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Mickey Mouse has been in the public domain for under 48 hours and there’s already a horror game and 2 horror movies on the way
After multiple changes to US law that kept it copyrighted for nearly 100 years, 1928 Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie—which contains the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse—is now in the public domain. And what do we do when a beloved children’s character becomes available to use in new creative works? We make them into…
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Our 2024 Nintendo Gaming Predictions
Switch Online additions? Image: Nintendo OLLIE: Given that it’s celebrating its 25th anniversary later this month, I don’t think it’s entirely out of the question to expect Super Smash Bros. to turn up on Nintendo Switch Online. Stranger things have happened! On the flip side, I don’t think we’re going to get any new consoles…
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“I Don’t Want To Copy” – Paying Homage To Childhood RPGs With Sea Of Stars
Nintendo Life: Congratulations! Sea of Stars is done and it’s nearly out! Thierry Boulanger, Creative Director of Sea of Stars: Yes! We can’t touch it anymore. It’s actually really weird. We’ve been obsessing forever, and now it’s out of our hands. The behind-the-scenes of that is that you send your bill to certification and then…
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Alan Wake 2 is so stuffed with jump scares it cheapens the good horror
Alan Wake 2 is a worthy successor to the original, and dare I say, even outdoes it in many ways. But there is one thing that Remedy’s long-awaited sequel has in abundance that I wish there were less of—or none at all—and that is the jump scares. I get it: a well-placed jump scare can…
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Our boldest predictions for PC gaming in 2024
Predicting the future of something as volatile and changeable as videogames truly is a mug’s game. Well, fill us up with coffee because we are apparently mugs. In 2023, the most talked-about game of the year was a CRPG with turn-based combat, and the most quickly forgotten one was a new Bethesda open world. While…
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8 underappreciated games of 2023 that we think deserve way more players
The defining mood of this era of gaming is definitely FOMO. Who’s got the time to play all these games? You don’t have to be a professional writer-about-games to feel it: we are bombarded by new releases and meaningful updates. Even years-old games stage meaningful comebacks. The market isn’t saturated, it’s a broken dam flooding…
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Why It’s Okay That Someone Hasn’t Played Your Favorite Game
At the end of every year, gamers are faced with an undeniable fact: far too many video games are released in a 12-month span for anyone to reasonably play them all. It’s literally my job to play video games and I bet someone could fill a reasonable top ten this year of titles I didn’t…
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8-Bit Wolf – Remembering The NES Game Teaching Kids To Conquer Wall Street
Image: Nintendo Life Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! When you think back to being in middle school, staying up all night with your friends playing video games, what games are you playing? Is it Mass Effect? Maybe…
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PC Gamer’s biggest hardware stories of 2023: AI wars, quantum lies, ray tracing magic, storage matters, and more
Well, we’ve made it. Another year has gone by and it’s been as busy as ever, with constant changes in the world of PC hardware and software. So much has happened that it wouldn’t make sense to try and cover it all in a single article, but we don’t need to. That’s because it’s our…
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Nintendo Switch Ports We’d Love To See In 2024
Image: Nintendo Life Another year down and the Switch ports have been coming thicker and faster than ever. Looking back at our wishlist from last year, we’ve seen Batman Arkham Trilogy, Metroid Prime, The Case of the Golden Idol, Vampire Survivors, Potion Craft, Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, and 3 come to Switch in 2023…