Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer goes full Mad Max: Rainbow Road
The movie’s final trailer debuted during a Nintendo Direct
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The movie’s final trailer debuted during a Nintendo Direct
In a Nintendo Direct on Thursday focused exclusively on the Super Mario Bros. movie, the film’s final trailer was shared. The movie is scheduled to release on April 7.
Following a bit of banter among the cast, the trailer itself premiered, showing Luigi trapped in a cage along with a variety of other Mario characters, including a very direct Luma. We get to see Bowser and his army, some Mario platforming, and more Mario Kart and Rainbow Road action.
After the trailer, Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that post-production is now complete on the movie. Also, somewhat oddly, Mario’s boots from the movie have been recreated in real life and will be displayed at Nintendo’s New York store beginning March 10, or Mario Day.
The Pokemon Go Festival of Colours is returning again this year, along with a couple of Pokemon that will be brand new to the game.
Returning once again as a global event, the Festival of Colors is kicking off next week March 8, 10am, and runs until Tuesday March 14, 8pm, all in local time. The event, which is all about ushering in the colourful season of spring, is introducing two new Pokemon for the first time. Probably the less exciting of the two is Bruxish, a fish Pokemon that is incredibly colourful, if a little garish. More excitingly is the introduction of Mega Medicham, and if you’re lucky, you can apparently catch a shiny version!
In the update post discussing the upcoming event, it’s also noted that you should keep an eye on PokeStops as you walk close to them, as you might spot some celebratory colours. There are of course event bonuses this time round too, with lure models activated during the event lasting for three hours, and friendship levels increasing twice as fast. You should also take a few snapshots every day during the day too – you might just run into a shiny Smeargle.
Cheaters are why we can’t have nice things. All the time, money and effort that could be going towards expanded DLCs and improved gameplay mechanics is instead spent staving off the legions of mediocre players who mistake aimbots for actual gaming prowess. The entire exercise is exhausting and Ubisoft isn’t going to take it anymore, the company announced Monday. Come the game’s next update release, any ‘Rainbow Six Siege’ player found cheating through the use of input spoofing — that is, using a third-party device to run a keyboard and mouse on their console instead of a controller — will see their lag times drastically extended. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
These devices — which include the XIM APEX, the Cronus Zen, or the ReaSnow S1 — allow players to leverage the heightened sensitivity and increased reactions that a keyboard and mouse offer over console controllers. They also incorporate aim assist, autoreload, and autoscope features which have long (and rightfully!) been scorned by the larger gaming community and banned from anything even loosely resembling official competition. But that hasn’t stopped folks from increasingly relying on such devices to artificially boost their scores in online shooters from ‘Destiny 2’ to ‘Overwatch.’
That will no longer be the case with ‘Rainbow Six Siege.’ The company revealed its Mousetrap system on Monday, a detection suite built specifically to sniff out accounts running these illicit hardware devices. Mousetrap is already live, has been for a few seasons now as the company honed the system’s detection capabilities and built out a database of known cheats. Also, yes, they’re very much onto you and your pedestrian FPS machinations.
“We know exactly which players are spoofing and when they were spoofing,” Jan Stahlhacke, gameplay programming team lead for ‘Rainbow Six Siege,’ announced in the Y8S1 reveal above. “We also know that at the highest ranks spoofers become much more common.”
Should the system spot one, that account will see a notable increase in its response times, more than enough to cancel out any ill-gained advantages. The user will have to unplug the device, then play a few more rounds with the “al-ping-tross” chained to their neck before the lag penalty will (eventually) dissipate. Activision took similar — and equally inventive — measures in 2022 against Call of Duty cheats with its Disarm measure.
The company does acknowledge that such devices are used legitimately by gamers with disabilities and Ubisoft urges those players to reach out with feedback about how these changes might impact them. Huh, seems like the sort of thing you’d want to get squared away before enacting a sweeping policy such as this but, then again, Ubisoft isn’t exactly famous for its culture of inclusivity.
Ubisoft will start messing with Rainbow Six Siege players that cheat by using XIM or similar devices to spoof controller inputs by using a mouse and keyboard on console. In an update to Rainbow Six Siege, players that cheat by using third-party devices like XIM will soon start to notice more input latency that will mess with their aim.
Devices like XIM, Cronus Zen, and ReaSnow S1 are often used in online competitive shooters to allow mouse and keyboard users to get the benefits of aim assist from controller mixed with the benefits of movement from mouse and keyboard. They’re steadily becoming a problem across Overwatch, Call of Duty, Destiny 2, Rainbow Six Siege, and other online shooters.
“This is a problem that all console shooters…