The year 2025 marks a very special occasion for many Nintendo fans out there. It isn’t just the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, but also the 40th anniversary of the Super Mario series. Despite this, there hasn’t been much of any news relating to Mario from Nintendo themselves, beyond…
The modding community around Super Smash Bros. never ceases to amaze me, but it seems to be a sticking point for Nintendo. If you remember from some years back, Nintendo once sent a cease and desist letter to The Big House, an organization centered around game tournaments. Due to COVID…
Last night out of the blue, Nintendo released an update for its NSO Game Boy Advance app that brings some welcomed features to the emulator. The biggest update is a boost to 1080p rendering in handheld mode for owners of the Nintendo Switch 2, which should make the pixels look…
Fans of classic Japanese strategy RPGs rejoice! Ogre Battle 64 is heading to the Wii U eShop in Europe this Thursday. The third main entry in the Ogre franchise that started on the SNES, developed by the Quest Corporation, Ogre Battle 64 casts you as the up-and-coming captain Magnus Gallant…
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was the very first Zelda game I ever got to experience, and what a good game to start off with. I was far too young to get to play it, in fact I’m not even sure I could fully talk when…
It’s almost time – three years after Eiji Aonuma confirmed its existence, the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be hitting store shelves alongside the new Nintendo Switch on March 3rd. To get everyone hyped up and ready, we’ll be running a series of articles focusing on all…
With just a month to go until the release of the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, there’s plenty of reasons to reflect on Link’s past adventures. For 25 years, the formula for proper entries in the series has been nipped and tucked in many ways. Some of these…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Blue haired falchion wielding warriors join the fight for mobile supremacy, Yoshi adopts a pupper pal, and Konami reminds us it once made video games. It’s another slow week in the sales department. A slew of Toki Tori games are still significantly discounted through…
Someone call the bomb squad! Bomberman ‘94 is blowing up North American Wii U Virtual Consoles tomorrow! Redeveloped in North America under the title Mega Bomberman, Bomberman ‘94 is a faithful port of the original Japanese PC Engine version in all its unaltered multiplayer mayhem glory. Interestingly enough, it was…
Get ready to once again destroy the core and save the galaxy! The far superior version of Gradius finally warp drives back to North American Wii U Virtual Consoles tomorrow! Released on the PC Engine in Japan back in 1991, this extremely faithful port of the 1985 Arcade classic shooter…
I recently sat down with my six-year-old daughter and loaded up The Legend of Zelda on Wii U’s Virtual Console. As a lifelong Nintendo fan and a child of the ’80s and ’90s, I’ve played through the game far too many times to count, and I can barely remember my…
This weekend marked the ten year anniversary of Bplus as a licensed Nintendo developer, and Bernd Geiblinger released a special video on YouTube to celebrate. What’s most interesting about this video, though, is the (potentially unintentional) hint at two new Switch games that were previously unannounced: Bit Boy!!…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Trick-or-treating in January and a trio of Culture Brain martial arts classics roundhouse kick Virtual Consoles. It’s an anemic week in the eShop discount aisle. Amazingly fun (not to mention cheap) puzzle platformers Toki Tori and Toki Tori 3D are both still on sale…
Sharpen those Kunai and dust off your ninja garbs: Little Ninja Brothers is sneaking onto North American Wii U Virtual Console tomorrow! Rounding out today’s smattering of martial arts themed retro classics is Little Ninja Brothers: the second, far superior game in the Super Chinese series after Kung-Fu Heroes. The…
Super Chinese and Culture Brain fans have another reason to celebrate tomorrow’s eShop offerings: Kung-Fu Heroes is officially dropkicking North American Wii U Virtual Console tomorrow! Originally released in arcades back in 1984 and eventually ported to the NES in 1986, Kung-Fu Heroes is basically 8-bit one-punch man on steroids….
