In the last week, Nintendo has added a bunch of classic games to its various emulators for Switch Online. After giving players the chance to play the first two Donkey Kong Land games, a trio of Genesis classics have been added to the Genesis app and they include one of…
Macy’s has announced the lineup of balloons for the 98th Thanksgiving Day parade and a veteran Pokémon float will be making its annual appearance again. The famous Pikachu and Eevee Pokésled balloon will return and mark 24 consecutive years that Pokémon has appeared in the parade. It’s nice to see…
When it comes to fiction, nothing strikes a chord with people quite like a long-standing narrative. This naturally extends to video game universes, such as the rather infamously complicated Legend of Zelda timeline. Despite how isolated each game in the series seems to feel, Nintendo does have an official canonical…
In early 2016, it was hard to predict how a brand new Star Fox game made in the series’ classic style would fare. It had been awhile since we last saw a new entry in the franchise, much less one that wasn’t a remake or a radical departure from the…
F-Zer… I mean FAST Racing NEO fans rejoice! Shin’en Multimedia has announced that a new update, v1.1, will be made available on May 18th for the action-packed, adrenaline fueled racer on the Wii U. Aptly titled ‘Vertigo,’ the update packs performance improvements, changes to the user interface, and several added…
It’s been an exciting couple of weeks for Ace Attorney fans, from the confirmation of a western release of Spirit of Justice this September to the on-going anime series making its way to Crunchyroll every week. Japanese fans of the franchise have yet another thing to look forward to though:…
Hey, everyone! Do you find shorts comfy and easy to wear? Then you’re gonna love today’s new arrivals in the Nintendo Badge Arcade! Get ready to add the likes of Gardevoir, Voltorb and Linoone to your living badge Pokédex! Free play? No. Practice catcher: It’s the final day for the…
UPDATE: A potentially new Pokémon can be seen in the bottom left-hand side of the new CoroCoro trailer at the 12 second mark. The Pokémon appears to be a dog type with a bushy white tail and pointy ears. What could it be? Just a day after images of the…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Disney Art Academy paints its way onto the 3DS, the critically acclaimed and brutally challenging Super Meat Boy finally makes its Nintendo console debut, and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass sets sail for the Wii U Virtual Console. For those of you eagerly…
CoroCoro Magazine is well known for its Pokémon leaks, but you might be surprised to find out it’s got quite a bit more content inside for Japanese readers. Through images leaked online of the upcoming issue, it’s been revealed that CoroCoro is getting a collaboration with Splatoon! Three entirely new…
Join Happily Candied and Amiibo Jason as they welcome Jared Rutledge to the newscast! This week, they discuss Nintendo in the movie business, Pokémon GO, and Pokémon Sun and Moon!
Now that the news of Pokémon Sun and Moon’s starters has had a few days to settle, some really awesome fan art of all the new info has started to surface online! We asked our followers on Twitter to send us some of their art to showcase here on Nintendo…
For the past two years, Geoff Keighley has produced and hosted the industry-wide year end awards show, The Game Awards. As one of the first video game-centric award ceremonies to approach the hobby and its enthusiasts with the respect that they deserve, The Game Awards have been generally well received…
Pokémon trainers, today’s Badge Arcade update is legendary! There are tons of new Pokémon badges in the Arcade today for you to catch, and a great selection, too! If you’re not so much of a trainer, though, don’t worry! There’s also plenty of classic Mario badges and pixel animal badges…
The run-and-gun classic Contra III: The Alien Wars has arrived in Europe as the next SNES Virtual Console title to hit the New 3DS. Interestingly, Contra III was never released in Europe under that name. Instead it was called Super Probotector, and the human protagonists were replaced by robotic soldiers….
