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Super Mario Bros speedrun legend returns to the most competitive category after $5,000 bounty and sets 2 world records in a day: "If this isn't proof that I'm him, I don't know what is"
News "Two records in a day!"
Little Nightmares 3 review: "An overly safe, uneven, and half-baked follow-up where co-op is a hindrance instead of the evolution it should've been"
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Almost 10 years later, indie dev accidentally makes their 10-player co-op platformer free on Steam: "I forgot that once you switch from paid to free, I can never go back"
News Oops?
Sonic the Hedgehog's Takashi Iizuka said Sonic Adventure remakes aren't happening, but Sega just filed a trademark that's fueling hopes for a Shadow the Hedgehog revival
News I think the 2005 blunder deserves the remake treatment more than Adventure
Super Mario Galaxy has a "horribly inefficient" secret: the credits are always loaded in the background while you play, which has the "inadvertently heartwarming" side effect of making sure the platformer always remembers the Nintendo legends who made it
News "4643 lines of text" can add up in the Wii's memory
Mario Kart 8 has outsold Mario Kart World for 2 months straight in the US, but since "over 80%" of Switch 2 owners already have World via console bundle, that "kind of makes it impossible" to outdo the 11-year series GOAT
News Not even a new Mario Kart can stop 8's reign of sales supremacy
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has Sega's "secret sauce" thanks to the devs combining "the essence" of multiple other "legendary" racing games like OutRun and Initial D
News Sega knows its stuff when it comes to racing games
Just in case you thought Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds wasn't chaotic enough, its next online event has a mode rotation dedicated to throwing items at fellow racers to earn Minecraft prizes
News Spin to win
I think Sega is sneak dissing Mario Kart World again, says Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds races are won by "players who think strategically and race skillfully, not just those who get lucky"
News "In item-based racing games, being in first place is often a disadvantage since everyone behind you can attack with items. That can make players not want to be in first place"
