Category: Video Games

Video: Masahiro Sakurai Shows Off His Retro Game Skills In “Special” YouTube Collab

Competing against Game Center CX.

Earlier this week, the legendary game designer and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai teased a “special crossover” with Retro Game Master (known as Game Center CX in Japan).

The first video, localised by 8-4, has now gone live and it has Sakurai facing off against Retro Game Master Shinya Arino in a battle across “The Space Invaders Decade” from 1978 – 1987. Apart from Space Invaders, the other games featured include the following: Galaxian, Astroids (1979), Pac-Man, Crazy Climber (1980), Scramble, Donkey Kong (1981), Dig Dug and Moon Patrol (1982).

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Super Mario Bros. Wonder Leaked Online Ahead Of Next Week’s Release

Watch out for spoilers.

Another anticipated Nintendo Switch exclusive has been leaked online. This time it’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder, due out next week on 20th October.

After the voice of the new Mario was confirmed on Friday, there are now multiple reports suggesting Mario Wonder’s ROM file is being distributed online. This new game is also being streamed on platforms like Twitch, although some users claim they’ve acquired physical copies early.

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Mortal Kombat 1 Shares “First Look” At The Kombat Pack DLC Fighter Omni-Man

Early access starts next month.

At New York Comic-Con this weekend, NetherRealm Studios shared a “first look” at the Mortal Kombat 1 Kombat Pack fighter Omni-Man.

He’ll be available to anyone who purchases the Premium Edition or Kombat Pack and playable in early access starting November 2023. In the latest trailer, you can also see Tremor will be appearing as a Kameo Fighter.

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Mortal Kombat 1: Invincible’s Omni-Man Gets a Gameplay Trailer and Release Window

Alongside confirming a November 2023 release window, NetherRealm has revealed the first gameplay trailer for Invincible’s Omni-Man at NYCC 2023.

Omni-Man will be the first playable character in Mortal Kombat’s Kombat Pack 1 and will be available as a standalone fighter or as part of the Mortal Kombat 1 Premium Edition. The trailer is a brutal look at Omni-Man in action and shows that many of his moves were pulled straight from the Prime Video series.

If you need a bit of a refresher, you can check out this comparison of the scenes right below!

During the reveal at Skybound’s 20th anniversary panel at NYCC, Robert Kirkman and Ed Boon shared that “every moment of Omni-Man in Mortal Kombat 1 is inspired by a piece of the show.”

Speaking of the show, Omni-Man also made an appearance in the Season 2 trailer for Invincible, in which Mark Grayson worries he may become too much like his father.

Omni-Man will arrive alongside the Kameo fighter Tremor, and is just the start of the pack that will also see the arrival of Quan Chi, Peacemaker, Ermac, Takeda Takahashi, and Homelander. There will also be such Kameo fighters as Ferra, Johnny Cage, Chameleon, and Mavado.

In our Mortal Kombat 1 review, we said, “The bone-crunching gameplay of Mortal Kombat 1 is some of the best the series has ever seen, thanks to the game-changing Kameo system. Netherrealm delivers a fantastic single-player story mode as well. However, the new Invasions mode is a grind and the online options feel dated.”

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Review: Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition – Makes The Jump To Switch Almost Entirely Intact

“Do you hear screaming, or am I having another one of my episodes?”.

A little less than ten years ago, a port of Borderlands 2 famously launched for Sony’s ailing PS Vita to middling reception. The fact that a then-current game could run at all on a portable was remarkable, but the flat visuals, crashing, and consistently sub 30 FPS performance relegated it to more of a novelty than a version that people would be comfortable playing for hours on end. When Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition was announced for the Switch, there was a lot of discourse that history would be repeating itself here, and this wasn’t helped by the general lack of footage leading up to release. Fortunately, any such fears can now be put to rest. Borderlands 3 runs shockingly well on the Switch, bringing over the full, crazy experience in all its glory for portable play.

Borderlands 3 picks up about seven years after the events of Borderlands 2 and follows the interstellar adventures of familiar Crimson Raiders like Lilith, Claptrap, and Ellie alongside newcomers like Ava and Lorelei. The gang this time around faces off against the Calypso Twins, a godlike sibling duo who have united the bandit clans of Pandora under a cult called the Children of the Vault. Notably, Tyreen Calypso has the ability to leech power from other creatures, and if she’s allowed to absorb the powers of the ancient beasts residing in the Vaults hidden across each planet, she’ll become virtually unstoppable.

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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 14th)

Calm before the Wonder storm.

Ready for a spot of weekend gaming? Us too! Welcome back to another edition of What Are You Playing.

This week on Nintendo Life, we saw Microsoft finally acquire Activision Blizzard, got all excited over the prospect of Animal Crossing LEGO and celebrated the 2DS’ 10th birthday. We also dove deep in our hands-on preview of Super Mario Bros. Wonder (spoiler: it’s looking great) and dared to ask whether you would buy a digital-only ‘Switch 2’?

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