☕ Sunday Supplement

Nintendo's empire, making Lemmings, and Unreal faces

March 26, 2023

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Happy Sunday everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Sunday Supplement.

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Jeff

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Lemmings is a stone-cold video game masterpiece. This brilliant feature from Read-Only Memory discusses how DMA Design created a classic, and what happened next.

The Making of Lemmings – Read-Only Memory

The beginnings of DMA Design's classic puzzle platformer Lemmings. Rich Stanton interviews the game's creator Mike Dailly.

https://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-lemmings/

Nintendo's empire is growing. With theme parks and a movie, the company is pushing outside of its traditional console gaming comfort zone.

Nintendo is creating an entertainment empire, and it all starts with Mario

“We have always thought of ourselves as an entertainment company.”

https://www.theverge.com/23608700/super-nintendo-world-entertainment-miyamoto-takahashi-interview?ref=refind

The continued march of technology means we're constantly treated to spectacular sights in our video games. At the moment a lot of those sights are coming courtesy of Unreal Engine 5.

If you'd like to see the current state of the art when it comes to facial animation, be sure to check out this short-but-borderline-terrifying real-time tech demo for the upcoming Hellblade II.

If you're into this kind of stuff and want to see something a little longer and more in-depth, check out this stunning jungle demo from the same presentation.

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Clue: A Game Boy classic that received a sumptuous Switch remake. The Legend of Zelda: Link's ---------?

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Clue: Invertebrates with heavy weapons. Do you really need any more than that?

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