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Sounds amazing, looking forward to the dreck

Wow! We’re almost done already? Would’ve thought that there would be much more (especially the crappy LCD games! Where are the rest of the crappy LCD games!?!?). Congrats though @Cube Which one is your fave? (And which one is the ultimate baktag?)

Defo! Rampant speculation and crazy fakes are the best part of a new console unveil

I’ll believe it once we start getting tech spec and photo leaks. If Ubisoft aren’t repeatedly leaking every single facet of this system? Then it doesn’t exist.

Good news. Double Dragon Advance is worth a pretty penny now, commonly going for £80-100 on eBay (and you better count yourself lucky if you get a legit cart and not a bootleg!). Will happily cop that Now. Can we please get any form of re-release for Ninja Cop?

Internet is still broked, so sadly me and @Glen-i will have to miss out this week.

Bad news… Me and @Glen-i won’t be able to join in tonight. My internet connection has decided to have a pants disaster and has completely packed up. Profound Sadness

Err... does it count as an April Fools if it's actually real?

Even though it’s actually Insomniac’s Spider-Man… Does that mean that the title should really be “Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man”?

The bugs are features in this case I missed those crazy stages. Was mad fun!

There are also adapters now available that let you use them wirelessly on original N64 consoles too. I've got 4 of these hooked up. They're tits!

It’s PR spin, and you’re falling for it. S-E have a vested interest in making their core business look healthier than it really is, and in puffing up their big new flagship game to make it look popular and appealing to the public. Of course they’re going to say that their sales are “good”, despite being a huge drop from its predecessors. Unless you really think that S-E are happy with spending more than FF15 to achieve less than half of its sales… To put things in perspective… FF16 is getting bitch slapped by Metal Gear Rising in Japan. Meanwhile, FF16 is also on track to become the single worst selling mainline FF of all time in Japan, and the west isn’t picking up the slack. Let that reality sink in…

Well that was a fun night! Great to see the grand return of the Shell Of The Red! Here's a few choice clips...

REDSHELL IS BACK!!!! This is not a drill! I repeat! @RedShell IS BACK!!!!

Part 3 is out now... https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2023/July/Ask-the-Developer-Vol-10-Pikmin-4-Chapter-3-2417256.html Nothing too revelatory this time around, this talks more about visual and sound design.

No, it's Starfleet Academy you're thinking of. That and Elite Force, he played the hell out of that one as well.

In this latest chapter of Blowing Your Mind, I have a tasty treat for your brain hole... The GBA remake of Mario Bros Classic (that was included in all of the GBA Mario Advance releases, as well as Mario & Luigi SS), is actually a port of a SNES game that was never released! It was originally a sample demo made for a special SNES SDK that was given out to Japanese game design universities.

Excellent interview! Here's part 2 (Part 3 comes out tomorrow)... https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2023/July/Ask-the-Developer-Vol-10-Pikmin-4-Chapter-2-2416062.html#section-02 Note that there's a mild spoiler about what Pikmin types show up in Pikmin 4 here in Part 2, but that's it as far as spoilers go. Seems that Miyamoto himself was quite involved in Pikmin 4's development... he has a lot to say here, particularily about game design in general! Everyone else involved in this interview has also worked on the series since Pikmin 2 at the least, so it seems that a lot of Nintendo's old guard have been focusing on this game in particular over the past few years! It's really refreshing to see a modern Nintendo title focus so much on handcrafted game design that is laser focused on providing a very traditional style of "Nintendo-like" gameplay; focused on game design and mechanics ahead of anything else (the polar opposite of Nintendo Switch Sports' disastrous development cycle). Also, surprisingly, it seems that the team are still very much focused on Pikmin 1's gameplay structure over Pikmin 2's here; despite Pikmin 4's gameplay structure being based moreso on Pikmin 2 than anything else. These interviews do a great job of getting me hyped for Pikmin 4. Feels like we're getting a real, proper proper traditional "Nintendo-like" game here

I imagine that Sony got a worse deal than Nintendo, given their position of weakness in negotiations here. CMA have really landed face first over this whole affair. That's what happens when you base your legal case on emotions and ideology over facts and figures though.

So. I had the chance play this with a few friends of mine... ... it's actually not bad at all! We had some fun with it, both in a point n' laugh funny and in a genuinely fun way. The colour matching photography game in particular is pretty darn clever. That Statues game though? That's the stuff of pure nightmares though, that kid's eyes... It's certainly more interesting than the original 1,2,Switch. While it's not gonna be knocking the likes of Jackbox off of its pedestal, I could definitely see it being a good time with a large crowd

Heads up, balance changes!

The 150 million + people who will newly gain access to COD on their platform of choice as a result of this deal will certainly disagree with you.

It’s worth keeping in mind that literally every single publisher & platform holder has been publicly in favour of the deal… except for Sony. Everyone in the industry benefits from this acquisition, with the sole exception of Sony. Can’t say that I’d side with them on this one.

Hot off the heels of River City Girls Zero, Wayforward are delivering another EFIGS localisation for a previously Japanese-only SNES game! This time, it’s the original Clock Tower! It’s the original SNES ROM translated into EFIGS, NOT a remake! Will be coming out on all current platforms, including Switch. Retro gaming fans? We eating!

The official Wayforward web page is now open for this game… https://wayforward.com/wayforward-announces-rose-camellia-collection/ There’s a 2 player versus mode!! Oh yes! Can’t wait to see this at Evo