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Hi, So this was originally going to be posted back on July 28th, but I decided to wait until bigger news websites like Nintendo Life to report on it, and they did , so I'm deciding to publish this now as a bit of a smaller and simplified report about it. Welp, the time if finally here, Nintendo unveiled the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Wave 2 DLC. And for a quick opinion, it doesn't look that bad. Hell, the visuals looked like it improved by a whole lot, not by MK8's visual territory, but enough that doesn't look ugly in general like the first wave. I mean take a look at these courses: Very amazing, anyways. This DLC confirms a datamine leak that surfaced when the DLC released in March. Well, what am I talking about? Basically, a Twitter user by the name fishguy6564 did some cracking that makes the game collect prefixed data from the files that were left by devs working on the DLC and place them in the upcoming cups if they're selected. People speculated that this is just te...

Ahh, Nintendo. They're definitely the strangest company in the gaming industry. If you think you figured out their plans, they'll pull off a u-turn that you won't expect. This is one of those times. Basically, June was the busiest month within gaming. Tons and tons of announcements from the Summer Game Fest, that Microsoft Showcase, and that Sonic Central showcase that we don't talk about. We expected Nintendo to do a Direct within the middle of June, but that turned out false. And then we heard leaks and rumors that there was gonna be one on the 29th. Obviously, that was a day off, and it was entirely focused on third-party games for the system. How was it... It was surprisingly better than I thought. Basically, these Partner Showcase when they began in 2020 had huge negative feedback. Thankfully, when the last one came on October of that year, they actually managed to turn the ship around, and it turned out fairly decent. This one however, managed to make the past Pa...