Earthbound

Nintendo Mother 3, the highly requested cult-classic RPG for the Game Boy Advance, is set to appear today on the Nintendo Switch Online service. But there’s a catch: It’s only available in Japan. North Americans were first introduced to the Mother series under the name Earthbound on the SNES in 1995. As was common at the time, the game was renamed for the West in an attempt to avoid confusion. In 2006, a third entry was released in Japan for the GBA simply called Mother 3, but it has never had an official translation…

Six doctors in Nebraska have successfully operated a surgical robot aboard the ISS. This time, the operation was on only rubber bands, but the milestone could have meaning for future missions to Mars or for rural operating rooms here on Earth.Earlier this year, a robotic surgical arm known as spaceMIRA (miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant) traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX rocket. The arm was developed in a partnership between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and a private…

2024 isn’t going to be as jam-packed with new AAA games as 2022 and 2023 were, giving us more time to go back and appreciate the classics. Anniversaries and the celebrations that follow are commonplace in the video game industry, especially if that anniversary is a multiple of five. Plenty of fantastic, influential games will hit milestones this year, but a few stand out. Some could even offer teasers into what might be in store for 2024 if developers plan to celebrate their classics. Regardless of whether these…

Now that 2024 is here, the countdown is on. Rumors suggest that the Nintendo’s Switch long-awaited successor is coming by the end of the year. While there’s no official word from Nintendo on that yet, there’s good reason to think it could happen. The current lineup of Switch games for 2024 is looking thin, so one could reasonably guess that developers may be off working on Switch 2 games by now. As I begin to reflect on the Switch’s wildly successful life span, I can’t help but think  about what a bounty of games its…

Aditya L1, the first space-based Indian mission to study the Sun underwent the second earth-bound manoeuvre successfully, during the early hours on Tuesday, ISRO said. ISRO's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) carried out the operation."The second Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#2) is performed successfully from ISTRAC, Bengaluru. ISTRAC/ISRO's ground stations at Mauritius, Bengaluru and Port Blair tracked the satellite during this operation. The new orbit attained is 282 km x 40225 km," ISRO said in a post on X…

NASA’s Mars Rover has deposited its second rock sample for the historic Mars Sample Return mission. NASA's Perseverance Rover has now deposited its second rock sample, following the first which was deposited less than a week ago for NASA's Sample Return programme. Mars Sample Return is NASA's programme to bring important scientific samples back to Earth in a bid to study the red planet's conditions for potentially establishing a colony one day. NASA's Mars Sample Return programme is a series of missions to retrieve…

I picked up both of them in a flash After months of waiting, Nintendo shadow-dropped the Kirby’s Dream Buffet keychain today on the My Nintendo marketplace. In a separate set of posts, a few more surprises showed up: EarthBound stuff! Celebrating EarthBound and EarthBound Beginnings (which are on the SNES and NES service for Switch Online respectively) there’s two things on offer: an EarthBound Beginnings Eight Melodies Notebook, and a Phase Distorter Luggage tag. Nintendo also dropped a Mario-themed 2023 desktop…

The first full-color picture from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just been released — and it’s inspiring. According to the space agency, it’s the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the early, distant universe to this date. Behold: Credit: ESA/NASA/STSCI Greetings, humanoidsSubscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, the picture shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years…

Given that he was written off as the Gallagher Brother Least Likely To when Oasis imploded in 2009, a feeling compounded by the underwhelming career of Beady Eye, it’s perhaps a surprise that it’s Liam, not Noel, who has sold out two nights at Knebworth next month. That he has achieved such enormous popularity when his solo albums have been consistently solid rather than exciting makes it an even more remarkable feat.C’mon You Know hardly sets the pulse racing any more than its two predecessors, despite Gallagher’s clear…

Alienware Tri-Mode Wireless Gaming Mouse MSRP $150.00 “The Alienware Tri-Mode Wireless Gaming Mouse comes at a cost with very little noteworthy in return.” Pros Comfortable left and right clicks Satisfying switches Clean design Long battery life Cons Too expensive for what it is…