Have no idea why anyone would dismiss SMB2 as "not a Mario game." I played it back in 1990 and I wasn't thinking it was some "radical" departure from a "regular Mario game".

You mean Yoshilla

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Still, at the time, he didn't get the respect he deserved. "Back then, people didn't speak positively of suit actors," says Nakajima. "There'd be whispers going around that working inside (a suit) is not an acting job."

Sometimes it's a good thing that Nintendo is behind the times. What passes as DLC from them could be considered a ful-on expansion pack instead of a $4.99 purty costume like the rest of the major developers are doing right now.

125 years old and (apparently) perpetually doomed. Thanks for being awesome Nintendo.

Sorry fellow readers, this man did NOT credit his long life to first person shooters.

The White House pet..?

I actually really like the final smash. Light gun games love FTW.

DUCK HUNT DOG HYPE

Forget Final Fantasy XV. Since that game was announced, I've played games like Radiant Historia, The Last Story, Lost Odyssey, Persona 4, and Xenoblade Chronicles.

These are the kind of anti-piracy measures that I like. People that bought a legal copy of the game don't have to deal with it, and people that pirate the game get something that happens to them that makes the game annoying to play.

I hope so!

Your grandmother is a fine woman with refined taste good sir.

STAT | $13.3 billion – The total for worldwide tablet gaming sales by 2019, according to the firm Juniper Research; the figure would represent a threefold increase over 2014's expected $3.6 billion.

QUOTE | “Consoles seem extremely rigid and limited in terms of what you can actually do as a developer.” - Former Rovio games division head and Remedy co-founder Petri Jarvilaehto talking about why he thinks mobile, not console, is “the most exciting area to work in games right now.”

Am I the only one here who already knew that "Baba Yet" was a Swahili translation of the Lord's Prayer?...

In the next Zelda game. If Zelda mentions losing her father early or something, I make no promises about not crying.