SNES F-Zero stage looks reaaaallly cool.

Kept you waiting, huh?

Dark Samus is probably the best candidate for another Metroid character IMO (ignore the avatar, definitely not biased or anything), mostly because she has an unusual varied moveset for a Metroid boss. Ridley has flying, tail pogoing, and fireballs before you have to start moving towards generic punching and tail…

It's pretty significant that this came from a music competition and not a programming one. This doesn't really have to do with video games per se; it's just that the music (and pretty much every other artistic) industry has a history of companies exploiting people who are willing to work for free, and there's been…

IIRC it was always going to be 2d, and sprite-based at that, because of the roots in the original Legend of Zelda. At some point they did transition from 8-bit graphics to GBA-ish graphics, though.

Um, sounds like there might be some confusion here. Rebirth is more than just a console port, it's a (very) updated rerelease of the original and isn't available on anything right now. We've been waiting for it on PC too.

The weird part is that it seems like they're getting rid of the parts of the story that justify why the game is happening. It might be something that they're saving for later, but they haven't said anything yet, and that's a bit troubling.

Here the algorithm is able to predict what is the most probable card the opponent has in hand, but hasn't played, with an accuracy above 95%.

Pedigree, which theoretically translates into better mechanics, game feel, and level design. The vast majority of indie platformers don't play anywhere near as well as the platformer greats (which is a pretty unfair metric to hold them to but, well, Internet), and it'd be great to have another indie that plays as well…

Same reason why people thing the Virtual Boy is terrible and the Oculus Rift is not. It's not that motion gaming itself is necessarily bad, it's just that most motion gaming up to this point has been inaccurate and basically useless for anything but broad gesturing.

These are averages across different levels of experience and education so they can be a little misleading; entry level jobs will pay less than this. Still, 73k is a very livable wage in the US, though it might get stretched a little thin in some areas with higher cost of living, especially if you have to support a…

I'm not in the industry so take this with a grain of salt, but from what I've heard there's not much remote work outside of indies.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that the layoffs are out of anything but self-interest. It's a tragedy of the commons thing — the suggestion is that the short-term benefit to revenue comes at the long-term expense of employee morale. Bad morale (maybe) means less productive workers and most definitely drives people…

The origin, for credit's sake:

It would actually be illegal to do so without some sort of disclaimer — FCC rules specifically outlaw promotion without disclosure. That's part of why that Machinima Xbone promotion thing from a while back was such a big deal.

Pretty sure the Metroid explosion is actually a Mega Man death. The skull makes me think Jet Set Radio, though that might just be the music. After Silent Hill is the Virtual Boy.

The Mockball/Speedball one is Super Metroid.

The Early Access version comes with an updated version of the tech demo — look for Next Car Game Tech Demo 2.0 in your games list, or something like that. And trust me, it's even better than the free one.

At the end of Super Metroid you can save some animals from the the planet when it explodes, the same animals that teach you about wall jumping and Shinesparking earlier in the game. Saving the animals takes more time than not saving the animals, so speedrunners usually don't do it.

IIRC she's freelance but she does write for RPS pretty often.