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Over the past few years, March 10 has become a special day for Super Mario fans much like May 4 is a punny celebration for Star Wars fans. It’s unknown who happened upon the fact the platforming hero’s name resembles this date when stylized as MAR10, but Nintendo started embracing the holiday in 2016. Ever since then, Nintendo and major retailers have been offering discounts on Mario games and merchandise throughout Mario Day week. Target’s latest ad reveals the first batch of Mario Day deals that go live Sunday, March 8, which includes discounts on first-party Nintendo games, accessories, and Mario plushies.

Three of the four Switch games that are discounted to $40 released just last year. The big one is Super Mario Maker 2, which rarely goes for under $50. The create-your-own 2D Mario game has a seemingly endless supply of user-created levels while also boasting an impressive single-player campaign designed by Nintendo. Super Mario Maker 2 is joined by the adorable Yoshi’s Crafted World, and a pair of multiplayer-focused titles, Super Mario Party and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

Target is also offering a two-pack of Joy-Con wheels ($15 value) with the purchase of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but it appears the game will be sold for its full $60 price.

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Waterfalls in video games are like Groucho glasses. Everyone knows they’re hiding something, but we’re never quite sure what it is. A new Twitter account called Is Something Behind the Waterfall? is helping to solve this problem by curating the best waterfall secrets across all sorts of games.

Created by the same user behind Can You Pet the Dog?, the Is Something Behind the Waterfall? account began a few months ago and not only reveals if there is a secret behind a game’s waterfall, but what that secret happens to be. In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, for instance, you can find a treasure chest behind this particular waterfall.

There are only a few posts on the account so far, but they vary between newer games and retro ones. If you’ve ever missed a waterfall in Earthbound, you can correct that more than 25 years later, and even find a secret skull in the original Halo. The game just came to PC as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

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Pokemon Sword and Shield are getting big chunks of DLC this year, but Nintendo’s blockbuster monster-catching series isn’t going a year without a new packaged release. This time it’s Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, a remake of the classic Red and Blue Rescue Team games from Game Boy Advance. The new game combines these with a lovely new art style.

As with the other Mystery Dungeon games, Rescue Team DX is a roguelike dungeon-crawler, where you and a companion Pokemon explore areas like caves to defeat monsters and collect treasure. The spin-off series has been secondary to the main Pokemon RPGs, but GameSpot’s Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX review argues that it deserves its own place in our hearts.

“When the original pair of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games were released in 2006, they were received as the ugly Duckletts of Pokemon spin-offs,” wrote Cian Maher. “Now, almost 15 years later, it is clear how wrong we were to write off Spike Chunsoft’s ambitious take on the titanic series: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX for Switch is wondrous to play and, in a way, boasts a substantially more resonant fable than most other recent Pokemon games.”

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Final Fantasy 7 was home to one of the most famous video game love triangles of all time, between Cloud and the two female leads, Tifa and Aerith. For the FF7 Remake, the introduction of these characters and their blossoming friendship has been further fleshed out with an extended period in Midgar. In an interview with GameSpot, the voices behind the characters say, as a result, the story and relationship feel refreshingly current.

“I asked a lot of questions cause I didn’t understand. Are we rivals, competing for Cloud? What’s happening?” said Britt Baron, who voices Tifa. “And what I ended up learning, at least in this iteration, I love the relationship that they have. They’re friends. They’re on the same team. It’s not about these two women who could hate each other and be at each other’s throats. [They] end up working together and becoming friends and fighting side by side. So I think coming out at a time like this, I was so happy for it and it’s a really good lesson that women don’t have to tear other women down.”

Erica Lindbeck, who voices Jessie, added that the friendship between her character and Tifa is similar in tone. “I loved the relationship between Jessie and Tifa too,” she said. “It was so sweet. I was like, ‘Oh, this is dope. Girlfriends, girl power.'”

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Few projects have amassed the level of expectation as Final Fantasy VII Remake. The highly-anticipated reimagining of the classic RPG is finally coming–at least, as a first piece in the multi-part saga–on April 10 for PS4. Unlike the original, it will feature a full voice cast to help imbue the iconic journey with a more cinematic quality. At PAX East, GameSpot spoke with four of the upcoming remake’s cast members–Erica Lindbeck (Jessie), Gideon Emery (Biggs), Briana White (Aerith), and Britt Baron (Tifa). They each shared their thoughts on stepping into the roles of such beloved characters, the challenges of getting their performances just right, and how some parts of the story are timeless.

