Super Mario Maker joins Wii U's million sellers club

Categories: News, Wii U

Nintendo revealed some encouraging sales numbers for Super Mario Maker today. In the two and a half weeks since its worldwide launch, the player-powered platformer has sold more than 1 million units across the globe. About a quarter of those can be attributed to Japan, where Nintendo continues to dominate…

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New costumes and stages come to Super Smash Bros.

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: 3DS, News, Wii U

Yet again another Super Smash Bros. update has arrived and brought with it a surprise batch of DLC. On top of the Super Mario Maker stage that was revealed just a few weeks ago, players can now grab some new and returning stages, as well as some more costumes for…

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Fire Emblem Marth Nendoroid now available for pre-order on AmiAmi

Author: Lauren Ganos
Categories: News

Good Smile has transformed Marth into a Nendoroid in its wonderfully classic and cute style. Here’s the description of the figure from the official Nendoroid site’s product page: From the popular game ‘Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem ~Heroes of Light and Shadow~’ comes a fully articulated Nendoroid of…

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Club Nintendo to shut down in Europe tomorrow

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News

After 13 years of running the service, Nintendo of Europe will be closing its branch of Club Nintendo tomorrow. If you’ve got any more Stars left over, make sure to cash them in while you can! Nintendo of Europe has been running the rewards service since 2002, and over the…

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The Game Boy turns 25

Categories: 3DS, News, Retro

Nintendo’s Game Boy, the grandpappy of today’s handheld systems, celebrates its 25th birthday today! Okay, so technically the Game Boy turned 25 in North America and Japan last year. But today is the official quarter-century mark in Europe, and around here we’ll take any excuse to party. Nintendo holds such…

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Nintendo releases a brand new TriForce Heroes trailer

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: 3DS, News

We’ve got less than a month to go until the release of The Legend of Zelda: TriForce Heroes for the Nintendo 3DS, and as one last marketing push Nintendo has released a new trailer previewing the game’s many features. The trailer shows off everything from the story to the single…

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Setting the Stage: Pac-Land

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Retro

Super Smash Bros. has always been a franchise that revels in the history of video games, no matter how obscure it gets, and one of the best ways it can celebrate this history is through stages. “Setting the Stage” is a new series of articles that will pick apart and…

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