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Report: Developers Told Not To Expect Switch 2 Before April 2025
13.8.2024
The question on everyone’s lips right now is: Switch 2 when? Now in its eighth year, the current handheld hybrid is more than a little long in the tooth, and the evidence continues to mount that fans still have a bit of a wait to go before Nintendo launches its next console.Read more
New Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Trailer Proves Its World Is Anything But A Link To The Past Remix
5.8.2024
Who needs another Nintendo Direct when the company is willing to randomly dish on its next Zelda game with an unexpected five-minute trailer. The latest info dump for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom gives a tour of the Hyrule players will get to explore in the series’ latest top-down sequel...
Nintendo Plans To Sell Over 10 Million More Switches But No One Knows How
2.8.2024
The Switch is in its eighth year. That’s longer than any Nintendo system has gone without getting a successor. But the company is still bullish on the hybrid console’s future even as fans wait to hear about a Switch 2 as soon as this September. Nintendo is planning to sell over 12 million...
A Bunch Of Mario And Kirby Switch Games Are On Sale Right Now
31.7.2024
Sound the alarms! Some of Nintendo’s first-party digital Switch games are on sale for a limited time. If you’ve been wanting to play Mario Golf, Kirby Star Allies, or Nintendo Switch Sports this is the best chance to snag these (and other) games for less than normal. Read more
Star Wars Outlaws Has A Great Option Every Game Should Offer
31.7.2024
Thanks to Star Wars Outlaws, it’s time for the Great Yellow Paint Debate, Part 471! For a long while now, third-person games have been decorating their worlds in yellow (or white) paint to indicate to players a doorway they can pass through, a rocky outcrop that can be climbed, or an area worth...
Mario & Sonic Are Dead (The Olympic Games Series, We Mean)
30.7.2024
According to a developer who worked on every game in the Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games franchise, the reason there’s no appearance for the joint Nintendo and Sega venture during the 2024 Paris Olympics is because, well, the whole series is dead and gone. A rumor backed up by Eurogamer...
Are Physical Games Dead? It’s More Complicated Than You Might Think
23.7.2024
In 2007, console gaming got its first day-and-date digital release. The sci-fi war shooter Warhawk for the PlayStation 3 was sold as a Blu-ray disc in stores but was also available to buy digitally on PSN. The game is mostly forgotten now, but it was the first domino to fall in digital’s slow...
Nintendo Announces Joy-Con Charging Dock Ahead Of Switch 2
18.7.2024
At the end of its life, the Switch is still getting new accessories. Nintendo announced the handheld hybrid console will get a dedicated charging station for Joy-Con controllers in the fall. The timing is so strange it feels like it might have something to do with the Switch 2. Read more
A Bunch Of Nintendo Switch Stuff Is On Sale Right Now
12.7.2024
Nintendo games and consoles never get price drops anymore, but they do occasionally get surprisingly decent discounts. Whether to capitalize on the lead up to Amazon Prime Day, or just unload some excess summer inventory, the stars have aligned for some decent Switch deals this week that probably...
Nintendo's Mysterious Horror Game Teaser Has Fans Scratching Their Heads
10.7.2024
Nintendo posts new trailers for upcoming Switch games all the time on its YouTube channel, but not like this. On Wednesday morning, the company uploaded a teaser titled “Emio” that’s only fifteen seconds long, stars a person with a creepy paper bag over their head, and appears to tease...
Resident Evil 9 Quietly Announced, Nintendo Has Plans To Thwart Switch 2 Resellers, And More Of The Week's News
6.7.2024
This week, we’ve got the latest on how Nintendo plans to prevent its Switch successor from falling into reseller hell the way its current console did upon release. Also, a game that was banned for featuring underage nudity made an appearance in a convention sales booth, and we’ve got 16 great...
Switch Gets 7 More Random NES Games, Including One Programmed By Nintendo's Former President
5.7.2024
Nearly six years after it launched, Nintendo Switch Online is still getting new NES classics added to its on-demand subscription service. Nintendo announced seven more games are now available to play. The esoteric bunch, which includes Mach Rider and The Mystery of Atlantis, means almost every...
Nintendo Will No Longer Fix That Console You Never Used
5.7.2024
The poor Wii U. That inexplicable console that was simultaneously too confusing to be useful, but too unexceptional to be inspiring. Meaninglessly carrying the weight of the name of the phenomenal success of the Nintendo Wii, it was—by most metrics—a rare miss and a colossal flop. And now you can’t...
July 4th Gaming Deals That Would Make The Founders Proud
3.7.2024
The 4th of July is a day for jingoistic mythmaking and summer merriment. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate it than by grilling food, watching things explode, and ordering a bunch of cool stuff online that you totally don’t need but will still be really awesome to have. Read more
Nintendo Gave Switch Pirates A Chance To Walk Away But They Apparently Refused
2.7.2024
The Switch may be at the end of its life, but Nintendo is still on the hunt for the platform’s biggest pirates. In a pair of new lawsuits, the console manufacture has taken aim at both mod chip sellers as well as the moderator of the popular r/SwitchPiracy subreddit. Read more
Nintendo Says It Has A Plan To Prevent Scalping: Just Make Loads Of Switch 2s
1.7.2024
A few years on, it’s oddly hard to remember how difficult it was to get hold of the most recent generation of games consoles. On their release in November 2020, both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X were incredibly scarce, thanks to an imperfect storm of covid, global chip shortages, and supply...
Donkey Kong Country's Controversial $60 Price Tag Makes Metroid Prime Feel Like A Steal
27.6.2024
Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is an enhanced version of the 2o10 Wii game coming to Switch in 2025, and fans can’t believe Nintendo is charging $60 for it. The price was revealed in the new eShop listing and makes last year’s Metroid Prime Remaster look like an incredible deal by comparison. Read...
Nintendo Doubling-Down On Security Following Latest Video Game Leaker Drama
27.6.2024
Nintendo is working to beef up its security and IT training following recent reports of how major announcements were scrapped from YouTube’s backend ahead of major Directs. The acknowledgement of efforts to curb internal information from being exposed by outside actors comes as the video game...
Steam Deck Now Cheaper Than A Switch During Valve's Big Summer Sale
24.6.2024
Valve’s popular portable PC, the Steam Deck, is currently on sale ahead of the company’s upcoming Steam Summer Sale. You can currently buy the powerful gaming device for less than a Standard Switch or Switch OLED. Read more
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble: The Kotaku Review
24.6.2024
I play the original 2001 Super Monkey Ball almost every day, and if you’ll allow me one brag, I’m pretty good at it. Sometimes I play to jumpstart my brain in the morning, sometimes to unwind during my lunch break, sometimes to fill some time in the evening. Usually, I choose the fifty-stage-long...