As developers continue to innovate and gaming advances into a new era, it can often be easy to forget where a lot of the amazing things we have now first came from. For that reason, it’s a good idea to periodically look back at the greats of the past and…
New trademarks have been filed by Nintendo, but these latest entries don’t have anything to do with new games. Instead, 10 new trademarks were filed in Japan by Nintendo on October 11th, all falling under Class 43. So what is Class 43? It all has to do with food, drink,…
After the absolutely brutal news yesterday that Ubisoft had disbanded the team responsible for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, it seems that not everything is entirely gloom and doom for the publisher. According to a new report from Insider Gaming, the former Prince of Persia team has had most…
Once again, thanks to the super talented amiibo artist extraordinaire, GandaKris, we have a very special treat for amiibo fans! This custom amiibo of Nintendo’s Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Super Smash Bros. and Kirby, is up for a charity auction on eBay. 100% of the proceeds from this auction…
Back in July, Aksys Games announced the long-awaited third installment in the Zero Escape series, but at the time they were deliberately vague on the game’s details. Thankfully, just in time for Halloween, the publisher has not only revealed the game’s title to be “Zero Time Dilemma” but also confirmed…
UPDATE (30/10): Nintendo has released a new video showing Dry Bowser and Bowser Jr. facing off on the court: After months of silence Nintendo is finally revealing more details for the upcoming Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash, and while there are no new character announcements just yet they’ve confirmed the return…
Halloween is upon us, and no doubt many of you are preparing your costumes and getting ready to start scaring. However, if you’ve got some time to spare this All Hallow’s Eve you might want to jump into Super Mario Maker; the Mario brothers aren’t strangers to creepy haunted houses…
My biggest takeaway from Nintendo’s investors meeting yesterday wasn’t its sales numbers or the delay of its mobile game debut. And it wasn’t the first details about the new unified account system, My Nintendo. The most meaningful, and risky, piece of information came when President Tatsumi Kimishima was asked about…
For 20 years, fans of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island have been patiently waiting for a worthy successor. Though the floaty, egg-centric platformer has gone on to inspire an entire series of follow-ups, none have been able to recapture the precise chemistry of the original, until now. After decades…
Nintendo of Japan just unveiled all 100 of the Series 2 Animal Crossing amiibo cards on its official Happy Home Designer page. Did your favorite villager make the cut? Check out the image below for the full Series 2 roster!
Nintendo held a brief meeting earlier this evening to disclose its latest financial information. While they didn’t exactly drop any bombs, there were more than a few announcements of interest, including our first details on Nintendo’s upcoming foray into the mobile gaming market. First things first, the company shared a…
File this conjecture under ‘potential crimes against humanity’, rather than ‘wishful thinking’. We’re currently in the middle of a maelstrom of rumors and speculation about Nintendo’s upcoming console, codenamed NX, which is due to be formally revealed sometime in 2016. Much of what’s being discussed with regards to the new…
UPDATE (10/28): Takashi Mochizuki of The Wall Street Journal attended Nintendo’s financial results press conference and reported that Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima stated that Nintendo Directs are still in Nintendo’s future. This is certainly good news! After speculating that a Nintendo Direct must be imminent earlier this week (read below),…
This coming weekend, when most people will be celebrating Halloween and probably forgetting to set their clocks back one hour in honor of the end of Daylight Saving Time, Nintendo is encouraging a trick-or-treating event of its own. In what’s being called the National StreetPass Weekend, bringing your 3DS system…
UPDATE: Our source provided us with a new image that shows the averages of the stock numbers across the U.S. Thanks to a trusted source at Target, we now have a better idea of what the amiibo stock numbers for the upcoming Animal Crossing figure releases look like for the…
