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Miyamoto says the most interesting thing about Super Mario bros is that you don’t fight Bowser

  • Miyamoto highlights Bowser’s unusual 1985 encounter.
  • The original game focused on evasion, not a conventional fight.
  • Later Mario games made Bowser battles more direct.

Shigeru Miyamoto says the unusual design of Bowser’s encounters is the most interesting feature of the original Super Mario Bros. Released in 1985, the game made its climactic moments about keeping Mario moving to the right and navigating obstacles, rather than engaging in a conventional boss fight. Miyamoto…

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Despite initial player concerns, Capcom feels good about Onimusha: Way of the Sword’s difficulty, and says it has the data to prove it got it right

  • Capcom believes the game’s difficulty hits its intended balance.
  • Player progress data supports the team’s view.
  • The game has sold one million copies.

Capcom says it is satisfied with the difficulty of Onimusha: Way of the Sword, despite players’ mixed reactions to its pre-launch demo. Director Satoru Nihei said the aim was to let players progress through the story while facing enough challenge to make victories satisfying. The game was not…

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Amazon Prime Turns Fallout Shelter into a ‘Competition’ TV Show

  • Amazon announced a Fallout Shelter competition series.
  • Fallout Shelter: The Experiment arrives on 13 January.
  • The challenges and format have not been detailed.

Amazon Prime Video is expanding its Fallout adaptations with Fallout Shelter: The Experiment, a competition series inspired by the vault-management game. The announcement signals a shift from the scripted drama of the main Fallout series to a reality-style format, though the article says little about how the contest…

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This week in PC games: Run a shady cyberpunk boutique in Probably Stolen, autobattle Viking towns in Northgard Battlegrounds, and trash homophobic robots in Virtue and a Sledgehammer

  • A weekly preview spotlights several upcoming PC games.
  • Featured titles include Probably Stolen and Northgard Battlegrounds.
  • The article gives no release dates or prices.

The article highlights several PC games coming out this week, including a cyberpunk shopkeeping game, a Northgard-themed autobattler and a game about confronting homophobic robots. It offers readers a preview of varied releases as the year-end gaming season approaches. The text provides no release dates, prices or gameplay…

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EA Scrubbing Mass Effect from Other Games as Series Starts to Die Off

  • Mass Effect cosmetics have disappeared from Battlefield 6.
  • The items may have been planned for N7 Day.
  • EA has not confirmed whether they will return.

EA has removed Mass Effect-themed cosmetics from Battlefield 6, where players had found them in the game files. The move comes amid reports that EA cancelled the next Mass Effect game and shut down BioWare, leaving the franchise’s future uncertain. The unreleased items reportedly included N7-coloured weapon skins,…

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Call of Duty movie director says there’s “real soul to the Modern Warfare universe”: “These are not cartoon characters”

  • Peter Berg says the film will focus on war’s human cost.
  • The story is expected to draw on the Modern Warfare universe.
  • The film is scheduled for cinemas in summer 2028.

Director Peter Berg says the planned Call of Duty film will treat the Modern Warfare universe as a serious story about the human cost of war. He describes its characters as complicated people and says the film will explore the burden carried by those who put themselves in…

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Nintendo Has Scheduled 3DS And Switch Maintenance For This Week

  • 3DS network maintenance lasts two hours.
  • Switch transfer and cloud save services are also affected.
  • Nintendo Store app maintenance is scheduled this week.

Nintendo has scheduled network maintenance for the 3DS, Switch and Nintendo Store app this week. The 3DS work is notable because its online services were shut down in 2024, though Nintendo has continued maintenance that can affect players reinstalling games. The 3DS maintenance is due to last two…

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32-year-old “ellipsoid” horror game Ecstatica gets a PC re-release today, showing us an alternative timeline in which polygonal 3D never became dominant

  • *Ecstatica* and its sequel return on Steam and GOG.
  • Its graphics use rounded ellipsoids instead of relying mainly on polygons.
  • The re-release offers three graphics modes and controller support.

The 1994 horror game *Ecstatica* and its sequel have been re-released on Steam and GOG, bringing back a striking graphics style built around ellipsoids. The games offer a glimpse of an alternative path for 3D visuals, which came to rely chiefly on polygons. In *Ecstatica*, ellipsoids form characters,…

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It’s Officially the End of an Era as Sony Discontinues Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player

  • Sony ended sales of its last standalone 4K player in Japan.
  • No successor has been announced.
  • Panasonic and other brands still offer dedicated players.

Sony has discontinued the UBP-X700/K, its last standalone 4K Blu-ray player in Japan, with sales ending on 22 October and no replacement announced. The move narrows options for Japanese film collectors who want a dedicated player, particularly if their current device needs replacing. Sony’s Japanese store says the…

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New Avengers: Doomsday footage has Marvel fans speculating Loki has replaced Steve Rogers, and I’m convinced

  • Fans think Loki may be posing as Steve Rogers.
  • A brief TV spot fuels the theory with two clues.
  • *Doomsday* arrives on 18 December.

A new *Avengers: Doomsday* TV spot has prompted fans to speculate that Loki may be impersonating Steve Rogers. The theory matters because Steve’s return and his role in the film remain unexplained, amid hints that the story could involve threats to the wider Marvel universe. Fans point to…

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