30 Years Ago, PlayStation Used These Bizarre Ads To Sell British Games To The Japanese

“It’ll certainly challenge those clever little fellas”. Although there are notable exceptions—Tetris and Populous being two that spring to mind—it wasn’t always easy to sell Western-made games to Japanese players back in the 1990s. While North American and European gamers would gleefully lap up Japanese output, games moving in the opposite direction often failed to…

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Is that why they gave them bigger butts? Marvel revives its Swimsuit Special, with ‘designs for new costumes coming soon to Marvel Rivals’

Marvel Comics has announced it’s bringing back the most ’90s thing this side of jorts—the Marvel Swimsuit Special. Marvel Swimsuit Special: Friends, Foes & Rivals #1 will be published in July, and promises to “also include designs for new costumes coming soon to Marvel Rivals, the mega popular multiplayer video game from Marvel Games and…

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Ubisoft has made its colorblindness simulation tool available to any game developer for free

Ubisoft has announced that its internal tool to help developers make colorblind-accessible videogames is available for public use “after several years of internal use and development.” Chroma lets developers replicate the experience of colorblind players in real time, as they actually play the game, by applying a filter over the screen that doesn’t degrade game…

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