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Gaming as a Parent - Introduction

Rodolfo from Consolebits.com writes:
I am a lifelong gamer - with 2 toddlers and a wife that absolutely hates gaming. It's tough to find time to game, but somehow manageable to write about the experience. Are there any other gaming parents out there?

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Axonometri4250d ago (Edited 4250d ago )

I'm in the boat sinking next to you! Three boys sitting in the life boat over there, yea those are mine. Yes they are laughing at me.

Axonometri: Salutes you with a firm Naval hand to the forehead as he and his wreck of a ship gurgles it's last breath of air, slowly submerging beneath the sea of backlog.

rnmartinez4250d ago

Ahahaha thank you! You honestly just made my day! It's good to know that I am not alone and won't be the only one drowning in the backlog. I can't tell you how many of my friends have laughed at me that I have yet to play FF12 or never made it past the first hour or so of Metal gear Solid 3!

Axonometri4250d ago

Laugh away! (4 yr old playing Rayman Jungle Run next to me) "Can I play Son?... Son?... Where you going with that? HEY!"

rnmartinez4250d ago

Hahaha kids are the best.

mrbojingles4250d ago

The first game my niece fully beat was a Phineas and Ferb game for the Wii, but she is very close to beating Mario Galaxy. I'm going to be so proud of her when she does.

rnmartinez4250d ago

I'm waiting for the day. Right now my kids can't even clear a basic Mario level without help :-)

MultiConsoleGamer4250d ago

I would like to see more articles like this one. Great work!

rnmartinez4250d ago

Thanks - I hope this will become an entire (and long-running) series!

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos1d 6h ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H923h ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX17h ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

H915h ago

I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that

ZeekQuattro12h ago

Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣

banger8823h ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk7720h ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos18h ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

SonOfOsiris15h ago

Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day

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Game Developers Have Begun Confirming Nintendo Switch 2 Support

Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.

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How Many More Victims, Like Garry's Mod, Will Nintendo's Hurtful Crusade Create?

Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."

RiseNShine17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.

gold_drake17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.

nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.

people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly

mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.

zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.

nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.

its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.

but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.

Inverno17d ago

Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.