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Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition from Beamdog just got a brand new sequel story DLC, and it also seems we're getting Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition from Aspyr Media.

This week is peak Maw-feeding season, for it is the release week of Monster Hunter Wilds, in which there are many maws. Fanged maws! Tusked maws! Pincered maws! Floppy toad maws! Whatever the Rompompolo has on the front of its head - possibly a proboscis, possibly a customisable screwdriver? Whatever shall we throw into all these hungry mouths, gaping at us from the dung-caked dens of Steam? Demos, of course, for this week is also the week of Steam Next Fest.

Apple today announced that its clinical-grade, over-the-counter Hearing Aid feature for AirPods Pro 2 is now available in the United Kingdom. "At Apple, we believe that technology can help people live healthier lives, and we're delighted to bring the Hearing Aid feature to the UK, offering our users an end-to-end hearing health experience with AirPods Pro 2," said Sumbul Desai, M.D., Apple's vice president of Health.The Hearing Aid feature enhances ambient sounds, assisting adults who perceive t...

Duels in the crown. One of the most striking elements of Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game, is the sheer number of Yu-Gi-Oh! video games that came out between 1998 and 2004. The Early Days Collection includes 14 games just from Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance titles, some of which have never previously been released outside of Japan. Over half of the games in the collection belong to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters series...

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It's abbreviated WFRP, and pronounced "woof-rup".

Pint-size powerhouse.

Here are some thought so far... Sega is this weekend running a limited-time Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds 'closed network test' for the PlayStation 5 and the first impressions are now rolling in. There's obviously no feedback about the Switch version at this stage, but there's still enough commentary doing the rounds online to give Sonic fans an idea about what they can expect when this new racing outing does eventually show up on Nintendo's system. Keep in mind as well this is technically a 'closed...

Apple introduced its first in-house cellular modem, the C1, last week with the announcement of the not-so-budget iPhone 16e, and while it didn’t get into too much detail about it, the company reportedly has some big plans for future iterations. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, “Apple intends to eventually meld the modem component into the main processor.” Integrating the modem into the main processor could have energy and cost benefits, but that design is still a ways off. We’ll likely see ...

The first beta of iOS 18.4 is now available, and it includes a small but useful change for CarPlay. As we noted in our list of iOS 18.4 features, CarPlay now shows a third row of icons in vehicles, up from two rows previously. However, this change is only visible in vehicles with a larger center display. For example, a MacRumors Forums member noticed the change in a Toyota Tundra, which can be equipped with up to a 14-inch screen. And on some wide displays, CarPlay now shows five columns of icon...

Apple has started preparing its marketing, sales, and retail teams as it gears up for the March release of new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models featuring M4 chips, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said that current models are also seeing inventory drawn down at stores, which is another signal that a launch is nearing. A launch has been thought to be imminent for a while now. In fact, it was originally rumored to be planned as Apple's f...

Netflix dropped a blooper reel this weekend from the first season of its live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender show, giving fans a look at some cute behind the scenes antics while they wait for the next season. The first season was released a year ago, and Netflix announced shortly after that the show had been renewed for two more. There’s no release date yet for the new episodes, but the streaming service said on Saturday that production for the second season is underway. The third season will...

Doom of Icewind Dale is the first entry in a planned series.

Two major contemporary developers will be honored at GDC this year.

You’ve heard of roguelike, you’ve heard of Soulslike, but have you ever heard of Rootlike? Root Bear is one of those games that just perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Playdate; it’s silly as hell, uses the crank and will engage your competitive side as you rack up tips from soda-drinking bears and try to beat your own high score. The game has been a massive success, so it’s no surprise to see it’s now inspired the development of other games in its style. Well, one game at least. Pup Cup, whic...

Go downstream, go faster. That checks out.

Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm has hit out at Twitch, saying he "should've never been banned in the first place" despite admitting to conduct that "leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate" with a minor back in June 2024.

Brace yourself, Assassin's Creed fans - it looks like early copies of the upcoming instalment, Assassin's Creed Shadows, have broken the street date.

