Metroid II: Return of Samus | Livestream

Author: Lauren Ganos
Categories: 3DS, Retro, Videos

Nintendo Wire’s Amiibo Jason, Matthew Weidner and Happily Candied played Metroid II while discussing the series’ long Nintendo history on Thursday night in celebration of Metroid: Samus Returns’ upcoming release. If you missed hanging out, you can catch up with their discussion by watching the recorded stream below.    

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Theory – Beyond the Odyssey: Super Mario’s curious new caps

Categories: Switch

Ever since E3, Nintendo has had a Twitter account specifically dedicated to Super Mario Odyssey. Only available in Japanese, the tweets can be taken apart and pieced together thanks to Google Translate, Bing Translate (sometimes with hilarious results), logic and examining the visual media that’s included. With the game’s release…

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ARMS’ version 3.0 introduces button mapping

Categories: News, Switch

You can pick from a slew of ARMS to outfit your fighter of choice in Nintendo Switch’s newest fighting IP. It seems only fitting that you should be able to map out what commands you want on whichever buttons.   Ver.3では、ボタン配置を自由に変更できる「コントローラーの設定」を追加します。このボタンでラッシュを発動したい、ガードしたい…そんなアナタにアジャスト!いいね持ちのセンサー感度まで調整できます。お好きなボタン配置で、いっちょアームズ! pic.twitter.com/3Zw5KS0yZt — ARMS(アームズ) (@ARMS_Cobutter) September 8, 2017   While…

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The World of Pokémon comes to Discord (sort of)

Categories: News

Welcome to the world of Discord and PokéWorld’s text based adventure. Crafted by Bioblaze Payne, a developer and programmer residing in northern California, this new way to play Pokémon was brought to the forefront this morning due to The Verge’s piece on the bot. Going from a proof of concept…

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eShop Update: Week of 9/7/17 (North America)

Categories: 3DS, Retro, Switch, Wii U

This week in the Nintendo eShop: Monster Hunter gets some turn-based peanut butter in its chocolate, action-RPG formula, Rayman slaps some Teensies and robot brain bots channel their inner terminator. DrinkBox Studios is slashing both limbs and prices off a handful of its critically acclaimed games. First up is the…

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(Video) Metroid: Samus Returns PAX Panel

Author: Jason Ganos
Categories: 3DS, News

The Nintendo Minute crew held a Metroid: Samus Returns panel at PAX West last week. During the event, information on amiibo, abilities and the game’s world were shared during the 20 minute presentation. Luckily, if you didn’t have the opportunity to attend the event, the official Nintendo YouTube channel has…

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Special Ash Hat Pikachu distribution coming to America

Author: Ricky Berg
Categories: 3DS, News

Since it was revealed and distributed in Japan earlier this year, the Ash Hat Pikachu event Pokémon has been one of my most sought after this side of Marshadow. With the movie coming out in about two months, the Pokémon Company has given us the where and how on getting…

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