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Random Remember That $250 Switch eShop Game? It's Currently On Sale For Just $2.50
That's one hell of a discount
Back in November, you might recall a story about the price of the Switch eShop game Membrane jumping from $10 to $250. Although it was assumed to be an error at the time, the US price didn't change in the end. Now, in the latest development, it's on sale for $2.50 - which kind of makes it an offer you might not be able...
Random Did You Know About This Amazing Water Effect In The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild?
Fans are rediscovering its greatness
Did you know that water slowly dries out after rain in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? If you didn't, you're not alone. A post over on the social media platform Twitter has reminded fans just how amazing the 2017 release still is - highlighting a unique water effect in the game. Below is the full tweet...
Random Get Nostalgic For The Wii Days With Nintendo's E3 2006 Conference, Upscaled
Excite Truck ftw
While the last couple of E3s haven't been quite what we're used to for obvious reasons, it's the memories of glorious summers past which keep our enthusiasm for the event alive. Earlier this year we took a look at a handful of Nintendo's most iconic E3 moments, but researching for that article and rewatching Nintendo's conferences...
Random Shigeru Miyamoto Hijacks Nintendo's Twitter Account
To thank fans for voting Nintendo in Japan's TV poll
Nintendo fans on Twitter got quite the surprise yesterday when a tweet by the official company account sent out a message from the creator of Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto. Yes, in a short tweet - Miyamoto took control of the company's Twitter account (don't worry, we're sure he had permission) to...
Random Logan Paul Made A Table Out Of Game Boys, And The Internet Isn't Happy
It lights up, too!
YouTuber Logan Paul is a man who has his fingers in many pies, but his latest venture has riled up Nintendo fandom quite spectacularly. Paul took a selection of Game Boy Color consoles (some of which are quite collectible) and poured epoxy resin over the top of them to create a table - which also lights up: The reaction online...
He's famous now
The Pokémon Company has just released its eighth episode of Pokémon Evolutions – a new animated series on YouTube. While there's a lot to appreciate, one particular highlight for longtime trainers is the on-screen debut of the "technology is incredible" guy who you first meet in Pallet Town in Pokémon Red and Blue. Although...
Some trainers are just lucky
You might have seen a shiny encounter in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl but have you seen a double shiny encounter before? Twitch streamer MitchOG was doing a shiny-only run in the newest Pokémon remakes and managed to get the encounter of a lifetime - a shiny starter Turtwig and shiny Starly in the same...
Random Someone Recreated The Mario Kart 8 Animal Crossing Circuit On Their New Horizons Island
You can visit, too
The DLC tracks and characters that released for the original Mario Kart 8 on Wii U (and came included as part of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe) were pretty special, giving kart racers the chance to burn around circuits based on other series outside the Mario games for the first time. F-Zero's Mute City and Zelda's Hyrule Castle were both...
Random Nitrome Once Pitched A Sonic Game To The "Sega Gods", Here's A Look
Gotta go UP
The UK developer Nitrome - the team behind Bomb Chicken and also the upcoming release Shovel Knight Dig - has revealed it once pitched a Sonic the Hedgehog game to Sega and was knocked back. According to Nitrome, the engine the game was running on was "pretty authentic" and was "very close to the Sonic engine logic". The game itself was...
News Amazingly, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Is Nintendo's Only UK Christmas Number 1 Since 1984
Some absolute classics in the list
Regular readers of these pages will know that each week we cover the UK charts, which often show a lot of familiar games running the top 10. As a nice bit of trivia for the Holidays, GamesIndustry.biz head honcho Chris Dring has shared an interesting graphic that shows every UK gaming Christmas number 1 since 1984...
Retro Remember When Acclaimed Novelist Martin Amis Rubbished Donkey Kong?
"Donkey, your days are numbered. The knackers’ yard awaits you"
One of the most influential and acclaimed novelists of his generation, award-winning writer Martin Amis – famous for books such as Money, London Fields and The Information – isn't the kind of name you'd perhaps expect to see on a site about video games, but in the early '80s, Amis...
Welcome to episode 74,651 of 'Japan Gets All The Best Stuff'
The idea that Japan gets all the best stuff is a long-established and indisputable fact. In the West we tend to either get cheap tat on the level of a McDonald's toy or super premium figures and statues costing thousands — but Japan seems to get a ton of quality everyday video game merch...
Random Who Needs The Mother Games When You Can Have This Watch Instead
But seriously, can we have the games now?
Mother and EarthBound fans located in Japan might not be able to enjoy the older entries in the series on the current generation Nintendo hardware, but at least they'll be able to tell the time with this themed digital watch made by Casio. Hobonichi has announced a collaboration with the Japanese...
