Twitch
They say necessity is the mother of invention, so when speedrunning Super Mario Odyssey became “too easy” for Twitch streamer DougDoug he decided to spice things up by making the game’s heads-up display get progressively… uh, worse the longer he played.
E3
Got your crystal ball handy? Hope so, because Nintendo won’t be holding its traditional press event, Nintendo Direct, until Tuesday, June 15. Though that’s the final day of E3, this is probably going to be a last-but-not-least sort of scenario, because Nintendo’s widely expected to bring out some big guns for its post-covid return to the biggest video game expo in the world. If you’d like to watch live on Tuesday, you can find the details on Nintendo’s E3 2021 landing page. The Nintendo Direct livestream starts at noon ET and will last around 40 minutes, after which the company’s…
E3
Before E3, everyone gets excited for the big new announcements. But after E3, all anyone remembers—and cherishes—are the kind of screw-ups, misfires and awkward heroism you can only get when corporate executives and video game developers have to get on stage and act like salespeople in front of millions. This post originally appeared 6/11/15.This being a site all about the best things, then, here are what we think are the best E3 moments of all time. And by “best”, I mean within the context of how we, as superfans of video games, consume and remember the show. The moments where…
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By Patrick Dane, Sunday, 20 December 2020 18:00 GMT Shigeru Miyamoto has said that his kids loved playing Sega games when they were growing up.Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that his kids were big Sega fans when they were growing up. This was in the face of Nintendo and Sega’s bitter hot rivalry before the turn of the century.The rivalry was a defining one in the history of video games. Akin to Sony and Microsoft’s competition in the modern age, the two were the major players in the console space before the PlayStation launched and changed everything. Debates about…
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By Cian Maher, Sunday, 30 August 2020 22:16 GMT The team behind Paper Mario: The Origami King recently confirmed that it was given “almost complete control” over the direction the game went in. The news comes from a report published by Eurogamer Germany, which was later translated by Nintendo Everything. According to said report, producer Kensuke Tanabe and director Masahiko Nagaya were permitted to shape Paper Mario: The Origami King in pretty much whatever way they saw fit – in fact, Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto was barely even involved.“Ever since Paper Mario: Color Splash, we have almost complete control over the…