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You can drive this car with a PlayStation controller, meaning Gran Turismo is now real【Video】

Casey Baseel
Oct 11, 2017
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”The real driving simulator” indeed.

Japan
(awesome • cars • cool • Gran Turismo • GT-R • motorsports • nissan • playstation • Sony • technology • video games)

Is a Game Boy Classic Edition on the way? Alleged Nintendo trademark application sparks rumors

Casey Baseel
Oct 10, 2017

The word “Game Boy” doesn’t appear in alleged document, but there’s no mistaking that image for anything else.

Japan
(Game Boy • NES Classic Edition • nintendo • retro games • SNES Classic Edition • video games)

Nintendo Shutting Down Real World Mario Kart Fraud

Viewster
Oct 8, 2017

Anyone who has ever picked up a controller and squealed around the track in Nintendo’s Mario Kart has probably thought about how amazing it would be to get to do it in real life.

Japan
(Mari Car • Mario Kart • nintendo • video games • Viewster)

FIFA 18 Nintendo Switch version’s colour-blind bugs level the playing field 【Video】

Richard Simmonds
Oct 4, 2017

Detective Conan-like criminal silhouettes invade the pitch in Switch-specific glitch.

Japan
(computer games • FIFA • Fifa 18 • football • gaming • nintendo switch • video games)

Sonic the Hedgehog live-action movie refuses to die, new studio grabs abandoned film rights

Casey Baseel
Oct 3, 2017

Paramount Pictures thinks “blue mammal with one giant eyeball who runs really fast” is a fine foundation for a live-action movie.

Japan, USA
(Live action • movies • Sega • Sonic the Hedgehog • video games)

Re-do all your mistakes? Never die? All possible, if a well turns out to actually be a save point

Richard Simmonds
Oct 3, 2017

Move over fountain of youth, Japanese Twitter user may have found a real-life save point, in a park.

Japan
(blue water • computer games • funny • gaming • save point • twitter • video games • weird)

Nintendo releases official, free online PDF of EarthBound player’s guide for anyone to read

Scott Wilson
Sep 30, 2017

While you’re waiting for a SNES Classic, take a look at one of the best player’s guides of all time.

Internet
(Earthbound • nintendo • SNES • Super NES Classic Edition • video games)

Nintendo confirms that yes, Mario is punching Yoshi in the back of the head in Super Mario World

Casey Baseel
Sep 29, 2017

As if we didn’t already feel bad enough from sending Yoshi plummeting into all those bottomless pits, Nintendo gives us yet another source of video game grief.

Japan
(nintendo • Super Mario • Super Mario World • video games • Yoshi)

Japanese video game with cross-dressing male teen protagonist seeks fan support

Casey Baseel
Sep 28, 2017

Developer thinks the planned game could be great, but worries about whether or not a fanbase exists.

Japan
(anime • cross-dressing • crossplay • josou • LGBT • Nippon Ichi • video games)

Japanese idioms become cute anime girls in latest anthropomorphization video game【Video】

Casey Baseel
Sep 27, 2017

Language is power in Idiom Girl.

Japan
(anime • anthropomorphization • anthropomorphized characters • Japanese language • kanji • linguistics • video games • yojijukugo)

Is Tokyo’s cool-looking Pac-Man curry as terrible-tasting as we’d heard?【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Sep 26, 2017

We ignored the advice of one reviewer who said to “never, ever eat” the video game-inspired dish, but was our courageous decision a foolish one too?