TITLE
Why an Obscure 2010 DSiWare Game Is the Highest User-Rated Nintendo Game on Metacritic
AUTHOR
Rebekah Valentine
PUBLICATION
IGN
YEAR
2023
TITLE
Why an Obscure 2010 DSiWare Game Is the Highest User-Rated Nintendo Game on Metacritic
AUTHOR
Rebekah Valentine
PUBLICATION
IGN
YEAR
2023
TITLE
Half-Life 3: The complete history of the greatest game never made
AUTHOR
Rick Lane
PUBLICATION
PC Gamer
YEAR
2023
TITLE
He Created the Katamari Games, but They’re Rolling On Without Him
AUTHOR
Zachary Small
PUBLICATION
The New York Times
YEAR
2023
TITLE
Lara Croft: The Art of Virtual Seduction is the ultimate cringey relic of late ’90s game advertising
AUTHOR
Jess Morrissette
PUBLICATION
PC Gamer
YEAR
2023
We talk to Luca Galante about a game dev side-project that became a BAFTA Game of the Year.
I hit the spacebar and got the shock of my life.
A familiar video game lit up my PC screen. I was looking at a replica of Super Mario Bros. 3: the billowing white cloud characters, the green shrubs, the construction blocks, and rotating gold coins. But Super Mario didn’t exist on the PC, because the technology that powered it didn’t exist on the PC. It existed only on the Nintendo Entertainment System and a couple of the ’80s’ best computers, the Atari 800 and the Commodore 64. These systems had the custom chips to handle two-dimensional side-scrolling. PC games, due to a dearth of graphics support and processing power, had been restricted to static screen games and chunky scrolling — until Carmack created smooth vertical scrolling just a few days earlier with Slordax.
Now I looked at Super Mario Bros.’ Mushroom Kingdom and wondered what it was doing on my PC screen. I also noticed Dangerous Dave standing at the bottom of the screen. The character I created two years earlier who was inspired by Super Mario Bros. was now inhabiting the Mushroom Kingdom. I laughed. That was the copyright violation of the title, but how far did this parody go?
I hit the arrow key to move Dangerous Dave and find out.
What I saw destroyed me.
TITLE
The Making of Tunic: How the adventure began life in the pages of a notebook
AUTHOR
Alex Spencer
PUBLICATION
Edge
YEAR
2023
TITLE
The Hottest Thing in Baseball Is a Grid of Nine Blank Squares
AUTHOR
Tyler Kepner
PUBLICATION
The New York Times
YEAR
2023