John Drurybest mario villain: terrorist louis
Bootleg Wario toy being advertised as “Terrorist Louis”. After attempting to find out the source of that error, the most likely explanation is a misspelling of “Terror Luigi”, a Luigi’s Mansion toy of Luigi with a scared expression sold by the same retailer, being fed into Google Translate.
John DruryUSA!
Illustration from a Japanese guide for Super Mario All-Stars.
John DruryPlease be good. Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. Please be good.
John DruryYesssssssssssssss
John Drurylol vault 1080
John DruryYES
Nintendo's Super Mario creation tool, Super Mario Maker, is coming to Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo announced during its Nintendo Direct presentation today.
Known simply as Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, the portable version of the Wii U game let players create and play their own Mario levels in the style of Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. Players will be able to share their Mario creations via local wireless and StreetPass, but players won't be able to upload them to the internet for others to play.
Nintendo says that Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS will support levels originally created on Wii U, though the company warned that not all levels will be compatible with the portable...
John DruryI'M GOING TO BUY THE SHIT OUT OF THESE
John DruryATTN: Matt
Paradox and Adam may tell you that the next Crusader Kings II [official site] expansion is about diseases tearing through medieval Europe, but no. The Reaper’s Due is about cats. Lovely cats. Hunting dogs be damned, Reaper’s Due will let characters befriend a cat – which naturally brings bonuses. Then… maybe a few more cats. All of the cats. Lovely, lovely cats. Get carried away and you might get the ‘Crazy Cat Lady’ trait. And then something something black death bad omens angry mob blah blah but look, the point is: cats. Oh, and the expansion now has a release date: August 25th.
John DruryOh boy!
John DruryOh boy! x2
Star Wars VR lightsaber battle experiment, Trials On Tatooine, is available free of charge for Vive as of today.
We actually had a hands-on with the experience way back in the mists of early 2016 while at GDC where Adam stood in a room in the Valve demo area and marvelled at the virtual Lucasfilm-iverse. It’s not a game so much as it is a virtual experience – they call it a “cinematic virtual reality experiment”. You can read the full hands-on account here but he says things like this:
John DruryRad.
John DruryThe best
John DruryI think more the craze is over and the quality and timelines are crazy inconsistent.
John DruryWoo!
John Druryneat
The fourth load of Fallout 4 [official site] DLC is here and it’s another small one. Following the big new hunks of story and land in Far Harbour, they’ve gone back to small mod-like stuff with the Contraptions Workshop add-on. Released last night, it adds new mechanised doodads for settlements like conveyer belts, logic gates, and so on for your architectural amusement. But if you want more quests and whatnot, the next big DLC for you will be Nuka-World in August.
John DruryAww, yiss. Mutha-fukkin-VR
John DruryWe may need to start a Shawn suicide watch.
One thing I love about spaceflight simulator Kerbal Space Program [official site] is that I’m yet to find two players who’ve shared identical experiences. I’ve only ever played in short bursts myself, but mastering takeoff still heads my to do list. Others I’ve chatted with speak of grand space voyages and interesting discoveries. Heck, Adam even prefers the game as a spectator sport, which speaks volumes for its wide-reaching appeal.
Which is why it’s a surprise to learn that lead developer Felipe Falanghe has announced his departure from Kerbal Space Program after five and a half years of service.
John DruryLARUAAAAAAA......
John DruryATTN: Shawn
It’s hardly a secret that Star Wars fans and Trekkies don’t see eye to eye, and, depending on who you ask, the mere thought of a crossover is considered the highest form of blasphemy. Would it be awesome, though? Or would it cause the world to implode? Maybe it’d look like this?
Luckily, sci-fi followings are known to get along a wee bit better in Videogameland (sometimes), not least Kerbal Space Program [official site] and Stellaris [official site]. With this in mind, one inventive modder has brought Kerbal’s race of green explorers to Paradox’s grand strategy-meets-4X-a-thon.
John DruryATTN: Matt
I really shouldn’t use the word ‘rad.’ I’m an Englishman – not in the alarmingly out-of-touch Zac Goldsmith sense, just in the nebbishly undemonstrative sense. I just can’t get away with boisterously hurling around ironic ’80s terms like they do in San Francisco. But by God, the new XCOM 2 [official site] DLC sounds rad. The Alien Hunters pack features, basically, boss aliens who show up at random and give you hell, and, if you fail to kill ‘em, will get out of dodge and return to give you more hell another day.
John Druryhmmmm
John Druryneat
John Druryattn:bean
Update: It looks like that exploit is being fixed tomorrow. From the v 1.02 patch notes that just came out ahead of time: “Named NPCs will no longer respawn after being killed in the Open World. This will prevent situations where players were able to kill a same named NPC over and over again.” So smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em.
High-level players of The Division have discovered a way to make hundreds of Phoenix credits (currency used to buy high-end weapons) and collect dozens of special items in less than an hour by attacking the same NPC over and over again in quick succession. It is the closest thing to Destiny’s erstwhile “loot cave” – a fruitful, if repetitive, means to get lots of goodies late in the game. And sadly, it is only useful to those who have reached level 30.
John Drurygod damn it, I'm on a business trip
John DruryGlad to hear this is so close.
Ashes of the Singularity is aiming to walk in the footsteps of Total Annihilation. The thousands of enormous robot footprints of Total Annihilation, since it’s an RTS about flinging hundreds of fighting machines at your enemies across each of its missions. There’s a new trailer below which brings with it the game’s release date, March 31st.
John Druryfart
While Apple fights the good fight, @Amazon removes encryption as option from FireOS 5 | @csoghoian @normative @eff pic.twitter.com/nggBdtFG7j
— David Scovetta (@davidscovetta) March 3, 2016
