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Super Mario World Is Now Playable In Widescreen
21.6.2021
Software engineer and SNES ROM hacker Vitor Vilela has led a team which has created and released Super Mario World Widescreen, a download that lets you play Nintendo’s Super Mario World—first released in 1990—on modern widescreen displays.Read more
The Week In Games: The Sport Of Kings
20.6.2021
Golf is a classy sport. The kind of sport that has been played by dignified men and women. A perfect sport for Waluigi and Wario. Mario Golf: Super Rush releases later this week on Nintendo Switch. Read more
'Shop Contest: Happy Father's Day
20.6.2021
Today is Father’s Day. And there sure are a lot of dads in gaming. So let’s celebrate the holiday by having fun with all the various video game fathers on their special day. Read more
Back 4 Blood Will Require An Always Online Internet Connection And That's Terrible
19.6.2021
Back 4 Blood looks cool. I’m a big fan of co-op shooters like Left 4 Dead. But last weekend developers Turtle Rock Studios confirmed that when B4B launches later this year it will require an internet connection. Even if you want to play alone. This is a bad decision and yet it keeps happening. Read...
It's Not That Hard Keeping Big Resellers Away From Graphics Cards
18.6.2021
While a Micro Center in Dallas was the scene of some depressing scenes earlier this month, when a huge crowd crushed against the store trying to get their hands on a new GPU, other stores in the chain have implemented far more stringent measures against scalpers and resellers.Read more
The Xbox Design Lab Is Back, Letting You Make Tacky Next-Gen Controllers
18.6.2021
The Xbox Design Lab website is back, letting users officially create their own custom controllers that are then built and shipped by Microsoft. The Lab was first launched in 2016, but shut down for a bit during the Xbox Series X/S launch. Now, it’s back and supports the new Xbox controller too....
The (Un)cancelation of David Dobrik
17.6.2021
A month ago, YouTube darling David Dobrik went on a YouTube hiatus following allegations that a former member of his vlogging group sexually assaulted a woman during the filming of a now-deleted video. Around the same time, news came out that a close friend of Dobrik’s was gravely injured in...
Elden Ring Will Be Easier, Dev Says, But No Difficulty Options
17.6.2021
Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki recently sat down with Japanese gaming outlet Famitsu to discuss the upcoming From Software adventure following its stunning reintroduction at E3 2021. While their conversation treads similar ground to other interviews, Miyazaki also got into the ways his team...
PS5 Users Will Soon Be Able To Beta Test Future Updates
17.6.2021
The PS5 is getting a beta program that will let users try out upcoming console updates before they go live to everyone else. Sony announced the program today, and folks can start signing up now. Read more
The Nintendo Download: The Strange Olympics
17.6.2021
The constant flow of new Nintendo Switch games slows to a relative trickle in the wake of E3 2021, with only 23 new games coming to the Switch eShop this week. They include Rebellion’s 2018 co-op supernatural shooter Strange Brigade, and Sega’s fresh take on the Tokyo Olympics. Read more
New Tamagotchi Is A Wearable Smart Device
17.6.2021
Remember Tamagotchi? Those virtual pets that sparked a craze in the 1990s are back. But this time, they’re back, but as wearable smart devices.Read more
Xbox One Will Soon Be Able To Stream Next-Gen Games
16.6.2021
As we enter the sixth month of the great console shortage of 2021 and the infinity-th month of you not having $500 to just throw around, you might be starting to feel like you’ll never get your ticket to board the next-gen express. Well, take heart, because Microsoft is planning on making its slate...
Every Confirmed New Game At E3 2021
16.6.2021
As E3 2021 relentlessly marches from one streaming event to the next, it can be difficult to keep track of all the games making their big debut. Was that game new? Haven’t we heard of it before? No, wait, it was totally announced at that one event last year!Read more
Starfield Is An Xbox Exclusive, And Pete Hines Is Sorry
16.6.2021
Starfield, the big space-faring RPG from Bethesda, isn’t coming to PlayStation. Microsoft confirmed as much in its E3 2021 press conference. This morning, Bethesda’s Pete Hines addressed—and even apologized—for the exclusivity in a live-streamed interview with GameSpot.Read more
Even With Anime, Netflix Subscriptions Lag Behind In Japan
16.6.2021
Take a look at the top ten charts on Netflix Japan, and it’s filled with anime. The streaming service has gone out of its way to appeal to Japan, including producing Netflix exclusive Japanese dramas, but subscriptions are still lagging behind other regions.Read more
WarioWare Finally Returns With Get It Together
15.6.2021
Mario’s lovably disgusting foil Wario hasn’t had a new game in quite a while. Nintendo fixes that September 10 with WarioWare: Get It Together, featuring the same fast-paced mini-games we know and love with support for two players at once. Read more
Fatal Frame Is Coming To Nintendo Switch
15.6.2021
Earlier this year, a Fatal Frame pachinko game was announced, seeming to dash hopes for a proper release anytime soon. But good news! Today, during Nintendo’s E3 Direct, it was announced that Fatal Frame is headed to the Switch.Read more
Sotheby's will auction World Wide Web source code as NFT
15.6.2021
Describing NFTs as the "most appropriate means of ownership that exists," a 65-year-old computer scientist will release a tokenized version of the world wide web code next week
The Absolute Size Of This New Xbox Controller
15.6.2021
Turtle Beach announced earlier today a new, large controller for flight sim players.Read more
E3 Twitch Chat Has Been Miserable
14.6.2021
For what feels like eons now, the E3 Pangea has threatened to break apart and scatter gaming landmasses to all corners of the Earth. Now that’s finally happening, with this year’s E3 functioning as a loose umbrella for a plethora of publisher-specific shows. This has given companies a massive stage...