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The Switch 2 needs a mascot – I offer Linkle as Tribute
Most Nintendo consoles have had official or unofficial mascots. Captain Falcon, a more muscular, futuristic man than Mario could ever be, initially was created to represent the Super Famicom/SNES, with his colors intended to match the console’s Japanese controller’s buttons. The Wii came into this world bearing the visage of a whole new lifeform – the Mii – things that…
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The Nintendo Switch 2 Experience had us thirsty for Donkey Kong and also water
There was larger emphasis on rules and regulations outside the Switch 2 Experience venue than inside. As I walked into the Television City parking lot, I had to show my ID twice and the QR code Nintendo sent me at least seven times in the weeks after I got picked to attend the event just to get to the front…
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Microsoft’s Copilot Gaming Experience is haunted and pointless
Tech companies are really pushing generative AI for some reason. The technology has a lot of practical uses, but companies would rather wave their dicks around to show it off. Their dicks, in this case, being braindead chatbots and dangling carrots in the form of generated art. The latest in these flashes of useless genitalia is Microsoft’s “Copilot Gaming Experience.”…
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The video game industry is miserable, but some people are trying to make it fun again
Videogames are making more money than ever, but in 2025, everyone I know who’s livelihood depends on the industry in any capacity feels some degree of doomed. But maybe it's not all bad. Maybe we just need a new perspective on the hobby. Here are some things that might help.
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The Switch 2 is coming! And these games might be there for launch
Many are gearing up for 2025 to be the worst year of their lives, but for a number of wide-eyed nerds out there, the pending announcement of a new Nintendo console has latched onto their future orientation like a benign parasite, taking up any space where pessimism would otherwise reside.
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Game Complaint Department’s Game of the Year 2020
2020 sucked for a lot of people, and I’m of no exception. I don’t want to make a competition out of it or throw some pity party, but it was an incredibly trying period for me. The tribulations have followed into this year, but I continue to make an effort to just keep moving on. As such, the Game Complaint…
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Game Complaint Department’s Game of the Year 2017
The first year of Game Complaint Department's (before it was Maximum Utmost) Game of the Year "awards." I should have come up with a dumber, flashier title. I can't believe I've been running this site since 2017. Really, what the hell? I still feel like I'm new at this.
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Opinion – Why the Ataribox Doesn’t Deserve Your Hype
A crude early article that was, at the time, at least reasonably accurate. Atari would later change course entirely, but when this article was published, they were rather reprehensible. Enclosed are some thoughts about the then-impending launch of the "Ataribox," which would later launch as the Atari VCS.
