Between WarioWare, NES Remix, and Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition, Nintendo has a thing for chopping its games up. Small chunks, often. When it comes to Nintendo World Championships, the clunky name is by far the longest part. As for the rest of the game, it’s, what, 10 seconds, 50 seconds at a push? This … Read more
Nearly a year after the full release of Baldur’s Gate 3, dedicated players are still discovering rare interactions tied to fail-safes and backup fail-safes designed to prevent us from unknowingly breaking the game. The latest find comes after 1,400 hours of sleuthing Proxy Gate Tacticianwhich found a happy merchant, magical fish, spontaneous goblins, and a … Read more
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube772k Remember NES Remix on Wii U? We loved watching it back in the day, and now Nintendo has seen fit to revisit similar territory with Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, a game that aims to put you in the shoes of a Nintendo World Championships competitor! Okay, maybe we’re … Read more
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is a carefully crafted nostalgia trip, in the style of the decade-old NES Remix games, that plays on the competitive spirit of the esports event that Nintendo launched over 30 years ago. Despite being another collection of worn-out NES titles repackaged as a minigame speedrunning challenge, I can’t Nintendo World … Read more
World of Warcraft: The War Within is the 10th expansion for the game, and it launches just a few months before the MMO’s 20th anniversary. But The war within is more than just a milestone for long-term World of Warcraft players feel old. It is also the beginning of the end for the first saga … Read more
Astronomers have discovered a world that they believe has ideal conditions for a thick atmosphere and an ocean half the size of the Atlantic Ocean. The Exoplanet — a world that orbits a star other than the sun — is LHS 1140 b, and is located about 48 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cetus. … Read more
Temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b may be a world completely covered in ice (left), similar to Jupiter’s moon Europa, or an icy world with a liquid substellar ocean and a cloudy atmosphere (center). LHS 1140 b is 1.7 times the size of Earth (right) and is the most promising exoplanet in the habitable zone found … Read more
Within the world’s oldest crystals, collected from the Jack Hills in Western Australia, lie the remains of even older rocks—some of which have been reprocessed by magma into the remaining crystals. Using machine learning, geologists have revealed that a third of these ancient rocks were sedimentary. This means that more than four billion years ago, … Read more
Big Macs should taste pretty much the same all over the world. (Photo: Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images) It’s fair to say that the Big Mac is the most iconic dish on the McDonald’s menu (sorry, McNugget fans). But did you know that Big Macs in the UK actually look a little different to those in countries … Read more
Group of Dongju Zhang/Lanzhou University Excavations in the Baishiya Karst Cave reveal previously unknown details about the life of the Denisovan people on the Tibetan Plateau. Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. CNN — The grasslands, … Read more