As reported by Automaton, Nintendo’s stock prices have reached an all-time high today following the slight drop it suffered from the Switch 2 reveal teaser. Just last week, we reported how Nintendo’s stocks fell around 5.9% following the unveiling of the Switch 2, which analysts believed was down to leaks…
In some rather sad news to kick off 2025, it looks as if developer Extremely OK Games, LTD. (EXOK), the team behind the acclaimed 2018 platformer Celeste, has cancelled development of its upcoming action RPG Earthblade. In a blog post on the dev’s official website, Maddy Thorson, director of Celeste,…
The Pokémon Company and Build-A-Bear are back with another Pokémon plush, available in stores starting today! Introducing Yamper, the Puppy Pokémon! This adorable plushy is now available online at the Build-A-Bear store as part of an online only bundle for $65. The bundle includes the Yamper plush,…
A version of Super Mario 64 is now running on the Game Boy Advance, thanks to a highly talented fan. Joshua Barretto is rewriting the code of the 1996 Nintendo 64 classic for Nintendo’s retro handheld, with a new video showcasing familiar locations such as the Castle Grounds,…
A new app has been released allowing for Game Boy emulation on the Apple Watch. ArcEmu is a $1.99 emulator on the App Store which supports original Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance ROMs. Developer Raffaele D’Amato broke down the app’s features on Reddit, which includes 60fps…
Today’s Nintendo Direct will be the talk of the internet for quite awhile. As surprising as the big first party announcements so late in the Nintendo Switch’s lifespan are, the most interesting announcement came from Nintendo Switch Online. Starting today, Nintendo is adding a 17+ Mature rating section to the…
One of the bigger surprises during today’s Nintendo Direct was the news that Capcom has joined together with Marvel yet again to (re)license some of their arcade classics. For fighting game fans this is fantastic news and no doubt opens the floodgates for “MvC4 When” type discussions, but Capsule Computers…
Nintendo often forgoes family structure for its games and characters, but it’s brought us a fair share of great dads over the years. Each and every one has a part to play in his game and in our memories of the times we’ve spent playing them — some of us…
Thanks to the incredible efforts of The Video Game History Foundation, we may have just discovered Nintendo’s first-ever US commercial. In the early 80s before the NES was released and Nintendo became synonymous with the idea of video games, The Big N needed to go through different publishers and manufacturers…
A professional Super Mario 64 player has managed to finish the Wii Virtual Console version of the game without once pressing the jump button. The impressive feat, achieved by Twitch streamer Marbler from May 17th to May 21st, took 86 hours of game play to complete. YouTuber Bismuth has an…
2005’s Shadow the Hedgehog has gone down in infamy since it first released, being the game that allowed Sonic’s rival to wield guns and say some relatively light cursewords. It turns out it was almost much, much worse. Jason Griffith, the voice actor for both Sonic and Shadow at the…
Badges have been one of the defining features of Mario RPGs, and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is no exception. If anything it’s the defining standard with its mix of support, attack, and other options. Nestled into that “other” category are a pair of badges that outright change the look…
Two of the earliest video gaming pioneers are joining forces… Kind of. Atari and Intellivision waged one of the earliest console wars in the late ’70s and early ’80s but now, 45 years later, the former is buying the latter, in a manner of speaking. Specifically, Atari has purchased the…
The 2000s were a period of great change for Nintendo. The moderately successful Nintendo 64 made way for the floundering, but beloved, GameCube, while the Game Boy line of handhelds was retired in favor of the smash hit Nintendo DS family. Internally, the company also saw a change in presidency…
When discussing the most influential gaming systems of all time, one name that’s sure to come up in conversation is the Nintendo 64. Debuting in 1996, this innovative home console defined a generation of video games and the laundry list of beloved entries goes on and on. From titles like…
