“Discovered a few months ago inside a brand-new Control Deck NES console bundle”. A sealed and rare copy of Super Mario Bros. on the NES has just sold at auction for a staggering $3 million. As reported by IGN and highlighted on social media by Chris Kohler, this ‘Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) 9.6 A++’ grade…
“AI translation can still get things wrong”. Just like the Babel Fish of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, AI translation tools have brought down the barriers of communication online, with social media sites like Twitter even automatically translating tweets into your native tongue. It’s little wonder, then, that sections of the fan translation community…
Dead Hand in Hand. A new description for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 suggests that the upcoming remake may be a more faithful 1:1 recreation of the original rather than a complete reimagining. As covered by Go Nintendo, the description could be viewed on Google when searching for the official…
Many of the complaints about Solasta 2 when it launched in early access were about the CRPG’s character creator. While its results were better than the first game’s freakish plasticine faces, it was hard to make a full party who looked and sounded meaningfully distinct. The latest update has given character creation a significant upgrade….
It is impossible to deny the impact Super Mario Bros had on the gaming landscape when it was released on the original NES, especially on scrolling platform games. For gamers, it set a standard to expect from new platforming games released afterward. For gaming companies, it gave them something to aspire to, to be the…
Raphaël Colantonio, co-creative director of Dishonored, has been streaming a playthrough where he’s joined by different members of the team at Arkane who worked on whichever level he’s currently replaying. It’s been interesting, and has resulted in the unearthing of titbits like Arkane being tapped to make Thief 4 and Blade Runner before they ended…
Android Who Dreams of Stars looks like the kind of visual novel that has appeared weekly on Steam for over a decade. Its trailer shows a series of static sci-fi anime images accompanied by simple plaintive music. It centres around “autonomous android” Eve Nova whose existence is cause for wonder and concern in a futuristic…
A friend of mine who worked in a bookstore used to complain about customers who couldn’t remember what they wanted. They’d say unhelpful things like, “I think it had a red cover?” At first the thought of gamifying that only with music instead of books seemed off-putting to me, as someone who goes shopping with…
In Meccha Chameleon, you begin play as a featureless, white, blobby biped—but you don’t stay that way. Indeed, it’s a wacky hide-and-seek game where instead of morphing into a prop or smashing serial killers’ knees with a wood pallet, you paint your body on the fly using a color wheel to blend in with your…
Earlier this year, the private World of Warcraft server Turtle WoW announced it would shut down after Blizzard served it a cease and desist and filed a copyright infringement suit. Second verse, same as the first: Project Ascension, a different private server project with several realms, is the subject of a new suit filed last…