Zippo's Nonsensical Ramblings and Other Stuff

  Hey Batter Batter! In today's "no shit" news, Nintendo is preparing a brand new Mario Sports game, this time being developed by Bandai Namco and Now Production. This is very likely to be a new installment in the Mario Baseball series, which hasn't seen a new entry since 2008's Mario Super Sluggers, though baseball did appear in Mario Sports Superstars for the 3DS in 2017. Now, I'm sure you're asking "Zippo, what the hell is Now Production?" If you've played the aforementioned previous baseball games, as well as the original Sonic Riders, you'll know the latter devs' work immediately. They were also the developers of last year's excellent Pac Man World remake, among many others.  GameXplain's very own Tris Valbeuna also pointed out something that I thought was quite interesting: Last year, it was discovered that Nintendo randomly started updating Daisy renders, one of them, interestingly enough, was from Mario Super Sluggers...

Hi, I've returned. Happy Belated New Year! First article of the year, and my one hundredth one, no less!  Just a bit of a personal aside before anything else. Papa Zippo had a stomach ulcer, I was quite sick for a bit, so the blog had to take a backseat. I'm feeling much better now. Thank you to all of you in the background who were supportive and wishing me well. You guys are the best.  Now, 2023 is looking like a pretty fuckin' stacked year for video games. There's already dozens of big games announced, and that's all merely just what they've announced for this year so far. Here's some of my predictions for the year. Power Stone Announcement: Most people have forgotten this, but a brand new Power Stone game was leaked in Capcom's gigantic leak from a few years back. It was set for a 2024 release and I still believe that's the plan. I'll go ahead and predict that this will be announced at this year's evo. The entire cast of the first two gam...