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Switch to Success: 20 Years of Nintendo Console Sales

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Time Stamp: December 24, 2020 1:00 PM - Modified On: December 24, 2020 - Published By:
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Since its 2017 release, the Nintendo Switch has become a household game console for gamers and non-gamers alike. Few consoles penetrate the mainstream deeply enough to have parents referring to a console by its proper name, instead of their children’s “Gameboy” or “Wii”. Even fewer come together as a complete package that ties together the ideologies and technical ideas of their preceding consoles like the Nintendo Switch has. This graphic visualizes the Nintendo Switch sales success story alongside more than 20 years of Nintendo console sales. The History of Nintendo

Mulan Review — All Style, No Substance

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Time Stamp: September 3, 2020 12:00 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Disney's recent history with live-action adaptations of their animated classics has been a mixed bag at best. There seems to be no real hard-and-fast conventions as to just what gets added or changed in the transition from 2D to 3D. New songs are added, new characters, new plot threads--all, presumably, in service to whatever will help reinvent a decades-old classic for a new generation. Unfortunately, in the case of Mulan, it seems that the calculations were botched right from the start.It's a familiar story. Hua Mulan (Yifei Liu), the eldest

Guangzhou Charge Owner Nengking Group Launch Esports Umbrella Brand Ultra Prime

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Time Stamp: August 28, 2020 5:29 PM - Modified On: August 28, 2020 - Published By:
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Chinese conglomerate Nengking Group, owner of Overwatch League (OWL) team Guangzhou Charge (GZ Charge), announced on Friday that the company has established a new esports brand called “Ultra Prime” (UP) for “better connecting to the esports industry.” UP will operate multiple esports businesses, and one of the businesses will be a young player training program, called “Ultra Prime Academy.” Ignite One, the current academy team for GZ Charge, has been added into the program. Nengking Group said that UP is looking to add multiple “promising” esports titles to the program,

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Leaked In Taiwanese Ratings Listing

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Time Stamp: June 19, 2020 8:58 AM - Modified On: June 19, 2020 - Published By:
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Following a tease dating back to November 2019, Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time has leaked thanks to listings filed by the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee. The listings state that the game is being developed for PS4 and Xbox One (with Xbox Series X compatibility, according to the box art).The listing includes a blurb (translated by Gematsu) for the first numbered sequel since Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped on the original PlayStation, which was the last in the series to be developed by The Last of Us Part II developer

Project Warlock Review – Wizard’s First Doom

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Time Stamp: June 11, 2020 9:01 PM - Modified On: June 11, 2020 - Published By:
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Before you're even 100% certain of what you're doing or who you are in Project Warlock, you're put in a room with a magical throwing knife, a staff that shoots lightning, and a couple of pissed-off spiders who aren't there to thank you for playing their game. Within 10 seconds of starting, I'm back in high school, in 1998, installing any old creaky Doom WAD a friend tells me about over AIM for the hell of it, without a single blessed clue what needs doing except that anything that isn't

Reverse-engineering the audio amplifier chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color #Nintendo #GameBoy #Gaming @kenshirriff

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Ken Shirriff provides an excellent dive into reverse-engineering the audio amplifier chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color. The Nintendo Game Boy Color is a handheld game console that was released in 1998. It uses an audio amplifier chip to drive the internal speaker or stereo headphones. In this blog post, I reverse-engineer this chip from die photos and explain how it works. It’s essentially three power op-amps with some interesting circuitry inside. See the entire deep dive here. Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/09/reverse-engineering-the-audio-amplifier-chip-in-the-nintendo-game-boy-color-nintendo-gameboy-gaming-kenshirriff/

N64 Cult Classic Shadow Man Is Getting Remastered

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Time Stamp: March 18, 2020 2:00 PM - Modified On: March 18, 2020 - Published By:
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Only true heads of the late '90s gaming era remember Shadow Man, the bizarre voodoo-themed action-adventure game from 1999. While Nightdive Studios republished the original version of the game back in 2014, the studio has decided to give the game a full graphical overhaul.This new version will use Nightdive's KEX engine, which they've used in several other games. The remaster will feature improved shadow mapping, per pixel lighting, post-processing effects like antialiasing, and missing content cut from the original game. Shadow Man Remastered will come to PC via Steam and

New On Hulu In April 2020: More Movies, TV Shows, And Originals

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Time Stamp: March 16, 2020 5:23 PM - Modified On: March 16, 2020 - Published By:
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Now, more than ever, people who subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and other streaming services are wondering what's coming to each of these in the upcoming weeks. Luckily, Hulu has revealed what it has in store for subscribers for April. Check out what's coming and going from the service for the next month below, along with a few recommendations.On April 1, the majority of the the month's content lands, and there are plenty of reality TV shows to binge through. You can catch up on 90 Day Fiance,

All Movie Theaters In Los Angeles And New York Will Close

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Time Stamp: March 16, 2020 12:10 AM - Modified On: March 16, 2020 - Published By:
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Keen moviegoers will have to satisfy themselves with films they can stream at home, as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti have ordered all cinemas to close in the two bustling cities, according to the Hollywood Reporter.This move will include New York's AMC Empire, the top grossing cinema in the USA, as well as venues such as nightclubs and concert venues in New York, and gyms, bars, and arcades in Los Angeles.The closures will officially come into effect as of 9 AM on March

Space Jam 2 Is Being Worked On By Director Of Original Mulan

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Time Stamp: March 15, 2020 10:45 PM - Modified On: March 15, 2020 - Published By:
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Tony Bancroft, one of the two credited directors behind Disney's Mulan (1998), has announced that he is working on the much-anticipated Space Jam 2. Bancroft announced on Twitter that he started working on the film in January, and has just been sent to work from home in the wake of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak."Just one more Looney chapter in the making of Space Jam 2," Bancroft said on Twitter. "Have Cintiq will travel."Bancroft is a high-profile animator, and he's far from the only big name attached. The film is being