It has been coming for a long time, and yesterday it was finally confirmed: Hideo Kojima has officially left Konami. The creative mastermind behind the Metal Gear Solid series departed the game studio along with his assistant Ayako Terashima and Metal Gear producer Kenichiro Imaizumi. Kojima will now develop games for his own independent studio, Kojima Productions, the first of which will be made in collaboration with PlayStation. Continue Reading
id Software is best known for creating iconic first-person shooters like Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. But did you know that Nintendo’s smash-hit Super Mario Bros. 3 was instrumental in the company’s founding?
While working at Softdisk, now-legendary programmer John Carmack developed a technique called adaptive tile refresh that made sidescrolling games on the PC feasible. As a proof-of-concept, the future id Software crew recreated Super Mario Bros. 3 on the PC (which they completed on September 28, 1990) and sent it to Nintendo.
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Are you a huge Super Mario Bros. fan that just so happens to have nearly twenty grand burning a hole in your pocket? If so, you can pick up this limited edition Super Mario Bros. timepiece from luxury watch maker Romain Jerome for just $18,950.
Did I mention that all it does is tell time (meaning it’s not a smartwatch)?