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News Mortal Kombat 12 Seemingly Teased By NetherRealm Producer
Get over here and look at this!
2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the brutal, bloody, and violent fighting game franchise Mortal Kombat. NetherRealm has already confirmed it's moved on from Mortal Kombat 11 after two years of DLC - to focus on its "next project", so what's next? Although there have been a lot of rumours over the past year that the...
Random Unearthed 1998 TV Report Blames Nintendo 64 For "Gaming Addiction"
"I refer to him as a Nintendo junkie"
Ever since video games became a thing, we've seen parents worry about their offspring becoming hopelessly addicted. However, in a world where screentime is possible literally anywhere in the world thanks to the rise of the smartphone, it seems quaint to recall that, way back in 1998, the media was losing its...
Random Now This Is How You Should Be Playing Mario Kart On Switch
The perfect home setup?
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best-selling game on Nintendo Switch, and for good reason – it's rather excellent. You're almost guaranteed to have a fantastic time playing with your trusty Pro Controller (or Joy-Con if you're the unluc
Random Now This Is What You Call A 'Super' Game Boy
9 screens, and it's still blurry
Back in the days before massive LCD displays, mankind had to settle with the idea of linking up banks of CRT TVs to create that 'big screen' vibe – and now, a hacker has achieved the same kind of effect using Game Boy displays. In his efforts to reverse engineer the Game Boy's crude greyscale LCD display, kgsws...
Random This Weird Mario Kart Meme Is Supposed To Combat COVID
F-Zero transmission rates
We used to imagine that the future was a magical, sparkly place, full of flying cars and food replicators. It turns out that the future is really just a place where social media managers make confusing memes about a global pandemic. How boring. The report from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, which is...
Random This Fan-Made SNES Hack Combines Celeste With Super Mario
It's also Celeste's 4th birthday!
Remember the Super Mario Maker craze, when a bunch of masochistic platforming-obsessed players would show off their near-impossible levels? And then, just days later, some even more masochistic platforming-obsessed player would post a video of themselves beating it? Well, now you can relive those glory days with...
Random Totoro Has A Gun In The New Trailer For Pokémon-With-Guns Game, Palworld
My Gun-Toting Neighbour Totoro
Remember Palworld? That game that showed a bunch of cute Pokémon-like creatures working in a sweatshop factory, making guns? It's back with a new trailer, and this one also has Pokémon passing out on the floor of a grimy weapon factory. It also has a big Totoro with an automatic gun, dinosaur Pokémon legally...
Random Link's Breath Of The Wild Bow Technique "Really Sucks", According To A Professional Archer
"Don't use it"
Of all Nintendo's leading protagonists, Link has to be right up there on the more badass end of the scale – although he's also somehow on the more lovably ditzy end, too. We'd argue Link's coolness can be put down to three things: his heroic, world-saving attitude; the way he cuddles cats in Zelda: Twilight Princess; and how he can...
Random Want To Get Zelda: Breath Of The Wild's "Impossible Arrow"? Just Explode Yourself 1,000 Times
It's a very valuable arrow, probably
Until recently, Breath of the Wild's "impossible arrow" was a legend. Many had seen this lone, unintended shock arrow, floating in the sky above Gerudo Town — but none had touched it. Almost five years after the release of Breath of the Wild, there are a number of "secrets" like the impossible arrow that are...
Random Pokémon Legends: Arceus' Massive 'Mon Are Making Some Fans Uncomfortable
"This is just weird"
While many fans are avoiding Pokémon Legends: Arceus spoilers like the plague due to the game leaking online recently, one thing that's already been confirmed by screenshots and trailers is the fact that the monsters in the game will be rendered in different sizes. That means you co
Random This Animal Crossing Movie Trailer Shows What Happens If You Anger Brewster
The coffee is NOT too hot
Brewster, Animal Crossing: New Horizons' resident coffee pigeon, is a man bird of very specific tastes. And if you insult those tastes... by refusing to drink your coffee at the correct temperature, or turning down his generous offer of pigeon milk... well, you might just get what's coming to you. In Evil Imp's impeccably...
Random Here's GTA V Being Played On A Game Boy (Yes, Really)
It's not quite 4K, though
We've seen the Game Boy do some pretty incredible things at the hands of creative fans in the past – remember that time someone managed to photograph the moon using the Game Boy Camera? – but we never thought we'd see one being used to play Grand Theft Auto V. Actually, who are we kidding, GTA V's on so many platforms...
Random Remember When Nintendo Tried To Sell The DS To Metal Heads?
Nintendo DS + heavy metal fans + open mic = amusing results
Nintendo has always has a reputation of being a family-friendly brand, right from the days of the NES when the firm would painstakingly censor many of its games to ensure there was zero chance of them causing offence. While the company's stance arguably softened during the GameCube years,...
