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12-31-2023, 11:07 PM
Today in, "I'm a fucking idiot videogame journalist" news, this guy took things to a new level.
https://twistedvoxel.com/nintendo-switch-2-advertisement-casting-call-discovered/ Quote:Nintendo Switch 2 Advertisement Casting Call May Have Been Discovered
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Looks like the console war is over.
Xbox is going third party starting with former exclusive Xbox games releasing on Switch and PS5 and day 1 multiplatform releases later. 
01-12-2024, 03:16 PM
Sounds like Ubisoft actually made a decent game with that Prince of Persia Metroidvania thing. Good for them.
Digital Foundry said the Switch version ran good, so I'll be playing it on there.
01-13-2024, 12:26 AM
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01-20-2024, 04:59 AM
In today's episode of "Kotaku embarrassing themselves" they claim to have found a new secret Easter egg on the GameCube.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2024/01/23-years-later-an-amazing-gamecube-easter-egg-has-been-discovered/ The secret consists of something everyone discovered in 2001 and was even featured in a Kotaku listicle 10 years ago.
This has to be the craziest Nintendo rumor. Did you know they've hidden a song in every Nintendo game called Totaka's Song? It is said that the composer Totaka added it into nearly every game he worked on without Miyamoto and the other high level executives knowing about it. It's actually not just a silly song or easter egg but the key to unlock Nintendo's most deepest and dark secret. A secret that when revealed would shake the foundations of the company. So according to urban legends this was found in a stack of papers outside a police station in Egypt. It contained a file about an Egyptian teenager called Ali who happened to stumble upon a bunch of unlabeled cartridges in a videogame store in 1996 and a letter in Japanese which he had translated by his English teacher who had a Japanese dictionary. The store was run by an English-Egyptian man called Lawrence.
According to the boys father the letter stated that you must find Totaka's Song in Mario 2 first (which is actually a rom hack of Doki Doki Panic). If you press A+B perfectly in sync with the notes 100 times the letter claims you will find the first clue. His father said to the police that after many attempts Ali succeeded and the game glitched. The veil of Mario 2 was unraveled and the Doki Doki Panic hidden beneath was revealed but it was a sick distorted version of the game with texture glitches and everything. Ali returned to the letter and it said that he needed to:"remember the notes of the background music in Super Mario 2 and input them into the Legendary Masterful game of 1999 and beyond". One of his friends had a tape recorder and played the guitar, so together they figured out the exact sequence of notes. According to Ali's father he bought a copy of Ocarina of Time when it released and played the song he had recorded in 1996 with Links Ocarina but nothing happened. Even though the game released in 1998 in the United States it didn't see a UAE import release until the spring of 1999. Ali was sure that had to be the game referenced in the letter. His father believed it was a prank from the pawn shop owner to sell unlabeled cartridges but admitted it was weird the letter talked about a Legendary Masterful game that would release 3 years later. Ali did not believe this to be true but years went by and nothing happened. In 2004 Ali got his drivers license and to celebrate his father bought a GameCube on the black market in Istanbul. It would've been a PlayStation 2 but US regulations prohibited such super computers to be shipped to the Middle East in case Saddam would get his hands on them and the black market in Instanbul didn't want to get unwanted attention from the CIA so they sold GameCubes exclusively. Rumor has it Nintendo shipped those to black market sellers directly to pump up their sales numbers but those were never verified. Unlike what happened next. Ali invited his friend Shariff to play Mario Kart but when they opened the box with Mario Kart there was a second game inside. This was the exclusive Zelda collectors disk, which Nintendo included with Mario Kart GameCube bundles and had a bunch of Zelda games on it like a demo of the Wind Waker, Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time: Master Quest. When Ali read the title "Master Quest" he rushed to his closet and pulled out the tape recording and the mysterious Japanese letter. His friend told the police that Ali played Ocarina of Time: Master Quest as normal which was already a strange and distorted game until Zelda (who is actually Sheik in disguise) gave him the Ocarina of Time. Ali then played the notes he had recorded all those years ago but Links Ocarina lacked the necessary notes. There is evidence that despite releasing in 2003 on the GameCube the Master Quest version of Ocarina of Time could actually be the legendary masterful game referenced in the secret letter. After all it was supposed to have been released in 1999 on the Nintendo 64DD. If the writer of the letter was working at Nintendo he could've known in 1996 that the game would release in 1999. The next day the family got a visit from a few strange Japanese men and a translator. They told Ali that a shop nearby had been selling bootleg Nintendo products and they would replace any bootlegs with genuine Nintendo products. They warned that using bootleg products might trigger epilepsy attacks or hearing damage. They asked him specifically about Pokemon games that included Lavender Town but Ali had never played or purchased Pokemon. His father brought out the unlabeled cartridge of Super Mario 2 as it was the only unlabeled cartridge in the house. He recalls both Japanese men were shocked when he brought out the item. Which he thought was weird considering this was the type of bootleg merchandise they were after. They asked his father if he knew what was on the cartridge and he said Super Mario for Nintendo. They noticed it was an 8-bit cartridge and said that it was out of print. However, for helping them track bootleg and pirated games they handed his father a few packs of real Pokemon cards for Ali and 5000 Egyptian pounds, which was about $150. They put the cartridge in a case and left. When Ali and his father went to their favorite video game store they found out it was closed and cleared out. There were signs of a struggle and no one had seen Lawrence the owner that day. In fact many people pretended like the store had never existed. Was this the store selling bootleg items that Nintendo's private investigators had discovered? Seeing this his father realized that they hadn't been talking to nice company reps but private detectives or maybe even Yakuza looking for evidence of videogame piracy or covering it up. Ali returned home and before he went to bed his father recalled Ali tried a few things to play the song in OOT MQ again and something happened. The screen changed to a sequence of adjustable numbers which unlocked new tones. It was just a black screen without any graphics. The numbers could be set from 0 to 99. Ali and his friend spend the entire afternoon trying to get the sequence right or waited for something to happen. His father believed the game simply had crashed and went to bed but he was sure Ali kept trying that night. Shariff testified he received a few short texts late at night from Ali which read something like: "It tells me I have to return to 64 now, what does that mean?" to which Shariff responded: "Maybe Mario 64?" The following morning the police report takes a dark turn. His father went into Ali's room to wake him but he didn't respond. He was in his bed and had passed away mysteriously. Mario 64 was in the cartridge slot of his Nintendo 64. Which his father noted as strange as he hadn't played on his Nintendo 64 in a long time. The police report concludes that Ali had died of natural causes and that they found no evidence of any Japanese Yakuza or Nintendo reps visiting the town or the family or a videogame store owned by an English national called Lawrence. In the final interview with Ali's father he is obsessed with the dissapearance of two items: the mysterious letter and the tape recording of the Super Mario 2/Doki Doki Panic glitch. The police assume it must've accidentally got thrown out during their investigation. They believed the father was traumatized by the loss of his son and made up stories and closed the file. Here is a clip of Miyamoto admitting that some copies of Mario 64 are personalized And this is a collection of clips said to be from such 'personalized' copies 
01-29-2024, 07:47 PM
There’s a level of contempt that’s difficult to convey. Deus Ex aside, the team was very talented. Guardians of the Galaxy game was really quite good despite initial impressions.
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01-29-2024, 11:11 PM
Yeah GOTG is one of the few times I felt bad about dunking on a game before playing it because the E3 demo was so poor.
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