John Friscia, Author at Nintendo Enthusiast - Page 3 of 138

Head Copy Editor for Enthusiast Gaming, Managing Editor at The Escapist. I'm a writer who loves Super Nintendo and Japanese role-playing games to an impractical degree. I really miss living in South Korea. And I'm developing the game Boss Saga!

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Monster Hunter Rise preview: The demo teases beautiful, skill-based play

Capcom’s Monster Hunter Rise demo should have nearly arrived on the Nintendo Switch eShop by the time you’re reading this, and we were ...

By John FrisciaJanuary 7, 20210

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Monster Hunter Rise trailer shows off Wyvern Riding, demo launches today

The Monster Hunter Rise Digital Event occurred this morning, and Capcom provided a new trailer and plenty of new details for new monsters, ...

By John FrisciaJanuary 7, 20210

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Microsoft was laughed out of the room when it tried to buy Nintendo

Bloomberg has published a sweeping oral history of how Microsoft created the original Xbox, including interviews with heavyweights like Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates ...

By John FrisciaJanuary 6, 20210

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Minecraft Earth, a game you forgot existed, will be shutting down

Niantic’s augmented reality (AR) mobile experience Pokémon GO continues to be a revenue juggernaut, even thriving amid the pandemic. Unfortunately, not every mobile ...

By John FrisciaJanuary 5, 20210

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Sonic the Hedgehog prototype unearthed with lots of differences

The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has some of the most obsessive, hardcore fans of anything on the planet, so duck and take cover ...

By John FrisciaJanuary 5, 20210

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The Persona soundtracks are coming to Spotify

When I think of “masterpiece video game soundtrack,” I think of… well, okay, I think of Chrono Trigger of course. I also think ...

By John FrisciaJanuary 4, 20210

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Breath of the Wild NPCs are apparently generated via using special Miis

With a game as widely played and revered as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you wouldn’t think there would be ...

By John FrisciaJanuary 4, 20210

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Ray tracing on SNES is possible, as this wild video proves

It might have been when Control released on PC in 2019 that “ray tracing” really started to see a lot of use in ...

By John FrisciaJanuary 3, 20210

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Katsuhiro Harada is making the priciest Bandai Namco game ever

Katsuhiro Harada is a general manager at Bandai Namco with a finger in many pies, but he’s most commonly known as the producer ...

By John FrisciaJanuary 2, 20210

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Yoshi’s Adventure ride at Super Nintendo World leaks with full video

Although the rest of the world will have to keep waiting a while, Super Nintendo World will finally open at Universal Studios Japan ...

By John FrisciaJanuary 2, 20210

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Resident Evil origin story movie has finished filming

A Resident Evil origin story movie set in 1998 that faithfully adapts events from the original Capcom video games was only announced back ...

By John FrisciaDecember 29, 20200

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Super Mario Bros. 35th anniversary T-shirts come with replica game boxes

The Super Mario Bros. 35th anniversary celebrations at Nintendo continue, and if compilations, a battle royale, a Game & Watch, and an augmented ...

By John FrisciaDecember 28, 20200

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