Unlock some themed statues. Nintendo is celebrating The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in all sorts of ways, and as part of this, a new event has now officially gone live in its free-to-download mobile runner, Super Mario Run. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
There’s a new subscription service on the block: Indie Pass, which promises access to “a curated catalog of games from indie developers” for $6.99/month. Indie Pass is set to launch on April 13 with 70 games, most of which are unfamiliar to me—they come from the catalog of publisher indie.io, the company behind the service,…
One might wonder, given the endless selection of good videogames out there: Why play a bad one? But let me turn that idea around on you. Given the endless selection of good videogames out there, what’s more enticing than one you’ve never heard of? Maybe it’s bad, but has one fascinating idea. Maybe it has…
Buy up the galaxy. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie goes beyond the cinema with merchandise and much more. Now, to add to the new movie’s launch, Monopoly is back with a new Galaxy-themed board. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
If you could type a series of sentences into a computer and have it generate a videogame for you, would you? Well, you can—kind of. Tesana is one of a few companies promising that we can all make games simply by typing prompts into a generative AI system. In tandem with third-party AI services like…
Slay the Spire 2 is getting badges—not the ones you get on Steam, but not entirely different, either. In the notes for a new beta patch, developer Mega Crit said badges are a bit like achievements, in that they let you know about the cool things you accomplished during your run. “Badges may appear at…
As was recently spotted by Kotaku, Esquire Singapore published a feature in March all about live-action One Piece actor Mackenyu Arata called “Mackenyu in Resonance.” It includes what writer Joy Ling calls “an unprecedented interview for both parties,” which isn’t so much an interview as it is a transcript from an AI chat bot masquerading…
RTS games generally aren’t my thing, mostly because I’m not very good at them. But I loved the original Homeworld: Enemy AI was too easily exploited (although for me, that’s a feature, not a bug) but the setting and presentation were magnificent—more than enough to make it one of the most unforgettable games I’ve ever…
I wondered, last week, if the new call for aid put forth by the Skyblivion development team was a sign that the long-awaited mega mod—the one recreating The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the newer tech of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition—might be delayed again. It was supposed to be out in 2025…
Thanks to the breathtaking power of artificial intelligence, we may now use natural language to beg the computer to perform a function that once came as naturally to its binary brain as breathing does to ours. Google—a company worth 3.5 trillion dollars, uncontested owner of both the almighty internet search algorithm and the web browser,…