For some of the voice cast, the journey started years ago with the second trailer shown at the PlayStation Experience in 2015. That trailer will look familiar to those who have played the now-public demo, which heavily features the opening bombing run organized by the Avalanche revolutionary group. It uses the resistance members Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge to introduce the world and the stoic Cloud, and so their voice actors were brought on early.

“Gideon [Emery] and I have been on this project for about five years now because we had to do that trailer that premiered at the PlayStation Experience, so I remember auditioning for Jessie and booking her,” Lindbeck said. “I didn’t know a ton about FFVII barring the main characters, but I’d seen it in other forms, like in Advent Children or Crisis Core. And I just assumed that she wasn’t a very big character. A couple of my friends like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s Jessie, she’s basically in the first quarter of the game.’ Then the trailer premiered and she was the first English line of the first English trailer for FFVII. So I did some research and found out that her story was being expanded. The team Avalanche story was being expanded a lot and that was really exciting because I remember being so excited to just be in a Final Fantasy game.”

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On this week’s episode of GameSpot After Dark, Kallie is joined by Michael Higham, Kurt Indovina, and Ashley Oh to talk about The Witcher 3, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Murder By Numbers! If you have any questions for the cast, email us at afterdarkpodcast@gamespot.com.

The creative director of E3 2020 has decided to step down from being involved in this year’s show.

Merchandise and event production company Iam8bit has resigned from its position as creative director “with mixed emotions” as revealed in a tweet, but the reason why hasn’t been given.

It’s with mixed emotions that @iam8bit has decided to resign as Creative Directors of what was to be an evolutionary #E32020 floor experience. We’ve produced hundreds of gaming + community events and it was a dream to be involved with E3. We wish the organizers the best of luck.

— iam8bit (@iam8bit) March 5, 2020

 

Iam8bit was originally brought on to “reinvigorate the show and, frankly, to shake things up,” as it said in the announcement earlier this year.

The idea at this year’s E3 was to create a showfloor that “celebrates gaming culture in exciting new ways.” This would be shared with the world through new streaming and digital programming.

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While Iam8bit isn’t giving any explanation of why it has resigned from its position, the organiser of E3, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), has given a statement to GI.biz.

“We can confirm that Iam8bit is no longer part of the inter-agency group working on E3 2020. We greatly value their passion for the video game industry and the contributions they brought toward our vision for this year’s show,” the ESA said to GI.biz.

“We have an innovative and experienced team in place including Endeavor’s creative agency 160over90, event innovators Mat+Lo and longtime E3 partners, GES, Dolaher Events and Double Forte — all collaborating to bring to life an exciting and authentic experience for fans, the media and the industry.”

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The ESA has confirmed that it still plans to go ahead with E3 2020 despite the city of Los Angeles declaring a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Many of the game events meant to be happening in the first half of this year have already been cancelled due to concerns surrounding the spread of the virus.

The ESA released a list of companies that still plan on attending E3 2020, but one of the big companies that has dropped out is Sony. E3 Coliseum host Geoff Keighley also said he won’t be attending this year.

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Today, Frictional Games announced their next horror project and it’s a return to the series that made them famous. Amnesia: Rebirth will be released on PC and PS4 later this year, 10 years after the release of Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Amnesia: Rebirth follows a new character Tasi Trianon as they try to survive a deadly creature stalking her in the Algerian desert. This creature apparently feeds of Trianon’s terror, and players must be careful not to breathe lest they alert the hunter. You can watch the full announcement trailer below.

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The trailer is light on details but it’s immediately clear that Trianon finds herself in hostile territory. There are what appears to be caverns outfitted with traps, and you can briefly see the silhouette of a creature in a sandstorm.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent was released in 2010 where it became a viral hit online. The no-combat horror game was a popular mainstay for YouTubers and streamers to show how brave (or not) they could be while playing the game. Frictional would publish a sequel called Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs that was developed by The Chinese Room.

Frictional would develop their own follow-up in 2015 called Soma, which isn’t set in the Amnesia universe but features many of Frictional’s hallmarks such as having an unreliable protagonist and ambiguous memory.

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Prior to today’s announcement, Frictional began drip-feeding several mysterious videos hidden online that led up to today’s reveal. Some of the past videos included references to Algeria, and hinted at the desert location.

Amnesia: Rebirth will be released in autumn 2020 for PC and PlayStation 4. It is already available to wishlist on Steam. For more, check out IGN’s review of the first Amnesia here.

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Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN. You can reach him on Twitter.