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Poll Do You Have An Issue With Xenoblade Chronicles' Accents?
Cor blimey, guv! Are you really feeling it?
A geniune cockney, honest This week's Nintendo Direct was packed with surprises, one of which was the announcement of the third game in the Xenoblade Chronicles series. Long-time fans of the franchise will be familiar with the fact that the localisation of past entries has been (mostly) handled in Europe...
Random Hyperkin And Kraft Heinz Team Up For "Monumental" Collaboration
"Dedicated solely to gamer-friendly foods"
Hyperkin, the company behind a wide range of gaming hardware and accessories, has announced that it is teaming up with food giant Kraft Heinz to produce "snack-related gaming accessories" that make use of "the most popular snack brands that have been nourishing dedicated couch warriors for decades." Kraft...
Random In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Blissey Just Wants To Help
Big egg, big heart
Several series-first features have been added in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, but one of the biggest is the ability for the player to take damage — from falling, or from aggressive Pokémon. But the player can't take potions, so if they get hurt, they have to flee from battle... Unless they find a Blissey, that is. It turns out...
Random Undertale's 'Megalovania' Was Inspired By Square's Super Famicom RPG 'Live A Live'
Yep, the one getting the HD2D remake treatment
Toby Fox has more talents than his name has syllables, and one of those talents is composing for video games — including his own, Undertale. And if you've heard any of the Undertale soundtrack, it's likely you'll have heard Megalovania, the bombastic retro-flavoured background music to a very...
Random Rick Astley's Favourite Video Game Is GoldenEye 007
"That game was just phenomenal"
Pop legend Rick Astley has sold around 40 million records globally and has unintentionally spawned one of the most annoying memes on the planet, but the question on everyone's lips (well, maybe just ours) has to be: "what's his favourite video game?" Turns out that Rick has excellent taste because his favourite game...
Random These Unofficial Animal Crossing Cake Toppers Might Be Worth Tying The Knot For
Selling like warm baked goods
Wedding cakes, like people, come in all shapes and sizes — some elaborate and ostentatious, others subtle and understated. But no matter how many tiers you've got or what colour the confection is when you cut into it, there has yet to be a cake baked that couldn't be improved with the addition of some Animal Crossing...
Random Is Rolling Faster Than Running In Pokémon Legends: Arceus?
Rolling around at the speed of rolling
We love Digital Foundry's tech deep-dives as much as the next framerate obsessive, but when it comes to applying the scientific method to things in video games, we have to say that it's the mundane things that help us out the most. Like this extremely important video, for example! The question is: Is it faster...
Random There's A Trick That Lets You Clone Shinies In Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Go put the kettle on, it's a long one
If you're the kind of person who has time for farming shiny Pokémon, you'll probably have time for this newly-discovered shiny cloning trick — and you'd better get in on it fast, before Game Freak patches it out. As Kattling on Twitter described, the process is relatively simple, it's just long. Step zero...
Random The World's First Gamer Nut Butter Is Made For Gamers To Eat While Gaming
Now we just need gamer toast
No one ever thinks of the gamers. We have had to suffer through decades of disrespect, forced to eat regular, non-gamer meals with the rest of the normies. They say that some foods are the "breakfast of champions", but what about the Smash Bros. champions, huh? What about the people who always win at Mario Kart Grand...
Random Bioshock Infinite's Frolicking "Baguette Boy" Has A Story To Tell
Bread Fred Redemption
How do you convey the fact that a scene is set in Paris? Easy: You put an Eiffel Tower in the background. But what if the players don't notice it? What if it's not enough? That's where you have to get creative. Add a chap on a bicycle, wearing a striped shirt, perhaps. Maybe sprinkle in some croissants falling from the sky,...
Random It's The 10th Anniversary Of Resident Evil: Revelaitons
We'll have to do a reprint for the headline
Resident Evil: Revelations came out on 3DS 10 years ago today in North America (it was late January in Japan and Europe but we missed that date, ok?). It was particularly famous at launch for its 'Revelaitons' box misprint, which became one of the more humorous collectibles in the 3DS era. Since that...
