There were games before Pong, but they weren’t (with few exceptions) digital or console. Similarly, there were films before the Jazz Singer, but they weren’t talking films. Talking and the move to digital consoles are both moves that radically transformed their media - video games became a lot more complex and…

French copywriter wanted here? Checked.

Hm, no?

“The amount of time and effort to unlock the necessary custom arms for competition is demanding, and that would require events to have multiple Switch consoles with fully unlocked arm arsenals.” The solution is to bring your own Switch.

It’s anyone’s going to be crossing over with Final Fantasy, it’s-a-me!

Hasn’t Castlevania always been considerably more popular in the west than it ever was in Japan? Kind of like Metroid.

Mario Kart 7 getting up there is quite amusing.

Bravely Default is another game that can be played with one hand. Left on the D-Pad is cancel, right is confirm.

Lol at people thinking this was anything other than planned. This is just the way these people get free advertising for their games.

My younger daughter was convinced that the “12th place” on the bottom meant she was winning, because 12 is bigger than 1. 

She might love Earthbound when she gets old enough.

My daughter’s five and has always wanted to play my games but her hands are too small for the controllers and she simply hasn’t been able to pick up anything properly. Even Mario Kart on the Wii U was a frustrating exercise of constantly going the wrong way.

Games bleeding into real life, feeling the urge to check under stones... this is the Witness all over again!

OK, I just read it.

Easy. It’s called being a Polygon editor.

what???????

Don’t worry about it, whatever way you choose to play is OK.

BUT! one thing, you CAN actually feed enemies but you have to figure out a way for them to either not notice or not see you as an enemy (which you can but Ill not spoil how).

There are so many proofreading errors in this article. :( “poring”, “its”, a bunch of missing commas... Can I have a job, please?

In a statement to IGN, Nintendo confirmed that it will no longer produce new mini-NES systems in North America—at least in 2017