The Nintendo Museum’s sign and official logo were recently revealed by NintendoJapanon theirofficial Instagramaccount. Although the sign isn’t super flashy or extravagant, it still looks crisp and welcoming for future fans to admire while paying a visit to the historical site. During aDirectin September, the gaming giant teased fans with the museum. In the Instagram post that Nintendo Japan posted on October 26, the sign and logo can be seen from a number of different perspectives, showing off the sign from different times of the day....

There’s no place like home consoles… MGM’sThe Wizard of Ozshould have been a disaster. After the release and subsequent success of Walt Disney’sSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the studio sought its own potential hit film to be adapted from a children’s book. In 1938, MGM purchased the film rights to Frank L. Baum’s best seller and, over the course of a year, 13 different writers — most uncredited — would contribute to the script....

There was a time when a sandbox game was unique.Grand Theft Autowas the king of sandbox games during the PS2 and PS3 eras. So much so that finding other sandbox games that lived up to the level of theGTAseries could be difficult. That all changed during the last generation and into the current generation of consoles. Now, it seems like every game is an open-world sandbox. That makes the task of finding good quality sandbox games substantially more difficult....

Nominative determinism in action Publisher Thunderful Games has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire British independent studio Jumpship. The acquisition makes Jumpship the 10th studio to join the Thunderful portfolio, and the first purchase since the establishment of new CEO Anders Maiqvist. “The level of intrigue that Jumpship has managed to generate for its debut title shows you that this is a team with a deep artistic vision,” writes Thunderful Games’ Agostino Simonetta in a press release....

It’s completely normal to want a relaxing conclusion once you beat another challenging game. Most of the time, you get just that, an ending that tells you everything is all done and well and will stay fine forever. Sometimes, however, you get something that ramps the drama up to eleven, and that’seven better. On that note, I’ve experienced many a tear-jerker or shocked gasps myself. So, here’s a list of the most dramatic endings ever; just don’t scroll too fast in case you’d rather remain unspoiled on some....

Upon acquiring Lucasfilm, Disney executives immediately jumped into George Lucas’ makeshift Death Star to annihilate the cherished Expanded Universe, a collection of media spanning decades that had carried the torch for Star Wars stories between films. Ever since the acquisition, what we used to call Expanded Universe has become “Legends,” which is the Disney equivalent of that farm that all beloved animals get to go to. The change was an attempt to streamline Star Wars by removing any question about the canonicity of these fan-favorite stories....

The Adopt Me! Lunar New Year update is here and players are already hard at work searching for all of the Shooting Stars scattered across Adoption Island, which can then be exchanged for the event-exclusive Blossom and Gilded Snakes, among other rewards. But given how the locations of many of them will change daily, finding all stars can prove to be an unexpected challenge. So that you can get all of them in one go and collect all rewards, here’s where to find all Shooting Stars inAdopt Me!...

PS3 role-player makes western debut this week Atelier Escha & Logyis almost here. Can’t you just smell it in the air? The PS3 role-player will materialize on European shores come March 7. Meanwhile, folks in North America will have to wait until March 11 to get in on the alchemical action. Tecmo Koei has put together an informative little trailer in honor of the occasion. The video showcases the game’s finer points, like divergent stories, a shiny new engine, and dual audio....

The best Switch deals yet This Cyber Monday, the best Nintendo Switchbundle dealwill come with $85 worth of additional bonuses for free. Starting sometime near midnight, GameStop will offer select Nintendo Switch console systems with a $50 GameStop gift cardandan additional bonus $35 worth of eShop currency. The only catch is that this Nintendo Switch Cyber Monday deal is still not live as of writing. But based timing from the past year, you should be able to see the deal on GameStop’s online storefront at 9 PM Pacific or just after 12 AM Eastern tonight....

Mass Effect 3director Casey Hudson has addressed thecontroversial ending optionsfor his game, and he currently remains unapologetic. Hudson justified the enraging conclusion to the trilogy by saying he wanted it to be memorable. He certainly gotthat. “I didn’t want the game to be forgettable,” he said to Digital Trends, “and even right down to the sort of polarizing reaction that the ends have had with people — debating what the endings mean and what’s going to happen next, and what situation are the characters left in....

The ‘mini-event’ lasts two weeks If you’ve been playingBorderlands 3obsessively since launch, odds are you have all the loot you could even want by now. For everyone else, there’s catch-up events. Gearbox already ran a string of them close to the game’s launch, but starting tomorrow, the “Farming Frenzy” will be in effect. Gearbox is dubbing this a “mini event,” and it’ll take place from January 16 through January 30....

fart noise Tower defense with a side of physics-based destruction is the order of the day with the launch of Zen Studios’CastleStorm — Free to Siege, now out on mobile platforms. The game play — Vikings vs Knights in medieval warfare, blowing up castles with heavy artillery — was inspired by childhood memories of building and destroying Lego castles. And it’s, well, free, so there’s your in. Check out the launch trailer for a better idea of how this all goes down....

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