Random Someone Tried To Rob A Bank Wearing A Sonic The Hedgehog Mask
Gotta go faster!
An attempted bank robbery took place in Florida last week, with the suspect wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog mask. According to the West Volusia Beacon, local law enforcement officers were dispatched to the Florida Credit Union in DeLand on February 2nd after they were informed that an armed robbery was in progress. The suspect...
Random Japanese Baseball Fans Share A Cool Pokémon Legends: Arceus Reference
Hisashi Iwakuma steps up on the mound (spoilers within)
You're probably aware, but a lot of Switch owners have been enjoying Pokémon Legends: Arceus over the past couple of weeks, with social media full of people sharing mini reviews, references, cute things or just general lore. One cool instance we've seen (hat-tip Kotaku) is Japanese fans...
Random These Gorgeous Ace Attorney Movie Posters Do Real Justice To The Games
"I think the time is 3pm"
Ace Attorney, the game about lawyer Phoenix Wright getting his clients acquitted, already has a live-action movie adaptation — and an anime, and a stage production — but all of them were made for the Japanese audience, amongst whom the game is much more popular than in the West. It's unlikely that we'll ever get a...
Random Who Needs 3DS? You Can Now Play Super Mario In Holographic Form
...it's just nowhere near as convenient
Remember the first time you saw a Nintendo 3DS running? The glass-free 3D effect was truly mind-blowing, and there's still a part of us that is deeply sad that the technology proved to be something of a dead-end. Still, if you've got a hankering for something along the same lines and you have exceptionally...
Random Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Player Enters 'The Final Frontier'
By blowing themselves up multiple times
Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out in 2017, yet people are still finding secrets and tricks in 2022. Last month, we saw someone collect a seemingly-unobtainable arrow by blowing themselves up a lot, and today, we're bringing you the news that someone has used a similar technique to take Link to somewhere...
Random Wordle Is Now Playable On The Game Boy
Portable power
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you'll know about Wordle. It's a web-based word game created by Josh Wardle in which players are given six attempts to guess a five-letter word. Coloured tiles tell you if your guesses are correct or not. It has taken the world by a storm, so much so that The New York...
Video Slowpoke Sings Reggae To Promote Japanese "Udon" Prefecture
Bob Marilly
The Kagawa Prefecture, located in the south of Japan, is also known as the "Udon Prefecture" for its famous locally-made noodles. Who better to team up with the Kagawa Prefecture than Yadon — the Japanese name for Slowpoke? The reggae song above is actually from 2014, when it was released in celebration of Slowpoke Day on the 10th of...
Random Here's The Nintendo Switch-Like Steam Deck Compared To Some Other Stuff
It LORGE
The Steam Deck is very big. It is so big, in fact, that we're pretty sure it could beat up your dad and also eclipse the sun without breaking a sweat. People have been having a lot of fun comparing the Large Lad to a bunch of much smaller things, and even some average size things. The Steam Deck is bigger than a Nintendo Switch. We already...
Random Check Out This Adorable 'Coat' For Your SNES
It's cold outside
If there's one video game accessory that's been unfairly ignored over the decades, it's console clothing. We live in a world where people will happily dress up their pets without any fear of rebuke, so why not their beloved gaming systems, too? It would seem that, once upon a time in Japan, someone thought this might catch on...
Video Pokémon Legends: Arceus' New Weird Advert Is About Puppets And Antiques Roadshow
Basculegion in a china shop
Be honest: You've only ever watched Antiques Roadshow for one of four reasons. One, you're at your nan's house. Two, you're home sick from school and there's nothing else on. Three, you really want to see someone find out that their stuff is worth eleventy billion money. Four, you really want to see someone find out that...
