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Game downloads will be throttled to manage internet congestion
For the billions stuck at home during the global effort to flatten the curve, gaming is a welcome escape. But it’s also a bandwidth-heavy one, and Microsoft, Sony and others are working to make sure that millions of people downloading enormous games don’t suck up all the bandwidth. Don’t worry,…
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Nintendo’s online Switch services are experiencing an outage when we need them most
The era of social distancing is going to be put a lot of existing systems to the test. Nintendo’s online services for the Switch have been experiencing outages in the U.S. and parts of Europe. The company noted the issues on social media, adding that it’s “looking to rectify the…
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Lego Super Mario is coming later this year
Toys are better now. There, I said it. Don’t get me wrong, I treasure the tub of action figures gathering decades of dust in my parents’ attic, but get a load of this Super Mario Lego play set. I would have happily used up all the nights of Hanukkah on…
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How much would you pay for the fabled Nintendo PlayStation prototype?
You have until March 6th to try and nab a working Nintendo PlayStation prototype — one of the rarest relics of lost gaming history — and it'll only cost you a few hundred thousand dollars. The current high bid for this retro prototype at auctio… Source
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‘Konami Code’ creator Kazuhisa Hashimoto has died
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, then start. Sound familiar? The Konami Code, as this sequence came to be known, is one of the most recognizable artifacts of an earlier era of gaming. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, its creator, has used up the last of his 30 lives.…
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Nintendo adds monthly subscription to ‘Fire Emblem Heroes’
Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH) is Nintendo's mobile money-maker. The free-to-play RPG has pulled in, according to SensorTower, $656 million since its release three years ago — over $200 million more than all of Nintendo's other mobile games combined. That… Source
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