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NBA Jam Creator Reveals That, Yes, The Bulls Were Robbed Of Victory Against The Pistons

NBA Jam remains one of the most beloved basketball game of all time, 27 years after its initial arcade release. If you were on one side of the Chicago Bulls/Detroit Pistons rivalry of the 90s, though, the game perhaps has endured slightly less well in your memory, because you know in your heart that you were robbed.As it turns out, you actually might have been. In a new video from Ars Technica about the success of NBA Jam, lead designer Mark Turmell has reflected on the rivalry between the Chicago

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Animal Crossing’ Summer Update Incoming, ‘Yes, Your Grace’, ‘Urban Flow’ and Today’s Other New Releases and Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 26th, 2020. In today’s article, we have summaries of the remaining new releases for the week. Not so many as yesterday, but still a healthy batch. There’s a bit of news on Animal Crossing that I didn’t want to wait to share, and a really large list of new discounts with some intriguing deals on it. Let’s roll on in! News ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Summer Update Adds Swimming and More For as much fun as Animal Crossing: New

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Mr. Driller DrillLand’, ‘Collar X Malice’ and Today’s Other New Releases and Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 25th, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got summaries of the massive number of new releases that hit the eShop today. There’s something for everyone here today, unless you want a new top-down twin-stick shooter. Weird. Beyond the new games, we’ve also got the usual list of incoming and outgoing sales. Let’s check it out! New Releases Mr. Driller DrillLand ($29.99) SwitchArcade Highlight! Well, well, well… if it isn’t the best game in the Mr. Driller series, and one that

David Beckham invests in London-based esports startup Guild

The global esports market, which has enjoyed tremendous support in Asia and is now fast establishing itself as a mainstream entertainment globally, is currently valued at US$1.1bn and is projected to grow by 42% to US$1.56bn by 2023[1]. The number of esports fans is estimated to be around 495m and is largely comprised of millennials – this number is projected to hit 646m by 2023. Guild Esports (Guild), a new global esports business headquartered in London and co-owned by David Beckham, today announced its global launch amid a booming global

Apple TV+ Animated Series Central Park Will Recast Black Character Voiced By Kristen Bell

Central Park, a new animated series co-created by Bob's Burgers creator Loren Bouchard, is midway through Season 1, but a big change is coming for Season 2. One of the show's characters, Molly, is a biracial young girl who has, up to this point, been voiced by Kristen Bell (Frozen, The Good Place), who is white.Going forward, the part of Molly will be recast, and while Bell will remain on the show she will play a new character.In a statement from the show's creators Bell has shared on Twitter, it's

Out Now: ‘Pokemon Cafe Mix’, ‘The Almost Gone’, ‘Death Come True’, ‘The Innsmouth Case’, ‘Romancing SaGa Re;universe’, ‘QuestBall’, ‘The Academy: The First Riddle’, ‘Golf On Mars’ and More

Each and every day new mobile games are hitting the App Store, and so each week we put together a big old list of all the best new releases of the past seven days. Back in the day the App Store would showcase the same games for a week, and then refresh those features each Thursday. Because of that developers got into the habit of releasing their games throughout Wednesday or very early Thursday in order to hopefully get one of those coveted features spots. Nowadays the App Store refreshes

Big Mouth Voice Actor Steps Away From Role: “Black Characters Should Be Played By Black Actors”

Jenny Slate has played Missy, a young Black girl (and the love interest of protagonist Andrew) on Big Mouth since Season 1 of the hit Netflix animated show, but that's set to change. The actor has announced that after the upcoming Season 4, she will no longer voice the character, and that the part will be recast by a Black actor.In a statement on Instagram, Slate admits that while she was initially able to justify the casting to herself, she has since come to understand that she is taking a

Bob’s Burgers Creator’s Next Fox Cartoon Has Already Been Renewed For Season 2

Loren Bouchard, the creator of Fox's hit animated sitcom Bob's Burgers, is currently working on The Great North, a new animated show for Fox. Although the show has not aired yet--or even released so much as a preview image--Deadline is reporting that the show has already been renewed for season 2.The show will be about a single father in Alaska who is trying his best to keep his family together and happy. It will star Nick Offerman as Beef Tobin, the dad in question, and Jenny Slate and Will Forte

Devs Creator Alex Garland On Why Video Game Movies Don’t Work (And His Favorite Animal Crossing Villager)

Alex Garland has garnered himself quite the reputation for sci-fi and horror fans with his dense and philosophical projects like Ex Machina, Annihilation, and this year's Devs, his first foray into the world of serialized storytelling with FX on Hulu. Themes in Garland's work tend to deal with things that provoke a certain sense of existential dread, like the nature of mortality and the ethics of artificial intelligence, so it's really no surprise that the writer/director's favorite video games tend towards the similarly weighty.Speaking with GameSpot during the Play for

SwitchArcade Round-Up: Mini-Views Featuring ‘Ruiner’ and ‘Sister Location’, Today’s New Releases, the Latest Sales, and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 22nd, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got summaries of a couple of new releases that hit the eShop since we last checked in. There are also a pair of Mini-Views for a couple of recent releases. We finish things up with a full list of incoming and outgoing sales for you to comb through. The big news is the unveiling of which character from ARMS will be joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but that’s unfortunately in the future for