President Kimishima reassures fans, worries investors

Categories: News

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…

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Review: Yoshi’s Woolly World

Categories: Reviews, Wii U

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…

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Biggest takeaways from Nintendo's investors meeting

Categories: News

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…

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Nintendo NX needs to support Wii U games

Categories: Wii U, Features

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…

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Is a Nintendo Direct imminent? (Update: President Kimishima confirms upcoming Direct)

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News

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),…

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National StreetPass Weekend begins October 30th

Author: Josh Brown
Categories: 3DS, News

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…

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Special custom Halloween themed Gengar Pikachu giveaway

Author: Lauren Ganos
Categories: Amiibo News, News

The amazingly talented GandaKris has returned with another fantastic piece of amiibo art for the community! This time, the adorable Pikachu has been transformed from his regular “Pika Pika!” self to a perfectly one-of-a-kind Halloween themed Gengar Pikachu. This little guy is sporting a frightfully cute Gengar hoodie– red eyes,…

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Future console Sonic games to be inspired by the Genesis era

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News

Many would agree that last year’s Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric was a new low for the turbulent franchise. The game’s frequent glitches, strange pacing and poorly structured world lost much of the respect the franchise had regained following the relatively great Sonic Colors and Generations. Ultimately the Wii U…

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