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Company: Nintendo
subdirectory_arrow_right Activision Blizzard (Company)
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According to Activision Blizzard's former CEO Bobby Kotick in an interview on the podcast "Grit", the American conglomerate holdings company Berkshire Hathaway was at one point interested in buying Nintendo, or at least exploring the idea of it. Former vice chairman Charlie Munger had mentioned this to him during a period in the early 2010's when French investment company Vivendi was forced to sell its stake in Activision Blizzard, as Berkshire Hathaway was one of the potential buyers (in the end, they would buy themselves back from Vivendi and go independent). Kotick claimed that Munger didn't like the business of video games, feeling that they were "a step removed from gambling" and that Kotick was "preying off people's addictions", but he saw financial value in Activision Blizzard and Nintendo as companies:

"He goes, 'You know, I was looking at a couple other companies in your sector. I think if we bought [Activision Blizzard], we should buy that company Nintendo, too.' He said, 'Have you guys looked at it?' I was like, 'Yeah.' It was trading [at the time] at like 13 billion, with 7 billion in cash. He goes, 'You know, I don't think anything is gonna go really bad before I'm dead, and then if it goes bad after I'm dead, they'll just chalk it up to the folly of an 82-year-old, so you don't have to be so concerned about disappointing me.'"

In the end, Munger never went through with the idea, and Berkshire Hathaway has not shown any interest or intent to buy a video game company since.
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month February 11, 2025
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
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Attachment The idea of the Sparks came about as a way to evolve the combat system from Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle by stepping away from its focus on traditional weapons and the option to discard weaker weapons for better ones. However, the developers felt that the Sparks needed to visually fit into the game's world and not just function as "skills", resulting in a lengthy design process. According to lead producer Xavier Manzanares, the design of the Sparks as seen in the game's promotional art was the 25th attempt at designing them.
Disney's Toy Story
subdirectory_arrow_right Disney's Toy Story (Game)
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Attachment On the back of the SNES and Genesis versions of the game are two small screenshots from what appears to be an early build of the game. Both boxes feature screenshots of the level "Run Rex, Run!" with different sprites for Woody and Rex, while each box has one unique screenshot of their own from different levels. The differing sprites indicate that these screenshots are not from the build used for in-store demos of the game around its release, and nothing else seems to be known about this earlier build.
person Chipper_52 calendar_month February 11, 2025
Marvel Contest of Champions
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According to creative and art director Gabriel Frizzera, a 3D animated series based on the game was pitched at one point, but was never picked up. While he could not remember what the pitch was about, he said that it "probably [followed] a bunch of Summoners, but [touched] on important moments of the game story."
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month February 11, 2025
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
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Attachment Towards the end of World 3-8: Moonlight Sonata, you can find a Rabbid sleeping on the roof of a doghouse-like mausoleum. Once observed, Beep-0 will say "He'll catch the Red Baron one of these days." This is a reference to Snoopy and his World War I Flying Ace alias from the Peanuts series.
person CuriousUserX90 calendar_month February 10, 2025
Trex Warrior: 22nd Century Gladiator
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The 1991 game Trex Warrior: 22nd Century Gladiator originally went unreleased in the United Kingdom until August 1993, when it finally saw a release in the region via one of two cover disks bundled with an issue of the magazine "The One for Amiga Games". The other cover disk contained demos for Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom and Snakes, as well as another full game, Wibble World Giddy. Notably, the issue declared that both Trex Warrior and Wibble World Giddy were in the public domain, meaning that anyone could copy them as they wished.
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month February 9, 2025
"The One for Amiga Games" issue #59 (August 1993) (pages 8-10 in the magazine):
https://archive.org/details/the-one-for-amiga-games-59-1993-08/page/n7/mode/2up
Marvel Rivals
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When Marvel Rivals released, it was discovered that several terms that were considered controversial in China (the home country of developer NetEase) had been banned from the game. The terms in question include "free Taiwan", "free Hong Kong", "free Tibet", "Taiwan is a country", "Taiwan No 1", "1989" (the year the Tiananmen Square massacre occurred), and "Winnie-the-Pooh" (who many have compared to Chinese president Xi Jinping via internet memes, resulting in the character being censored in China as a whole). Additionally, in a clip from a livestream by YouTuber Asmongold, it was discovered that while "free Taiwan" was banned, the terms "Taiwan sucks" and "Taiwan is bad" were not, furthering the censorship accusations. It's worth noting however that the censorship did not exclusively apply to terms related to China, as terms such as "ISIS" and "Hitler" were also discovered to be banned in the game, likely due to them both being more universally controversial.
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month February 7, 2025
MultiVersus
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Attachment The ACME Corporation logo featured on Gem crates in MultiVersus is not lifted from any pre-existing Looney Tunes project, but rather is an edit of an original graphic uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2016 by user Rarjayru. The original image was licensed under a Creative Commons license with required attribution, but Rarjayru is not listed in the open source attributions in the game's credits.
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month February 8, 2025
MultiVersus credits (open-source attributions at 2:43):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k01YO8idVu8#t=163s

