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Digital yuan transactions beat out Visa at Winter Olympics venue: report
10.2.2022
Many of the National Stadium retailers allowing purchases with China’s CBDC were outside the Olympics' quarantine bubble for athletes, journalists, and staff
You're Not Paying Enough Attention To Square Enix's New Time-Traveling Detective Game
10.2.2022
Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct had a little bit of something for everyone, from Wii Sports jocks to Mario Kart speedsters to Kirby vore fanatics. But that doesn’t mean that something incredible wasn’t missing. In fact, the Japanese Nintendo Direct included something pretty terrific that the version...
Report: Gaming CEO Pushes NFT Scam While Devs Struggle To Buy Food
10.2.2022
On January 31, publisher Team17 announced a Worms NFTs and was roundly rebuked by fans and studio partners alike. A day later it apologized and canceled the whole thing. According to a new report by Eurogamer, that was only the tip of the iceberg of Team17’s bullshit, which also included bad...
Daisy Is The Only Super Mario Girl With Teeth, Apparently
10.2.2022
We all know Daisy is a little weird, what with her third eye and all. But were you also aware that she’s the only prominent woman in the Super Mario series with teeth? Well, now you are. I’m sorry.Read more
One Of The Best Games Of 2020 Comes To Switch Today
10.2.2022
There exists within the indie gaming world a vocabulary that few can capture faithfully. It’s that bespoke patois that can be found in A Night In The Woods, in Oxenfree, in A Short Hike. None sounds the same as the other, and yet all have that same cadence, a truthfulness about their dialogue that...
Mario Kart 8 Fans Say DLC Is A Graphical Downgrade
10.2.2022
The many lives of Mario Kart 8 continue with Nintendo’s DLC announcement during its first Direct of 2022, which will see courses from the series’ past added through 2023. But it’s not all sunny circuits and rainbow roads for longtime fans. Many are currently comparing screenshots between what...
Binance Partners With Korean Entertainment Corporation — NFT and Metaverse Collaborations Envisioned
10.2.2022
Binance and the South Korean entertainment corporation, YG Entertainment, have signed an agreement that enables the two firms to collaborate on blockchain projects that include non-fungible tokens (NFTs). They also plan to develop games that are compatible with the Binance Smart Chain (BSC). NFTs...
Mother Creator Shigesato Itoi Does A Master Class In Trolling
10.2.2022
Shortly before yesterday’s Nintendo Direct, Mother creator Shigesato Itoi tweeted, causing speculation to go wild. Read more
Artist Hit With Tracing Allegations, But Pokémon Company Says Collab Shirt Is Original
10.2.2022
In the past few weeks, popular artist Cotoh Tsumi has been repeatedly hit with tracing allegations. On 2ch and Twitter, critics have posted examples of what they say proves these charges, which the artist has denied. The criticism has become incessant, and now, some collab goods are being pulled....
Sims 4 Wedding Expansion Won't Release In Russia Over Homophobic 'Federal Laws'
10.2.2022
The Russian government is notoriously homophobic, to the point where a law was passed in 2013 that everyone outside of Russia simply refers to as the ‘Russian gay propaganda law’. Which goes a long way to explaining why EA won’t be releasing the latest Sims expansion in the region.Read more
FarmVille developer Zynga set to release first NFT game this year
10.2.2022
Mobile gaming giant Zynga has outlined new plans for NFT-based games and Web3 acquisitions coming in 2022
Hacker: Elden Ring May Suffer Same Serious Online Exploits As Dark Souls III
10.2.2022
All PC versions of the Dark Souls games will remain offline for the foreseeable future, according to a new tweet from series publisher Bandai Namco, in order to fix at least one major security vulnerability. Further, the developers are working to ensure that the same serious vulnerability does...
This New Kirby Game Is Messed Up
10.2.2022
Because it’s a Kirby game, and because Kirby games are never allowed to sit at the adult’s table of Nintendo’s release schedule, you would think the upcoming release of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, aka what you could assume to be just another Kirby platformer, would go unremarked by many....
Instead Of Announcing Mario Kart 9 Nintendo Reveals More Mario Kart 8 DLC
9.2.2022
While Mario Kart fans might have anticipated the announcement of Mario Kart 9 during today’s Nintendo Direct, Nintendo instead opted to announce that remastered courses from the Mario Kart series will be hitting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as paid DLC in the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass.Read more
Mother, EarthBound Being Added To Nintendo Switch Online
9.2.2022
During today’s Direct presentation, Nintendo announced that its classic RPGs Mother (known in the West as EarthBound Beginnings) and EarthBound are coming to the Nintendo Switch’s retro libraries for NES and SNES, respectively.Read more
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Coming To Nintendo Switch In September
9.2.2022
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 exists and it’s only a few months away. Nintendo revealed the sprawling open world game will come to Switch in September 2022 and it looks gorgeous. Read more
Wii Sports Is Getting A Sequel On The Nintendo Switch
9.2.2022
Nintendo just announced what’s basically a sequel to the classic Wii Sports, only this time for the Nintendo Switch. And this time it’s called...Nintendo Switch Sports.Read more
Chrono Cross Remaster Coming To Switch On April 7
9.2.2022
Chrono Trigger pseudo-sequel Chrono Cross is being remastered for the Nintendo Switch. It’s scheduled to launch on April 7.Read more
Mario Strikers Returns With Battle League, Coming June 10
9.2.2022
It’s been more than a decade since the last Mario Strikers game. But fans of the battle soccer series won’t have to wait much longer for the new game. During today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, the company revealed Mario Strikers: Battle League, which will hit the Nintendo Switch on June 10.Read...
Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Getting A Musou Spin-Off
9.2.2022
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is coming back, this time as the frenetic hack-and-slash game Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. The Musou-style game arrives on Nintendo Switch on June 24, 2022.Read more