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Rare Sketches Of Donkey Kong Country Show Off DK’s Early Evolution

In the latest video from YouTube’s DK Creations (via NintendoLife), long-time video game artist Kev Bayliss shows off original sketches from Rare’s Donkey Kong Country, and talks about how he transformed Nintendo’s original cartoon ape from 2D villain to 3D-rendered platform hero. Using character design sketches he created while working on the 1994 Super Nintendo classic…

Pikachu Makes Everything Better, Even Casio Watches

Casio’s line of Baby-G watches are great. Know how to make the timepieces even better? Add Pikachu, that’s how. The iconic Pocket Monster is once again joining forces with Casio for the Baby-G Pokémon. (Back in 2019, Casio and Pikachu teamed up to mark 25 years of Baby-G.) The latest watch doesn’t just have Pikachu…

The Art Of Cyberpunk 2077

While the game itself may not have entered full-blown development until 2016, some of the stuff you’ll see in this collection of concept and production art dates as far back as 2013. Below you’ll find a big collection of environment, character and 3D pieces from throughout Cyberpunk’s development, from the earliest sketches through to models…

Horizon Zero Dawn’s Last Big PC Patch Has Finally, Mostly Fixed The Port

While it was great that PC owners got to play a big Sony exclusive last year, what wasn’t so great about Horizon Zero Dawn’s port was that it ran like shit. Well, five months later things are looking much better. While players were initially beset by everything from sluggish performance to textures not loading, a…

Sealed Box Of Pokémon Cards Sells For $408,000

As the great Nute Gunray once said, this is getting out of hand. As more and more people realise the value in old Pokémon cards, more and more people are flocking to opportunities to catch, if not them all, then at least once card worth a ton of money. Which probably explains why (via Polygon),…

Streets Of Rage 4 Developers Have Ideas For A Mark Of The Wolves Sequel

Earlier today, Streets of Rage 4 developer Lizardcube shared a gorgeous mock-up for its concept of a Garou: Mark of the Wolves sequel. I want it to be real so bad. Garou: Mark of the Wolves was first released to arcades in 1999 as the final game in SNK’s Fatal Fury franchise before King of…

Twitch’s Latest Pogchamp Emote Is A Meme Lizard, Not A Streamer

Twitch’s plan to replace its problematic Pogchamp emote with a rotating cast of fresh faces? Pretty poggers. Twitch’s execution of said plan? Not poggers. Today’s Pogchamp? Also not poggers, because instead, it’s KomodoHype, a meme with some Pogchamp history. The thing about minefields is, you don’t generally realize exactly how much you’re going to regret…

Bugsnax Is Mass Effect And I Can (Somewhat) Prove It

I enjoyed Bugsnax far more than I thought I would. At first, it didn’t strike me as my kind of game when I judged it by its saccharine advertising billing it as a cutesy adventure romp in which I would eat my way through an island of colorful foodbugs. The reality of Bugsnax is much…

Ghost Of Tsushima, Six Months Later

As of this week, Jin Sakai and the open-world samurai game he stars in—Ghost of Tsushima—turn six months old. Rather than a one-off, Ghost of Tsushima has received an impressively dedicated level of support from developer Sucker Punch with consistent quality-of-life upgrades, new difficulty levels, and a (surprise!) cooperative expansion. Small wonder it was one…

Mortal Kombat Player Disqualified From Tournament For Criticizing Developers

During an official Mortal Kombat 11 Pro Kompetition tournament on January 16, finalist Titaniumtigerzz was disqualified after jokingly calling out developer NetherRealm Studios by labeling his Sheeva variation—a personalized moveset that displays a custom name to opponents—as “WhyDidNRSdoThis.” The disqualification made for an awkward moment on the stream. When the official broadcast cut away from…

Wario Isn’t Evil, He’s Honest

Mario was back for another adventure. But this time, it was personal. Hiroji Kiyotake, the director of 1992’s Game Boy hit Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, wanted to pursue the idea that this time Mario wouldn’t be fighting to help or save someone else. Hence: Wario, Mario’s greed-and-crime-focused rival. Super Mario’s World is…

Balan Wonderworld, the upcoming game from the creators of Sonic and Nights, will get a demo on January 28. It’ll include two-play coop and let you test out a bunch of the game’s different levels.

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is finally coming to consoles on February 18. It’s an atmospheric RPG with a postmodern slant that doubles as a beautiful love letter to PS1-era adventure games and you should absolutely give it a try.

Surprise! The Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning remaster is coming to Switch on March 16. That’s great news since Nintendo’s hybrid handheld feels like the ideal place to experience the pleasant 2012 action RPG, but bad timing since it’s just a week and change before Monster Hunter: Rise.

Someone Turned A Terraria Map Into An Evangelion Holding A Warship

Terraria doesn’t get the same level of fanfare as Minecraft, but its two dimensional crafting is nevertheless responsible from some truly impressive player-made creations of its own. Behold the latest: an Evangelion lifting a warship over its head. The above screenshot, which has been blowing up on the Steam community pages and was first spotted…

Man Folds One Piece Of Paper For 50 Hours, Makes Samurai

Finnish artist Juho Könkkölä took a single sheet of 68cm x 68cm wafer-thin Wenzhou paper and folded it for fifty hours. The result? A samurai papercraft that is around 20cm tall. While some adhesive appears to be used in the process, according to Könkkölä, no ripping or cutting was used. This is all folding. Via…

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This Bot Turns Reddit Arguments Into Ace Attorney Debates

Ever since there’s been more than one person on the internet, there have been arguments. Some forum debates have become so outrageous that they’ve been forever ensconced in the collective unconscious of the web. And now, they can be turned into Phoenix Wright debates. A new bot created by Micah Price can grab the text…

Auto Chess Is Getting a MOBA, Continuing the Eternal Cycle

The history of the MOBA genre is one of mods and iteration. Its most popular and still-standing games today are the result of multiple reimaginings and tweaks to skirt copyright issues. Now, there’s one more absurd step to the story: the makers of Auto Chess are making a MOBA. An Auto Chess MOBA is a…

Massive Fallout: New Vegas Mod The Frontier Is Finally Out

A mod years in the making launched just last Friday, and it was a launch so big it took Nexus Mods with it. Fallout: The Frontier is essentially a new game, built onto Fallout: New Vegas The Frontier has been kicking around for several years, and it’s easy to see why. It’s a fair bit…