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At Nintendo, Working All Night Is ‘Mario Time’

Over the years, game development companies have found all sorts of euphemisms for unpaid overtime, but Nintendo’s might be the best. If legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto ever comes up and tells you it’s “Mario time,” you’re in for a long night. In a fantastic new interview over at Gamasutra by some dude named Chris Kohler,…

Baking A Cake Is Still The Hardest Thing To Do In Parappa The Rapper

When I was seven years old, I could never beat the Cheap Cheap Chicken stage of Parappa the Rapper. Now that I’m an adult and the HD remaster has been released for the Playstation 4, I figured I’d finally get past it. I was wrong. Parappa the Rapper is a game bursting with joy. You…

Twitch And YouTube Streamers Slam Persona 5‘s Video Policy

Yesterday, Atlus warned Persona 5 players that if they show gameplay footage after a certain point in the game, Atlus will go after their channels with copyright claims and strikes. While some streamers aren’t surprised by this policy, they’ve reacted with frustration at what they feel are measures that will negatively impact their channels. Atlus…

Blizzard Considered Adding A Cat In A Jetpack To Overwatch

Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan is full of surprises. For example, it turns out that he’s a Hanzo apologist. And, at one point, he considered a cat in a jetpack as an original Overwatch hero. There’s still time, my man. We want that cat hero. Yesterday, in an interview with GameSpot, Kaplan revealed a few…

Yooka-Laylee Brings Back Banjo-Kazooie’s Best Easter Egg

Yooka-Laylee captures all the good and badof a Nintendo 64 platformer. It doesn’t just take the gameplay. It also takes the urban legends as well. The Ice Key was an item hidden in Banjo-Kazooie’s Freezeezy Peak level. Tucked in cave and secure behind an ice wall, players could do little more than look at the…

Here’s What Happens If You Say No At The Beginning Of Persona 5

Before you start playing Persona 5, a video game about stylish teens learning how to take care of a cat, you need to answer a simple question: Do you agree that the game is fictional? If you say no, Persona 5 won’t joke around or repeat the question. It just won’t allow you to play.…

Your Spring 2017 Anime Guide

Flowers are in bloom. The temperature is warming up. It’s perfect weather to go outside. But you know what? Let’s stay indoors and watch some anime. The spring anime season is upon us! Which shows do you want to watch? Let us know in the comments below. Aikatsu Stars! 2nd Season Hoshi no Tsubasa Studio:…

Call of Duty‘s April Fool’s Mode Was So Good, Players Want It To Be a Regular Thing

For April Fools’ Day, Call of Duty turned its players into literal trash. And now fans are begging to become garbage again. Over the weekend, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, the upgraded version of the 2007 game packed in with some editions of last year’s Infinite Warfare, introduced a game mode called “Prop Hunt.”…

The Weird Words I Learned From Video Games

We learn a lot of words growing up. We learn a lot of words at school. We might even learn some at college. But as expansive as our vocabularies can become through traditional means of education, let’s not forget that video games can teach us new terms as well. And they’re often some weird ones.…

Here’s Persona 5 “Running” On A PC

Persona 5 may be fresh out this week on PS4, but don’t forget the game is also available on PS3. And has been out in Japan since last year, which explains why there’s now footage of the game trying to run on a PC via an emulator. This is RPCS3, a PS3 emulator for the…

It looks like beloved alien hellshow Invader Zim is coming back. Nickelodeon Animation’s Twitter account just posted a teaser, explaining that “Soon you will all know the taste of DOOM…Again!”

An Essential Glossary For Overwatch Players

“They’re leaping onto the payload with a dive comp wombo combo and a nanoboosted face tank” is total gibberish. Unless you’re an Overwatch player. Overwatch is more accessible than most team-based competitive games, but that doesn’t mean it’s simple. Dig beneath the surface and you’ll find a labyrinthine tomb that houses some deformed cousin of…

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s second DLC map pack, Continuum, launches April 18 for PS4, with other platforms to follow. There are four new multiplayer maps, as well as new zombie content, Shaolin Shuffle, starring Pam Grier.

Starting today, Twitch users can purchase games like For Honor and The Walking Dead directly from Twitch. Under game streams, viewers will now see a “Buy Now” button. Also, games over $5.00 will earn viewers “Twitch Crates,” which contain badges and emotes and the like.

After Game Developer’s Death, His Collaborators Set Out To Finish His Project

Shard, a platformer meant to be played with a friend, was still incomplete when its creator passed away. Now, two of his collaborators are trying to finish it. Roger Morash died along with his wife, Valerie, and their pets on January 23rd, due to “acute carbon monoxide poisoning.” Morash had been a former Harmonix developer,…

The People Who Translate Japanese Sex Games For Millions of Horny Fans

Every month, millions of people play free sex games on Nutaku, a platform that distributes some of the biggest uncensored erotic games available in English. While some of these risque games are developed in the US, many are brought over from Japan, meaning that someone has to make sure all the raunchiness gets translated properly.…

Atlus Threatens To Go After People Who Stream Too Far Into Persona 5

Persona 5 is a chill game, so it’s only fitting that the developers at Atlus would have no chill whatsoever, openly threatening content claims and strikes for anyone who streams too far in the story. Today on their website, Atlus USA posted a note to streamers, asking everyone to refrain from spoiling Persona 5 and…

That Time When Snake Rescued Zelda And Peach In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Nine years post-release, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is remembered as the problem child of the Smash franchise. Nintendo took some risks with it, some of which worked, and most of which did not. Famously, the tripping mechanic did not work. Neither did its near-Martian gravity. On the other hand, Zero Suit Samus, a fighter with…

Court Orders Notorious Cheat Maker To Pay Blizzard $8.5 Million

Last month, Blizzard demanded $8.5 million from cheat maker Bossland as part of an ongoing legal battle. Now, in absence of any defense from the Honor Buddy (WoW) and Watchover Tyrant (Overwatch) creator, the court has sided with Blizzard. The court has granted Blizzard statutory copyright damages totaling out to $8,563,600. Bossland also owes Blizzard…

A Game In Which You Play As A Twitter Egg And Romance Other Eggs Via Subtweets

Twitter can be a pretty awful place. The Subtweet Game makes the worst parts of it into a romance game. The Subtweet Game was made in a month for the NaNoReNo game jam, and it perfectly captures the feeling of flirting on Twitter by faving any and everything that sounds like it might be flirtatious.…