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Nintendogs Speedrun Foiled By A Very Bad Boy Indeed
6.7.2021
Meet Korone, the worst possible Nintendog and all-around not-good boy. At Summer Games Done Quick yesterday Nintendogs speedrunner ZooKetra’s early-morning beginner medal run was going just fine until this petulant black lab pup refused to be guided through a simple obstacle-course tunnel.Read more
Fans Unhappy That Iconic Anime Characters Being Used For Tokyo Olympics
29.6.2021
The Tokyo Olympics kicks off next month in Japan. To promote the games, iconic characters like Sailor Moon, Astro Boy, and Naruto have been enlisted.Read more
That’s One Way To Dodge Nintendo’s Lawyers
23.6.2021
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, a plant-based thriller about defrauding the federal government, is out with a new update today that adds more hats to the Switch version of the game, including one that definitely looks nothing like a Yoshi egg.Read more
Fallout 76 Player Becomes A Jacuzzi Serial Killer In-Game
15.6.2021
Imagine this. You’re out in the wasteland and you come across a cobblestone house. “Fancy,” you might say. In Fallout 76, grime and industrial aesthetics permeate everything, so stumbling on a clean, well-lit house with modern design is out of the ordinary. Curiosity brings you through the wooden...
Advance Wars Will See A 3D Switch Remake, oh snap
15.6.2021
It’s called Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp and it gives the strategy game by Intelligent Systems a more modernized look. It’s out on 12/3 this year for the Nintendo Switch.Read more
Happy 20th Birthday, Game Boy Advance
11.6.2021
Today, June 11, marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the Game Boy Advance in the U.S. Please put on your hats and inflate your balloons.Read more
What "Anime" Means
18.5.2021
The word anime is often defined as “animation from Japan.” If only it were that simple! When you hear the word “anime,” images of large eyes and colorful hair come to mind. Maybe something like this?Read more
Sorry, But The Chug Jug Song
18.4.2021
I’m in charge of the website this weekend, which means I get to spread my suffering to you under the guise of Content. I’m sorry.Read more
New Beginnings: The Sobering Journey To Restore My Game Boy Micro
8.4.2021
We all have our coping mechanisms. Last summer, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, mine was reliving my childhood by purchasing old models from Nintendo’s long-retired Game Boy lineup. While I’m not a particularly nostalgic person—hell, I didn’t even grow up with half the consoles I’ve...
Analogue Pocket Shipments Pushed Back To October
1.4.2021
Analogue just announced its Analogue Pocket handheld console will miss its original May 2021 shipment date and will slip to October instead.Read more
Youtuber Builds a Bitcoin Miner Out of a 31-year old Nintendo Game Boy
29.3.2021
On Saturday, a popular Youtuber named Stacksmashing published a video that shows him hacking a 1989 Nintendo Game Boy in order to mine bitcoin. Despite the creativity and the fact that the miner only leverages four double-A batteries, Stacksmashing noted that the 8-bit handheld game console was...
Iconic ‘Obey’ Street Artist Shepard Fairey to Auction an NFT Mural on Superrare
25.3.2021
The iconic contemporary street artist, Shepard Fairey is getting into the non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem with an NFT sale on the marketplace Superrare. The NFT mural called “Obey Ideal Power” created by Fairey will be auctioned on March 29, alongside a number of other artists...
The Game.com cometh: The rise and fall of the Game Boy’s weirdest rivals
22.3.2021
There was a time—from roughly April of 1989 until the mobile revolution of the last 10 years—when “mobile gaming” meant something very different to the vast majority of people. Specifically, it meant Nintendo. Even as the Console Wars raged at home, the Japanese giant’s iron-fingered...
Don’t Worry: There Are Enough Analogue Pockets For Everyone
23.2.2021
Last August, many of us missed out on pre-ordering a Pocket, the beautiful all-in-one handheld console from Seattle-based hardware manufacturer Analogue. With a restock now confirmed for 2021, the company has promised to beef up its servers and crack down on resellers to help ensure folks are able...
First Look At Mamoru Hosoda's New Anime Film Belle
18.2.2021
Announced last December, Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children, and The Boy and the Beast) has a new animated feature coming out this year. As previously reported, the movie is called Belle and tells the story of a young woman in modern-day Japan as she enters a massive virtual world.Read more
Cardano Token Pips Dot Into Fifth Place After Price Surges by 85% —Elon Musk Endorsed Dogecoin Sets New All Time High
8.2.2021
The Cardano network token has toppled Dot to become the crypto-asset with the fourth-highest market capitalization. This new Cardano position comes after its price surged by more than 85% from $0.35 on February 1 to $0.68 on February 7. With the new price, the token’s market capitalization...
In the end, do NFTs even matter? Linkin Park rapper joins celebrity NFT mania
6.2.2021
Rap-rock icon Mike Shinoda is just the latest in a string of celebrities toying with NFT tech
Hip-Hop Star Soulja Boy Examines Crypto, Considers Creating His Own NFT Collectibles
20.1.2021
On January 19, the American hip-hop star and rapper DeAndre Cortez Way, otherwise known as “Soulja Boy,” asked his 5.2 million Twitter followers to tell him the best way to purchase crypto. Following the initial tweet, Soulja Boy continued to discuss cryptocurrencies for the rest of...
Abandoned MF DOOM Game Sounded Cool
14.1.2021
News of MF DOOM’s death a couple of weeks ago led to an outpouring of tributes from artists around the world, from movie-makers to his peers and fans in the rap game, but one that caught my eye in particular was this project by Chafomon, an abandoned fan project for the Game Boy called MF Doom:...
Super Meat Boy Forever Is Not The Sequel I Was Hoping For
30.12.2020
After 10 long years Super Meat Boy is back, this time as an auto-runner in a sequel that channels much of the original except for what I loved most about it: snappy controls and tight platforming. In the year of Spelunky 2 and Hades, it’s a letdown to see Meat Boy return without the key aspects...