Inspired by: ready-to-pluck Pikmin from the eponymous Pikmin series! Preamble Day 746, and still no Pikmin on Switch. My Pikmin-obsessed mother is close to breaking point. We don’t have long. Day 749, I’ve had an idea. It may get us by until they port Pikmin 3 or announce a new game or something, at least.… Read More Bonus Bake: Pikmin Cupcakes
Tidying Up with Chibi Robo Marie Kondo isn’t the first Japanese person to try get us to clean up our lives. Video games have been secretly (or blatantly) teaching us to stay tidy for years, and here’s the evidence. Harvest Moon Let’s begin at the beginning: you’ve just fired up Harvest Moon, hit ‘new game’,… Read More The video games that taught us to tidy up
Inspired by: the ‘sugar cake’ item from Dragon Age: Origins’ Feastday Gifts and Pranks DLC. Preamble For my birthday last month, I made these monsters: They’re based off Duncan’s shield and dagger from Dragon Age: Origins, because they’re my favourite shield and dagger in the game. Simple as that. Except not ‘simple as that’,… Read More Bonus Bake: Dragon Age Origins Sugar Cake
Daddy issues When I first planned to write this article, I was hoping it would be a success story: ‘after a 15-year dry spell, I managed to get my dad back into gaming and here’s how!’ Technically, I did do that; technically, this is a success story. Except I succeeded too well. Some context: back… Read More I got my dad back into video games and now I’ve created a monster
And it was already toad-ally great! Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is one of the chosen few Wii U titles that got a second chance at success on the Switch. It must have done well, because in last Wednesday’s Direct, Nintendo announced paid DLC for the port, arriving on March 14th. As well as this, in… Read More Captain Toad is 100% better now you can track treasure together
Inspired by: YouTuber Hbomberguy’s 57-hour stream of a 101% run in Donkey Kong 64, which raised over $340,000 in aid of UK transgender charity Mermaids. Preamble As a LGBT gamer and supporter of Mermaids, who works for a charity herself, this event held a lot of significance for me. Also, it was just really fun… Read More Bonus Bake: Donkey Kong said trans rights! cake
Talented Zelda fans are at it again, this time with an excellent animation based on Breath of the Wild. Though it’s about 90 seconds long, the animation took two months and four people to create: Chinese animators Youyang Kong and Qianya Yin, as well as Sihan Yuan and Doudou, who did sound and music… Read More Take a Daruk at this Breath of the Wild fan animation
You can’t stop the beat. Smashing things is satisfying. Smashing things with some kind of weaponry is even more satisfying. But smashing things with weaponry to the beat of your favourite song is just on a whole other level. That’s why Beat Saber mods exist. Chances are if you were alive and on the internet… Read More Music sounds better in Beat Saber
Think fast. I can’t drive, I don’t own any racing games—with an obvious exception: it takes green dinosaurs and pink mushroom women to get me behind the wheel of a car—and the very concept of driving sections makes me nauseous. But then they had to go and set Forza Horizon 4 in the north… Read More Forza Horizon 4 and the Power of Positivity
Don’t Blow On Cartridges is back for 2019, and with a new addition to the family: More consoles means more games, and more games means more to talk about! Forza Horizon 4 will be the first of those games, but I’ll still be covering anything that catches my interest on the internet too–expect an article… Read More The 2019 Update
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