Bread have announced a new fighter will join the roster of Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes, alongside a “major update”. Zohar will be arriving as a new DLC character in Summer 2026. Here’s a description from the official PR, along with a look: Zohar was a key member of…

PS5 Remakes of Beloved PS1 Adventure Games Get Release Date

A pair of highly anticipated PS5 remakes of some of the original PlayStation’s most beloved adventure games officially have release dates. What PS5 remakes are coming out? In a recent post on the PlayStation Blog, Cyan Worlds revealed the release dates for the remakes of Myst and Riven, two two of the biggest adventure games…