Just last September, Splatoon 3 celebrated its two-year anniversary in a spectacular sendoff with the Grand Festival. This celebration also marked the effective ending of the game, with new monthly Splatfest themes coming to a close. While the new content has slowed down, it hasn’t stopped entirely, as the seasonal…
For older Nintendo fans, Space World 2000 is one of the most pivotal moments in the company’s history. The event where Nintendo not only unveiled the GameCube to the public but showcased Super Mario 128 and some ridiculously high-quality 3D renders for a Legend of Zelda prototype, Space World 2000…
Across Nintendo’s vast reach, Mario has quite a few unique games under his belt. While most people tend to focus on the main series entries, there’s many games that fly under the radar for one reason or another. One such oft-forgotten title is Super Mario Run. This mobile-exclusive platformer doesn’t…
The Japanese versions of Nintendo Directs usually have some neat surprises and yesterday’s was no different. Onion Games, the studio known for consisting of the developers behind some of the weirdest-yet-charming games out there, announced an all-new title – Stray Children. The game has clear visual similarities to the game…
Thanks to Sonic Superstars being a 3D game it is much easier to add cosmetic items for the characters. We’ve already seen skins for Lego, modern Amy Rose’s dress, the original concept art rabbit, and more besides. While this newly spotted set of skins doesn’t change the characters too significantly,…
As soon as gameplay from Unicorn Overlord showed up on screen during today’s Nintendo Direct a certain subset of players will have immediately pegged it as a Vanillaware game, with its gorgeous animation and environments repping their signature style. The studio, previously known for Odin Sphere, Muramasa: The Demon Blade,…
Today’s Nintendo Direct featured a brand-new trailer for WarioWare: Move It!, showcasing several of its over 200 microgames and its central “Forms” gameplay mechanic. Each microgame in Move It! requires a specific pose, called a “Form,” to complete, like “Ba-KAW” Form in a pecking microgame and “Fashionista” in…
Nintendo announced during today’s Nintendo Direct that the upcoming remaster of Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon will launch on Switch in Summer 2024. A new trailer for the game was also showcased, revealing its official title as Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD — making it uniform across regions after North America received…
Another Code: Two Memories (known as Trace Memory in North America) was a 2005 DS title and point and click adventure that utilized the budding DS’s touchscreen technology to tell an evocative narrative. While little known outside of minute cameos in Super Smash Bros., the title and its even more…
After a long wait, we finally have our first look at the upcoming Noah and Mio amiibo from Xenoblade Chronicles III! According to Nintendo, the two amiibo will be sold as a two-pack and will release on January 19th. Each amiibo will unlock multiple armor sets in the…
Long has Princess Peach been consigned to either damsel in distress or co-star, but no longer – Princess Peach returns to the top star role in Princess Peach: Showtime!, an action-platformer set in an overtaken theater. While Peach is attending a stage play, the Sparkle Theater is overtaken…
Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Pauline, and Peachette have been announced as the final new playable drivers heading to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as part of its Booster Course Pass DLC. Aside from the four new racers, Booster Course Pass Wave 6 will also include Wii Daisy Circuit alongside seven other…
Construction of the previously announced public gallery of Nintendo’s history, now officially named the Nintendo Museum, will be completed by March 2024. The gallery will be housed within the Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant in Kyoto, Japan. Originally dedicated to manufacturing of Hanafuda and playing cards when built in 1969, it…
Twenty years later, the most storied Mario RPG of all time is coming back – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is being remade for the Nintendo Switch. Now let me scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! The remake features fully updated graphics with new lighting and detail more akin to recent Paper…
Today’s Nintendo Direct had plenty of Mario announcements but right at the top of the show was a remake of the classic Game Boy Advance puzzle platformer, Mario vs. Donkey Kong. Functionally a follow-up to the very underappreciated Donkey Kong ’94 for the Game Boy, Mario vs. Donkey Kong saw…
