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All but 25 staff at the Canadian video game development studio Silicon Knights have been laid off, according to sources close to the company. Silicon Knights has not officially confirmed the cuts, but two credible independent sources contacted us with the information over the weekend. One wrote that...

Feature Share it: Tweet The Greatest Mario Power-Ups of All Time An illustrated guide to our favorite powers for our favorite plumber. By: Jeremy Parish October 29, 2011 When Super Mario 3D Land hits in a couple of weeks, it will be bringing with it a bunch of familiar old power-ups for Mario along...

This year isn’t turning out to be a great one for Nintendo. Here is the original post: Iwata Talks New Genres for 3DS, Demos, eShop on Smartphones, Wii U, and More

If you don’t care about the upcoming HD version of BurgerTime, World Tour , and just want some basic, burger-building action, you’ll be pleased to know that today’s Nintendo Download update brings the Game Boy version of the classic arcade game to the 3DS eShop. BurgerTime Deluxe is...

Thanks to a combination of factors that don’t play into Nintendo’s hand, the company behind Mario today projected a net loss of 20 billion yen ($264 million) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012. That’s an enormous shift from where that number was originally projected to be; it...

This year we won’t be getting any new Rock Band or Guitar Hero games for the first time since 2004. View original post here: Rock Band Could Look Much Different in the Future

Trailer of unreleased Kirby GC game Before Kirby’s Return to Dreamland hit earlier this week, it had been 11 years since a core Kirby game was released on consoles. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards came out in 2000 and since then Kirby has been limited on consoles to Air Ride , Epic Yarn , and his...

A quick look at the highlights among the games coming out in Japan this coming week, courtesy the review pages of Famitsu magazine: – Super Mario 3D Land (9/9/10/10, 38 points): The top scorer of the week seems to fulfill all of Shigeru Miyamoto’s stated goals for a 3DS Mario game, if Famitsu’s...

Feature Share it: Tweet Lara Croft and the Reinvention of Game Heroes How Tomb Raider changed games, and why its leading lady still matters 15 years later. By: Jeremy Parish October 22, 2011 A woman sits on a boxy sofa in a hotel. It’s meant to be a classy Calcutta hotel from colonial days, but...