Intuitive Machines, the company that pulled off the first-ever commercial moon landing this time last year with its Odysseus spacecraft, is gearing up for another shot at touching the lunar surface. Its second flight under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is scheduled to take off no earlier than Wednesday February 26, launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The company is once again sending one of its Nova-C landers, this one nicknamed Athena. It’s expected to take about a w...

Peter Jason - a Hollywood stalwart known to most gamers as Fallout 2's Drill Sergeant Arch Dornan in Fallout 2 and Gears of War's Dizzy - has died aged 80.

We’re at a point now where deckbuilders can come in all shapes and sizes. Balatro takes the traditional 52 card deck in an all-new direction, Slay the Spire spins the genre towards turn-based combat, and Inscryption drenches the idea in an unsettling atmosphere. My point is, we’ve got so much choice that just calling a videogame a deckbuilder these days won’t tell you nearly enough. That said, it’s one of my favorite genres, so I’m always on the lookout for new experiences. If that’s you, too, t...

Playing Marvel’s Hulk (or a Hulk-like) requires fearlessness. While budget constraints demand a decent amount of time spent walking and talking as humanoid Bruce Banner or Jennifer Walters or, most recently, Thaddeus Ross in Captain America: Brave New World, at some point, the gamma radiation kicks in and the snarling begins.  No actor can look...

Twitch has updated its enforcement rules so that streamers caught violating its guidelines will be subjected to varying limited-time bans, with even indefinitely suspendees able to reapply for their accounts to be reinstatement after six months.

Shauna (Melanie Lynskey, as an adult) is not happy about the gold necklace situation at the end of the latest Yellowjackets episode.  Which is understandable. At the very least, it’s a token from her dead best friend, someone she’s haunted by the mere thought of, and sometimes scared she lives in the total shadow of...

We may see the M4 MacBook Air as soon as March. In the Power On newsletter this weekend, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is readying itself for the launch of the upgraded laptop next month. The company is “preparing its marketing, sales and retail teams for the debut,” according to Gurman’s sources, and it’s letting inventory of the existing models wind down. The M4 MacBook Air is expected to come in two sizes, 13-inch and 15-inch, like the previous model. Apple introduced the M3 MacB...

Another day means yet another surprise Steam release has rocketed up the charts. Today it’s the Mecha Break demo, as players are getting a taste for the PvP and PvE robotic combat game. It’s already topping stalwarts like GTA 5, and has even managed to squeeze past the consistent player numbers of Marvel Rivals too. As of writing it's the fourth-biggest game on Steam, with quite the climb needed to reach third place.

Monster Hunter Wilds is almost here, and while its position as the successor to Capcom’s best-selling game ever suggests many players will be returning ones, there are sure to be lots of newcomers to the series, or people who bounced off previous entries. The beastie-battling RPGs have always been notorious for their layers upon layers of systems, and that’s something the studio has worked to better explain for its newest entry. When I sat down with game director Yuya Tokuda and producer Ryozo T...

Marvel Studios hasn’t yet announced any plans to actually give the X-Men their own Marvel Cinematic Universe movie — and even if the company announced one tomorrow, the production pipeline means it wouldn’t come out before 2027 or ’28 at the earliest. But that certainly hasn’t stopped the creative minds behind MCU movies from playing...

My Ravona.

Ever since the 2019 release of The Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars sequel trilogy star Daisy Ridley has been experimenting with a wide variety of genres. She’s starred in a dystopian sci-fi thriller, a rom-com about daydreaming of your own death, a psychological thriller, a neo-noir thriller, a sports drama, and an animated movie.  “I...

Issue #21 - February 2024. And we're back for the February edition of the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Time is moving slowly for those of us jonesing for that Switch 2 Direct, but we've had games like Civ 7, Laika, and Citizen Sleeper 2 to keep us busy, and we're all looking forward to Xenoblade Chronicles X - it would just be nice if it launched on 20th February rather than 20th March. Anyhow, it's time for our monthly letters page feature. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready an...

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