Random Piplup's Time In The Spotlight Continues With His Own Pokémon Music Video
Pochama!
Piplup, the tiny penguin starter introduced in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, is having what we in the biz call "A Moment". Over the past month, we've had Piplup ASMR, Piplup fitness training, and most recently, Piplups given to Japanese players of both
Random 'Grunty's Mansion' Is The Banjo-Kazooie X Luigi's Mansion Hack We Didn't Know We Needed
Banjo-Luigee: The Bird, The Bear, And The Brother
It's a match made in hell: The surprisingly creepy Banjo-Kazooie, a game in which you have to fight a witch and all her minions in order to save your sister from... getting very ugly; and the very creepy Luigi's Mansion, a game in which you have to fight a horde of ghosts in order to save your...
Random Nintendo Shoots Down Fan-Made Pokémon FPS
Pokémon Gun is Pokémon gone
Update: To perhaps no one's surprise, developer Dragon's Pokémon first-person shooter has been shot down like a duck at a fairground game by The Pokémon Company. Videos, tweets, and footage have all been scrubbed from the internet — which you can see above, because the trailer is kaput. You can read more about it...
Random Modders Combine Super Mario Sunshine And Galaxy To Make 'Super Mario Starshine'
Wahoo
Super Mario Sunshine gets a pretty bad rep these days, largely for its insistence that players have to clean up an entire island of gunk. The innovative FLUDD mechanics, which involve using water jets to upgrade Mario's platforming skills, were not for everyone — and they were sometimes pretty hard to use. Imagine a Super Mario Sunshine...
Random Nintendo Shows Switch Owners How To Delete Games, Uses Super Mario Bros. 35 As An Example
"Never forget what they took from us"
As you might recall, Nintendo released a "limited-time" battle royale title called Super Mario Bros. 35 on the Switch eShop in 2020. Although the game could still be active, the company decided to take it offline when Mario's anniversary celebrations ended. If it wasn't already hard enough for fans of this...
Random This Animal Crossing: New Horizons Recreation Of Encanto Is Enchanting
We don't talk about Tom Nook
We love it when people show off their creativity in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, especially when it involves the ingenious use of underappreciated things like the polish effects and emotes. This latest ACNH creation comes courtesy of Th3Meow, who has recreated a few iconic scenes from Disney's newest animated movie,...
Random Animal Crossing Grandma Audie Turns 90 And Gets Tons Of ACNH Gifts
Also, a new island tour!
There's so much to say about Audie, the woman known affectionately as "Animal Crossing Grandma". We've covered her a lot before — when she'd played over 3,500 hours of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the time she received a limited-edition Animal Crossing Switch, when she found out that
Random Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Player Finds Divine Beast Trick, Then Fails Spectacularly
*Curb Your Enthusiasm theme*
Nearly five years after the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, players are still figuring out how to do stuff that they weren't really meant to do, with the help of the game's surprisingly robust physics mechanics. We already knew about the usefulness of Octo Balloons — a material dropped from...
Random Every Time This NBA Star Scores, An Iconic Zelda Sound Gets Played
"Short and sweet"
Sport personalities may possess skill, strength and guile that's beyond what the average person can boast, but they're just people like you and me – and that means they often like the same things we do. Take Cleveland Cavaliers' Jarrett Allen as an example. This NBA star is a massive Zelda fan, and has a collection of...
Random This 17-Minute Stardew Valley Speedrun Doesn't Go As You Might Expect
Bombs are involved
If you're a keen follower of the speedrunning community then you'll be aware that there are two distinct camps: those who play by the rules and those who don't. While many speedrunners focus on sticking within the rules of the game to earn the best time, others look for exploits and hacks which allow them to shave minutes off...
Random Here's How Nintendo Makes Sure Switch Game Cards Are Fit For Purpose
This control is quality!
Nintendo, as we all know, is the only one of the 'big three' that doesn't currently use Blu-ray optical media for its games. Instead, Nintendo uses a proprietary 'game card' cartridge format for its Nintendo Switch console – and by taking this route, it means that the Japanese giant has had to come up with its own bespoke...
News Konami Sold This Castlevania Pixel Art For Over $26K In Its 'Memorial' NFT Auction
What a bargain...
Whether you love or hate NFTs in gaming, it seems some companies are intent on monopolising on this new trend. One, in particular, is Konami, who decided to celebrate Castlevania's 35th anniversary with a special 'Konami NFT Memorial Collection' auction. It's now sold off all '14 unique artworks" which consisted of game scenes,...
Random The OG Tomb Raider Looks Amazing On Game Boy Advance
"what sort of wizardry is this?"