Random Sonic 2's Trailer Gets An Anime Makeover
Four stills get the proper '90s treatment
The first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (the movie, not the Mega Drive game) debuted earlier in December at The Game Awards and for the most part it seems to have been enthusiastically received by fans — a far cry from the reaction to the first movie's trailer. One fan, Joe Zavaletta, has redrawn four...
Random A Tiny Nintendo Switch Makes An Awesome Tree Ornament
No tiny dock, though
If you celebrate the upcoming Holidays you may have a sparkly tree up in the house, adorned with all sorts of baubles and things. One intrepid enthusiast has created the ultimate decoration, though, in the form of a tiny little Nintendo Switch. The video at the top is from the channel scottbez1, which gives a nice overview of...
Random Vanilla Ice Never Looked Sharper Than In 8-Bit Form On Analogue Pocket
Aim for the flat top
Connoisseurs of both gaming and rap music will no doubt be aware of Rap Quest, an ill-fated Game Boy title with the working title 'Rap City' that originally featured '90s rapper Vanilla Ice before rights issues meant his music couldn't be used. As we've reported before, Equilibrium Software completed work on the game and...
News Sonic's Co-Creator Yuji Naka Made A New Game, And You Can Play It Right Now
The catch? It's a mobile release
After the release of Balan Wonderworld earlier this year, Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka announced in September he had started developing simple mobile games with Unity. Now, just months later, he's done it - for the "first time" in 37 years, he's made a game all by himself - and he wants everyone to
Video We Forced A Bot To Create Switch Games That Don't Exist, And Now We Wish They Did
Kiddy Kong Racing! Carfox! Super Mario Cosmopolitan!
One day, bots will rule the earth. It is inevitable. Resistance is futile. Just like it was predicted in those Hollywood movies with the shiny skeleton robots and Austrian musclemen/politicians, in the not-too-distant future computers will become so smart that they won't need us weak and feeble...
Random This Guy Has Been Mining Out An Entire Minecraft World For 4 Years, And He's Almost Finished
"Bedrock massacre"
They say that one of the most zen things you can do with a few hours of your life is digging in Minecraft. There's something supremely relaxing about the soft, repetitive sound of pickaxe-meeting-stone; combine it with an enchanted diamond pickaxe and a couple of beacons and you can mine out entire caves in mere minutes. But what...
Random Metroid Dread Fan Finds Another Awesome Throwback Easter Egg
A bit of bad guy branding
Metroid Dread is packed full of excellent details that show just how much developer MercurySteam focused on franchise history. Whether it's routes and tricks designed for speedrunners to discover or fun bonus ways to fight bosses, it's a game that's kept serving up surprises. We do this each time in case you haven't played...
Random An Unused Alternate Version Of Mega Man 3's Box Art Has Sold On Ebay
The NA version, that is
Early Mega Man box art — specifically the North American versions of Mega Man box art — are infamous for being a bit, well, off. And we're being exceptionally generous when we say 'a bit'; the NA cover used for the original game is renowned for being one of the worst examples of video game box art ever created and even C
Random Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Has A Neat Magnesis Trick To Bamboozle Guardians
"Easy pickings"
You know how the bee-bee-bee-bee-beep of a laser-targeting Guardian in Breath of the Wild can completely ruin your day? It doesn't have to be this way. Reddit user RinHara5aki has discovered yet another weird trick within the game that can save Link's bum from getting exploded, and all it takes is a little bit of Magnesis. We've...
Random Grandmother Accidentally Receives Six Nintendo Switch, So Target Gifted Them To Her
The season of gifting
Here's your feel-good story for the day - a grandmother located in the US was recently gifted not one but six Nintendo Switch. Deborah Lewis mistakenly received six Switch OLED model consoles in a larger than expected delivery, but didn't have any luck when trying to return them to a Target store located up the road from her...
Random Bizarre Animal Crossing: New Horizons Glitch Is Making Villagers Lose Their Clothes
Update: Somebody finally thought of the children
Update: As highlighted by our buddies over at VGC, it appears that the latest Animal Crossing patch has, among other things, addressed this glitch and once again covered the modesty of your furry, feathery, or leathery animal residents. Here, Nintendo even made en explicit note of it in the pa
Random These Bot-Generated Pokémon Might Be Better Than The Real Thing
This is what happens when the Pokémon nozzle gets clogged
You know we love bot-generated content. We've used various bots to create front-page stories, and to write a better Ace Attorney script than Shu Takumi, but we haven't dabbled too much in the wild and wonderful world of Pokémon. But Max Woolf has. Woolf is a data scientist at Buzzfeed, and...
