Trainers looking to get a head start on the Cleffa Hatch Day event can clear out their Egg stash thanks to a hatch distance bonus happening before the event. This Cleffa Hatch Day Extended Bonuses “event” will also add some Field Research tasks into the mix. (For more details about…
Thanks to the efforts of the Video Game History Foundation, another bit of Nintendo history has been preserved and released online. Yesterday, Frank Cifaldi (founder and director of VGHF) uploaded the ROM data for a prototype cartridge of the original Legend of Zelda on NES. Twitter user MrTalida then dug…
As part of the typical Nintendo hype cycle, the company has uploaded a new trailer that gives fans an overview of what to expect with Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It’s kind of funny to start with the narrator being surprised Mario is made of paper considering we’ve had six…
Welcome back to Part 3 of our PAX Indie coverage! In Part 2 we covered some hot upcoming Wii U titles like Shantae: Half-Genie Hero and Severed, and this time we’ll be wrapping up our Indie coverage of the show. There were some surprise gems that I wasn’t expecting to…
Nintendo will be putting its best foot forward when it brings Super Mario Run to iOS later this year. Mario’s first mobile title, and one of his first on a non-Nintendo platform, is being developed by legendary Nintendo director Takashi Tezuka (Super Mario Bros. 2/3/World, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s…
Nintendo of Europe has been heavily pushing Splatoon eSports in the region recently, with a series of tournaments being announced a few weeks ago at Gamescom in collaboration with ESL (the Electronic Sports League.) The tournaments will be held weekly for six months, with teams earning Go4Splatoon ranking points depending…
Mario sports games wouldn’t be where they are today if it wasn’t for the help of Camelot, the studio that developed Mario Golf and Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color and cemented them as big franchises. Ever since they’ve worked on many more Mario sports titles,…
Update (September 1, 2016 – 7:03 p.m. PST): Pre-orders are live for both the standard edition and Poochy amiibo bundle on GameStop! As one of the most visually striking games on Wii U, Yoshi’s Woolly World didn’t seem like the most likely candidate for a transition to handheld. But a…
This morning’s Nintendo Direct brought a lot to the table for amiibo fans, with word on known figures’ functionality, some exciting additions to existing lines, and a brand new collection. Lets dive right in and break it down! First, the seven upcoming Super Mario amiibo, first revealed at E3, got…
Tomorrow brings the first Nintendo Direct presentation since March, and with nearly half a year since our last videocast of Nintendo news, the fans are hungry for info. While the Direct is focused on 3DS news, with no information about NX or mobile titles to be announced, that doesn’t mean…
It looks like Nintendo is preparing to exert more control over the distribution of its physical products in Japan, as it has arranged the subsidization of JESNET, the company that has been distributing Nintendo games and products in the region for several years now, after purchasing 70% of its shares…
Dark Horse Comics has partnered with Nintendo yet again to bring us an amazing 400+ page art book titled The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts. This massive hardcover book contains hundreds of pages of artwork from Zelda’s past and future – which means that, yes, it includes images from…
While most of us Nintendo fans will associate Shigesato Itoi with the Mother series, he has actually been successful in various fields, from TV presenting to authoring several books. Even his own website, Hobonichi, which started as a personal blog way back in 1998, has become an outlet for his…
Mobile game production company DeNA, who struck a partnership with Nintendo last year, held a Q1 results briefing late last night, where they reconfirmed that upcoming mobile versions of Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing titles will be releasing this fall. While we heard about the release window back when they…
With its March release coming ever closer, bits of NX news are starting to make themselves known. Alongside The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Just Dance 2017, another game has been revealed for the upcoming system and this time it’s from Square Enix. Dragon Quest X, the…
