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Thirty-Six Years Ago Super Mario Bros. Went On Sale In Japan
13.9.2021
On September 13, 1985 in Japan, Nintendo released one of its most iconic games ever, Super Mario Bros. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, it was a smash at home and became the Nintendo Entertainment System’s killer app a year later. The world was never the same. As Famitsu points...
Before You Start: Tips For Playing Tales Of Arise
10.9.2021
Tales of Arise, the latest entry in Bandai Namco’s long-running series of games about spiky haired boys who scream “You bastard!!!” and then stab an evil dude, is a notable deviation from established formula. Rather than an action-oriented RPG, as you may expect by now, this one’s more of...
Eight-Year-Old Japanese Boy Starts Building ETH Fortune Selling NFTs
10.9.2021
onews.com/coins/ethereum">ethereum (ETH) profits.The boy, whose name was withheld both on his social media channels and in an interview with Business Insider Japan, is known only as Zombie Z
Many Major Airlines Can Now Accept Cryptocurrencies via UATP Global Payment Network
10.9.2021
Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP) is bringing more than 300 airline members and travel merchants cryptocurrency payment options. Airlines in the UATP network include Air Canada, Air China, Delta, Frontier, Japan Airlines, Jetblue, Qantas, Southwest, and United. UATP Gets Into Crypto UATP is...
WarioWare: Get It Together!: The Kotaku Review
10.9.2021
You are 12 years old and you are in the local Family Video. Your grandmother is picking up a movie and she has no idea what it is yet, so you have time. There is a room with several hundred video games. You have a used Xbox 360, filled with the half-remembered save files of its previous owner,...
The Bloodborne of Samurai Games, Nioh, Is Free On PC
10.9.2021
Nioh takes the action of a Ninja Gaiden and the structure of a Dark Souls and marries them into something elegant, exceptional, and currently free for PC on the Epic Games Store.Read more
Tales Of Arise Is Even Better If You Remap The Buttons
10.9.2021
For years, Bandai Namco’s Tales games have largely been role-playing games with an action bent. Tales of Arise, out now for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, is as close to a pure action game as ever, thanks to a streamlined battle system and a switch on the development end to the Unreal engine. It rules....
FYI: Tales Of Arise’s Costume DLC Adds Hidden Skills
10.9.2021
A Tales game isn’t a Tales game if it doesn’t have a comically ridiculous wardrobe. In that regard, Tales of Arise, the latest entry in Bandai Namco’s long-running series of JRPGs, does not disappoint. (See: screenshot above, screenshots below.) But heed this warning: Downloading the game’s...
Square Enix PS5 Showcase Forspoken Is Starting To Look Like A Real Game
10.9.2021
Sony’s PlayStation Showcase revealed a new trailer for Forspoken that gave a closer look at the story of Luminous Productions’ debut action-adventure.Read more
In Just Two Years, Nintendo Fan Completes Game Boy Collection
10.9.2021
Twitter user Shouta is now the proud owner of all 1,244 Game Boy titles. Congrats! Finishing the collection took less time than he thought it would thanks to Twitter’s help. In the US, there were 1,046 games released for the Game Boy, but in Japan, there were 1,244 titles released in retail shops...
AI Gives Dark Souls Characters More Realistic Faces
9.9.2021
While last week we saw a bunch of Street Fighter characters given realistic human faces, this week the same AI is being turned on a game that’s seemingly even less likely to give us functional results: Dark Souls.Read more
Holy Crap, Look At Spongebob Wavedash In The Nick Fighting Game
8.9.2021
The folks behind upcoming platform fighter Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl released a glut of gameplay footage today, including a breakdown video that shows the cartoon channel’s mascot, Spongebob Squarepants, performing one of the genre’s most important movement techniques, the wavedash. And, oh...
Smash Bros.’ Most Ridiculous Tournament Is Glorious Chaos
8.9.2021
Pro-level fighting game tournaments are a joy to watch, often even when you’re unfamiliar with the game being played. The one guy gets hit, and then everybody yells, and then some cool shit happens. It’s great. While the nuances of a given game may be lost on a newcomer, that’s fine. Fighting games...
That Time Miyamoto Helped A Game By Crouching In It For 20 Mins
8.9.2021
A former Retro Studios developer’s anecdote about working with legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto is too good not to share. It will surprise no one that the Mario creator knows exactly what he’s doing (most of the time) but hearing about how he works in practice adds a whole other layer...
Suda51 Encourages Fans To Cop Bootleg No More Heroes Shirts
8.9.2021
During a recent interview, Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Suda “Suda51” Goichi was asked whether he plans to produce apparel for No More Heroes 3, the superbly absurd hack-and-slash his studio released two weeks ago. His answer? No, but feel free to grab bootleg tees wherever you can find them.Read...
Maybe Don’t Challenge Justin Wong To A $10,000 Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Match
7.9.2021
Talented Marvel vs. Capcom 2 player Butra “Roundhouse” Soinak recently challenged fighting game legend Justin Wong to a $10,000 money match. And while it may have been Labor Day in the United States, it didn’t take much work from Wong to quickly close out the set and walk away with thousands...
New Glitch Could 'Break' BOTW Wide Open, Speedrunners Say
7.9.2021
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the gift that keeps on giving. Though Nintendo’s open-world extravaganza is well over four years old by now, players are still finding new ways to break the game at the altar of entertainment. Case in point: Just this weekend, BotW speedrunner...
Yakuza Director & Jet Set Radio Artist Is Back At Sega
7.9.2021
I’m not normally someone to dwell on personnel changes at video game studios, but this isn’t your everyday career change: Ryuta Ueda, who while at Sega served as Art Director on both Jet Set Radio titles, has announced his return to the company almost a decade after he left.Read more
Sonic Colors: Ultimate Glitches Could Cause Seizures
6.9.2021
Sonic Colors: Ultimate isn’t even officially out yet, but as VGC reports, Sega are already putting out statements addressing the buggy state it’s in. While the game’s full release is tomorrow, pre-orderererers were able to get the game last Friday, and apparently haven’t been having a great time...
After 15 Years, Bemani Composer TAG Says He's Leaving Konami
6.9.2021
For the past fifteen years, one constant for Konami’s Bemani music game series has been the musical stylings of composter Yasuhiro “TAG” Taguchi. Today, he announced his is leaving the Tokyo-based game company.“I’ve now decided to go freelance as a composer after being employed at my company...