Date Nite – Gran Turismo September 5, 2023
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Sony has released a film which shows everyone that the people who told you that you’ll never accomplish anything playing video games are liars. That film is called Gran Turismo, and it is based on the true story of a race car driver who took his in-game high score and got the opportunity to challenge the best real-life racers in the world.
Here are his initial thoughts on the film after catching one of the last showings of it in his local theater. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, do not worry, this is a spoiler-free video.
Pokemon Go Update Causing Phantom Vibrations on iPhones September 4, 2023
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Since Friday, iPhone owners of many different device models have noticed that their devices were spontaneously vibrating or double vibrating at random instances. It would not matter what program would be running, the device would just vibrate without reason or notification. This can be concerning to users, who could misinterpret random vibrations as device failure. Thankfully, for those of you experiencing this issue, I may have discovered a likely cause, Pokémon Go.
The issues began being reported on Friday. On that same day, Apple released an incremental update for Pokémon Go through the App Store. This update seems to have brought a lot of issues with it. After a lot of troubleshooting, I discovered that the phantom vibrations coincided with respawn notifications. The problem was vibrations were still going off when the program was supposed to be minimized and completely closed out.
The purpose of this article is to notify the masses of this discovery. At this time the only fix I’ve been able to confirm is to completely delete Pokémon Go until the issue is resolved. Game progress is cloud synced with your account, so as long as you remember your account information, you should be able to resume your in-game progress at a later time. Niantic is aware of the issue and is investigating potential causes.
Pokémon Go is out now for Android and iOS devices.
Gaming History You Should Know – NEO-GEO Land September 4, 2023
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Okay, I know its not a Sunday, but the US is currently celebrating a three-day holiday weekend, so for a lot of people in my home country it might as well be a Sunday. Here at GameXcess.net, we miss the classic arcade. The lights, the sounds, and the cyberpunk aesthetic was a great way to kill time on a boring day. Arcades featured games that either could not be played at home or feature the best looking versions of the games that COULD be played at home. Today, we’re going to be talking about a chain of arcades you may not be familiar with.
Did you know that SEGA was not the only company to open a chain of successful arcades in their home nation of Japan? Many of you fans of the King of Fighters franchise will remember an in-game location called NEO-GEO Land. It was a sprawling arcade, the perfect background for a one-on-one street match. You may have played the original assumed it was just a cool-looking callback to the game’s developers, SNK, and their arcade machine the NEO-GEO. Today, I’m here to tell you that it wasn’t just a callback, it was real.
Welcome back to Gaming History You Should Know, where we highlight some of the best independently produced content on the history of gaming. Today, we’ll be talking about NEO-GEO Land, an arcade franchise most gamers may have assumed only existed in a video game, but was indeed very very real.
We’re going to take a look at the YouTube Channel NeoGeoNow, which has made INCREDIBLE videos about the history of SNK. In this video, he takes a LITERAL trip down memory lane where he highlights the past locations of SNK’s headquarters, and the special businesses that opened across the street. King of Fighters fans will be VERY familiar with this area. Let’s take a look!
Over the years there have been many attempts to resurrect NEO-GEO Land in Japan. Some of it may have been due to Japan’s nostalgia for SNK, or it may have just been an attempt for the current owners of SNK to meet the country’s heavy demand for SNK merchandise. Let’s take a look at a video done by Mad Panic Gaming, where he visits one of these pop up shops.
Seriously, can one of these open up in the US? Please? Heck, you don’t even have to open up a physical shop, just open a website with shipping to the US, it’ll make a killing among the SNK fans here.
Nintendo Treehouse Live – Super Mario Bros Wonder September 3, 2023
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Nintendo Live is taking place this weekend, and Nintendo has celebrated the event by offering previews for upcoming Nintendo Switch games alongside tournaments for existing Switch titles.
Super Mario Bros Wonder, the next title in the Super Mario Bros series, is the most anticipated upcoming Switch exclusive game and the guys over at Nintendo Treehouse offered a NEW preview of the game during Nintendo Live. Check it out!
Super Mario Bros Wonder is coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch.
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 Re-Announced September 3, 2023
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I was an enormous fan of the original PC title Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines. It was the final game developed by Troika Games, and despite the fact it suffered from poor polish and lots of glitches/bugs, the game’s story was incredible and the gameplay was pretty fun. It eventually became a cult classic for PC gaming enthusiasts.
After years of personally never expecting to hear of a follow-up to the original game, Paradox Interactive announced a sequel was in development a few years ago. No words could express my shock and disbelief at that announcement, one of my favorite games of all time was getting a follow-up. Previews of the game were released and to an outsider, it appeared that things were coming along fine with the new game. Alas, it was not to be. The game’s publisher decided to restart the game with another developer and preorders were cancelled.
Who could predict when we would see the game again, or if it would ever re-emerge? Well, this weekend, during PAX, Paradox has re-launched the hype train for Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2. A new developer has taken over and it looks like the game is being redeveloped with the recent generation of game consoles. Take a look at the new trailer!
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 is coming Fall 2024 to PC, Xbox Series and PS5.
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