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Nintendo Doubles Down On Mario Games After Super Mario Movie

14Sep

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Nintendo Doubles Down On Mario Games After Super Mario Movie

If it feels like Nintendo has put a ton of Mario on the menu lately, there’s a clear explanation for the boom of Italian-American fare—and it’s not that the Feast of San Gennaro is coming up. Not long after its April debut, The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the highest-grossing film of the year until Barbie came along, and it’s still sitting comfortably at the second spot with over $1.3 billion earned worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. It sure seems like Nintendo anticipated this success, and planned to leverage the financial confirmation of Mario’s popularity in the modern age to make even more money: by throwing a ton of Mario and Mario-related Switch games at us in the next year or so.What You Should Know About Mario Strikers' Big Free UpdatePlus, The Super Mario Bros. Movie intr...

27Apr

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Amazon scraps its fitness tracker brand Halo

Amazon is scrapping its Halo fitness tracker device, a setback for a company long known for having its finger on the pulse of what consumers desire.The e-commerce company said on Wednesday it will stop supporting the devices effective July 31, a move that will also cost some employees their jobs. Amazon in January announced that it would lay off 18,000 employees, and in March moved to shed an additional 9,000 workers.Customers who purchased Halo products in the preceding 12 months are entitled to full refunds for their purchases, including subscription fees, Amazon said in a statement on Wednesday. Amazon is winding down its fitness and health tracking brand just three years after launching it. At the time, the company billed the products and ser...

16Feb

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Twitch Star xQc Horrifies World With Messy, Smelly Room (Again)

There are only so many hours in the day and when you’re a capital-S streamer, most of them are dedicated to grinding battle pass levels in whatever new live-service game just dropped or reacting to all the latest internet drama to thousands of chatters. As such, there isn’t always time to clean up after yourself, and you’re left wading through the detritus of your own sloppiness like a pig in a pen. This is exactly the case for Twitch star Félix “xQc” Lengyel, who grossed viewers out in a recent livestream after showing how “disgusting” his messy, odd-smelling room has become.Félix “xQc” Lengyel is a household name on Amazon’s livestreaming platform. With over 11 million followers and more than 525 million total channel views, the former Overwatch League pro is often lauded as the King of ...

20Jan

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Gaming

Pro Gaming Champ Says He Peed In Bottle During $205K Tourney

Image: ValveWhen you gotta go, you really gotta go. I just wish that esports tournaments felt the same about letting their competitors use the toilet. Pro player Oliver “Skiter” Lepko peed in a bottle during an ongoing DOTA 2 tournament, citing the organizers’ rules against going to the toilet during a match. Here’s a photograph of the pee bottle for your…uhhh, enjoyment?DPC 2023 WEU Winter Tour Division 1 is a DOTA 2 tournament organized by the Romanian esports company PGL. Eight European teams compete against each other from January 9 to 29 for a prize pool of $200,000. But that’s not what you’re interested in. You want to know why a professional gamer was peeing in a bottle like he’s an Amazon delivery driver. Lepko told Jake Lucky that he would have incurred a level 2 draft penalty (wh...

2Jan

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10 Best Things From 2022 We Can’t Live Without

What do you mean you don’t know what this is? Isn’t it obvious?Image: Impact Acoustics / Kotaku / LUMIKK555 (Shutterstock)2022 was the year I decided to get serious about my retrogaming setup. I was tired of having a 104lb CRT dominating half my computer desk and a PlayStation 2, MiSTer, and whatever other consoles I was currently interested in always in peripheral vision. After a bit of thought I concluded that the TV and all the consoles would be better off on a wheeled cart. A retro cart, if you would. It could live in my closet, or be wheeled out to wherever seemed fun. So I started speccing that out.The best form factor ended up having two lower shelves—for the consoles, a smaller TATE-friendly/PAL-compatible PVM-1354Q CRT a friend had recently sold me, and bookshelf speakers—with the...

