Mario 64 speedrunners have cracked a 10-year-old problem, turning it from a Twitch chat meme into a must-use strat using algorithms and raw determination

Mario 64 speedrunners have cracked a 10-year-old problem, turning it from a Twitch chat meme into a must-use strat using algorithms and raw determination

The best thing about watching speedrunners is seeing just how far they’ll go to break their favourite games. No matter how old a game is, no matter how ‘solved’ its speedrun may seem, there’ll always be new surprises just around the corner. Super Mario 64 has long been a favourite of the speedrunning community, and…

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The Alice: Madness Returns dev team ‘made history,’ American McGee says: It was ‘the first team ever to tell EA *** and (kinda) get away with it’

Alice creator American McGee has been in something of a chatty mood lately. Just a couple days after relating a tale about how he drew inspiration from a Valve demo he saw while working on Quake 2 at id, he shared another story about Alice: Madness Returns, offering a fun glimpse into game dev financing,…

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Ristar: SEGA’s Forgotten 16-Bit Mascot

A sentient star who stretches his arms and bounds across stages with speed, Ristar is a SEGA protagonist with just as much charm as Sonic, yet time has not been so kind to this cosmic character. In 1995, Ristar debuted on the Genesis/Mega Drive to decent critical acclaim, with many praising its vibrant graphics and…

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