‘Super Mario 64’ breaks video game auction record

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Fringe alum Anna Torv has joined the cast of HBO’s The Last of Us in a recurring role opposite Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. The series, based on the widely popular 2014 PlayStation game of the same name, hails from Chernobyl’s Craig Mazin and The Last Of Us creator Neil Druckmann.

Spelunky, recently compared difficulty in games to tolerance for spicy food in his most recent Game Developers Conference (GDC) talk.During a tangent on the talk about Spelunky 2 (thanks, PC Gamer), Yu said that “It can be hard for people who don’t like spicy food to understand why spicy food fans love it so much. If you’re just starting out on your spicy food journey, you can’t taste the flavor, just the heat.

Zoom Video Communications is the latest tech firm adding video games to its offerings, part of a broader push into apps and events.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNetflix, coming off a pandemic-fueled bumper crop of subscribers in 2020, added just 1.5 million customers worldwide for the second quarter of 2021 — a significant slowdown from its previous torrid growth. The company also sketched out its plans to enter the video game market, eyeing it as a new way to attract and retain customers.Netflix lost subscribers in its key U.S./Canada region, posting a net loss of 430,000 paid streaming customers in the region.

Super Mario 64 sold for an impressive £1,124,000 ($1,560,000 USD), breaking the video game auction record.Two days earlier, The Legend of Zelda had broken the previous record when it sold at auction for £636,331 ($870,000 USD).

ITALY: Land Of Wonders “portrays the beauty and tradition of [Italy] through an interactive and fun experience” according to a press release. Available for free, the mobile game is on both iOS and Android, and supports 11 languages.The game tasks the player with assisting Elio, an old lighthouse keeper, by collecting 20 sparks to help ensure the sun shines over Italy once again.

With Cannes winding down tonight—just one last movie in the festival’s official selection, by Gaspar Noe, was left to play—Bill Murray took to the stage at the Debussy theater with cellist Jan Vogler, pianist Vanessa Perez and violinist Mira Wang for a 25-minute concert of music following the premiere of Andrew Muscato’s doc New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Pierce, the voice of Tommy in The Last of Us video game series, is set to recur as a different character opposite Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey and Gabriel Luna in HBO’s high-profile series adaptation of the Sony Playstation franchise. Murray Bartlett and Con O’Neil also have joined the cast of The Last of Us, from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann.

EXCLUSIVE: Nexon, an Asian video game developer specializing in immersive virtual worlds, is setting up an LA-based film and TV division to be run by Disney and Activision Blizzard veteran Nick van Dyk.

Nintendo has partnered with Tag Heuer to launch an official Super Mario watch that will cost $2,150. The digital watch will arrive with a host of features and animations – including Mario sliding down the flagpole, growing in size from a mushroom and becoming invincible from a star.

Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds has revealed that he has been developing a multiplayer PC game – and is hoping it will be completed this year.Speaking to gaming magazine Level One in a new interview, Reynolds discussed his lifetime love of video games, as well as the game he’s been working on for the past year with his brother and manager, Mac.“He’s also like my best friend and we’ve always talked about making a video game,” the singer explained.

PC gamers playing Resident Evil Village have long struggled with performance issues including major stuttering, which hackers allege are being caused by Capcom‘s own DRM software.After allegations from a notable member in the video game cracking community that Capcom’s DRM software was causing significant stuttering issues on PC versions, DSOG are reporting that they also believe this to be the case after testing.The site alleges that despite dealing with stuttering problems during their initial

The show is hosted by Outside Xbox’s Mike Channell and presenter Julia Hardy, and aims to celebrate “the glorious union between cars and games”.

Burn Gorman (The Expanse) has been tapped to play the series regular role of Charles Bluhdorn opposite Miles Teller and Matthew Goode in Paramount+’s upcoming limited series The Offer, about the making of The Godfather.