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Something the company is thinking about moving forward Nintendo remains the only platform holder still region locking its consoles, but there’s a glimmer of hope on the horizon for would-be importers. Speaking during a Q&A session (translation viaNeoGAF)following Nintendo’s semiannual investor meeting, company president Satoru Iwata responded to inquiry as to whether there were any plans to move away from region locking. “The game business has a history of taking a very long time with localization among other things, such as having to deal with various issues of marketing in each particular country, or games that have made use of licensed content that did not apply globally, and had all kinds of circumstances, so to say, that region-locking has existed due to circumstances on the sellers’ side rather than for the sake of the customers....

Piracy isn’t theft, right? It’s copyright infringement, yes? These statements aren’t wrong, but they’re not always correct. Not when we talk about a certain type of piracy that is most certainly theft, and deserves all the indignity that such a term implies. The just and fair Jim Sterling shall share the wisdom of his judgement.

While most of the musical tracks for id Software’sDoomwereblatant rip-offsof late-80s and early 90s metal, it’s hard to argue that (at least at the time) it didn’t kick a whole bunch of ass. There’s really nothing like ripping apart a cacodemon with a chainsaw to the soothing sounds of a MIDI knock-off of Slayer’s “South of Heaven,” brought to life by an ever capable Sound Blaster 16. Fortunately for us, videogame music has matured dramtically in the 14 years sinceDoom‘s original release....

Twice fans felt special, but gamers said “cry for me.” It will come as a surprise to no one that trouble is brewing on Twitter again, and two of its most easily riled-up groups of users, gamers and K-pop stans, found themselves at odds over an ambiguously worded trending topic. If you were scratching your head at the “TWICE FOR NINTENDO SWITCH” hashtag yesterday, you certainly weren’t alone, but don’t worry, I’m here to walk you through it....

The Xbox One switched wallets As most of you are aware of by now,Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painhas some online features in the form of PVP invasion and Mother Base FOB construction. These require you to be online, and require that the servers are up on Konami’s side. After an initial downtime on PS4, the servers have been mostly stable — but not on Xbox platforms. Game Informer was able to verify(as was I, through a trusted translation source), that the on the official server status site, the red text (only on the Japanese side) notes that Konami is having issues on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One platforms specifically....

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this video This has been one weird day for me. So, I found out there was an 80s cartoon based onQ*BertfromThe Retroist. Seriously. Taking this situation one step further, my introduction to the animated shenanigans of the foul-mouthed fuzzball was through a segment based on Thanksgiving. Since this post isn’t timely, you get to join in the fun ofQ*Bert‘s horrifically aged adventures early in the morning....

Sorry to be Buzz Killington A flurry of rumours were doing the rounds on Reddit and various news sites yesterday that Nintendo had accidentallyleaked a list of manualsfor some classic N64 titles, leading folk to believe that the company had jumped the gun on revealing an “N64 Classic” in alignment with the NES and SNES million-sellers. The list contained a ton of fan-favourite titles such asSuper Mario 64, Mario Golf, andZeldas Majora&Ocarina, which got some fans in a bit of a tizzy....

M.I.A. platformer headed to PS4 and Switch Last summer, we reported on the strange-but-true news thatClockwork Aquario, an unreleased arcade platformer from the 1990s,would finally see release, some 30 years after the title’s cancellation. And it seems that the party’s about to start, as ININ Games has announced a launch window of Q2 2021 on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Clockwork Aquariowas initially designed by Wonder Boy developer Westone Bit Entertainment,with the very ambitious platforming project scheduled to launch in 1992....

Ultron is here inMarvel Rivals’season 2.5 update, but the new healer is just the beginning when it comes to some big changes arriving in the patch. NetEase Games is aiming to make good on its promise to keepMarvel Rivalsever-evolving, changing up the formula with hero nerfs and buffs, new and removed team-up abilities, and a new map to play on when the midseason update drops. Take a look below to see what’s new and different inMarvel Rivalsin season 2....

Destruction-centric multiplayer Microsoft gave us a bit of info onCrackdown 3, which is starting to take shape. It takes place in a new city which was once a “glistening metropolis now filled with crime.” It’s described as an ecosystem where you have more freedom to do what you want, and multiplayer is also confirmed. The multiplayer beta will be available in summer 2016. Microsoft also pushed the cloud computing aspect, noting that it will allow 20 times the processing power of what the Xbox One is capable of....

Infinity Ward won itself some kudos after revealing that dedicated servers would be returning forCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3but it seems that the praise may have been pre-emptive. In the name of “control,” Infinity Ward is restricting dedicated server support to unranked matches only. “It’s the same on consoles,”said Robert Bowling, as if that would make PC fans happy. “They can’t rank up in private or custom games. Public is about progression, private is about control....

Mortal Kombat: Legacywas the fairly popular live-action series that ran on Machinima last year. I personally enjoyed it immensely, even though some folks were a bit lukewarm on the project. But, I mean, c’mon! Michael Jai White as Jax! C’mon! Legacywas spun off a short film calledMortal Kombat: Rebirth, which got more than a few heads turning. Director Kevin Tancharoen made the film in order to seek permission from Warner Bros....

Promoted from our Community Blogs! [Dtoid community blogger DoctorHair shared this… uh… well, he… yeah… just read it. It’s goddamn hilarious. –Mr Andy Dixon] Welcome to Fantasy Blunt Scenarios: A new, ongoing original series concerning groups of people I’d like to smoke a blunt with, and what we’d do while chilling. Any resemblance to real life situations is unintentional, but still really cool. For my first fantasy, I will be toking with a group of Nintendo legends:...