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Switch Is Still Outselling Everything Else Despite Ongoing Chip Shortage
10.5.2022
Today, in its annual earnings statement, Nintendo cited the ongoing chip shortage as a reason for a precipitous annual dip in Switch hardware sales…while in the same breath saying it hit company targets. Well, technically.Read more
Internet Hero Saves Abandoned Nintendogs Thrown Away In Old Cartridge
10.5.2022
Last month, Ben was riding on the last train home from a concert, when he spotted an odd little black object on the floor. It turned out to be a left-behind Nintendogs DS game cartridge. After getting back home, he got it to work and discovered two lost pups inside the game. His tale of rescuing...
New Nintendo Numbers: If Mario Kart 8 Keeps Selling Like This, We’re Never Getting A Sequel
10.5.2022
If you were holding your breath for news of Mario Kart 9, you might as well exhale. The racer’s immediate predecessor, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, is still one of publisher Nintendo’s best-selling games on Switch. It has sold a hair short of 10 million copies over the past year, according to an earnings...
Zelda Player Kills Guardian With Anime-Ass Swordplay
9.5.2022
Is there a better argument for Breath of the Wild having one of the all-time great open worlds than the fact that, so many years after release, players are still messing around with the game’s items and physics to pull off cool shit that we’ve never seen before?Read more
Fan Is Making His Own Metroid 64, Nintendo Be Damned
6.5.2022
The Metroid series took a little nap during the N64 era, with Nintendo unable/unwilling to release a single home console game between the success of the SNES’ Super Metroid in 1994 and the GameCube’s Metroid Prime in 2002. So a fan is stepping in—and back in time—to make one for themselves.Read more
The 24 Karat Gold Nintendo Wii Is Finally Up For Sale
6.5.2022
In 2009, THQ pulled a publicity stunt by covering a Nintendo Wii in 24 karat gold and trying to get it delivered to Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty never actually got her hands on the console, but now, after over a year of auction hijinx, you might be able to.Read more
I Like Bandai Namco's New Logo
5.5.2022
Last year, Japanese publisher Bandai Namco announced that it was doing away with its logo, the same one it had used since the two formerly separate companies had merged all the way back in 2006.Read more
Metroid Prime's Iconic Logo Took Creator 53 Revisions To Get Just Right
4.5.2022
The Metroid Prime logo looks so perfect and appropriate for the game that you probably never really noticed or thought about it much. It’s just one of those things that looks like it always existed or came into this universe fully formed. But the designer behind the iconic logo is here to remind...
Lidé si v zápalu hraní už zase rozbíjejí televize
4.5.2022
Už to tu jednou bylo. Stejně jako kdysi s Wii Sports, i letos se kvůli novince Nintendo Switch Sports stávají situace, že při hraní pohybové hry lidem létají z rukou ovladače. A když máte opravdu smůlu, odnese to televize, před kterou hrajete
Reggie Fils-Aimé Weighs In On Nintendo Worker Exploitation: ‘This Isn’t The Nintendo I Left’
4.5.2022
In light of recent reports by Kotaku and others about worker complaints at Nintendo of America, former president and gaming icon Reggie Fils-Aimé was asked about how the company treats its employees. “I know I was able to achieve [a healthy culture], and certainly what’s being described does...
Wario's First Big Speaking Role Was For...A British Supermarket
4.5.2022
The inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom aren’t big on speeches. They’ll write long-ass letters, sure, but when it comes to speaking out loud most of them will restrict themselves to the odd soundbyte or celebratory quip. Except, that is, for Wario.Read more
Reggie Did Not Like The Game Boy Micro, So Now We Are Enemies
4.5.2022
You will have seen a lot of Reggie Fils-Aime news lately. The man has a book out, telling stories about the notoriously secretive video game industry, so that’s to be expected. Much of it is insightful, some of it emotional, some of it even a little puzzling. One section, though, simply has...
Nintendo Switch Sports Players Are Already F***ing With The Game’s Profanity Filter
3.5.2022
Three things are true in life: death, taxes, and the persistence of Switch players who will do their damndest to circumvent a new Nintendo game’s profanity filter. The latest victim? Nintendo Switch Sports, which has already succumbed to the whims of the crass. Maybe that’s why everyone’s smashing...
Ninja Says He Wanted To Gift Evo $500,000 For Smash, But Nintendo Ghosted Him
3.5.2022
Massive streaming personality Tyler “Ninja” Blevins claims that he tried to give the prestigious Evolution Championship Series fighting game tournament (also known simply as Evo) a bonus $500,000 for its Super Smash Bros. prize pool years ago, only to get shut out by Smash developer Nintendo.Read...
Reggie Fils-Aimé And Satoru Iwata's Great Nintendo Friendship
3.5.2022
It started with an unheard-of request. Reggie Fils-Aimé wasn’t yet president of Nintendo of America. Heck, he wasn’t even an employee—but rather, interviewing for a job. Yet he wanted to speak with Satoru Iwata.Read more
Former Nintendo President Believes Gaming Experiences Could Benefit From Blockchain And ‘Play to Earn’ Models
3.5.2022
Reggie Fils-Aimé, the former president of Nintendo of America, has offered his take on blockchain and play to earn models when applied to the gaming industry. The executive declared that he was a big believer in blockchain technology, and that players investing their time in games should...
Tomb Raider's New Owners Have Been Snatching Up Old Series For Years Now
2.5.2022
The video game industry is undergoing a tidal wave of consolidation right now, and Swedish holding company Embracer Group is riding it to become one of the newest players in a rapidly shrinking space. A few years ago most people had never heard of it. Now it’s bigger than rivals like Ubisoft...
Nintendo Switch Sports Fans Are Accidentally Smashing TVs Again
2.5.2022
It’s like we’re back in the 2000s. Cropped cardigans are making a comeback, Biden is still in the White House, and Nintendo dropped a Wii Sports sequel in the form of Switch Sports. The nostalgia is so uncanny that players of Nintendo’s quirky sports simulator are once again flinging controllers...
Nintendo Switch Sports Is Solid Fun That Will Ruin Your Friendships
29.4.2022
Here’s how I know Nintendo Switch Sports is a good party game: I now hate my friends.Read more
How To Make A Mii For Nintendo Switch Sports
29.4.2022
RIP Wii Sports. Bowling only has ten pins. Boxing is gone. The most anticipated mode—golf—isn’t even available yet. But perhaps the most egregious crime committed by Nintendo Switch Sports is how it totally sidelines Miis, the lovable oddball player-created avatars who’ve defined Nintendo accounts...