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Nintendo Releasing Beautiful New Pastel Joy-Cons
2.6.2023
We’re long enough into the Nintendo Switch’s lifespan to have seen a lot of different colours for the console’s controllers, but these news ones just announced by the company may be the nicest yet. If you’re into soft pastels.Read more
Game Gets Wrongfully Banned On Switch After A Child Gambling Joke
31.5.2023
Last week, Nintendo mistakenly blocked and rejected the release of a cutesy animal game, after it took a jokey TikTok from the developer at face value and pulled its release in North America. Read more
Sony Announces New Handheld, And Sorry, It's Not The Vita 2
24.5.2023
Well, it finally happened: Sony’s got a new handheld on the way. It promises all the features of the fancy DualSense PlayStation 5 controller on an 8-inch high-definition screen. The only catch? It’s a Wi-Fi streaming-only device, pulling directly from your PS5. Sorry, Vita fans.Read more
No I Will Not Be Waiting In A Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Line, Thank You
12.5.2023
It is May 12, 2023, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom release day, and the temperature in New York City is creeping dangerously close to 90 degrees. In Midtown, bankers are sweating through their Brooks Brothers dress shirts and slacks, while tourists have busted out the cargo shorts. As...
Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom’s Performance On Switch Sounds Like A Minor Miracle
11.5.2023
There have been a lot of buggy blockbuster launches recently, but it doesn’t sound like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be one of them. Nintento’s latest big exclusive for the Switch has impressed many reviewers? tk so far with how it runs on the six-year-old hardware, with even...
Nintendo Says Don’t Expect A New Switch This Year Either
9.5.2023
Fans eager for a successor to the Switch will have to wait a bit longer. Nintendo confirmed that no Switch 2 or Switch Pro is expected in the coming months during its latest earnings call. 2024 could finally be the year we see what new console the company’s been working on, but in the meantime...
Nintendo Seemingly Goes After Switch Emulation Following Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Leak
8.5.2023
When The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom began leaking online, Nintendo initially fought back with standard copyright takedowns of screenshots, video streams, and entire Discord servers hosting links to pirated versions of the game. Now it appears to be ramping up the offensive, going after...
One Of The First Nintendo GameCubes Has Been Found
5.5.2023
For long-time Nintendo fans and video game historians there have been few public events as memorable as Space World 2000, the show that first revealed the GameCube—and its library of games, and a divisive Zelda demo—to the world.Read more
Ex-Nintendo Of America President Memes On Zelda Leaks
4.5.2023
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leaked earlier this week, and some players have been scrambling to try and play the Switch game ahead of its May 12 release date. While Nintendo hasn’t officially acknowledged the situation, someone who used to work there has, and probably not in the...
Nintendo Escalates War On Popular Zelda YouTuber Behind Multiplayer Breath Of The Wild Mod
14.4.2023
In the wake of a massive hype wave following the latest The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the number of rogue copyright claims it puts out against content creators on Youtube, and at least one of them is hitting back. In his latest video, Eric...
GameStop Fires Guy After Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Switch Leak
12.4.2023
In March, an employee at a Massachusetts GameStop leaked on Reddit that Nintendo was probably about to reveal its long rumored special edition Zelda Switch at an upcoming mini-Direct for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Special editions such as these are highly coveted collector’s items...
Nintendo's Doing A Live Fan Event That Kinda Sounds Like Its Own E3
11.4.2023
Now that this year’s E3 is dead, what fills the summer void is up in the air. You’ve got the usual contenders, such as Geoff Keighley’s Summer Games Fest and Xbox’s joint Starfield presentation with Bethesda, but nothing matches E3's scale. While PlayStation has yet to formally announce...
Big Breath Of The Wild YouTuber Hit By Nintendo After Multiplayer Mod
7.4.2023
YouTuber and speedrunner Eric “PointCrow” Morino released a brand new multiplayer mod for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on April 4. It basically transforms the hit 2017 Switch game into a modern open-world version of the beloved co-op Zelda spin-off Four Swords Adventures. A couple...
Sony's Next Gaming Handheld May Not Be The Vita 2 Fans Want
5.4.2023
A decade after the early demise of the PlayStation Vita, handheld gaming is more vibrant than ever, leading many people to wonder whether Sony will one day try to get back into the portable gaming market. Based on a new report by Insider Gaming, the answer is both yes and no. Sony is seemingly...
Mindblowing: YouTuber Creates A Game Boy Advance SP Out Of Lego Bricks
16.3.2023
I just watched a guy build a fully functional Game Boy Advance SP out of Lego bricks, and you should too. The machine already looked great, but it became truly magical when its creator booted up a copy of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2. It’s a tragedy this was never an officially licensed...
Wait, The GameCube Nearly Had An Official LCD Monitor?
7.3.2023
The Nintendo GameCube was a weird little console, one that had all kinds of wacky add-ons and peripherals released for it over the years, from LAN adapters to Game Boy Links to bongo drums. One thing I never knew about until today, however, were the company’s plans for an official LCD screen.Read...
Miyamoto Says Don't Worry About His Nintendo Retirement, Maybe Go Outside
28.2.2023
Nintendo existed long before Shigeru Miyamoto joined back in 1977, and it will continue to do just fine after he’s gone, the famed game designer told NPR in a new interview. Following the grand opening of the Super Nintendo World theme park in California last week, one of the creators behind Super...
Switch Appears To Add ‘Groomer,’ Mass Shooters To Banned Word List
24.2.2023
A new system firmware update for the Nintendo Switch has seemingly expanded the console’s list of banned words to include references to child grooming and school shooters. According to a longtime Nintendo dataminer’s review of the latest changes, any users who may have had those terms in their...
Metroid Prime Remastered Is Selling Out, Going For $100+ On eBay
23.2.2023
Earlier this month, Metroid Prime Remastered was announced and released digitally on Nintendo Switch. It’s very good and a perfect example of how to remaster an old game. However, it wasn’t available physically until yesterday, February 22. And uh, well, it’s still kind of not available physically...
Only Some Switch Games Will Be $70, Nintendo Says
10.2.2023
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will be Nintendo’s first $70 game, but it doesn’t sound like it will have a whole lot of company anytime soon. Rather than being a watershed moment for premium Switch games moving forward, the publisher says the $70 price point will be reserved for specific...