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CultureE3Super Smash Bros. Gets Tekken‘s Kazuya
Kazuya joins the Switch fighting game before Waluigi
By Ian Walker Published June 15, 2021 -
CultureNewsSuper Mario Kart Hacker Restores Long-Lost Level Editor
Last year’s massive Nintendo data breach, dubbed the “Gigaleak,” revealed a trove of Nintendo secrets including human characters in Animal Crossing, alternate versions of the fourth-gen Pokémon games, and an F-Zero character model that bore shocking resemblance to Beavis and Butthead’s Beavis. Nearly a year later, the leak is still bearing fruit. As VGC reports,…
By Ari Notis Published June 7, 2021 -
CultureSuper Mario Bros. Movie Restoration Adds 20 Minutes Of Deleted Scenes
For years now, Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive has been workingto obtain and restore a bunch of deleted scenes from Nintendo’s 1993 disaster. That work is now largely done, leaving us with a sort of “director’s cut” of the film that runs for 20 minutes longer than the original. Super Mario Bros: The Morton…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2021 -
CultureSega’s Tokyo Olympics 2020 Game (The One Without Mario And Sonic) Drops Next Month
With the real games delayed until July of this year due to covid-19, Sega’s had plenty of time to cobble together Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – The Official Video Game, coming June 22 to PC, consoles, and Stadia. It’s a collection of 18 sports you can play with your own goofy-looking, costume-sporting avatar. Despite lacking…
By Mike Fahey Published May 26, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsNintendo Patent Looks Like A Giant Shitpost
On June 5, 1997, Nintendo filed a patent titled “Video game system and method with enhanced three-dimensional character and background control due to environmental conditions.” I can’t even begin to parse what the heck that means on a technical level, but what I do know is that the document’s contents are ripe for absurd internet…
By Ian Walker Published May 25, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsWhat Gaming Was Like The Last Time Cicadas Emerged, 17 Years Ago
You may know them as Brood X, or Brood 10, or the Great Eastern Brood. To most people, they’re periodical cicadas—insatiable insects that emerge from subterranean slumber every 17 years for the sole purpose of fucking each other to smithereens. Over the past week or so, Brood X cicadas have started to crawl out of…
By Ari Notis Published May 21, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapan“Nintendo Marriage” Trends In Japan After Celebrities Tie The Knot
Earlier today, soon after singer Gen Hoshino and actor Yui Aragaki announced they had gotten hitched, the phrase “Nintendo-kon” (任天堂婚) or “Nintendo marriage” began trending on Twitter in Japan. No, the couple probably did not have a Mario-themed wedding (well, not as far as I know!), but rather the term refers to how both Hoshino…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 19, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsChuck, No, This Is Mario Golf
Nintendo recently updated the official Mario Golf: Super Rush website with short clips of every golfer performing their Special Shot. None of these powerful moves, however, are more special than Chargin’ Chuck’s. Chuck, baby, listen. I know this is your first time in a Mario Golf. Heck, I’m pretty sure it’s your first time being…
By Ian Walker Published May 17, 2021 -
CultureMario Golf: Super Rush‘s Speed Golf Mode Looks Like A Trip
Golf is normally a game about being patient and waiting your turn while wearing awesome pants. In Speed Golf, a new mode coming in next month’s Mario Golf: Super Rush, four players tee off at once and then race across the course to complete the hole first. I’d pay to watch real golfers do that.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 17, 2021 -
CultureTown In England Installs Super Mario Pipes, Residents Not Happy
Local residents in the UK town of Walsall aren’t happy about the 15 giant green planters that have recently been installed in the town center, with many pointing out how they look like the warp pipes found in Mario games. As reported by Birmingham Mail, the pots were bought and set up in town using…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 17, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsNintendo’s New Waluigi Art Is Mysterious, Erotic
Over the weekend, Nintendo dropped a new video dedicated to unboxing the upcoming blue-purple Switch colorway. The upload mostly got attention, however, due to its inclusion of a never-before-seen Waluigi render that the internet…well, just look at it. I’m sure you can guess what kind of reaction the above image got without me spelling it…
By Ian Walker Published May 10, 2021 -
CultureLone Developer Stands Up To Grand Theft Auto DMCA Claim, Wins
Earlier this year fans reversed engineered the source code to Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. They released it to the web, but Grand Theft Auto copyright holder Take-Two pulled it offline via a DMCA claim. But one fan stood up to the publisher and has now succeeded in getting the…
By Zack Zwiezen Published May 10, 2021 -
CultureLast Year Was Nintendo’s Most Profitable Ever
In 2020, Nintendo saw huge profits, likely boosted by people quarantined at home, playing video games. According to the company’s newly released financials, which cover the period between April 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021, Nintendo saw a 34.4 percent increase in sales to 1.76 trillion yen ($16.1 billion) and an 85.7 percent spike in net…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2021 -
CultureIllumination Founder And Despicable Me Producer Joining Nintendo Board
Today, Nintendo announced that Chris Meledandri will join the Nintendo board as an Outside Director as of June 29. This, the company adds, will become effective dependent on approval at the upcoming shareholders meeting that same date. Previously, Meledandri produced CG movies including Ice Age and Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who! before founding Illumination…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 6, 2021 -
CultureSuper Mario 64 On PC Looks Like An Entirely Different Game
We’ve taken a glance at Super Mario 64’s PC port before, as recently as February, but this very extensive look by Digital Foundry shows just how damn good the thing can look when given the right amount of love and attention. Everything difference from the original game you see here is thanks mostly to two…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureMega Man Composer Manami Matsumae Doesn’t Miss The 9-6 Grind
Few game music composers have as iconic a resume as Manami Matsumae. Starting at Capcom in 1987, her first major project was scoring the original Rockman, the game we know as Mega Man. The Cutman theme? That’s Matsumae. And she was just getting started, soon jumping from the Famicom into Capcom’s CPS-1 arcade hardware to…
By Alexandra Hall Published May 3, 2021
