Nintendo went all in on motion control, and now the rest of the industry is following their lead. But according to Mario mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto, the company doesn’t think it’s quite time for them to jump into the third dimension.
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If this video – showing Mario Bros projected over a footpath – isn’t the best use of camera motion tracking technology in the entire history of camera motion tracking, I don’t know what is.
Here’s Mario, and he’s ready to rescue that pinky amoeba called Princess Peach. Or give you food intoxication that will tie you to the toilet for a day. It can go either way, because he’s made of glowing bacteria.
To me, a festival is a field, a few musical acts, pair of rain boots, and heaps of mud. But then, I do live in England. Roboexotica, on the other hand, is robots and cocktails. Much more civilized.
iRwego, a sort-of-cleverly named iPhone app, may not have a very long lifespan, since it’s not approved by Nintendo. But I hope it stays—it soundtracks your life as if it were a Mario game.
Shockingly cheap Apple tablets, Twitter books, Google power plants, Samurai Mario and a bunch of things that didn’t make the cut today. Some of it we didn’t like, and some are fun gems from our (riveting!) staff chat room.
It must be Queen video recreation week. First there was the Muppets’ take on Bohemian Rhapsody, and now this Mario take of Don’t stop me now. Is there no end to Queen fans’ creativity? I hope not…
So a new, potentially very popular Mario title comes out today. Sweet, sweet nostalgia. To celebrate, let’s revisit all the 2009 NES hacks and mods that have, thus far, utterly destroyed or otherwise corrupted my most cherished memories, shall we?
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You know recession has reached a new low level when two Italian plumbers from Brooklyn go to Staten Island to beat a cabbie and steal his cash. Which is more or less what happened at a petrol station last Halloween.
