Coming soon.
To celebrate Mario Day, Nintendo has locked in a release date for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It will be arriving on Nintendo Switch on 23rd May 2024.
In addition to this, Luigi’s Mansion 2 will be returning on 27th June 2024. More information soon.
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In celebration of Mario Day 2024, Nintendo announced that the remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door will be released on Switch on May 23, 2024.
The news was announced with a short glimpse of Mario on stage with a bunch of our other favorite Mushroom Kingdom characters in the audience. Alongside this big news, it was also confirmed a new Super Mario Bros. movie is in the works and that Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD will be released on Switch on June 27, 2024.
ICYMI: #PaperMario: The Thousand-Year Door
arrives on #NintendoSwitch May 23rd! #PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoorhttps://t.co/4O22wZX7RO pic.twitter.com/Csxn7Jq5Aa— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) March 10, 2024
It’s a MAR10 Day special.
Welcome back to another clash of the covers in this week’s Box Art Brawl!
Before we meet today’s contenders, let’s take a look at what happened last time when we matched up three regional covers for Ninja Gaiden Shadow (or Shadow Warriors for those in Europe and Australia). Despite there being three options, it wasn’t a close call. North America walked away with the win, taking 67% of the vote, while Japan and Europe picked up 7% and 27% respectively.
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Happy Mario Day!
LEGO will be bolstering its Super Mario line with multiple new sets due out later this year on 1st August 2024.
Yes, apart from the announcement of Mario Kart-themed LEGO (coming next year), to celebrate Mario Day this year it’s unveiled three new kits: The Bowser Express Train, King Boo’s Haunted Mansion, and Battle with Roy at Peach’s Castle. Here are the details about each one.
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More developers have confirmed that they have been told by Warner Bros. Discovery that their games will imminently be delisted from digital storefronts. Soundodger+ and Fist Puncher are both due to vanish, following in the footsteps of puzzle game Small Radios Big Televisions, whose developer announced its imminent delisting earlier this week and released the game for free in response.
Ready, set, build!
As part of the Super Mario Day celebrations, Nintendo has announced it will be releasing Mario Kart sets in 2025.
At the very end of LEGO’s Super Mario broadcast, it shared an incredibly brief teaser – showing off the outline of a kart. This new line will be part of the Super Mario line, but nothing else has been shared about it just yet.
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Saturday is here, which means it’s time to round up the best deals available this weekend across games, technology, and more! This weekend, we’re kicking things off with exciting deals on SSDs, new games, and more. The best deals for Saturday, March 9, include the Samsung 990 EVO SSD, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, God of War Ragnarok, and more.
Amazon has solid discounts for both the 1TB and 2TB Samsung 990 EVO SSD models. This SSD is compatible with PlayStation 5, so it’s perfect if you’re looking for a new PS5 accessory to pick up. Additionally, it’s great for any gaming PC or other device that supports a full NVME M.2 SSD.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a release that went under many people’s radars earlier this year. At $29.99, this 2D platformer is absolutely worth your time and money. We gave the game an 8/10 in our review, stating, “Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown captures not only what made games such as The Sands of Time so good, but it irons out a lot of the little issues that plagued the 3D games.”
Amazon has a fantastic deal ongoing for the PlayStation 5 Slim Digital Edition. The console itself is $50 off, and you get Spider-Man 2 for free. In total, that’s $120 worth of savings. This is perfect if you’ve yet to pick up a PS5, as we most likely won’t see a better deal than this for a while.
God of War Ragnarok is still one of the best PS5 games you can pick up. This action game acts as the sequel to 2018’s God of War, following Kratos and Atreus as Fimbulwinter looms. If you’ve yet to play this game, this is a great time to pick up Ragnarok at a discount and see why so many players love this series.
Dead Space launched last January, and this is a great time to pick up the game if you haven’t already. This remake features an impressive use of technology and a completely modernized combat system. Special attention has been put on the audio, with 3D Audio technology utilized for an immersive experience. You can expect loads of thrills and horror as you look to escape the stranded ship. The USG Ishimura has never looked better or been scarier.
Amazon has both the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 copies of Bomb Rush Cyberfunk on sale right now. This spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio offers a ton of fun, with all kinds of activities to complete. You play as Red and join the Bomb Rush Crew, where you set off around the city to discover graffiti spots and get REP. All the flashy tricks you know and love are here, so this is a great title to sit back and unwind with.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a fantastic title that shows off many of the PlayStation 5 hardware features. From the lightning fast load times to the impressive use of the DualSense controller, Rift Apart takes full advantage of the hardware. Additionally, it’s a blast to play with an exciting story and satisyfing gameplay. Add this to your collection today with a nice $30 discount.
The Mansion always wins.
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim’s after some more bitesize Mario weirdness, which he got his fix of on the DS…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder was great. It had elephants, it had sweet little blobs of slime, and it had funky music. And yet, as I played through it, I couldn’t help but feel like something was missing. “It’s weird,” I thought to myself, riffing on that Wonder Woman 1984 Pedro Pascal meme, “but it could be weirder”.
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Deviation Games, the studio formed by Call of Duty’s Zombies mode creator Jason Blundell and Treyarch veteran Dave Anthony, has shut down before it could ship out the game it was developing in partnership with PlayStation.
The sad news was shared on LinkedIn by Deviation Games’ Chief HR & Operations Officer Kriste Stull, who also said the team would be holding a networking event to help those impacted by the studio’s closure.
“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the closure of Deviation Games,” Stull wrote. “I want to express my deepest gratitude to our entire team. Thank you for all your hard work, dedication, and contributions to Deviation; I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have worked with each and every one of you.
“To the entire video game industry, we will be hosting a networking event, and we would love for any/all companies/studios hiring to participate. Please reach out to me directly if you are interested in attending.
“To all the Deviators out there, we will always cherish the memories we made together. Thank you for being a part of our journey. Go get ’em!”
Deviation Games was revealed in June 2021 and Blundell and Anthony stated they were working on a new IP that was very early in development. We still have yet to learn what that IP was, but Blundell did share a few words about their dreams of the project back in 2021.
“We’re drawing on what we’ve learned over our collective decades making games, but we’re also out to make something fresh and brimming with innovation like you’ve never experienced before,” Blundell wrote. “We’re not afraid to say that our ambitions are super high: we’re setting out to make a huge, content-rich game with a focus on a lot of action and a lot of energy, but let’s leave it at that for now and hopefully it won’t be long before we can share more.”
In 2023, several of Deviation’s devs took to LinkedIn to share they had been let go after the studio was hit by layoffs.
This is yet another example of layoffs and studio closures in 2023 and 2024 and follows EA’s decision to shut down Marcus Lehto’s Ridgeline Games and the closure of Rooster Teeth.
For more, you can check out our chat back in 2021 with Blundell and Anthony about the special experience of forming their studio.
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Where does Mario Wonder rank?
Happy MAR10! Well, almost. Mario Day takes place on March 10th, so we’re republishing our list of the very best mainline games starring the plumber.
What’s the best Mario game ever? Where do you even begin to rank all the Mario games?
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