A brand-new Kirby Café has finally opened in Osaka! Located in the Daimari Shinsaibashi Store in Osaka City, this now makes three permanent locations available in Japan. As with all other locations, the Osaka Café requires reservations, which can be hard to come by and often sell out quickly. You…
As is tradition every quarter, Nintendo has released a new issue of its in-house magazine titled “Nintendo Magazine.” Shockingly original name aside, this Winter 2024 issue is now available digitally, and physical issues for the Japanese market will be shipping out soon. This newest release contains information about Nintendo’s games…
I didn’t anticipate that I would be writing about a new Sega Genesis cartridge in 2024, but we’re certainly living in some bizarre times. To promote the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film, Sega has produced some promotional Genesis cartridges that include EPK (electronic press kit) materials. There’s even a…
For those of you who’ve been waiting for any news about the almost mythical Etrian Odyssey V, today’s your day. After its announcement over a year ago in November of 2014, almost no other information has been released about it. Atlus, Etrian Odyssey’s development team, finally opened up about the…
Animal Crossing has been seeing a lot of Badge Arcade love lately, and today is no different. Four new badge games are here and ripe for the picking, featuring some adorable Animal Crossing villager and NPC faces! A couple of these were available yesterday, but we didn’t get to cover…
We’re going back to the classics today in the Nintendo Badge Arcade with the original Legend of Zelda and Kirby games. 12 new games (six of each) are here, featuring our old 8-bit friends such as Link, the fairies, Kirby, Dedede, and a whole slew of enemies from both games….
In the future, when we look back at the state of Nintendo gaming in 2015, what will we remember? It was a diverse year of releases, with unusual spin-offs, small indie projects, and risky new IPs taking the forefront of Nintendo’s marketing. This is an undeniable shift compared to 2014’s…
The future is now for New Nintendo 3DS owners, as a GBATemp.net user named shutterbug2000 got Windows 95 to run on his New Nintedo 3DS. Other users of the forum stated they were also able to get Windows 95 running on their systems by using a new Homebrew process, but…
Happy New Year, everyone! Today, the Nintendo Badge Arcade is ringing in 2016 with three new Japanese New Year games, Mario style! Adorning these three new games are traditional Japanese New Year symbols in classic, 8-bit styles, as well as Mario in fancy New Year’s wear! Also still available today…
From the moment it was announced, I knew the New Nintendo 3DS would be the handheld system I had always wanted. Seeing special edition after special edition release for the original 3DS never made me regret having the Aqua Blue system, but it always tempted me to replace it. That…
Super Mario Maker badges have returned to the Nintendo Badge Arcade! The rabbit’s giving away a free play, so power up your bombing skills and grab as many as you can before they’re gone! Today’s Practice Catcher is modeled after this Super Mario Maker catcher: Additionally, today is the final…
Looks like there’s a few options for the Badge Arcade players today, and all of them are fun! Two more, non-amiibo Festival Animal Crossing games have been added today, featuring Isabelle, Digby and Reese. These are only around for today, so make sure to pick them up! Three new classic…
A bundle is coming with the release of Hyrule Warriors Legends in Japan next month. It contains content we’ve, surprisingly, mostly seen in North America already. The Hyrule Edition Nintendo 3DS XL, in all its golden glory, will be included in this bundle, paired with the game itself. It also…
The Badge Arcade is featuring one of Nintendo’s newer games today: Tri Force Heroes! Seven new machine offerings for the game have been added, featuring Link in his various costumes, as well as some of the official artwork, and the logo. And if that’s not quite your style, six new…
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games has gotten a new trailer for Japan, highlighting some of the features within the game as well as something new to the series: amiibo support. The game features a cast of characters from both series, including some newcomers for the combined…
