Nintendo provides a closer look at the Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros

Pitfall – by Ryan Burger

This masterpiece was one of the largest games ever made back in 1982. Think about this: 255 screens of gaming, all packed in 4 KB. The file size of Activision’s breakout title, Pitfall! (1982), was 4 KB. Every copy sold of this game would total 15.25 GB (4 million copies × 4 KB), compared to…

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‘This was our first big experience, sh*t happens’: The Day Before’s CEO is MIA, its Discord server has disintegrated, and its YouTube Channel has gone dark

Trainwrecks aren’t exactly rare in the gaming industry, but it’s rare that they’re this spectacular. After a suspiciously-polished trailer, The Day Before quickly became one of Steam’s most wishlisted games.  Then delays, more delays, major red flags featuring “volunteer” workers, a much shoddier 10-minute gameplay video (which you can’t watch anymore) and finally a debut…

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A Wolfenstein TV series is in development by the Fallout TV series people: ‘The story of killing Nazis is evergreen’

Variety reports that Amazon is developing a Wolfenstein TV series with Patrick Somerville, who made post-apocalyptic miniseries Station Eleven and wrote some of HBO’s The Leftovers (a show with a genuinely good twist), and Kilter Films, the production company behind Amazon’s Fallout TV show. Variety says that the show’s being pitched with the one-sentence description:…

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