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The Weird Appeal Of The 1993 Mario Movie Forever Endures

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My personal stake in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and its predecessor The Super Mario Bros. Movie, are low. They are for children and I am an adult. If I have any devoted stance, it is this. I believe the 1993 film adaptation of Super Mario, a box office disaster starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, will endure for much longer. Not merely because it is a train wreck, but because being that train wreck provides something these new movies sorely lack: A fascinating distinctiveness. As the snarky prologue to the 1993 film explains, this is not the Mario World…

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Playstation

PS Store Gets Long Overdue Update PS5, PS4 Users Begged For

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Just before the weekend, Sony quietly rolled out a new PS Store update that PS5 and PS4 players have been begging for. After years of flying under Sony’s radar, several notorious shovelware publishers have been banned from the storefront, and their games have been nuked. Stealth PS Store update removed hundreds of PS5, PS4 shovelware and scam games We know what you’re thinking, and yes, we’ve been here before. But this time is a little different. This is the third such update this year, and the second time Sony has nuked shovelware within just two weeks. Additionally, the publishers who…

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Nintendo

Marvel MaXimum Collection Review – Review

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Ruby-quartz-colored glasses might be required.The six games present in Marvel MaXimum Collection are weirdly important to me. Growing up in the ‘90s as a Marvel Comics fan and a player of video games, I spent more time than is recommended with the collective sum of these games. I have fond memories with X-Men and Captain America in the arcade. I rocked out to the Green Jelly soundtrack of Spider-Man & Venom Maximum Carnage on Super Nintendo. I somehow ended up with a lightly used complete-in-box copy of that wretched Silver Surfer game from my local video rental store when it…

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PC

Thank goodness Magic: The Gathering isn’t doing a Harry Potter crossover set

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Secrets of Strixhaven | Official Trailer | Magic: The Gathering – YouTube Watch On Five years ago, Strixhaven: School of Mages showed us Magic: The Gathering’s original take on the wizard school genre, which covers everything from Discworld’s Unseen University to A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin—though obviously Harry Potter is the elephant in the room.Back then, Wizards of the Coast hadn’t gone all-in on the crossovers. Now we’ve had everything from a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set to a limited run featuring Dwight from The Office. It was reasonable to wonder, after Wizards of the Coast’s corporate…

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