Random This Dude Fused A Nintendo Wii With A Toaster, For Some Reason
Does all a Wii can do, but doesn't make toast :(
With over 100 million units sold worldwide, there are a lot of Wii consoles out there – many of which, we dare say, are currently languishing inside cupboards and lofts all over the globe, begging to be returned to active service. They say you should always be careful what you wish for, because one...
Random Usain Bolt Says Mario Kart Helped Him Become An Olympic Champ
"I feel like it kinda helped my hunger"
Olympic sprint champ Usain Bolt got to the pinnacle of his profession through hard work, perseverance and innate natural talent, but he has admitted that video games also played a part in his drive for success. Speaking to BBC Gaming Reporter Steffan Powell, Bolt – who is an eight-time Olympic gold...
Random In An Alternate Reality, Sega Published Pokémon
And the seeds were sown 40 years ago this month...
Satoshi Tajiri, as we all know, is one of the key figures behind the incredibly successful Pokémon series. However, it's important to remember that Tajiri's interest in game development began long before he had the idea of linking two Game Boy consoles together in order to share fictional monsters...
Random Kirby's Dream Land LEGO Ideas Set Needs More Votes To Make It To Final Round
You can help!
LEGO Ideas is a place where fan-created LEGO sets — called MOCs, or "My Own Creation", by LEGO fans — can be submitted for a chance to become reality. It's where we got sets like the recent Home Alone build, the typewriter, and plenty more TV tie-ins like Central Perk from Friends, the Seinfeld
Random One Fan Has "Poorly" Drawn Nearly 700 Hollow Knights While Waiting For Silksong
'Day 683 of poorly drawing hollow knight until silksong comes out'
Ah, Silksong — it's been so long. Devotees of Team Cherry's masterful Metroidvania Hollow Knight have been waiting quite a while for the follow up to one of indie gaming's breakout hits of 2017. First revealed in February 2019, a demo featured in Nintendo's E3 2019 Treehouse stream...
Random This Guy Can Reload Anything Like A Gun In An FPS, Including A Toaster
Cover me! I'm reloading
We've all found ourselves strange new hobbies during the pandemic lockdowns, haven't we? Some of us have picked up crochet or gardening, while others have gotten really into making miniatures and spending way too much on Pokémon plushes. This guy — Karl Schecht, or "Kommander Karl" on social media — got really into...
Random Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Hinox Have Seriously Thick Skin, It Would Seem
Lava ain't no problem for this monster
There's a long list of things you might not know about Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and today, that list just got a little longer. We're not sure why Gaming Reinvented pondered this particular issue, but it decided to see what would happen if a Hinox was introduced to a pool of boiling hot lava. To do this, the...
Random Fans Jokingly Compare Sonic Frontiers To An Unofficial Unreal Engine Tech Demo
"SEGA, HIRE THIS MAN!!!"
Sonic Frontiers is looking very impressive indeed, and promises to do for the Sonic franchise what Breath of the Wild did for Zelda – namely, reinvigorate it via the wonders of open-world exploration (or "open-zone" as Sega prefers to call it). However, some people online have called out Sega (light-heartedly, we should...
Random The Original Sonic The Hedgehog Game Is Coming To Tesla
Gotta drive safe
Sonic the Hedgehog is 30 this year and to celebrate his original game is getting a release on the Tesla. Yes, that's right - Sega has announced a partnership with the electric car company to offer the original Sonic video game outing as in-car entertainment on the Tesla Arcade platform. Get ready, Sonic fans! SEGA has just...
Random Pokémon Releases 30-Minute ASMR Video Of Piplup Singing, Giggling And Flopping About
Piplup is LOUD
We may as well just stop reporting news for the rest of the day because the content we've all been waiting for – no, desperately praying for – has finally arrived. The Pokémon Company has released the latest video in its ASMR series (that's 'autonomous sensory meridian response' or 'tingly feels by sounds' for those not in the...
Random Ace Attorney Says OBJECTION! To Drugs In Japanese Anti-Marijuana Campaign
Hold it, but don't pass it
6,000 posters and 4,000 leaflets featuring the characters from The Great Ace Attorney have been printed in Japan in an attempt to combat "cannabis abuse", Capcom announced today. The partnership between Capcom and the government has been going on since 2009, and has been aimed towards "crime prevention enlightenment" as...
Random This Super Mario Bros. Game Hack Adds Chris Pratt's Voice
"It's-a me...Chris Pratt!"
Back in September, Nintendo surprised the internet when it announced Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World, Avengers: Endgame) would be the voice of Super Mario in the upcoming animated film by Illumination. It's become a bit of a meme at this point online, and now to take it one step further, an internet...
