Gene Park
@GenePark
@washingtonpost video games critic | co-host of Punching Up, a Nintendo podcast | Twitch affiliate | Pacific Roots | @csuf Titan
I interview Tony Hawk, Kareem Campbell and Bob Burnquist about how Tony Hawks Pro Skater changed the way we see the world, and the developers about how it was inspired by Diddy Kong Racing to become a revolutionary, once in a lifetime series. washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…
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-put on ice for over a decade -"people don't care about DK anymore" -casually releases the best nintendo platformer ever made -cooked so hard they built a theme park for him before the game was even finished DK really is the biggest gigachad in all of gaming
Can't really find a way to say this without sounding super jealous and bitter, but as a someone who's built an entire channel around superhero games/movies, it's a bummer that the guy who needed to use chatgpt for questions got to interview the cast.
Imaging getting to interview the Vanessa Kirby and the Pedro Pascal for F4 and using AI to make your questions instead of doing your own research
Donkey Kong Bananza is back to a 91 Metacritic with 90+ reviews. Open Critic Average is a 92. Director Kazuya Takahashi has been in the game industry 20+ years, but his first game with Nintendo is his best reviewed by far. Goes to show what the right team can do.
Maybe that’s the real punk rock. #Superman
The best Nintendo game ending BY FAR. Thank you all for watching thru all weekend playing Donkey Kong😭💙!!!! INCREDIBLE GAME. I’LL HAVE MORE THOUGHTS WHEN I CLEAR POST GAME & PROCESS IT😭 BUT NINTENDO JUST KEEPS COOKING MAN!!!! REACTION GOING UP ASAP
if u were the Bionis from the hit game Xenoblade Chronicles™ i would never fast-travel,, since i would rather explore every inch of your body
finally a Godhand-like!!!! leave it to an indie dev to grant one of my oldest ungranted wishes
I discovered this game today, the gameplay video was uploaded 3 days ago This 3D beat em up action game is made by ONE GAME DEVELOPER using Unity: FORASTERO I call it COWBOY GOD HAND I love that it isn't being subtle because we need more God Hand clones & finally we got one:
Hit the end of Donkey Kong Bananza. Immediately goes into the top tier of 3D Platformers for me. Mostly mainlined the game with some challenges mixed in here and there. Still a lot to do.
Rei Ayanami featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, September 2007
DK smoking a joint • Game: Donkey Kong Bananza • Clipped by: Dexlr48
been wanting to revisit kirby but waiting for that upgrade. but yeah mario team set the bar high to outdo themselves
Imma be real Mario You gotta prove you’re still the main man in your own house after these two
Monolith Soft releasing 4 massive scale RPGs plus two DLC campaigns and two remasters also including new story content in 15 years while also hard carrying Nintendo's most successful console era to date while every other AAA dev cycle is now in the double digits
i can’t believe game development cycles used to be so short you’d see a sequel to your favourite franchise in 3-4 years
If this is the case, the genre really is in trouble. Let’s say the film hits $500m, which is a very fair estimate, I’d suggest. Highest grossing comic book film of 2024: $1.3bn Highest grossing comic book film of 2023: $846m Highest grossing comic book film of 2022: $955m
‘SUPERMAN’ has crossed $200M domestic and $337.2M global. On track to soar past $400M and become highest grossing CBM of 2025! (Via @THR)