Nintendo’s shares dropped earlier this morning after early reviews and sales of their latest smartphone game, Super Mario Run, failed to impress investors. Analysts expressed their concern about the game.
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You might not always agree with the choices the developers of your favorite games make, but they work hard, dammit. As a show of gratitude, a bunch of Overwatch players have pooled their resources to buy cookies for the development team.
If 2016 taught us anything at all, it was that sometimes, things don’t go your way. For every lovely surprise, there is a major disappointment around the corner.
Last month, this dear precious boy appeared in Assassin’s Creed Ezio Collection and immediately became an Internet sensation. It is with great and terrible regret that I now inform you of his passing.
With many popular brands struggling to find a voice on social media, Arby’s spent 2016 charming an entirely new audience via gaming and pop culture papercraft creations. I spoke to Arby’s senior director of social and digital media about how they went from pictures of curly fries to cardboard chocobos.
Starved Studio Ghibli fans now have something new to look forward to. Yesterday, Ghibli veterans, under the auspices of Studio Ponoc, released a trailer for a fantastical, Ghibliesque movie called Mary and the Witch’s Flower, slated for Summer, 2017.
This holiday season, a lucky few can ride around one of Tokyo’s most popular tourist spots in a Pac-Man shaped rickshaw.
Nintendo will let the public gets hands on time with its next console/handheld starting in January as part of a multi-city tour, the company announced today. It sounds like space will be limited, so be prepared to wait on line if you want to play the Switch.
An interesting bit of information about Wario has recently been uncovered, revealing that the familiar Nintendo character was initially conceptualized to be German.
Read Voice Actor Says Wario Was Originally Intended To Be A German Character on Siliconera!
Twitch’s crusade against garbage live chats saw a victory on Monday. The streaming platform released an automated moderation feature called AutoMod that is already, some streamers say, a game-changer.
Yesterday, YouTube Help published a video countering widespread claims by YouTubers that the platform is screwing them over. In an explainer that can only be described as 3:27 minutes of “actually,” YouTube reps claim that the streaming platform is not unsubscribing people from channels, an accusation hundreds of YouTubers have full-throatedly complained about for weeks.
While data mining Miitomo, a peek at Nintendo’s upcoming Fire Emblem mobile game app may have been discovered, including images files featuring artwork, a map, and more.
Read Images From The Fire Emblem Mobile Game May Have Been Found While Data Mining Miitomo on Siliconera!
Last night, the pro wrestler Big E tweeted a picture of himself, Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, Sasha Banks and Rich Swann holding their respective WWE championship belts with the caption, “#BlackExcellence.” While wrestling is staged, having this many black champions at once is still an accomplishment, and marking the occasion with a photo is appropriate. But to some fans the hashtag, and the idea of celebrating something along racial lines, was a problem.
At E3 earlier this year, I asked Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata if he was worried that Square Enix had showed too much of the game. There had been two different demos and tons of footage, I pointed out, which was leading fans to worry that there were few surprises left.
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After 20 years, Studio Ghibli’s Ocean Waves will finally be distributed in North America starting December 28th, distributor GKids announced today.
Leave it to Japan to make a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors into an event, complete with cosplay, cheering, and crying.
DsiderDon't worry, Japan is all too ready to take up that role in its stead
Dungeons & Dragons has historically used attractive monsters, and especially of the female persuasion, to appeal to potential players. Busty demons and lithe wood maidens populated its source material, namely its Monster Manual, throughout the last 40 years.
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Taking a page from the Konami playbook, Namco has announced a 20th anniversary SoulCalibur release for pachinko parlors across Japan.
When will Final Fantasy VII Remake be out? Probably not next spring! But you know what will? These FFVII Remake figures, that’s what.
Bang! Bang! For years now, movie makers have been thrilling audiences with blazes of bullets. Some shootouts are better than others. These are the best.
Dedicated handheld consoles have taken some beatings over the years—thanks, Steve Jobs—but as 2016 comes to a close, the 3DS is still thriving. And the Vita... well, uh, I love the Vita.
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Hi, Final Fantasy XV. You’re weird and I like you. But we need to talk about your jump button real quick.
Yamcha might suck, but he takes center stage in one of Dragon Ball’s most famous memes. In the most recent Dragon Ball Super, Yamcha returns, putting a new spin on an old meme.
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Level-5 recently showed off its upcoming Inazuma Eleven game. The hardware is still TBA, but as folks are pointing out in Japan, it sure doesn’t look like a Wii U title or a 3DS one, for that matter. Hrm...
Remember, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto doesn’t just make games, he plays them. And one that he’s liked a lot over the last few years has been Minecraft, though not necessarily because it’s something he likes playing. It’s because he wishes Nintendo had made it instead.
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Super Mario Run, a mobile game many would love to play while in the subway, will require an always-on internet connection. Bummer.
