Dufniall

Same here. The Dutch government held a press conference yesterday and for now schools remain open, but for everyone who can work from home it's adviced to do so. Avoid travelling in public transport during peak hours, and all events with >100 people are postponed. All until March 31. My cats at least are happy that I'm home on a weekday!

Full press release plus trailer on the main site: https://www.n-europe.com/news/new-details-plus-trailer-for-lego-super-mario-collaboration-surface

Is the transition tune from ?

Playing this again reminded me of how sure we were that we would see more game types in the future (because of the blank space): To be fair I was expecting more updates on this game, seeing how active they updated MM1 with fresh content. The updates they have done like Ninji speed run and adding Link are great, but of course I want more! I think what I would like most though is a curated list of levels.

The coral switch lite is coming to Europe:

Damn that looks awesome. I have so much nostalgia for that series, I just hope it's good as some recent remasters (Warcraft 3, Commandos...) just didn't deliver and they are not even done by EA. Great to see that Keplacki is on board for the sound remasters, love that guy. And the video confirms the Red Alert secret missions, nice! I think I played those more than the normal missions haha. Here's hoping they don't screw up, and more importantly, we will see a Red Alert 2 remaster in the future!

Got some new stuff for the Switch: Since I play 90 percent handheld these days and my Joycons are starting to drift, I decided to give these a try: Finally I could get a new phone for work. We get a certain budget and the rest your have to pay yourself. I didn't feel like paying extra so I went for the Xiaomi Mi 9T which has a lot of specs for a very fair price: Edit: And found this one quite cheap, never played it which is insane since I consider ALTTP the best Zelda:

That is ehm... quite a list! Plenty of potential great games to play. A bunch on my list: Celeste OlliOlli Steamworld Dig (have it already on DS but never played it Cuphead Untitled Goose Game Adding Ori and the Blind Forest to the list Also quite a bunch I have played but would not mind revisiting like Oxenfree (been meaning to give that another go), The Room (nice and short, played it on iPad), Limbo, Shovel Knight. But yes, I think we need some way of shortlisting this. Games on a lot of platforms (PC/PS4/Switch/Xbox), or a heavily discounted game on Switch.

Nah, I lost it at the big spike ball before that. Anyway, managed to get to and beat the boss... and fail in that final jump like many before me. I don't think I can muster the spirit to do it again haha.

Right, I gave everyone's level a go. Couldn't finish them all, but I'm willing to go back tonight for a second round. Great idea though, it was cool to go back to Mario Maker! Can't wait for April's theme. As for voting? I will go back to the levels I haven't finished but it's safe to say the winner here is RedShell! Thoughts:

Looks like almost everyone found my level, if not here is the code: Had a busy weekend so I'm gonna start now with all your levels!

Apparently the game can be played in Dutch as well, first time in the series. Seeing that it's quite a bit of work to translate this game (including puns) shows how much of a franchise this is for them. Looks like they are expecting a lot of this.

SNES controllers are back in stock for those interested.

The Kickstarter is ending soon, but they managed to hit the 2 million stretch goal:

It's stupid. They shouldn't have gone in the first place. There wasn't an official travel ban when they left, but they got adviced not to go. But being a fraternity of mostly rich kids means they don't really care. I'm really curious to see how they are going to treat them here, it's not like you can quickly and easily test 900 people for the virus, but they are also not the type of people who will willingly go into quarantine until tested. Luckily it's in the northern part of Netherlands, nowhere near me : grin: although I think there now is a student affected from the university in my town so it's coming close. But to be honest I'm not that panicky about it. I'll follow protocol but I'm not that scared of getting it. If it's going to happen it's going to happen, and for the rest just use your common sense (such as don't go skiing in North Italy...).

The tourism branch is already suffering a lot from the virus. The Mobile World Congress didn't happen this year due to the virus, resulting in empty hotels and 20,000 temporary jobs being lost. Travel agencies are not receiving any bookings, and hotels in Brussels have already asked for help as they practically run on the EU situated there but there are hardly any conferences taking place. The Game Developers Conference is cancelled as well, which is impacting small developers and people looking to work in the industry. They put serious money in their flights and accomodation as personal investment of being there. I heard about people from South America being basically bankrupt after this, and there are already some actions put up to help them. Dutch developer Rami from Vlambeer for example mentioned it: Events that are months away are being canned, so I can't imagine that we will see E3 this year. I'm still not sure if it we are all overreacting, but it does show how normal it is to travel all around the globe and how much of a globalised world we live in.

I work good under pressure.

Yes true, but I didn't want to keep fiddling with it all week so I wanted to finish it in a couple of hours.

Connection was very smooth, but what a difference coming from MK8. Haven't played SMK in a loooong time. Fun though!

Woops, I didn't really look at the rules so I already uploaded my level haha. Thought upload was this weekend and play until the next one.

I was away all day though. I'm free tonight though (say from 20:00 - 22:00 Dutch time). Otherwise I can do most evenings except Tuesday.

To be honest I was stocking up on pasta today as well. Only not for Corona panic issues but because there was a buy 2 get 1 free deal... I think we need some fit examples to be able to judge this as well.

It's interesting how they both seem to be very wary of naming a price, probably both want to either match the price or go 50-100$ below it. However I think Microsoft will have the deeper pockets. They look desperate to win back players to their platform: currently trying that with GamePass, but I expect them to go even more all-out with the Series X. Like they said, no matter on what device you play XBox titles, as long as you are on their ecosystem it's fine. Also don't forget that PlayStation is one of Sony's main divisions for profit, while they make big losses on for example phones and home entertainment. I can't see them selling the PS5 at a loss. But Microsoft? XBox is just a part of it and all their investment is aimed towards the cloud and the servers. They have the Windows OS, Azure, Office, and so on. I can see them taking a hit on every XBox. I'm not sure how the Corona virus is going to affect the launches. In the best case I guess shortages at launch, at worst they get pushed back to next year.