Category Archives: Video Games
A Bunch of New Mario Gameplay
It’s Monday. I’m on vacation. How about some Super Mario gameplay to pass our time? The next 2D, side-scrolling Mario game is going to be Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and we’ve got a full, 15-minute video about the game. I love Mario games as much as the next person, so let’s check it out.
Yeah, looks like a fun Mario game. Nintendo rarely fails in building new Mario games, so I’m fully on board with what they’re producing here. Who doesn’t love new Mario levels? With new power ups, hidden secrets, collection challenges; these things are always fun and rewarding.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder comes out on Oct. 20, so we’ve got some time.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s is Getting a Movie
Once upon a time, Five Nights at Freddy’s was a very popular video game. Is that still the case? I have no idea because I never played and have no interest in playing. I don’t want to play jump scare games. But it’s a Thursday and I finally have a movie trailer to share. I need content!
Looks fine! There have already been some knock-off films taking advantage of the delay in getting this one made. One of them starred Nicholas Cage! But this one looks solid. Spooky, probably not too gory, and it’s a horror film that’s actually coming out at Halloween, so I bet that’ll be nice and popular. Good on them for scoring that weekend.
Five Nights at Freddy’s comes to theaters on Oct. 27.
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More Mortal Kombat 1 Characters!
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m a huge fan of Mortal Kombat lore. All the ninjas, the crazy characters, the worlds, the battles; it’s all great stuff. So I am loving Mortal Kombat 1’s approach to introducing it’s playable characters: these one-off little videos that introduce some lore and pop out a few characters. Here’s one for Sindel and Shao Kahn!
Looks great! I’m loving this whole concept. It’s almost like Ultimate Universe Mortal Kombat. Take all the characters, all the histories, all the everything, and remodel it all into a new and similar universe. They did this once before with Mortal Kombat 9, but that was more of a simple cleaner retelling, with some big story changes. This looks like a whole new alternate universe with the same characters, just told a different way.
Now I really want to play this game for the story alone! Mortal Kombat 1 comes out Sept. 19.
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Reptile To Get Actual Character Development!
Look, I’m a huge fan of all the ninjas in Mortal Kombat. I was the exact right age and exact right level of nerd to just get deep into MK lore when those games came out. I used to own a guide book for Mortal Kombat Trilogy because I wanted all the character bios. I didn’t even own the game! So I’m really enjoying all these character-focused trailers for the upcoming Mortal Kombat 1.
And the latest trailer gives us an actual deep look at Reptile, with actual character development. Has the green ninja ever gotten this much development?!
The trailer also features Ashrah and Havik, but who cares about them? I’ll grant you, Havik’s fighting style looks pretty awesome. But Reptile is the real champion here! Character development! Shifting back and forth between human and reptile! Death roll attack! And it looks like he’s on a good guy team through most of the story? How neat!
Man, I’m probably going to buy this game just for the story and the reimagined characters!
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Let’s Take A Good Look at the Spider-Man 2 Video Game
Another Comic-Con trailer we got last week was a story trailer for the upcoming Spider-Man 2 video game. This is going to be one heck of a game and I’m very excited to dive in. The first game and the Miles Morales games were perfect, and I have no doubt that this game will be great too.
And it all looks great! The story looks like a classic Peter in the black suit story, with all sorts of added elements. And Venom looks great. We still don’t know if we’ll get to play as Venom, but surely that will be an option, right? Even if it’s only temporary? We’ll find out.
Also, that bear-dressed Kraven henchman has to be Grizzly, right? He’s clearly more than just a standard goon. He seems to me to be Kraven’s lieutenant. And if Kraven’s lieutenant is gonna wear a prominent bear costume…he damn well better be name-checked as Grizzly! Again, we’ll find out.
Spider-Man 2 comes to Playstation 5 — which I do now own! — on Oct. 20.
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