Amazon Women’s Puffer Jacket 50% Off On Amazon

5Dec

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Entertainment

Amazon Women’s Puffer Jacket 50% Off On Amazon

Everything model Emily Ratajkowski sports becomes an instant TikTok trend, and the ‘90s throwback puffy jackets she sports out-and-about have become a winter must-have. Here at Parade.com, we're all about sharing products we love with our audience. When you make a purchase on an item seen on this page, we may earn a commission, however, all picks are independently chosen unless otherwise mentioned.AmazonShe wore a rust-colored North Face jacket court side at the Knicks game with supposed new beau Pete Davidson. And she’s been snapped in cropped and long puffers strolling the streets of Manhattan, making her the queen of this style.(scroll to keep reading)We particularly love the cinched-waist version she wore walking her Husky-German Shepherd mix, Colombo, and it’s lookalike is on sale rig...

Peloton Bike Historic Low Price on Amazon Black Friday

25Nov

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Peloton Bike Historic Low Price on Amazon Black Friday

In the year 2022, it's more likely that you’ve heard of the infamous Peloton Bike than not. Though it debuted back in 2014 after a Kickstarter campaign, Peloton became familiar to the masses after a hotly-debated 2019 holiday campaign. Though the marketing department that year may have been in the hot seat, Peloton has continued to grow their fan base and fill their virtual classes ever since. If you count yourself among the Peloton curious crowd, consider this Black Friday deal the perfect opportunity to make it official. Here at Parade.com, we're all about sharing products we love with our audience. When you make a purchase on an item seen on this page, we may earn a commission, however, all picks are independently chosen unless otherwise mentioned.AmazonIf you’ve just heard the brand na...

1Sep

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Gaming

Twitch Isn’t ‘Fulfilling’ Anymore, Will Stream Less

Screenshot: Pokimane / YouTubeAfter a more than one-month-long (and seemingly healthy) break from social media and content creation, Twitch star Imane “Pokimane” Anys has returned to uploading content. But things will be different now. Pokimane dropped a new YouTube video today detailing her time away from the internet, talking about what she learned and what her viewers can expect from her going forward. Overall, it serves to illustrate how “creatively unfulfilling” Twitch’s second-biggest female broadcaster has found the business of livestreaming as of late.Pokimane has become a household name on Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform. With 9.2 million followers there, Pokimane is second only to Amouranth. However, she’s been broadcasting herself playing games for almost a decad...

16Aug

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Stadia Fans Still Clocking Thousands Of Hours On ‘Dead’ Service

Image: Google / Kotaku / Zoa.Arts (Shutterstock)Google Stadia hasn’t really been in the mainstream spotlight since its high-profile launch in 2019. And outside of bad news and poor reviews, it mainly disappeared from most gaming sites and YouTube channels. But the players who’ve invested hundreds or even thousands of hours into Google’s video game streaming service don’t seem to care what others think. To them, Google Stadia is the perfect solution to a hobby that they feel has become too expensive, complicated, and restrictive. For most of you reading this, Google Stadia is that cloud-based streaming video game service Google launched a few years ago which may or may not be around still. It’s likely not something you engage with beyond reading occasional stories on Kotaku and other sites ...

6Aug

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Crunchyroll Buys Popular Anime Video Store, Removes Its Hentai

Image: Crunchyroll / Fakku / BoBoBo / KotakuYesterday, Crunchyroll announced its acquisition of Right Stuf, a popular online video publisher and distributor of anime products. The anime streaming service touted its merger leading to an expanded eCommerce platform that would allow it to serve a wider array of customers with anime goodies. However, the CEO of FAKKU, the world’s largest distributor of adult manga, said Crunchyroll left out one important detail of its acquisition: the removal of hentai. Crunchyroll, the internet’s leading anime streaming service, includes explicit content—up to a point. Over the years, as anime has become more popular, the streamer has become more conservative in its offerings, specifically with its figurines and shows. The surge in anime popularity, however,...