This week, Nintendo presented a Super Mario Maker 2-focused direct that showed off tons of new changes and improvements coming to the game.
"Following a great event in November of last year, DevGAMM Lisbon is coming back to the beautiful and sunny Cascais region to catch up with old friends, connect with game developers from around the world, hear from seasoned professionals, and have a great time all around." - DevGAMM.
The move away from written coverage of games is a problem for journalists and for the games industry.
What we need is a more honest games media. I'm sorry but if you're an outlet in bed with a publisher or getting goodies to attend preview/ review events then you can't be trusted to be objective. Very similar to the need for getting money out of politics.
Most game journalists are pariahs and low level marketing drones. They got too greedy and cannibalized their respect and trust. Something they learned not to do in their journalism schools. This is why we might as well watch gameplay critics on You Tube. Don't get me wrong, I love reading, but for every genuine article there is a thousand game journalist trying to gloss over monetization schemes so they can sell the game to gamers in order to get free games to do their jobs. It gets old. Even this piece doesn't address the problem.
We need better media in all aspects of society, period. Everything from the gaming press, to MSM is all fueled by clickbait headlines, half truths and buzzword topics that don't give much meat or meaning for the reader to benefit from.
"Nordic Game has revealed the winners of this year’s Nordic Game Awards, which took place on Thursday, May 23, during NG24 Spring and streamed live from Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden." - Nordic Game.
We haven’t had a competitive mode in a 2D Mario game since 2006’s NSMB
Nintendo is going all out with this one like they did with Smash Ultimate.
This gonna keep me playing for a long long time.
There's enough new content in this one that someone can make the closest thing to an official Super Mario Bros. 4 that we'll ever get.
I'm just hoping we get even a little more space to work with. Vertically at the very least. I'm a bit worried based off the clips from the Direct that we won't see any changes to the actual canvas size when creating levels. Everything else looks amazing, and I'll definitely be picking it up day one.
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