ACME logo on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acme-corp.png

ACME box in MultiVersus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtiUBW0UtiQ#t=101s
Cave Story
subdirectory_arrow_right Kero Blaster (Game), Nicalis, Inc. (Company), Cave Story (Collection)
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Since 2009, all re-releases of Cave Story were developed and published by Nicalis as part of a deal with its creator Pixel to help distribute it to a wider audience. In 2019, Nicalis founder Tyrone Rodriguez came under fire after the outlet Kotaku published an exposé detailing exploitative and offensive behavior towards other game developers, which he since apologized for. While not mentioned in the article, this controversy reignited rumors about Rodriguez' relationship with Pixel and the extent of Nicalis handling his game.

The most widespread and inconclusive rumor alleges that Rodriguez tricked Pixel into signing away his ownership of the rights to Cave Story. The evidence for this is inconsistent copyright credits between different versions of the game, as well as a controversy in 2020 when Nicalis issued copyright takedowns to a decompiled fan project based on the source code of the original freeware version, claiming it was never made open source. Fans pointed out the freeware version is still available for free on Pixel's website, putting Nicalis' ownership into question. However, the exposé's author Jason Schreier stated that he could not corroborate this rumor because he received no comment about it from Pixel or Nicalis when emailed. Nicalis were originally planning to publish another game by Pixel, Kero Blaster, but it was instead published by PLAYISM for unknown reasons. Some theorized that the game's plot was a negative commentary about working with Nicalis, but when asked, Pixel declined to elaborate and left it open to interpretation. Pixel also included Rodriguez as a Special Thanks credit in the game, and activity on both of their social media accounts indicate they are still friends in real-life. Despite expressing on multiple occasions that he does not want to make a sequel to Cave Story, a prequel spin-off game was released in 2021, Cave Story's Secret Santa. While primarily developed by Nicalis, Pixel was said to have put "cute little touches" on the game during development and helped promote it through interviews. Pixel had continued involvement with Nicalis as recently as the game's 20th anniversary, and both he and Rodriguez confirmed that Pixel still receives royalties from their ports.

Of the other rumors that spawned from this controversy, the only one that remains true is Nicalis' continued lack of support for the Steam version of Cave Story, which has only received two known bug fixes since its release in 2011, while future ports came with more bug fixes, bonus content, and quality-of-life features. Another rumor that Nicalis stole fan-made mods and used them as bonus content in their ports was shown to be false. The creator of the Nemesis Challenge and Sanctuary Time Attack modes, as well as the creator of the Boss Rush mode according to a forum moderator who would later go on to work for Nicalis, confirmed that they had willingly submitted this content and gave permission to use them in official releases.
person MehDeletingLater calendar_month February 6, 2025
PC freeware title screen and Studio Pixel download link:
https://studiopixel.jp/archives/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHx0I_vWIic

WiiWare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTWnOE9SyBc

DSiWare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE0qIvnzBF0

Steam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0cnMKEsm-I

Nintendo 3DS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVZjy1Nh0Ys

Cave Story 3D:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJY6F2yNtE

Nintendo Switch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWWTlsYdu64

Epic Games Store:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zziogu0iH0E

