Author: Olivia Sinclair

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition recently launched, and right now you can grab it at a discounted price of $25 at Woot. It’s just one of numerous Switch exclusives on sale at the Amazon-owned retailer. One of the other standout deals is the recently released Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Get Nintendo World Championships Deal

A nostalgic look back at Nintendo’s 8-bit era and the real-world Nintendo World Championships in 1990, this compilation includes over 150 minigames spread across 13 NES titles and normally retails for $30. A lot of these games are focused on speedrunning, like seeing how quickly you can blast through the first level of Super Mario Bros. or how many Octoroks you can defeat within a set time limit in The Legend of Zelda.

It’s worth noting that this special is only for the game, not the $60 Deluxe Set. Something …

Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami founded Tango Gameworks in 2010 before leaving the company last year. Around the time of Mikami’s departure, Tango Gameworks’ Hi-Fi Rush became a critically acclaimed hit. Now, Mikami has revealed that he thought Hi-Fi Rush had secured Tango Gameworks’ future before Microsoft shut down the studio earlier this year.”I had thought the studio would be safe as long as they continued to make Hi-Fi Rush games,” explained Mikami during an interview with IGN. “That’s one of the reasons I left Tango Gameworks. So I was surprised when the studio was closed down.”The good news is that Tango Gameworks’ demise was short-lived. A few months after Microsoft made its decision, Tango Gameworks was purchased by Krafton, which retained the rights for Hi-Fi Rush and any future games in the franchise. Krafton also retained at least half of Tango Gameworks’ employees who hadn’t already secured other jobs. That gave Mikami a greater sense of hope for his former company.”Now Krafton has taken over the business, so I feel like it worked out well in the end,” said Mikami. “I was reminded that if you make a good game, someone will pick it up. The hard work of the Hi-Fi Ru…