The Morning After: The voice of Mario is stepping away from games after nearly three decades

The Morning After: The voice of Mario is stepping away from games after nearly three decades

After voicing Mario for 27 years, Charles Martinet will no longer play the plumber. Nintendo announced in a tweet yesterday that he’ll move into a newly created Mario Ambassador role and “continue to travel the world sharing the joy of Mario,” the company said. Martinet also voiced Luigi, Wario, Waluigi and several other Nintendo characters … Read more

Facebook and Instagram will offer chronological Stories and Reels to comply with EU law

Meta will soon offer Stories and Reels in chronological order, among other changes, to comply with the European’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the company announced. The changes were expected after the European Commission announced that it had reached an agreement in April to create new rules that would require platforms like Facebook to offer alternative … Read more

Microsoft will sell Activision Blizzard streaming rights to Ubisoft in attempt to win UK approval

Microsoft is significantly restructuring its Activision Blizzard merger proposal by selling cloud gaming rights for Activision Blizzard games to rival Ubisoft, it wrote in a blog post late yesterday. That would address a key concern of UK regulators, which blocked the deal in part become of Microsoft’s potential dominance in cloud gaming — but nothing … Read more

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