Dec 15
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Ray tracing, currently the big thing in video game visuals, is a perk for those running bleeding edge hardware on PC…
Oct 29
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A lot is made, and rightly so, of the plight of retro video games once they succumb to the passage of time. But…
Aug 28
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Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they…
Jul 26
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One of the longest-running and most interesting stories of 2020 has been the slow emergence of a ton of…
Feb 27
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Jan 5 2020
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1992's Super Star Wars, one of the best Super Nintendo games not actually made by Nintendo, was—along with its…
Dec 3 2019
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There’s something soothing about printed 16-bit art. The way the page captures the color and composition of pixels,…
Sep 6 2019
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After years of wishing and hoping, Nintendo finally added a selection of Super Nintendo games to its Switch online…
Sep 4 2019
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You’ve been asking for it since 2016, and now you’re getting it. Nintendo just announced that a range of Super…
Jan 14 2019
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Switch Online’s NES classics app now has titles and descriptions for 22 Super Nintendo games buried in its code,…
Sep 7 2018
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Nintendo never released a CD-ROM gaming system. But for a while in the early 1990s, it flirted with the idea. That…
Jul 1 2018
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Apr 30 2018
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Sometimes, it just isn’t enough to speedrun a game. Sometimes, you need to get your hands dirty. One speedrunner…
Mar 22 2018
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We see a lot of remastered games, but this is something different: Nico Vliek has done some hard work and remastered…
Feb 2 2018
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Super Mario World has plenty of warps and tricks to help players finish the game faster than usual, but none are as…
Dec 12 2017
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Years of neglect are eroding gaming history. Cartridges rot in garages, companies hoard demos that they will never…
Nov 30 2017
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A few years back, there was a funny Super Nintendo joke. In 2017 it has been brought back and perfected, thanks to a…
Nov 28 2017
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There’s a reason Breath of the Wild is played in German. It’s just a heck of a lot faster. Speedruns use different…
Nov 6 2017
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Ever wonder what it would be like for a bot to learn how to play Super Mario Kart? YouTuber and programmer SethBling’…
Oct 16 2017
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Last year, curated art project Back to Bits made its 8-bit debut, capturing the games of the NES era in a series of 43 outstanding animated GIFs. Today the second wave of Back to Bits, Super 16, takes on the Super Nintendo era in 40 moving images. Check it out.
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