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Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit Rights Bought By Video Game Super-Publisher
18.8.2022
The Embracer Group, who are slowly buying any and every video game publisher and studio on the market, just announced that they have purchased Middle-earth Enterprises, the company that owns the rights to most of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important works, including Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.Read...
We Have All Been Bob Hoskins Contemplating Life And The Super Mario Bros. Movie
18.8.2022
Thank you, All The Right Movies, for digging up this old interview with Bob Hoskins, in which the award-winning British actor talks about the time he got the job playing Mario in the 1993 big-screen adaptation of Nintendo’s series.Read more
This Vampire Game Has You Running A Hotel Where You Can Eat Anyone
16.8.2022
For a while it was WW2. Then came zombies. A while after that, everything was open-world fantasy. Gaming is very susceptible to memetic themes, with certain topics taking over to the point of saturation. But if you’d given me a million guesses where we’d be in 2022, I don’t think I’d have guessed...
Study: Nigeria Most Crypto-Obsessed English Speaking Country Globally
4.8.2022
A new study has ranked Nigeria as the country most curious about cryptocurrency post the April crypto market crash. The same study findings show Kenya as the second-highest ranked African country. According to Bobby Ong, co-founder of Coingecko, the countries topping the list seem more interested...
Here’s The Lowdown On That Kickass, Scott Pilgrim-Esque Skateboarding RPG
1.8.2022
Thirsty Suitors has all the makings of the next big game.Read more
We Need To Talk About This John-Wick-But-It's-Cute-Girls Anime
30.7.2022
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Play-to-Earn Fantasy Sports Game, Ultimate Champions, Announces July 25th Launch Date for Its CHAMP Token
18.7.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Unagi is shifting the way sports fans interact with their favorite sports clubs through their innovative free-to-play and play-to-earn fantasy sports game: Ultimate Champions. Live since April 2022, the company has shaken the industry with several trailblazing successes including:...
Fans Are Dubbing Japan's 1980's Super Mario Bros. Anime
13.7.2022
It’s been ten years since we first wrote about The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, a 1986 film—released only in Japanese—that was the first time a movie had ever been made about a Nintendo character. So it’s cool to be able to report in 2022 that efforts are once again underway to dub...
Sports sponsorships sealed amid market turmoil as Man City inks deal with OKX
11.7.2022
Manchester City fans will also have a chance to win season tickets in the OKX Hospitality Box via scanning QR codes on street art commissioned by the crypto exchange
Obscure Japanese PS1 Game Finally Available In English
8.7.2022
Back in 2000 Sony released a game called Aconcagua for the PlayStation 1. An adventure game set in the aftermath of a plane crash in the Andes, it has spent the last 22 years only available in Japanese. Until now!Read more
Every Single English-Language SNES Manual Is Now Available Online
4.7.2022
Back in October 2020 I did a feature on a project that was trying to find every Super Nintendo manual in existence, scan them and upload them onto the internet. I’m happy to report that, as of July 2022, the project has now completed a significant—and for many of you reading this it’s...
Cruisy Japanese Summer Game Gets Surprise English Release
29.6.2022
Last year, a game was released on the Nintendo Switch in Japan called Crayon Shin-chan: Ora to Hakase no Natsuyasumi (Crayon Shin-chan: My Summer Vacation With The Professor). A crossover between legendary manga Crayon Shin-chan and the long-running My Summer Vacation series of video games,...
The Best Gear For Scoring Goals In Mario Strikers: Battle League
24.6.2022
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Seven Minutes From American Arcadia: It's Like The Truman Show, But They’re Trying To Kill You
23.6.2022
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Mario Movie Producer Says Chris Pratt Won't Offend Italians, Completely Missing The Point
21.6.2022
Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri is apparently under the assumption that his studio is being criticized for casting Chris Pratt as the eponymous plumber in its upcoming Mario movie due to concerns over Italian representation and not because, you know, Chris Pratt sucks.Read more
Y'all Morbed Too Hard, Now Morbius Is Coming Back To 1,000 Theaters
3.6.2022
For the past few months, a lot of people have been sharing memes connected to terrible superhero film Morbius, which stars noted method actor Jared Leto as a living vampire guy or something…look, I’ve not seen the film, okay? Anyway, all these memes, jokes, and online ha-has have been fun,...
French Institution Bans English Words Like 'eSports' And 'Streaming'
2.6.2022
For centuries now, the Académie Française has basically overseen the entire French language, being responsible for everything from grammar to publishing French dictionaries to acting as the “official authority on the language”. An important part of that role in recent decades has been to ward...
GTA Vice City, Goodfellas Star Ray Liotta Dead At 67
26.5.2022
Actor and producer Ray Liotta, famous for his starring role as Tommy Vercetti in the PS2 open-world classic Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, has died. He was 67 years old. He leaves behind a daughter and fiancée. Read more
Latest Sims 4 Update Adds Custom Pronouns For All
26.5.2022
A new Sims 4 update released yesterday added new pronoun options to the latest entry in EA’s long-running life simulator. With this update, players will be able to set their Sims’ pronouns, including completely custom ones, without the use of mods across all platforms that The Sims 4 is available...
Super Mario Bros. Movie Delayed, Now Out In 2023
26.4.2022
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has just posted a short statement on Twitter, saying that the upcoming Super Mario Bros. animated movie will no longer be released this year.Read more