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7 Games To Play With Your Kids Over Christmas
22.12.2020
For parents, the Christmas vacation is, at its best, a fortnight of Sundays. No school, but also everything else is closed, too, and everyone you know is busy seeing family. 2020’s holiday break is, as is only proper for 2020, all of that but even harder. Two weeks of being at home, unable to...
The State Of The Nintendo Switch In 2020
21.12.2020
It’s hard to imagine what the state of the Nintendo Switch would look like right now if 2020 hadn’t been so horrible. What could have been one of the hardware’s more stagnant years turned into one of its most memorable, when the soothing escapism of Animal Crossing met a world desperately in need...
'Shop Contest: Miyamoto In A Pipe
20.12.2020
Shigeru Miyamoto hosted the most recent Nintendo Direct, which was all about the Super Nintendo World park in Japan. It opened with the legendary designer jumping out of a pipe. Thank you, Nintendo for this ‘Shop Contest gift.Read more
Ghostrunner Is Actually The Fall’s Sharpest Cyberpunk Game
19.12.2020
Ghostrunner is a lean-forward game. You know the position: When the going gets tough, anything short of absolute focus won’t cut it, so you lean forward, elbows on thighs, in order to close the distance between your eyes and the TV as much as possible. With a lean-forward game, the going is always...
A Final Goodbye To The Last Generation
18.12.2020
For the past month we’ve been taking a look back at the winners, losers and defining trends of the PlayStation 4/Xbox One era of home video game consoles as part of a feature series called The Last Generation.Read more
Nintendo Of America President Calls Artificial Purchase-By Deadlines A 'Celebration'
17.12.2020
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser was asked during a recent interview why some popular Nintendo games are only being sold for a limited time. His answer? “[T]his is a celebration.”Read more
In Japan, Nintendo Says Newly Purchased Switch Units Might Have Setup Error
16.12.2020
It’s the holiday season. People in Japan are shopping for presents, and no doubt, the Nintendo Switch will be a popular gift item. However, it might be a good idea to check those Switch units before gifting them.Read more
Modified Cartridge Gets Ray Tracing Working On A Super Nintendo
16.12.2020
Ray tracing, currently the big thing in video game visuals, is a perk for those running bleeding edge hardware on PC or next-gen consoles. Or, conversely, anyone who owns a SNES.Read more
Everything Nintendo Showed During Today's Indie World Showcase
15.12.2020
Nintendo aired a brief livestream today dedicated to indie games coming to Switch in the next few months, and there are a lot of them.Read more
Among Us Launches On Switch Later Today
15.12.2020
Announced today during Nintendo’s Indie World presentation, 2020's hit mystery-party-action game, Among Us, is coming to the Nintendo Switch today. Read more
Microsoft, Sony, And Nintendo Team Up To Promote Safer Gaming
14.12.2020
In a post shared across all three companies’ websites this morning, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have released a joint set of principles to foster a safe gaming environment across all of their platforms. Read more
Jesus Christ, Nintendo, Sephiroth Is Going To Get Someone Killed
11.12.2020
Sephiroth has been in Smash for like 34 seconds, and already, he has nearly got both Mario and Princess Zelda killed. This is wildly irresponsible!Read more
Nintendo Cancels Splatoon Stream After Teams Show Solidarity With Smash Community
7.12.2020
Over the weekend, Nintendo quietly canceled a Splatoon 2 tournament livestream, and participants believe it’s due to the names of some of the participating teams. While Nintendo hasn’t publicly stated their reasoning, the result was a last-minute makeshift replacement tournament for the multiplayer...
The Original Fire Emblem Is A Weird Game For The Switch To End Its Year On
7.12.2020
I’ve spent the last week, in odd moments here and there, helping Fire Emblem’s Prince Marth search for a legendary sword and defeat the forces of darkness to rescue his kingdom from an evil wizard. Throughout all of it, in good times and bad, one question kept bubbling up to the surface: why?Read...
Japan's Super Nintendo World Looks Amazing, Sure, But Also Kind Of Small
7.12.2020
Yes, we can all probably agree that the upcoming Super Nintendo World looks incredible. On the inside, it’s amazing, but on the outside, it looks somewhat small. Read more
Cake Bash Is A Deliciously Sweet Take On Mario Party
4.12.2020
Everyone loves a good sugar rush. It’s why, no matter how big the backlog, we gravitate to games that could generously be qualified as comfort food. But the sweetest sugar-rush I’ve run into lately isn’t some paint-by-numbers first-person shooter you’ve played a hundred times or some formulaic...
Ditto Makes For An Excellent Pokémon Sofa
4.12.2020
When you see that purple amorphous Pokémon blob, don’t you just want to sit on it? Good news, you can!Read more
Cross-Platform Gaming Has Been Great
4.12.2020
While I’ve already bemoaned the lack of real technological advances in the past console generation, not every innovation of the PS4/Xbox One era had to do with visuals or framerate. One of the quieter revelations, and one of the most forward-thinking, has been the slow adoption of cross-platform...
Age of Calamity Is a Zelda History Lesson That Echoes Across Time
3.12.2020
Each entry in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda franchise has been a discrete story following the Hero of Time and Hyrule’s legendary princess as they fight to keep the ultimate evil at bay. At the same time, all of the different games also fit together as pieces of a larger overarching narrative that...
Nintendo Thief Jailed For 2017 Hack And "Possessing Images Of Child Abuse"
2.12.2020
21-year-old Ryan Hernandez, who had been arrested in relation to the theft of “stolen information, including pre-release information about the anticipated Nintendo Switch console”, has been sentenced to three years in prison.Read more