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Is Mario worth his weight in gold?

The Mario series can do no wrong – even when they’re bad, they’re still pretty good. While good, New Super Mario Bros 2 doesn’t rank high in the extremely inventive series. It borrows nearly everything from its predecessor and omits the challenge presented in New Super Mario Bros Wii. If not for the addition of the tanooki tail and the gold fire flower, it wouldn’t have a single thing about it that’s original, interesting, or particularly memorable.

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The new-old PixlTalk crew takes to the sound waves once again.

The original (well, sort of) crew of PixlTalk is back this week as they reclaim the podcast that has been under the loving care of our previous two crews for the past few months. Coming back into the show we wanted to do something new and fresh that would shake up the original format and keep things moving at a steady rate.

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The father of Harvest Moon has a new IP coming out.

If Natsume is known for anything, it has to be for their cartoonish farm/life simulator series Harvest Moon.  Combining addictive game mechanics with a wholesome aesthetic styling was par for the course for series creator Yasuhiro Wada and it looks like he may be ready to strike that chord again with an E3 unveiling of Codename: Project Happiness.

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