The Game Boy Advance - a 32-bit handheld system released in 2001 - managed to get some 3D-like games up and running, but we don't think we ever saw one that looked this amazing during its lifetime. Presenting 'OpenLara' - aka the original Tomb Raider game running on the Game Boy Advance. It's currently in alpha, but...
Random Remember Those AI-Generated Pokémon? Now You Can Catch One Of Your Own
Ultra Beasts ain't got nothin' on these
A few weeks back, as 2021 was coughing and spluttering to its final days, we wrote about a Buzzfeed data scientist named Max Woolf, who had created a Pokémon-inventing AI algorithm. The results ranged from "awww, look at that... pile of limbs and eyes" to "oh dear lord, does anyone have a flamethrower?" But...
Random These Pokémon Sword & Shield Game Boy Color Animations Look Amazing
Artist's nostalgic blasts are a viral hit
Ever wondered what more recent entries in the Pokémon franchise would look like if they'd released back in the 1990s on the good old Game Boy Color? Well, wonder no more, as talented pixel artist Sindorman has tweeted out a couple of fantastic recreations of some early moments from 2019's Pokémon Sword...
Random Logan Paul Got Scammed To The Tune Of $3.5 Million On Fake Pokémon Trading Cards
"It's just so sad"
If you follow the Pokémon Trading Card scene, you might have heard recently how the YouTuber Logan Paul managed to get his hands on what was apparently the "only known sealed box of first-edition base set Pokémon cards". He forked out a whopping $3.5 million for the lot and well it turned out he got scammed. After concerns were...
Random KFC Partners With Pokémon In Taiwan To Celebrate Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Kentucky Fried Lickitung, anyone?
Southern Fried Torchic. Blaziken And Waffles. Combusken Nuggets. Don't tell us that at least one of those didn't make your mouth water. We know that there are some Pokémon that you wouldn't hesitate to eat, as long as they were prepared well, and there's no shame in that. Anyway, all this is to say that KFC Taiwan...
Random AGDQ's Pokémon Crystal Speedrun Race Ended In A Written Apology To Bulbasaur
Bulbasaur loser
[Update: Thu 13th Jan, 2022 18:10 GMT] You can now watch the VOD recording of the stream above! And you can read Shenanagans' apology, too: ...And you can now use a brand-new Shenanasaur emote on Twitch: [Original: Wed 12th Jan, 2022 20:30 GMT] Awesome Games Done Quick, the yearly speedrunning stream, is currently happening...
News Legendary SNES Emulator Liberated Using NSA Tool
Swedish programmer bags long-rumoured SNESticle
The fabled SNES emulator known as SNESticle, which for much of the past two decades was considered to be nothing more than a rumour, has finally been unearthed and excavated by a Swedish programmer using, of all things, a National Security Agency-designed open source tool. SNESticle, the follow-up to...
Random A Lovely Easter Egg From Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Returns In The New Remakes
Happy birthday, Junichi Masuda!
Today is the 54th birthday of beloved director and composer of the Pokémon games, Junichi Masuda — and, to celebrate his birthday, you can see a limited-time surprise in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Back when the original games came out in 2006 and 2007, there was a secret embedded within the...
Random Nintendo Fan Creates A Steel Case For Their Switch Dock
"You gave your Switch Beskar armor"
A Switch fan over the Nintendo Switch subreddit has shown off a custom-made case made entirely out of steel. To clarify, this creation by 'Destroyer1102' isn't actually a functioning dock, but a steel case that wraps around the official base unit. It appears to be designed specifically for the OG model's dock and...
Random Reviews For This Hopeful Ring Fit Competitor Are Not Good
"The Quell Hero is in for a tough fight"
When Ring Fit Adventure was first announced, some of us were unconvinced. Wii Sports was great, but we fell off it hard in the end, and having all that extra equipment was a bit of a pain. But we were wrong. Ring Fit Adventure is very good — good enough to spawn competition. Enter the Quell Hero, design...
Random Heard Of Wordle? Now There's A Pokémon Version
It's called "Squirdle"
If you've been on Twitter in the past week or two, you'll have probably seen a bunch of tweets with cryptic emoji squares. Tweets like this one: You'll either know what these are, or you'll be annoyed that your entire feed is taken up with them. As it turns out, they're just the spoiler-free results of a game called Wordle...
Random This Detailed Animal Crossing Take On Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Is Breathtaking
Malice aforethought
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has no shortage of creators making strange, detailed, and wonderful things in the game, and now that the new update has added polish effects, even greater things are possible. NaydinfarCrossing — whose name you may recognise from her other Zelda recreations — is one of the eminent Zelda creators...
