Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most famous and groundbreaking creative types across all of entertainment, but the man himself doesn’t agree that he’s a genius. As part of Nintendo’s latest earnings briefing, Miyamoto pushed back against the suggestion that he’s been able for decades to turn out hit after hit because he’s a “genius.”

“You referred to me as a ‘genius,’ but I consider myself quite ordinary,” he said.

Miyamoto went on to say he gives a speech each year to Nintendo’s new hires, and the feedback he gets from these people is that he is “surprisingly ordinary.”

Making great games allows Miyamoto to have an easier career, he said. “I often think it would be fun if I didn’t have to work, so I’m always thinking about things like, well, if I have t…

In 2007, Blizzard Entertainment began working on Titan, a MMO that the company hoped could replicate the success of its earlier title, World of Warcraft. Seven years later, Blizzard acknowledged that Titan had been canceled. Now, details are emerging that apparently shed new light on what Titan could have been and how it ultimately fell apart.

Polygon has shared an extended excerpt from Jason Schreier’s upcoming book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment. In the selected passages, Schreier relates that Titan was essentially two games in one. It was a superhero action title where players could fight bad guys in one part of the game, while also living out their secret identities in a Sims-like environment. That entailed the playable characters getting jobs…

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has spoken about retro games and remakes, which has been an area of success for the company in recent years. In an interview with GamesBeat, Kotick shared some high-level thoughts on the company’s strategy, and he also singled out one franchise in particular that could be ripe for a remake: Pitfall.

“For us, it’s much more about, is it the right idea?” Kotick said about Activision Blizzard’s approach to remakes. “Are we going to be able to execute against that nostalgic audience in a way where it’s going to actually resonate with both the original fans but also new fans?”

Kotick said Activision Blizzard is uniquely positioned because it has a catalog of franchises going back to 1980. One of these franchises is Pitfall, which hasn’t seen a…

The still untitled The Boys spin-off has added Lizze Broadway (Bones, NCIS) and Jaz Sinclair (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Vampire Diaries) to the cast, according to Variety. The spin-off was fast-tracked suddenly last year on the strength of the Prime Video series, which isn’t a total shock given the original series was an adaptation of an already successful comic book series. Come from malaysia online casino

Broadway and Sinclair are the first announced cast members for the spin-off, which will take place at a college for young superheroes, run by the ominous Vought International–the evil corporation that controls The Seven. The spin-off has previously been described as “an…