Cave Story Engine 2 takedown articles and original request:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nicalis-issues-dmca-against-free-cave-story-games
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/nicalis-issue-dmca-takedowns-against-cave-story-fangame
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-19-nicalis.md

Cave Story Tribute Site blurb about Cave Story's Secret Santa:
https://www.cavestory.org/pixels-works/cave-storys-secret-santa.php

Pixel video promoting Cave Story's Secret Santa:
https://x.com/PikiiGK/status/1471451680785203200/

20th anniversary message:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aQEGFrOkJ8

Cave Story Steam version update history:
https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/22447/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/200900/discussions/0/1639792569842976767/

Research video about the controversy [All sources listed below this are also in the video's description, including more not listed here. There is also a pinned comment clarifying a forum moderator's post.]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccwVdj8dYQQ

Kotaku article:
https://kotaku.com/inside-the-ghosting-racism-and-exploitation-at-game-p-1838068522

Jason Schreier tweet:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200416173710/https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1172182229755355136

Pixel and Tyrone Rodriguez royalties tweets:
https://x.com/oxizn/status/394822911824896000
https://x.com/tyronerodriguez/status/1168566899694653442

Forum posts about fan mods:
https://forum.cavestory.org/threads/cave-story-humble-indie-bundle.3769/page-3#post-144052
https://forum.cavestory.org/threads/cave-story.3505/page-13#post-137168

Kero Blaster plot theory:
https://lukaetoile.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/theory-the-great-cave-story-conspiracy/

Siliconera article:
https://www.siliconera.com/gero-blaster-cave-story-creators-next-game-teased-for-3ds/

1PrintGames interview with Pixel:
https://1printgames.com/kero-blaster-interview-with-daisuke-pixel-amaya/

Interviews where Pixel expressed he does not want to make a sequel to Cave Story:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070312051337/http://www.tigsource.com/features/interview_pixel.html
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2010/03/interviews_pixel_talks_cave_story
https://www.destructoid.com/cave-story-creator-talks-inspirations-sequel-and-more/
https://www.destructoid.com/cave-story-creator-on-wanting-to-quit-working-with-publishers/
Franchise: Marvel
subdirectory_arrow_right Virgin Games (Company)
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A video game based on Ectokid (one of the four titles released under Marvel's short-lived "Razorline" imprint launched in collaboration with filmmaker Clive Barker) titled "Ectosphere" was planned to be released during the comic's run. Not much is known about the game, other than the fact that it was being made by Virgin Games with Clive Barker as the designer, and would have taken advantage of protagonist Dexter Mungo's unique ability to switch between seeing the real world with his left eye and the spirit world with his right eye. The game was never made however, likely due in part to the comic's cancellation and the overall failure of the Razorline imprint.
Destiny 2
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Due to the 2024-2025 SAG-AFTRA video game strike, some of the voiceover content from Destiny 2's "Episode: Heresy" expansion was stated by Bungie to be missing at its initial release. To compensate for this, subtitles were enabled by default for the expansion's release, and activities that had missing voice acting provided a warning before being launched.
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
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The NES version of the game contains an Easter egg by entering the "CREDITS" door after starting the game. If the player holds right and presses A, A, A, B, A, Start, A, Select, A, Select, A, Start, A, B, A, and A, the name of programmer Erik T. Kiss will flash on-screen for two seconds. Afterwards, if the player heads to the Personnel floor and enters the apartment, they will start the game in Vancouver instead of San Francisco. This is a reference to the game's developers Distinctive Software, whose headquarters were located in Vancouver.
Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures
subdirectory_arrow_right Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up (Game)
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In Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Wallace is portrayed by Ben Whitehead for the first time as a substitute for his original voice actor Peter Sallis. After Sallis' death in 2017, Whitehead would become his permanent successor as the voice of Wallace starting with the 2021 mobile game Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up.
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month February 3, 2025
Era's Adventures
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Attachment Era's Adventures drew attention at its release for the unauthorized use of Yoshi from the Mario series as its main character, Era. The game's creator Botond Kopacz claimed to not be familiar with Yoshi, and simply purchased a model off of the 3D model licensing website TurboSquid assuming it to be a generic lizard. The model itself is not actually derived from a Nintendo game and appears to be original. Following legal threats from Nintendo, Era would be reworked into a blue dinosaur loosely inspired by Yoshi, and after that version was also taken down, he was redesigned again to be a 4-legged dog named Jack with no resemblance to Yoshi.
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month February 3, 2025
Zenless Zone Zero
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According to producer Zhenyu Li, there was much discussion among the team when creating the game's characters, often starting with the question, "What have players not seen before?" For example, maid characters had been done several times by that point, prompting the devs to try to brainstorm more elements that could keep them interesting. Their solution for the maid designs was to add tropes commonly seen in horror movies to create a new aesthetic, thus resulting in the designs for the Victoria Housekeeping Co. faction.
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month February 2, 2025
River City Girls 2
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Attachment When YouTuber Jacob Rabon IV ("Alpharad") provided the voice of the Ferryman, the game's voice director Cristina Vee did not have a picture of the character on hand, simply describing him as "a man on a ferry that gives boat rides." According to Rabon, he imagined him dressed as a "carnie", and thus provided his lines with an upbeat "YouTuber voice". He only learned that the character actually resembled a skeletal monster upon the game's release, and jokingly felt that this ruined his chances at a career in voice acting. Rabon also provided the voice of the dog Shou-kun, opting to verbally say "woof" instead of recording soundbites of him barking as he did not feel comfortable doing that.
person Salnax calendar_month February 2, 2025
Antonblast
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Attachment The "A9@:$))2;$,!,7nJjjj171;" skin parodies various clichés in the "cursed video game" subgenre of creepypastas, online ghost stories shared around online forums and imageboards. In addition to its garbled name, which mimics the appearance of corrupted text, the color palette features garishly bright and mismatched colors as if it is glitched, while the skin's description is a lengthy, all-caps warning claiming that the player has invoked a curse against themself. Notably, the warning goes on for so long that it is cut off by Annie's sprite, and the full text can only be read by hacking the game.
person VinchVolt calendar_month February 1, 2025
YouTube video showcasing every unlockable skin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOcd2XQW378#t=1215s