Back for another round, in an alternate reality
Remember the shock of Sony entering the handheld market with the PSP? Many experts predicted that the sleek console would spell the end of Nintendo's dominance in the portable sector, and while the PSP was undoubtably a commercial success, it wasn't enough to unseat Nintendo's DS, which sold a whopping...
Random LAPD Officers Fired For Catching Pokémon Instead Of Crooks
“Holy crap, man. This thing is fighting the crap out of me”
Court documents have revealed details of a story of two LAPD officers who were fired from the force back in 2017 for playing Pokémon GO on duty — whilst ignoring calls for backup at a nearby robbery-in-progress. As reported by Vice, Officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell, who have...
Random A Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Multiplayer Mod Is Now In Development
"work in progress"
The mod support for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild over the past few years has been outstanding. One thing we're yet to see though is multiplayer support. As you might recall, someone last year offered $10k to anyone who could create a mod for BotW that made this happen. With this in mind, a modder by the name of Alex...
Random Concept Artist Mixes Zelda And Cyberpunk 2077 To Impressive Effect
Say hello to 'Cyberlink'
Freelance concept artist Gray Shuko has taken two of the most talked-about video games of modern times and fused them together in a piece of stunning artwork. Shuko's radical interpretation of Link from The Legend of Zelda sees the famous Hero of Time transported into the near future, and equips him with sci-fi weapons and...
Is an all-star Nintendo cast the "new twist"?
Don't get us wrong, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is an amazing game and arguably the best entry in the series to date, but it's an enhanced port of a 2014 Wii U title - meaning we've technically been playing the same game for a very long time now. Fortunately, Nintendo might finally be readying itself to reveal...
Random Pokémon Whips Were Once Considered, But Game Freak Thought It Was "Too Cruel"
Trainers could have been collecting belts instead of badges
Collecting Gym badges in the Pokémon series is just what you do, but it wasn't always planned to be this way. 'Did You Know Gaming?' has gone to great lengths to dig up some new information about the popular RPG series - translating 100 pages of the "Japan-only" book 'Game Freak: The...
Random Introducing The Tiger Boy Advance - A GBA Inside A Tiger Electronics Handheld System
"A Tiger handheld that doesn't suck"
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to jam the full power of the Game Boy Advance into a Tiger Electronics handheld gaming system from the '80s? Probably not, but one guy who always wanted to make his dreams come true was hardware modder and creator Chris Downing. Downing admits it's technically nothing...
Random You Can Now Play Pokémon Crystal Inside Someone's Twitter Avatar
How it was meant to be played, obviously
Twitch Plays Pokémon has a lot to answer for. What began with a goofy experiment to see if the hivemind could actually play an old game has blossomed into an entire genre of gameplay: Playing Pokémon in weird ways, the latest of which is Pokémon inside of a Twitter avatar. If things keep going this way,...
Random 'R64' Is The First Music Album On A Nintendo 64 Cart
Remute returns with a new album
German musician Remute is creating the first 'album on a cart' for the Nintendo 64, it has been revealed. Remute has previously released similar carts for the Genesis / Mega Drive, SNES, PC Engine and Game Boy, but states that 'R64' will be the most "diverse and playful album" so far. It will showcase 15 new songs,...
Random Circus Pilgrims Played Megalovania To The Pope And Revived A 6-Year-Old Undertale Meme
Who had that on their 2022 bingo?
It's lovely to see a meme finally reach a conclusion, like when Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar, or when Sora from Kingdom Hearts was added to Smash Bros last year. Now, we have another entry in ongoing memes that eventually came to fruition: The Pope loves Undertale. This one began back in 2016, when...
Random Pandemic Shooter's eShop Page Makes You Wonder If Anyone At Nintendo Checks These Things
"Virus is spreading like 5G waves" and "water is turning the frogs gay"
It's fair to assume that any game with a title like 'Pandemic Shooter' is bound to be slightly topical in 2022, but we can't help but feel that the upcoming Switch title's eShop page goes a little too far with the 'humour'. Before you accuse us of missing the joke, we're fully...
Random Mario And Bowser Are Being Used To Promote The PS5 In China
The real PlayStation icons...
When you think about Sony's PlayStation brand, what mascots come to mind? Some obvious ones would be Ratchet & Clank, Kratos, or perhaps even Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn - but why not Mario and Bowser? While you wouldn't normally associate the most famous video game character in the world with the PlayStation...
Random Pokémon Piplup Aims To Get Real Swole In This New Fitness Video
Don't worry, it's only the "Beginner's Edition" if you want to join in
It's not enough for Piplup to have its own ASMR videos and social media accounts – this adorable Pokémon now has its own series of fitness videos, too. The Pokémon Company has just released a video that shows Piplup training in a Gold's Gym fitness club, with the ultimate...