Mario Returns In First Person Horror

Think of any Mario game and you’re imagining fun in a third-person view. That’s why an unofficial in-development first-person horror game is so unsettling.

Another Princess Is In Our Castle puts the player in Mario’s shoes – and view – as he explores Peach’s castle. Or to be more accurate, the castle where the ghost of Peach now unveils terror.

Players need to collect statuettes of classic N64 characters while avoiding Peach’s ghost. Features include hiding in chests to avoid her (as long as she’s far enough away) and managing stamina for well-timed sprints.

The game is still in alpha development stage but is available as a Windows demo. At the moment it only covers collecting eight statuettes and should take around 15 minutes to complete.

Early reviews suggest the game is incredibly basic but surprisingly unsettling given the first-person mode brings just enough sense of feeling amiss to an otherwise hugely familiar scenario.

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Toilet PC Makes A Splash

A man has turned his toilet into a gaming PC as a bizarre but effective publicity stunt for a computer parts retailer.

The fully-working PC is built into the cistern, with a “water wall” keeping the motherboard tray completely isolated from the plumbing, which still operates. There’s also a display window that rather bizarrely reveals both the PC components and the flush mechanism.

The main challenges in the build were keeping the cistern safely divided and fitting the PC components safely in the small space. The former involved extensive use of Flex-Seal on a custom three-section wall as the arrangement on electronic and plumbing parts didn’t allow for a single straight-line division.

The latter involved a Mini-ITX Motherboard, a single fan and a very carefully worked-out schedule to fit all the parts, inherently reducing ease-of-access with each addition.

The YouTuber, who goes by the name Nicholas Z or “Basically Homeless”, did the project on behalf of MicroCenter. While that’s a shameless publicity stunt, you kind of have to respect them for listing the project on their site complete with a pre-filled basket of the parts used in the build, and a “Favorite Feature” section in the description that simply reads “it flushes poop”.