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Negative Fan Reaction To ‘Return To Monkey Island’ Made Its Creator ‘Sad’

“I didn’t want Return to Monkey Island to be just a throwback game”. Last month, the internet was roused from its dreary state by the announcement that Return to Monkey Island was in development and would mark a return to the franchise for its original creator, Ron Gilbert. Better yet, it’s slated to release at […]

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Poll: Does Nintendo Really Need To Release Mother 3 In The West Anymore?

We’d be first in line, but have all the fans played it already? That Mother 3 never got officially localised and released outside Japan has been a source of sadness and frustration for EarthBound fans in the West since the game launched on Game Boy Advance back in 2006. The sequel to cult classic EarthBound […]

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Video: Join Us As We Celebrate ‘The MOTHER We Share: Our EarthBound Story’

Mother-lovin’ Sunday. It’s the second Sunday in May, which means it’s Mother’s Day in a great many countries around the world (although not in the UK, where Mothering Sunday falls in March). We’re celebrating Mother’s Day this year in a very special way and looking back fondly on one particular Mother that Nintendo fans around […]

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Dying Light Switch Patch Includes “A Number Of Tweaks, Updates, And New Features”

Now live. Although Dying Light 2 was limited to a cloud release on the Nintendo Switch, the first Dying Light was actually a remarkable achievement on the hybrid platform. With this in mind, the Switch version of the original game has this week received a new update. According to the game’s official social channels, this […]

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Soapbox: Mother 3 Isn’t Sad, It’s Hopeful

It’s SMILES and Tears, remember? Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve got on their minds. Today, Alana wants to tell you why you should find hope and not just gloom in Mother 3. You’ll still cry, though, don’t worry. Now, are you […]

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Memory Pak: Making New Memories With Earthbound In 2022

“Getting real big Undertale vibes from this”. I didn’t have a SNES growing up. I didn’t have a NES, either. I had an N64, though, so I’m not totally hopeless. Lately, I’ve been able to remedy the gaps in my gaming knowledge, since Nintendo’s been adding a ton of games that I either missed (because […]

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Back Page: Pokémon Moms Speak Out About Palindromic Regions And Raising Champions

A trio of Pokémom. In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have (paper) pages […]