Random Wii Shop Channel Music Browser Extension (Version 2.0) Is Now Available For Mozilla Firefox
More eShop tracks have been added!
One of the best things about the Nintendo Wii generation was its Wii Shop Channel - you could go and buy new and classic games, and listen to some upbeat retro-sounding music at the same time. If you do miss this music while browsing digital stores, you might be interested in the Wii Shop Channel Music extension...
Video Muppetlike Munchlax Causes Kitchen Chaos In This New Pokémon Legends Advert
Potatomon Legumes: Artichoke
"It’s Pokémon, but not as you know it" seems to be the tagline for Pokémon Legends: Arceus, which is a pretty good way of summing up our thoughts on it, too. But The Pokémon Company's latest advert for the game, which is based on the idea that it's new and different, is a little... strange. A Muppet-like puppet of...
Video Here's Toto's Africa, Played On The Instruments In Zelda: Majora's Mask
I hear the Goron drums echoing tonight
The best karaoke song of all time and the best Zelda game of all time have finally been united in this mashup, in which Bigfatfrown plays the entirety of Toto's 1982 hit Africa on the Majora's Mask instruments. Perhaps the original arrangement of the song was not entirely intended for a set of bongos, an...
Random 'The Great Wave' Meets Zelda: Wind Waker In This Incredible Model
The Great Wind Waveker
There's a type of video game collectible that's classy enough that your parents and non-gaming friends might not even notice that it's a video game thing. On one end of the spectrum of "nerdy to classy", you've got your Master Chief Funko Pops and your cardboard cutouts of Mario; on the other end, you've got classical...
Random It's Dangerous To Go Alone, Take This LEGO Map Of The Legend Of Zelda
It comes with a walkthrough!
You heard it here first: Pixels translate quite nicely into LEGO. Who'da thunk it? But we've not seen the likes of this LEGO map of The Legend of Zelda before. (Technically, we've seen a LEGO map of A Link to the Past, but that's a different Zelda game, so it doesn't count.) This teeny-tiny recreation of the map from...
Rumour Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Is In Talks To Star In A 'Call Of Duty' Movie
Update: Report follows hints dropped by the actor
Update [Mon 31st Jan, 2022 15:35 GMT]: Sources close to movie news site Giant Freakin Robot have said that the movie Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson hinted at last week is Call of Duty (thanks, Eurogamer). Johnson is said to be in talks about the new film, but his actual role within it hasn't been...
Random Artwork In Retro Japanese Magazine Depicts Link As A Female
Update: Years later, a clearer image appears
Update: Thanks to @HistoryofHyrule, we now have a much clearer look at the mysterious female Link spotted in the 1986 issue of Shonen Captain. Further details on the image's origins can be found in our original article below. Original Article (Tue 2nd Apr, 2019 04:30 BST): Back in 2015,
Random Shhh! Your Pokémon Are Having A Very Important Meeting In Legends: Arceus
Pay attention, Rowlet's talking
One of the cool things in Pokémon Legends: Arceus is that you can just sort of... run around while your Pokémon do things. You don't have to babysit them; in fact, you don't even have to stand behind them in battle. It's weird how cool this feels. You can also throw their Poké Balls on the ground to have them...
Random Check Out This 1986 Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Book Where You Play As Zelda
Explore the story of Ganon's long-lost brother
Fantastic game history archiving news, everybody! History of Hyrule, a prolific Zelda archivist, has just uploaded a high-quality scan of The Legend of Zelda: The Mirage Castle, a choose-your-own-adventure book from 1986, shortly after the release of the first Legend of Zelda game. Because The Mirage...
Random An AI Broke Tetris On NES, And It’s Compelling Viewing
Tetromi-woah
There are a lot of talented programmers that devote their efforts to showcasing and taking retro games to new heights, and Tetris is about as iconic as it gets. In a video posted last Summer - that we cam across this week courtesy of Gizmodo - programmer Greg Cannon shared a playthrough of the NES version in which his AI plays so well,...
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,...