The Makers of Zelda On Why Their Games Are Usually Late

“First of all, it would be great if I didn’t have to put a release date out at all,” Nintendo’s longtime chief game designer Shigeru Miyamoto recently told me when I asked him about the tendency for Zelda games to be late. “But I have to.” We both laughed. Nearly every major Zelda console game…

Crafty Designer Builds Soccer Game Using Mario Maker

Just when it seems like Mario Maker creators shouldn’t be able to surprise me anymore, along comes a clever level like Get the Ball into the Goal likandooTV on YouTube recently played through the whole stage, which he appropriately dubbed “Super Fifa maker” in his video. To recreate soccer within the limitations of Mario Maker,…

The Witcher 3 And Nintendo Games Are Just Pulp Fiction

For a game that features giant monsters and lawless bandits, you sure do spend a lot of time in The Witcher 3 playing medieval detective. Which is an idea freelance illustrator Ástor Alexander takes and runs with in these incredible images. It’s not the first time he’s done something like this—you might remember his Nintendo…

Why You Need To Play The Zero Escape Series

On Tuesday, publisher Aksys Games will release Zero Time Dilemma, the third and perhaps final entry in the Zero Escape series. You probably fall into one of two camps: Either you’re breathlessly counting down the days until then, or you’ve never played Zero Escape If you’re in the former group, know this: I beat Zero…

Mighty No. 9‘s End Credits Are Nearly Four Hours Long

Every single one of Mighty No. 9‘s backers on Kickstarter are listed in the credits, and a whopping 67,226 different people helped fund the game. In order to watch the whole credits scroll by—I feel bad for anyone whose name is towards the bottom—you’ll need almost four hours take it all in. If you don’t…

Teenager Sentenced To 40 Years In Prison For Killing Man Over PS4

A Georgia judge sentenced 18-year-old Kayla Dixon to 40 years jailtime this week after she pled guilty to shooting a man over his PlayStation 4. In September of 2014, 28-year-old Daniel Zeitz had put up a Craigslist post in hopes of selling his PS4. According to the police, Dixon and her boyfriend, Nathaniel Vivian, responded…

This Year’s Steam Summer Sale Has Started

If you’ve got a piggy bank, kiss it goodbye. If you don’t, I guess stare deeply and lovingly into the imagined eyes of the Apple wallet icon on your phone or something. It’s summer, which means It Is Time: the Steam Summer Sale is here. This year’s sale is called the Summer Picnic Sale. It…

The Super Mario 64 Goomba Nobody Has Ever Killed

Goombas are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain in the Mushroom Kingdom—it never takes much to kill them in a Mario game. But there’s one particular Goomba in Super Mario 64 that can’t be defeated, no matter how good your platforming skills are. This post originally appeared 8/8/14. Fun fact: Super Mario…

Meet The YouTube Gamers Who Want To Make Your Brain Tingle

The video that led me to Nick, known on YouTube as the ASMRnerd, was “Soft-Spoken ASMR: Elder Scrolls Maps.” I have no idea how I found it–probably late at night in a semi-conscious YouTube trance. “Join me for a relaxing cartographic journey across Tamriel and its provinces,” the description reads. “Triggers include paper sounds, pointing…

After Outcry, Nintendo Says Paper Mario: Color Splash Doesn’t Reference ‘Hate Campaign’

Nintendo has publicly denied that joke from an E3 demo for the upcoming Wii U game Paper Mario: Color Splash is a reference to a harassment campaign that targeted game designer Zoe Quinn. The company says it’s a nod to the Watergate scandal from the 1970s. The jokes drew scrutiny yesterday as they were passed…

Splatoon VR Hack Straps A Wii U GamePad To Your Back

Seems like good a place as any to strap a GamePad, no? Over on Kougaku Navi (via Engadget), they’ve got a Splatoon VR hack that uses the PlayStation VR Sony HMD headset, a modded water gun controller, and the previously mentioned Wii U GamePad. Right now, they’re on version 3.0. It’s rough, ramshackle and a…

The Nintendo 64 Turns 20 Years Old Today 

On June 23, 1996, the Nintendo 64 first went on sale in Japan. Twenty years ago! Think about that. Facing off against Sony’s PlayStation, the Nintendo 64, which was the last major home console to use cartridges and which came with a unique controller, would see iconic and influential games like Super Mario 64, The…

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