In 1996, Nintendo was seemingly very fond of a single particular stock photo of the sky, so that it ended up on the cartridge artwork of three different games released in that year: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Pilotwings 64.

It's Pride Month, Kirby! Let's go! #Kirby #星のカービィ#Pride2026

"no, all the suffering, the war, the poverty, the hate, the riots, those I all kind of expected. No, it's just that when I realized I was going to be living through the downfall of empire I didn't think it was going to be so fucking 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨."

Yoshi Crystal Caverns 💎🛘

#Caturday videobombing

They didn't disclose it because they wanted to get away with it. It's the main splash art for your game! The first impression! And this is what you were okay with? Clothing that makes no sense? A backwards hand? Fucked up cart? If you don't care to make it, why should I care to play it?

The reason Deltarune Chapter 5 was in the Direct was because Toby agreed to have Morton as the secret boss. He loves Japan.

Uni just woke up :3

having high-attention-getting, well-attended events where people bid money to destroy trump shit would also build consensus in the public that trump sucked ass and everyone hated him

You cannot resist.

okay okay fine! dang! #art

What the WHAT @shaenon.bsky.social Don't have the space/willpower to rebuy what's effectively 90+ volumes, but I'll definitely nab a couple for the novelty. (And I say this as someone with a fondness for the FUNi names--even if they're oh-so-wrong) Thanks, @viz.com!

The trillionaire mark is just a milestone. Musk already had enough money to personally buy a whole company or single-handedly influence a presidential election. But we should consider what it means that one man has amassed so much wealth and power — and the speed at which he is doing so.

In Famitsu’s special 40th Anniversary issue, Masahiro Sakurai won first place in the “Favorite Game Creator” category! Kirby also took fourth place for “Favorite Game Character” among readers! Happy 40 years to Famitsu, and congratulations Mr. Sakurai and Kirby! 🥳🎉

Hi. Today is my birthday. In lieu of wrapped gifts, I'm asking you to have a look at Mario 101, my project about weird Mario history. And if you have already looked and think it does not suck, please share this link somewhere.

It's too bad that when Pride Month ends we'll have to take Funky Kong out back and give him mercury poisoning.

What's funny about Fortune's Weave is that as much as I wanted another "grounded" Fire Emblem, I wasn't particularly interested in a TH follow-up--I just wanted another game that made me ask questions, pick sides, and probe the id, minutiae, and lore of its cast and setting. Engage wasn't that.

Cognitive dissonance, much? You're still basing your product on the plagiarism machine. Polished slop is still slop. Much like rugswept "placeholders", they're deliberately moving the goalposts until AI's devoured the industry whole. You give this existential crisis an inch, it'll take a mile.

something that got edited out of my tomb raider preview because we were covering this elsewhere, but still a sentiment i wanted to get out of my system. companies are moving the goalpost for what is "acceptable" uses of genAI as they insist that it is "inevitable" as if games couldn't be made before

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

"there will always be haters, so you might as well dig up corpses. no regrets"

My To a T review: gamingtrend.com/reviews/to-a... Yeah, oof, guys, don't play this for Switch 2. I focused moreso on the (non-exisistent) gameplay since we hadn't reviewed it prior, but this performance is *terrible*: constant slowdown, fuzzy aliasing, and broken effects everywhere. #ToaT

ウィリースクーターとリック

Ocarina of Time demake in my art style! ✨ #art #Zelda #Nintendo #PixelArt #ドット絵

Bruh.

"all new games are going to use ai in the development process just accept it" i dunno man lately i've been playing fire emblem path of radiance for the first time and i'm having a lot of fun i think there's probably an unending amount of old games i never played that deserve my attention

Emerald Rush in Donkey Kong Bananza is so, so good.

Xbox? The game console owned by the company filling the world with AI bullshit and profiting off of the genocide of Palestinians while consistently blowing off their toes with a shotgun when it comes to the whole "video games" thing? You're being too negative about that Xbox? How dare you.

Surely it won't cause some resentment seeing your friends get laid off right after your boss gifted hundreds (thousands?) of $700+ consoles to fans who already owned one and cancelled a finished version of a game to appeal to a vanishingly small number of fanboys.

I keep being told that I am "too negative about Xbox" and like... c'mon, dude. Let's be fucking grown-ups for a second here.

This coming out right after SGF where a bunch of Microsoft workers put their blood, sweat and tears into announcing and showcasing games as well as the Xbox Fanfest is absolutely disgusting. Not as bad as being on the BDS list, but

Again.

I was about to say "this has gotta be the weirdest Star Fox merch ever" until I remembered Star Fox Adventures toilet paper exists.

In a 2010 interview, Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that the reason so many Mario enemies have repetitive names in Japanese (and by extension in English, e.g. Koopa Troopa, Cheep Cheep) is in honor of Takashi Tezuka, who calls himself "Ten Ten".

Ubisoft EMBARGOED news to outlets about the layoffs and studio closures, FYI. Employees were told this morning. And then many reached out to us. Companies trying to embargo layoffs and closures might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in my 16 years.

Having dwelled on it, I agree that the OOT announcement would've gone over better had it not been leaked. People might've still been disappointed, yeah--we gotta have *some* idea of what Nintendo's cooking for the holidays--but our imaginations wouldn't have gone nearly as wild. #Zelda

Princess Zelda would never.

Nintendo #FunFact: Yoshi and the Mysterious Book for the Nintendo Switch 2 System was originally M-Rated because Yoshi said bitch.

Always pointing out that Elon Musk has deliberately murdered hundreds of thousands of people mostly in the global south and it is estimated that he will have murdered 14 million people via DOGE alone in the next 5 years.

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Clothes really aren't that important NOW VOICED #xenoblade

I've worked as an environment artist on Gravity Circuit 2. As a lifelong fan of pixel art and action platformers, it's been a dream come true to work on a game that does both those things with such style! Wishlist the game now and play it in 2027!

As someone in games media, I'm not left wanting for choice in whatever I want to cover this fall, but Fire Emblem is the only game listed I *need* to play. I'm just weird like that, I guess. (By the way, I know I'm shouting into the void here, but I'm available for freelance coverage!)

Not gonna lie--I saw the same thing. 🤔

Trump is the end result of everything America is, a white supremacist settler colony built on the genocide of natives & antiblack brutality, empowered by capitalist values. He has destroyed the very infrastructure that can keep the empire functional anymore, he is bringing it to its natural end.

Much of modern politics is inventing a fake problem to counterbalance a real problem and then arguing that the fake problem needs more attention because it has been, up till now, sadly neglected.

Man, they ain't even hiding it.

lol fuck everything