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Mario Strikers Is Nintendo’s Hardest Franchise And I’m Glad It’s Back
It’s been fifteen years since the release of the last Mario Strikers title. I’ve become a kind of weird evangelical online about this series. Ahead of each Nintendo Direct, while everyone else was crossing their fingers for Breath of the Wild 2 or a crumb of information about Metroid Prime 4, I would shout my…
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Call of Duty: Vanguard Player Headshots Opponents With Donkey Kong Bongos
When Nintendo released the bongo drum controllers used with the Donkey Konga games and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, the company probably didn’t envision them being used in a Call of Duty game. To be fair, neither did I. But in a recent Call of Duty: Vanguard match, Twitch streamer DeanoBeano managed to amass 105 kills…
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Former Pac-Man Champ Billy Mitchell Can Now Sue World Record Leaderboard Group
Billy Mitchell, a pro gamer best known for making the numbers on an arcade machine get really big, is going to court. As spotted by Axios’ Stephen Totilo, a U.S. appeals court gave the green light yesterday for Mitchell to proceed with a defamation suit against Twin Galaxies, the popular gaming leaderboard site.
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Billy Mitchell’s Old Website Now Debunks His Controversial Pac-Man High Scores
If nothing else, you’ve gotta respect the bit. Billy Mitchell, the so-called “video game player of the century,” appears to have let ownership over his old website, perfectpacman.com, lapse some years ago. Now someone else has commandeered the domain, and is using it to publish a multipart investigation into the oft-questioned legitimacy of Mitchell’s world-record…