The Cutting Room Floor article:
https://tcrf.net/Antonblast#Unused_or_Obscured_Text
Franchise: Pikmin
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Attachment According to the instruction manual for the first Pikmin game, Olimar and the average Pikmin are under one inch tall, roughly half the size of a GameCube memory card.
person freakyfriday calendar_month February 1, 2025
Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time
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While the Roman Empire is the location of the second case of the game, the internal data lists it as the third case, with the second case being skipped over in the case file names. There are virtually no traces of the unused case in the game aside from a placeholder Chronopedia entry. Since the demo version of the game lacks a case between Egypt and Rome on the case timeline, it was likely scrapped early on before it could ever be written. While no details about the case are known, certain details can be inferred based on the other cases in the game:

• The second case would likely take place sometime between 1490 BCE (Ancient Egypt) and 50 BCE (Roman Empire) since the game follows a chronological, real-life timeline.
• Despite appearing in both the game's intro and the jailbreak scene at the start of Disc 2, Dee Cryption does not appear in any of the Disc 1 cases. As such, it can be assumed that she would have been the antagonist of the case had it been added.
• Similar to the above, Polly Tix only appears as the Good Guide for two of the game's cases, compared to every other Good Guide appearing in four. As such, it can be assumed she would have been the Good Guide for this case in order to even it out.
Genshin Impact
subdirectory_arrow_right HoYoverse (Company)
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On January 17, 2025, it was announced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that Cognosphere (who does business in the US as HoYoverse) had agreed to a $20 million settlement for selling loot boxes to children and collecting their personal data without parental consent in Genshin Impact. According to the FTC, Cognosphere had "deceived children and other users about the real costs of in-game transactions" by requiring them to buy virtual money in the game and subsequently collected their personal information in direct violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Terms of the settlement include the company not being allowed to sell loot boxes to children, requirements to disclose the loot box odds, and deleting all the personal information of users under the age of 13.
person chocolatejr9 calendar_month February 1, 2025
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