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The world record speedrun for Super Mario Bros. has been beaten – by 0.05 seconds!

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Although it was released in 1985, competition for Super Mario Bros. supremacy still wages on with gamers, and a new world record has been set. A gamer under the name Kosmic claimed on Friday that he’d broken the record held by Darbian of 4 minutes and 57.244 seconds, but then retracted his claim when he […]

Video Game Review – Retroid for the Nintendo Game Boy

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Villordsutch reviews Retroid for the Game Boy… The Nintendo Game Boy arrived on the gaming scene back in 1989 and it truly took the world by storm, combined with the Game Boy Color, Light and “Play it Loud” releases the Game Boy to date has sold 118.69 Million Units.  What’s more scary if you multiply […]

Video Game Review – Yun on the Nintendo Entertainment System

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Villordsutch reviews Yun on the NES… In today’s Homebrew Reviews we take a look at another NES release, this time from the Mojon Twins who have released a fair few ZX Spectrum games in the past, but are currently producing a number of crowdfunded NES and Megadrive games.  Their most recent free release is called Yun […]

Video Game Review – Alter Ego on the NES

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Villordsutch reviews Alter Ego on the NES… In our homebrew reviews today we take a look at game that destroys your mother’s bizarre hysterical rant of, “I can’t be in two places at once!?” and puts it to bed once and for all.  Not only that, but it’s possibly the first NES game I’ve ever […]

The LEGO Movie producer would like to make a Nintendo All-Stars film

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The LEGO Movie did a good job of bringing together several franchises in Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, DC Super Heroes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many, many more – and it’s producer would like to do the same thing again with Nintendo. “Zelda, Mario, the whole universe of characters, I feel like could […]

2016 Won’t Be the Year of VR

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Samuel Brace doesn’t think 2016 will be the year of VR… The journey to VR — to real, sustainable VR — has been long. The journey to VR has been torturous. The journey to VR has been exciting and mysterious. The journey to VR has been fuelled — as any notable product is — by […]

Nintendo “looking at things like movies in the future”

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Given the reception to 1993’s Super Mario Bros. movie, which is widely considered to be one of the biggest disasters ever put to film, it’s understandable why Nintendo has shied away from bringing its stable of video game characters to the big screen. However, it seems that the entertainment giant could be softening its stance […]

Fabled Nintendo PlayStation actually exists

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A Reddit user has posted pictures of what seems to be the incredibly rare prototype which Sony made for Nintendo during their brief partnership some 25 years ago. The prototype itself was created in 1990-91 as a disc playing add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, however, the deal turned on its head after Nintendo […]

The Return of Nintendo: The Rise of a Great Gaming Brand

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It looks like Nintendo, after years of failing to follow in the footsteps of its most fierce competitors Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox, is set to venture into gaming applications for phones. The revelation that they had finally shaken off their aversion to non-console platform gaming and were taking what has been described as a […]