Since 2019, Google’s affordable smartphone series has progressed and improved in almost all areas. After four years of updates and very few failures, the Pixel 8a is the fully evolved final form. Here’s what it’s like to use over a longer period of time. Hardware and design I love the switch to a matte finish … Read more
In racing games, sound evokes speed and position and even signals the player to change gear. It is as crucial as graphic design. But Formula 1 sounds are not easy to capture. The cars rarely run and are effectively thrown away after a year, the race weekends are incredibly noisy with all kinds of hard … Read more
A short walk – short and sweet (Whippoorwill) One reader mentions a whole host of games that can not only be completed in an afternoon, but are just as good as their more time-consuming equivalents. Whether you’re someone with limited playing time or just looking for a palette cleanser between hundred-hour role-playing games, it’s often … Read more
Subscribe to Nintendo Life at YouTube768k We’re now halfway through the year for 2024 and it’s been great so far on the Switch with games like Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Luckily, there’s more in the pipeline in the way of first-party exclusives, with 3DS title Luigi’s Mansion 2 returning in HD this month. As … Read more
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – did it have to take so long? (Ubisoft) One reader suggests that making single-player games shorter will not only help save budgets, but also ensure that people aren’t deterred from playing them. Video games are in crisis right now, there’s no doubt about it. Console sales have fallen, the cost of … Read more
Space flight doesn’t usually come to mind when you think of the serene, green mountains of North Carolina. It’s true that NASA built the (now defunct) Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Facility among the rolling hills of Appalachia in the early 1960s to track Soviet satellites and relay communications for the Gemini and Apollo … Read more
I attended a screening of Indie game: the movie, probably still the most famous documentary about video game development, in early 2012. The film was held at the Game Developers Conference – “the definition of home audience,” as I wrote at the time – and received a standing ovation from a huge audience in the … Read more
Image source, Ninja theory Image caption, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is a sequel to the 2017 game praised for its depiction of psychosis Item information Author, Tom Richardson Role, BBC Newsbeat 4 hours ago Visit any video game developer a week before their last major release and questions will be in the air. Will people … Read more
New ‘constellations’ above Earth, made from defunct satellites and old rocket parts, have been identified to draw attention to the ever-growing problem of space debris. The project is called Space Trash Signs and is the result of a collaboration between space sustainability company Privateer, German design agency Moby Digg, visual artist Frank Gräfe and communications … Read more
Marnie, eight, was shocked by the price of two screwballs in Burnley (Main photo, stock photo by Getty, inset, TikTok/@karislambert) An eight-year-old girl has become a TikTok sensation after brutally taking down an ice cream van selling two ice creams for £9. Marnie, standing next to her identical twin sister Mylah in Burnley, Lancashire, says … Read more