When it comes to camera angles in the Mario series, first person ones are few and far between. Okay, you can technically play that way in Mario Kart 7, and there are sections in the original Luigi’s Mansion that work this way… But fully first-person games are virtually non-existent. There’s Yoshi’s Safari on SNES, and…
Wow, yesterday certainly was a busy day for gaming events, wasn’t it? Indeed, with a State of Play, Sonic Central and Level-5 Vision Showcase all on the same day, it was like Christmas come early for the gaming community. We got new Sonic LEGO sets and Generations footage, Ghost of Yotei announced as a Ghost…
In recent years, AI (and generative AI in particular) has become a hot topic in the gaming industry. With many companies claiming to use it and many players against the technology in its current form, it’s become a divisive concept at best, with supporters saying it could revolutionise how games work and detractors saying it’s…
In the last few years, we’ve seen some utterly insane ROM hack and game mod concepts. There’s Super Mario 64 meets Luigi’s Mansion, in both senses of the word. There are crossovers between Super Mario 64 and Counter-Strike, as well as Half-Life and GoldenEye. There’s a mod where Ashley replaces Link in the Wind Waker,…
When it comes to crossovers, we’ve seen some bizarre ones in the past. There were EA’s sports games on GameCube, where Mario and co made guest appearances in the likes of NBA Street V3 and SSX3: On Tour. There are the various Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest crossovers in the Mario series, like Mario Hoops…
As you likely know, the last year has been an incredible one for fan games and ROM hacks. We’ve seen Super Mario Eclipse utterly replace Super Mario Sunshine, with new levels, characters and mechanics. We’ve seen the Super Mario 64 scene go mad, with everything from Mario Maker equivalents to full-blown adventures being released throughout…
In recent years, features like loot boxes have been an increasingly controversial part of the gaming landscape. Designed to offer players random rewards for either spending in-game currency or real-world money, they’ve come under fire from everyone under the sun, with gamers, advocacy groups and governments alike comparing them to unlicensed gambling. As a result…
When The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom was first announced, there were a lot of questions about who was actually developing the game. After all, with the core Zelda team having just finished Tears of the Kingdom, and other teams having worked on all manner of other Nintendo titles, it was clear that the…
When Palworld was first announced, lots of people were predicting that it’d attract Nintendo’s ire. After all, the core concept was basically Pokémon with guns, with many of the creatures in question sharing a strong resemblance to characters from that series. As a result, just about everyone expected some sort of legal fight with Nintendo…
When it comes to fan games and mods, projects that do the opposite job to each other are not a rare occurrence. You’ve got Super Mario Starshine and Super Mario Solarshine, which recreate Super Mario Sunshine in Super Mario Galaxy’s engine and Super Mario Galaxy in Super Mario Sunshine’s engine respectively. You’ve got DKC X…