Ashley

Did anyone pick this up in the end?

What's the game like in multiplayer? I'm not picking it up as I very rarely have time to play games now, but feels like if I still had a housemate would have picked it up.

Rokhed. And welcome back!

https://www.ign.com/articles/super-mario-bros-wonder-mod-turns-talking-flowers-foul-mouthed-nintendo-quickly-takes-action Boo

I unintentionally watched a Spanish gameplay video a week or so ago so maybe that's what you do; set the language to a different one so it feels more like just being abroad and not knowing what's going on. Not like you need to follow the story in a Mario game anyway.

The Mario and Luigi voice actor has been confirmed:

Fixed

The Fire Stick app (and presumably elsewhere) has recently updated so that every screen transition involves a 'swooping' kind of zoom in animation like their logo does and its really annoying me in how gratuitous it is.

And John Riccitiello is gone: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/9/23910441/unity-ceo-president-john-riccitiello-out-retire

And some images of the Animal Crossing set: https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/lego-animal-crossing-officially-announced/

Forgot this was out this week until I saw some reviews pop up. Mixed, as expected. Criticisms of the graphics, as expected.

I used this feature quite a lot in Japan, particularly to check menus/food labels because veggie and that was how I remembered that in Japan "bukkake" is an actual word and not just...you know.

I like how Yoshi has accepted his fate in the first thumbnail

FWIW staff can see it so if you want it actually removed I can do that for you.

Unity has rolled back a lot of stuff: - Unity Personal subscription plan will no longer be charged the new fee and their revenue cap has been increased to $200,000 (and as with the current setup, at that point they'd go onto the next tier) - Any game that makes less than $1 million in 12 months will not be subject to the fee - The fee will only apply to any games made with a version of Unity to be released next year - They'll no longer track installs and instead rely on self-reporting (for clarity's sake, they don't currently but their announcement suggested they would but never explained how) - Reversed an unrelated but still contentious change that meant users were obliged to follow the current terms of service, instead now they follow the ones related to the version they are using - And in terms of the actual fee: "For games that are subject to the runtime fee, we are giving you a choice of either a 2.5 percent revenue share or the calculated amount based on the number of new people engaging with your game each month.” There's still questions about the latter point and it remains to be seen if this will go any way towards recovering their brand reputation and trust amongst developers

Yeah I've seen some people say Microsoft considering buying Nintendo is just a standard part of market research. Obviously they want to buy companies so they'd look into all the big ones and Nintendo would be within that, but I doubt they thought it was really going to happen.

The X is getting a lot more curvy next year: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23880111/microsoft-xbox-series-x-new-design-refresh

Just wanted a GVG video about some of the updates (including they're now applying a percentage cap) and they made a good point; they're not backtracking, they're negotiating. Doesn't seem like they'll be changing anytime soon. Plus while charity bundles will be excluded they consider organisations like Planned Parenthood as a political group and will not be excluded 😮‍💨

Activision was briefed about it last year and claim the specs are in line with the Xbox One and PS4: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/18/23878412/nintendo-switch-2-activision-briefing-next-gen-switch It was also nicknamed Switch NG (Next Generation). Close to the old NX code name.

Title says it all really. Which universally panned games have you gotten your hands on and what did you think of them? Zelda CD-i, Mario is Missing, Superman 64 etc. You be the judge on what games are notoriously bad.

They are upgraded from the original. They're not good though.

A planned town hall meeting has been cancelled due to death threats. All going well at Unity. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-14/video-game-company-unity-closes-offices-following-death-threat

Apparently it's Lara's birthday.

Watching that in the Direct I thought I didn't know it was happening but turns out I just forgot. Was thinking of going back to Japan early next year...

I'm not exactly holding my breath that it will be a patch on the original, but I'll watch.