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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...
Think you've got what it takes?
There have been all sorts of mods created for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild since it was released in 2017, but one thing we're yet to really see is one that supports multiplayer. Can you imagine running around the game world with other players - fighting enemies, discovering shrines and climbing mountains...
Random It Took A Year To Build This Scale Model Of Star Fox's Great Fox In Minecraft
Location confirmed. Sending supplies.
Ever wonder what Fox McCloud and his animal fighter pilot friends get up to when they're off-duty? Your questions may be answered in the form of a Minecraft build, because within berg_'s gigantic, to-scale recreation of the Great Fox mothership from Star Fox Zero, we can finally peek into the lives of Slippy,...
Random 927 Artists Join Forces To Draw Every Single Pokémon For An 'Updated PokéRap' Video
Watch it here
If you watched the Pokémon anime back in the late '90s, you'll no doubt remember the tremendous PokéRap. You know the one – "I want to be the best, there ever was, to beat all the rest, yeah that's my cause... Electrode! Diglett! Nidoran! Mankey!" Ahem. Anyway, to recreate the PokéRap for the modern day, complete with every...
Random Ever Wondered What Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Looks Like Without Cel-Shading?
No? Well it's something like this...
Zelda: Breath of the Wild may not be running on cutting-edge hardware – even by 2017 standards – but it's still one phenomenally good-looking video game, and proves that aesthetic brilliance doesn't always have to go hand-in-hand with graphical muscle. The game's mix of sprawling 3D environments and...
Random Xbox's 20th Anniversary 'Metaverse' Acknowledges The Time It Tried To Acquire Nintendo
And the rest is history
Update: Our friends at Eurogamer have gone an extra step and transcribed part of the letter from within Xbox's virtual museum. The letter was sent by Xbox's Rick Thompson to NoA's business boss Jacqualee Story and attempts to set up a meeting with Nintendo's boss Hiroshi Yamauchi and hardware chief Genyo Takeda. "Dear...
Random A Bunch Of Little Pikachus Danced Around A Ten-Metre-Tall Pikachu To Celebrate Mall Opening
The ritual is complete
Normally, if you heard the news that a bunch of creatures were spotted dancing around a much, much taller version of said creatures, you'd be a little concerned that some sort of arcane rite was being performed. We can't say for certain that that's not the case, but at least it's cute. Back on November 18th, games industry...
Back Page We Forced A Bot To Read Nintendo News, And It Wrote Its Own Headlines
We're out of a job
In the game magazine business, the Back Page is where you'd find all the weird goofs that we couldn't fit into the rest of the pages. Some may call it "filler"; we prefer "a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag". We don't have pages on the internet, but we still love terrible...
Random Reggie Fils-Aimé Admits He Bought Xbox Over GameCube As He Hosts 20th Anniversary Panel
"I actually didn't buy a GameCube until I was already part of Nintendo"
Reggie Fils-Aimé has done all sorts of things since he retired from his role as Nintendo of America's president in 2019, and his latest temporary gig is well worth watching if you love learning about the history of the video game industry. The man who made a name for himself...
Jessie and James would be so proud
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl is finally here, and generally, people seem to be enjoying it... but there are some interesting bugs in the game that have been amusing players since its release last week — and one of them features Team Galactic finally doing what Team Rocket never could. In a clip...
Feature Pokémon Donuts: A Review - Pokéheads Or Pokébutts?
Which taste best?
In celebration of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl’s release, The Pokémon Company had the brilliant idea to partner with Japanese company Mr. Donut and release throughout Japan a lineup of fried dough inspired by some of our favourite Generation IV Pokémon. We can’t think of a better way to herald the release of a...
Random This $10 Nintendo Switch eShop Game Has Suddenly Shot Up To A Whopping $250
But why?
With all the Black Friday sales going on at the moment, our eyes have become well drilled in spotting great deals and discounts both at retail and on the Switch eShop, but we didn't expect to stumble across this. Membrane, an excellent physics-based puzzle platformer that launched on the eShop back in 2018, has gone in the com
Random Want A Switch This Christmas? Let's Hope You Don't End Up With One Of These Clones
Imposter!
The Switch is likely to be one of Christmas 2021's most desirable items, which means we could see it selling out everywhere – despite the fact that it's approaching its fifth birthday. When there's high demand for something, it usually means that other companies try to cash in, and that's certainly true in the burgeoning Chinese-made...
Random Forget Sealed Retro Games, It's Empty Boxes That Are The Hot Ticket Item Now
"Flat GoldenEye boxes could be the next form of currency"
There's been a lot of drama surrounding graded retro game sales recently, with many people claiming the whole thing is an elaborate scam. However, it would seem th
