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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 […]

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 […]

Retro Video Game Review – Pac-Man on the NES

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Villordsutch reviews Pac-Man on the NES… Pac-Man is an all-time classic! Originally released upon the Japanese arcades in May 1980 from video game designer Toru Iwatani, this Namco game then went over to America and flew under the Midway flag come December 1980.  As any Scott Pilgrim fan will tell you, our yellow hero went […]

Retro Video Game Review – Super Metroid

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Andy O’Flaherty reviews Super Metroid… Super Metroid.  Anybody who owned a SNES back in 1994 is probably nodding their head right now while thinking “yep…. there’s one of the greatest games ever made right there…”  Following on from the Game Boy’s Metroid II (1991) and continuing the series established by Metroid (Famicom – 1986), the third […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Season Pass announced, Rabbid Peach character trailer released

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Ubisoft’s post-launch plans for Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle are set to have fans raving for more. Available for the Nintendo Switch on August 29th, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle will launch simultaneously with the Season Pass. This contains three extra pieces of DLC for the tactical-adventure game to make you go BWAAH! Here’s what you get: 8 […]