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Things ‘might change in ten years time’ Super Mario 3D Worldlooks absolutely fantastic. There’s one facet of the experience that prospective cat people might balk at, though — the distinct lack of online multiplayer. Speaking withKotaku, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto addressed the absence of the feature in the upcoming release. “It simply wasn’t the focus for us this time around,” Miyamoto said of online play. Though it was a possibility, the development team “really wanted to do was to create something that people could experience fully while playing comfortably with others who were nearby them,” as was alsothe case withPikmin 3....

McMillen reports recreation of original assets largely complete Edmund McMillen has revealed a new sheet of sprites for the upcoming remake of his surprise hit game,The Binding of Isaac.In a post to his personal blog, McMillen accompanied the images with news that a large percentage of the original game’s assets have now been recreated in the new style and that the artists are now working on animations. Once the old stuff has been transitioned over, the team will begin work on the new content....

Apparently there is a basis forMortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. The trailer above possesses the first story elements ever to be mentioned about the game, and we wonder why Midway waited so long. The heroes and villains from both universes are beginning to disappear. According to Green Latern (and corroborated by the likes of Batman) theMK and DCworlds are merging. This merge is causing the contamination of the entire galaxy. As a result, both sides must team up with their villains and fight the opposing universe....

Friend of Destructoid andWeekly GeekhostChris Furniss, along with many other remarkably talented artists (including Destructoid’s ownAshley Davis!), recently put together a book of videogame art pieces entitled “31 Days of Zero Suit Samus.” Over the Summer of 2011, Chris posted a new piece in his collectionevery daydepicting Zero Suit Samus doing things that any intergalactic bounty hunter would do on her day off — you know, things like flying a kite, exercising, and helmet shopping with her best bud baby Metroid!...

Hee-ho! More than a year after coming to PlayStation Network in North America,Shin Megami Tensei : Lucifer’s Call— Nocturne, if you’re nasty — is now available on European shores. If you’re able to withstand its soul-crushing difficulty, this is one of the darkest, most bizarre (and best) entries in Atlus’ catalogue. Oh, andDevil May Cry‘s Dante (you know, the one people like) even makes an appearance! you may now download the PlayStation 2 Classic on your PlayStation 3 for for £6....

Remember thatMechWarriorgame Piranha Games wasonce developing, only to let it vanish off the earth without a trace while they finished work onDuke Nukem Forever, followed byteasing us with imagesthrough Twitter? Free-to-play MMO. Yep. The team-basedMechWarrior Onlineis scheduled for the second half of 2012. It’s a full-on PC game, so expect it to be moreMechWarrior 4thanMech Assaultwith first-person views, a possibility for joystick support and all that jazz. You’ll be able to do MMO things like forming the equivalents of guilds and 4-player parties (lances), yadda yadda, and there’s no singleplayer campaign....

Official FAQ was updated, then pulled [Update:ZeniMax has responded to the situation, confirming the delay. Players will be able to transfer their characters to the console versions for free, and eligible PC players can buy the PS4 or Xbox One version for a discounted rate of $20.] If you were looking forward to playingThe Elder Scrolls Onlinewith a controller, you may have to wait a bit longer, ifthis reddit discovery is correct....

MFi (made-for-iOS) controllers have been around for almost two years now, and slowly but surely, they’ve risen above their once niche appeal. Previously they were only available for a few devices, and could run upwards of $100, which was an absolutely absurd prospect for the general market. Now, you can find them for 10 to 20 bucks. Having said all that, premium products still exist, like the Gamevice for the iPad Mini, which is $100 at present....

Someone get these artists jobs in the industry, y’all It’s never been all about the graphics for me. I can appreciate slick environments and the ability to watch sweat roll down my rugged protagonist’s brow. But truth be told, I’ve always had a thing for PlayStation-era graphics and earlier. They’re gorgeous to me, and that’s whythis NeoGAF threadthat collects fanmade demakes is so very important to me. I’ve collected a few of my favorites in the gallery, but some of the must-see screens are The Last of Us,Watch Dogs,BioShock, andDark Souls....

Pictured is a set ofSuper Mariofingernailsthat I am sure somebody, somewhere, thinks is reallyawesomeandcool. I personally think it’s grotesque and I feel incredibly queasy just looking at them. It doesn’t help that the fingers look like they belong to an eighty-year-old woman. Seriously, imagine an old granny with fingernails like those. While wearing nothing but a lacy black bra and thong panties. That she has soiled. Yeah, somehow those nails don’t look so awesome anymore, do they?...

Start Twitch Plays Pokemonis a huge deal. So huge, in fact, it’s been causing enormous stress on Twitch’s chat system across the entire service. On Sunday Twitch actually moved the channel off of their normal servers onto a dedicated event chat server that’s usually reserved for big events such as The International and League Championship Series. It still wasn’t enough, and Twitch is continuing the fix the chat issues as thousands upon thousands continue to playPokemontogether....

The other is from Ninjabee Microsoft has revealed two new games that are a part of their ID@Xbox program, and one of them is a new title in the storiedWormsfranchise. Not much is known about the new iteration other than that it exists, though. The next game isNutjitsu, a ninja squirrel themed title from Ninjabee. It’s apparently a derivative ofPac-Man, and it’s already on Windows Phones. So yeah, not the most exciting reveals, but at leastsomepeople are getting involved with Microsoft’s indie program now that the Xbox One seems to have a much more receptive infrastructure....

Microsoft invites you to the next pre-PAX Open House More than 50 games will be playable at Microsoft’s ID@Xbox Pre-PAX Open House, including eight as-yet unannounced games and “several first playables”, includingInside, Playdead’s anticipated follow-up to the delightfully grimLimbo. “Meet the developers and play some of our most highly anticipated titles, includingCuphead, The Flame in the Flood, Pit People, ARK: Survival Evolved, We Happy Few, SpeedRunners, InsideandWarhammer: Vermintide,”writes someone who probably works for Microsoft....