Random Waluigi And Wario Get A Much Deserved Celebrity Endorsement
They are beautiful
As you're no doubt aware, Christina Aguilera has been giving Nintendo a bit of publicity recently, starring in a commercial with her family and talking about the topic in an interview with Elle (which admittedly got ignored in gaming circles for a good while). We learned that being famous can get you an early look at Pokémon...
Random Want To Be In A Ring Fit Commercial? You Can, If You're UK-Based
Also you have to actually play Ring Fit
Nintendo's been ramping up the adverts in preparation for the Christmas rush, but what about the post-Christmas "oh no, I ate too many mince pies" slim-down? Well, we have Ring Fit Adventure, of course, which is available again after that early pandemic rush. But the advert for "Buy Ring Fit To Work Off Those...
Random Nintendo Has Already Let One Celebrity Play Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Watching a family member play counts, right?
In the lead-up to the holiday season, Nintendo has been getting celebrities to promote the Switch and its extensive library of games in brief commercials. So far, there have been actors like Neil Patrick Harris and Jessica Alba playing games like
Random Animal Crossing: New Horizons Players Are Building Iconic Zelda Locations In The Game
Animal Breath: Crossing The Wild
How can we summon news about Breath of the Wild 2? The last thing we heard was a 2022 release window, which is probably going to be more like "end of 2022" than any time soon. Still, rumours are swirling. Would it help to start recreating it in another game, perhaps? That's what a few Animal Crossing: New Horizons...
Random There's Something Vaguely Familiar About This Animal Crossing: New Horizons Home Design...
Some kind of story
We've been having a lot of fun with Happy Home Paradise's vacation home designs, and the new depth that the DLC has added to Animal Crossing: New Horizons — but, we have to admit, most of us haven't really been getting too gimmicky or adventurous with it. Maybe that's a mistake, since we've been seeing a lot of really neat...
Random Domino's Is Trying To Lure In New Workers With The Chance Of Winning A Nintendo Switch
And free pizza for a year!
What a tasty combo. There aren't many things in life better than gaming and pizza, and that's exactly what popular pizza chain Domino's is offering to new employees in Australia. The perks are being offered up to one lucky new worker in a bid to get more people applying for jobs; Australia's 9Now news network reports...
Random This Accidental "Cursed" Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Mod Turns Everything Into A Nightmare
BOTW's Hyrule has a Dark World, too
We've all had that moment where we're messing around with a game's files, and we accidentally turn the world into a strange, wrong-coloured nightmare, where all the trees are screaming and the sky is as black as a void, right? No? Ah, you're missing out. Postposterous — whose video about Link's sunburn we...
Gallery Here's What Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Looks Like With Raytracing
Zelda Skyrim?
Breath of the Wild is a gorgeous game, right? Well, it's about to get even gorgeouser. We might even say gorgeousest. With the use of just two mods, one to add a raytracing reshade and another to add "infinite tree LOD" (level of detail), Breath of the Wild can look like this: To explain what on earth raytracing and
Random Hunting Feebas In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl? This Tool Can Help
Feebas? It's at least a Fee+.
Feebas, the ugly fish that evolves into a beautiful — Eel? Dragon? Snake thing? — is pretty tricky to find in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl. They only spawn in set locations, and figuring out where those locations are can be a long, arduous, and boring quest. Luckily, some players have figured...
Random There's A Really Neat Dino Detail In The Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise DLC
Dem bones, dem bones, dem tall bones
The new handheld camera has been revealing a lot of tiny little details about Animal Crossing: New Horizons, like the new museum posters, and how awesome the aquarium exhibits look in first-person. But here's something extremely cool that really shows how much attention to detail the developers put in:
Random Animal Crossing Fan Shares LEGO Character Designs That You Can Build At Home
Parts and cost all detailed
The hunger for Animal Crossing-themed LEGO remains as high as ever, and even though the company did sadly reject an Animal Crossing set proposal last month, fans are still hard at work coming up with great designs. Take these, for example, shared online by a Rebrickable user named iprice. With around 40 designs under...
News Step Aside, Switch Pro - The Orion Upswitch Wants To Turn Your Switch Into A Handheld TV
For, erm, bigger portable play?
The Switch OLED model's arrival gave us a bit of a bump in screen size, which is useful both for the quality of the screen and to make games / UI text a little easier to see. Yet we've stumbled across a quirky product that goes to the next level, and then some – Switch Pro, anyon
Random Did You Know That Link Can Get Sunburned In Zelda: Breath Of The Wild?
Lobster Link
Another day, another thing that we didn't know about this almost-five-year-old game: Breath of the Wild has a sunburn mechanic. Unlike real sunburn, the slight blush upon Link's body is a little hard to notice: it's a very subtle reddening of his shoulders, nose, cheeks, and collarbone, which is to say the most raised areas on his...
