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30 Apr

The Nintendo Fan Games That Tried to Revitalize Pokémon, Metroid, and Super Smash Bros.

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In 2016, Milton Guasti’s Metroid 2 remake (AM2R) was released online after a decade of work. One day later, Nintendo sent DMCA takedown requests to the websites that hosted it. Many fans were shocked by the decision. Guasti seems more surprised by the efficiency of it. “Throughout the years I started seeing that [a takedown] could be possible,” Guasti recalls. “What I was not expecting was that it happened so fast.” New fan-made gaming projects are developed and distributed all the time, and often embraced by studios, but as those in the creative community know, Nintendo has historically been adamant about…
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29 Jan

Animal Crossing’s Turnip Market Tried to Warn Us About the GameStop Stock Drama

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The ongoing GameStop stock situation, which we’re all learning about through a combination of reputable sources and an onslaught of memes, has captured the internet’s attention for reasons ranging from “WTF?” to “LOL.” One of the most common things you’ll hear about the whole situation is that it caught everyone by surprise. Even those closest to this story from the beginning would have a hard time honestly telling you that they ever thought a group of investors on Reddit who trade stocks as often as memes would have been able to predict that GameStop, one of the worst companies in…
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09 Dec

His Dark Materials’ Spectres: ‘I Tried to Find a Way To Not Make Dementors’

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When Philip Pullman magicked up Spectres on the pages of The Subtle Knife, he did it without giving a thought to the VFX artists of the future. If Pullman had considered the puzzle he was setting the people tasked with depicting creatures so diaphanous that “in some lights, they were hardly there at all,” he may have had a rethink. Instead, not knowing that his story would be turned first into a feature film and then a stunning TV adaptation, he described monsters that were “a rhythmic evanescence, like veils of transparency turning in a mirror.” Tricky. “In literary form, it’s…
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