Mario 64 has some deep lore regarding King Bob-omb

Wruh Wruh Wruh An image has begun circulating the interwebs regarding the fate of one King Bob-omb, the first boss and first star on the very first level ofSuper Mario 64. King Bob-omb resides on the top of the mountain in Bob-omb Battlefield, requiring the player to mount several obstacles to get to the top and defeat him. One such obstacle is a pit of two rolling balls which, if given facial features, would resemble the King himself....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 177 words · Michael Thomas

Mew-Genics is the newest official Team Meat game

TEAM MEOW Edmund McMillen of Team Meat hasjust announcedthat he and Tommy Refenes are hard at work on their follow-up toSuper Meat Boy. It’s about cats. Mew-Genicswas conceived during a game jam session, but the duo felt it had potential as a full-blown project. Aside from the teaser image above and the news that levels will be randomly generated, there are no other details right meow. Not even a target platform....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 84 words · Marissa Watts

Monster Hunter Rise brings the hammer down with latest weapons trailers

U Can’t Touch This Capcom is keeping the beat(down) rolling with two more weapon trailers for its upcoming Nintendo Switch releaseMonster Hunter Rise. Having given us a look at the finesse of theDual Blades, the poking power of theLance,and the long-range firepower of theBowgun, it’s time to get down and dirty with the head-pounding Hammer, and the battle-tested Sword and Shield. More so than any other weapon inMonster Hunter Rise, Hammer-wielders are all about blunt force power, dropping devastating and highly damaging blows on their prey’s bonces with reckless abandon....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 166 words · Ryan Jordan

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne’s May update has been delayed

Monster Mashed Capcom has announced that the May update for its blockbuster adventure gameMonster Hunter World: Icebornehas been delayed, and will be pushed back to a later date. As is the case for most recent delays, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been cited as having held up production. Speaking on Twitter,Capcom apologised for the delay on its next update – the fourth as much sinceMHW:I‘s release – also noting that the recording of the French, Spanish, and Italian soundtracks have also been affected, and that these voicetracks would be replaced by “simplified recordings....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 157 words · Roger Drake DDS

Naughty Dog rolls out first DLC for The Last of Us

New patch also aims to provide more balanced multiplayer experience The Last of Usis now supplied with its first ration of downloadable content, Naughty Dog has announced. The Abandoned Territories Map Pack includes four fresh maps and a handful of new unlockable items for those that enjoy post-apocalyptic dress up. The set is now available singly via PlayStation Network for $9.99. Alternatively, the map pack can be acquired for an extra tenner as a part of the survival horror adventure’s penny-wise season pass, which includesmore supplementary content, including a forthcoming single-player add-on....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 152 words · Danielle Duke

Oculus Rift total sales at about 85,000

Dev kit 2.0 at about 25,000 Want to know how Oculus Rift is doing? Well, dev kits aren’t a great indicator, but at least we know about how many of those have been shipped. Oculus Rift toldTechCrunchthat they’ve sold about 25,000dev kit 2.0 unitsso far, taking their total number up to about 85,000 units. That’s pretty good, right? The pre-orders are still ongoing, with shipments expected in July. Oh,Oculus-chan! Again, this is not even close to a consumer product, so it’s not really a solid indication of how they’re doing....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Amanda Schroeder

Offbeat Hall of Fame: The bizarre Mega Man TV soundtracks

[Offbeat Hall of Fameis a showcase of the cool, often bizarre products and media from years past that celebrate videogames and gamer culture.] I love videogame soundtracks. Audio is such an integral part of the gameplay experience for me that I’ve been known to purchase games based solely ontheir music. I also love television shows based on videogames — well, in theory if not alwaysin practice. However, when you start talking about soundtracks of videogame-based TV shows, you reach a critical juncture whereterrible thingscan happen....

June 16, 2025 · 7 min · 1466 words · Richard Small

One Dragon Quest fan worked to preserve all of DQ7’s maps before the 3DS online shutdown

If you weren’t paying attention, Nintendoshut down the online servicesfor 3DS and Wii U, because the future is forward, baby. Unfortunately, this means that gamers with principles had to step in to preserve what Nintendo was burying with its digital store closures, and one of those things was theDragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten PastDLC maps. Twitter user Sackchiefhad a planto preserve those 56 DLC maps for anyone who wants to experience them after the shutdown in the best way possible, too....

June 16, 2025 · 2 min · 324 words · Karen Fuller

Path of Exile (PoE) Trial of the Ancestors 3.22 Patch Notes

As is usual with every newPath of Exileleague, Grinding Gear Games has released the full patch notes for the new season, Trial of the Ancestors. The patch notes are full of new content and features that are coming with the new league, as well as information on the new skills. Overall it looks like a very big update. Even though this is a hefty chunk of patch notes—over 10,000 words—it feels like there’s a lot missing....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 198 words · Mary Ho

Phantasy Star Online 2 for Switch won’t need updates, because the game is constantly running on the cloud

I want to see how this pans out We knew thatPhantasy Star Online 2 Cloud, the special version exclusively for the Switch, would be literally running off the cloud — but thanks to some new info from Perfectly Nintendo, we have more of an idea what that entails. When you download the game from the eShop, all you’ll need is a file that’s as scant as “dozens of MB,” and you’re good to go....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 168 words · Aaron Baker

Podtoid 102: More ducks, less luck

This week, Podtoid was initially supposed to talk about stuff likeMirror’s Edge 2and random news stories, but we got sidetracked discussingPsychonautsand the originalHalf-Life. Whether this makes the show better or worse is up to you. – Even when Samit says nothing of sports, he is crucified – Evidently,Prototypeis way better thaninFAMOUS –Why didn’t you save us, Milla – The cast discussesHalf-Lifefor a while — if you’re still playing the Podtoid drinking game, you’ll be dead before we reach the mid-show break...

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Megan Wilkinson

Project Aether is a Zone of the Enders-inspired shoot ’em up

Coming in February Project Aetherwas sort of low key revealed late last year, but the project is really starting to take shape and will be out relatively soon. Billed as a shoot ’em up inspired byZone of the EndersandNeon Genesis Evangelion,Project Aetherjust dropped a new gameplay trailer as well as a release date announcement: February 24. It boasts a “synthwave soundtrack” (I love that this is coming back, not just in games but in other forms of media) on top of the shmup action you see below, which will take place across nine levels on PC....

June 16, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · Henry Brewer

Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland looks promising, but its demo is lacking

Despite being at the proper age for it, I never caught on withRugrats. I don’t think it really aired much with my cable provider. I do, however, know the NES quite well, and I can confirmRugrats: Adventures in Gamelandis an NES game. This is despite the fact that the game will also have an HD art style over top of the 8-Bit backbone (not available on NES) that you can toggle on or off....

June 16, 2025 · 4 min · 715 words · Rhonda Pitts