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"They run counter to my values as well as Nintendo’s beliefs"
Update: Nintendo has now officially confirmed this in a PR response to Fanbyte: “We can confirm the content of Doug Bowser’s internal email to Nintendo of America staff is accurate. We have nothing further to share on this topic.” Nintendo of America's president Doug Bowser...
Video The Varied And Fascinating Sources Of Inspiration For Metroid
A hugely revealing look by "Critical Kate" Willært
With Metroid Dread arriving to much acclaim in October, and by Nintendo's own description bringing an end to the original saga of the series, plenty of eager fans have been poring over the lore and detail of the franchise. A recent video by "Critical Kate" Willært (above) gives a fascinating and...
Feature A Link To The Past's Dark World Changed Zelda Forever
"Everyone who wanders into this land is changed to a shape that reflects his true nature"
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, we ran a series of features looking at a specific aspect — a theme, character, mechanic, location, memory or something else entirely — from each of the mainline Zelda games. Today, on the 30th...
Anniversary Zelda: Twilight Princess Is Now 15 Years Old (That's 105 In Wolf Years)
Wolf Link is going grey
The Wii is 15 years old this week. That's not too bad, right? It feels like it came out around a decade and a half ago, right? For context, here are some other things that happened in 2006: The first Cars movie, the first Daniel Craig Bond movie, Casino Royale, and we met Dr Kawashima in the very first Brain Training game...
News Nintendo's American Branch Didn't Like The Idea Of GameCube Being Purple
"we pushed for black and silver"
Xbox isn't the only one celebrating 20 years this week. The GameCube - which ended up selling about 21 million units worldwide during its lifetime - is currently reliving its North American launch from two decades ago. While purple might seem like a fitting theme for the system, prior to its launch in 2001, there...
News Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Calls For Industry-Wide Support Of Game Preservation Via Emulation
"My hope is as an industry we'd work on legal emulation"
Xbox, as you might have heard, is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary. As part of this head of Xbox Phil Spencer has been doing a lot of interviews with media outlets this week - discussing the past, present and future. In his latest chat with Axios, he's passed on a message to the...
Poll What's The Best Pokémon Game Ever?
[insert game here], I choose you!
This week brings the launch of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, the 4th-gen remasters/re-imaginings that add a Chibi-style and some quality of life tweaks compared to the DS originals. Naturally it's got us thinking a little about the long history of the series, especially as we only gave the newest...
News Metroid Dread Version 1.0.3 Is Now Available, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Take note, speedrunners
Surprisingly Nintendo and MercurySteam have released another update for Samus' latest adventure, Metroid Dread. This latest update fixes an issue that would make Samus disappear under certain conditions. The development team says it's made the fix to keep the experience as it was intended. Apart from this, there are no other...
News Surprise! Nintendo Has Released A Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain Demo
Download it from the eShop today
Following on from the Metroid Dread demo late last month, Nintendo has now released another one - this time for its upcoming title Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain. If it looks or sounds familiar, it's because it was originally released during the Nintendo DS era way back in 2005/06. The new version arrives on the...
News Riot Forge Nintendo Switch Showcase Airing Later Today
"get a look at some upcoming indie games"
Riot Forge and Nintendo's Indie World team appear to be uniting to promote a special showcase that'll be taking place today. As you might recall, Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story is out tomorrow on Nintendo Switch - so it's expected to be on display. Apart from this, we might see Ruined King: A...
"we’ve observed as people have returned units"
Nintendo's released all sorts of statements regarding Switch Joy-Con 'drift' in recent times, and the latest one comes from the NoA's Doug Bowser. In the same interview with The Verge - where he sort of addressed complaints about Switch Online's N64 emulation - Doug was queried about the company's...
News Doug Bowser (Kind Of) Addresses Complaints About Switch Online's Nintendo 64 Emulation
"We take feedback very seriously"
Nintendo launched its Switch Online 'Expansion Pack' premium tier earlier this month, but it's not exactly received the warmest welcome from fans - with concerns raised about the price and value, the quality of N64 emulation, and the official trailer for it becoming the most disliked video ever on Nintendo's YouTube...
News Niantic's New Pikmin Game Has Been Downloaded 2 Million Times In Two Weeks
Growing the garden
Pokémon GO developer Niantic recently launched its new mobile AR walking game, Pikmin Bloom - so how's it doing? According to Sensor Tower (via our friends at Eurogamer), the title has been downloaded 2 million times in two weeks. 864k of those downloads were from players in Japan, US had the second-largest player base and the...
News Nintendo Is Eager To Utilise More Franchises For 'Visual Content' Like Movies
"We want to work diligently to build up a strong offering"
You don't have to be a genius or an 'insider' to figure out that Nintendo is planning more movie-style content beyond the Illumination-developed Super Mario film due in late 2022. From appointing Illumination founder Chris Meledandri to Nintendo's board as an Outside Director, to persistant...
News Sakamoto: Metroid Dread Is Not The "Ultimate End", Samus Will Continue Her Adventures
As long as she "exists" there'll be more games
In the same interview with CNET, where Metroid Dread producer Yoshio Sakamoto spoke about how he would like to see a Metroid movie become a "reality", he's also discussed the future of the Metroid series in general. Dread marks the end of the five-story Metroid arc that originally began on the NES in...
News Nintendo And LEGO Reveal Brand New Super Mario Expansion Sets
"launching early 2022"
Following on from last week's surprise announcement of Luigi's Mansion sets, Lego has now revealed some exciting new Super Mario expansion sets. Nintendo shared this news on its social media accounts, which also confirms they'll be arriving early on in 2022. Check them out above and below. As you can see, some familiar faces...
News Metroid Dread's Producer Would Like To See Samus In Her Own Movie One Day
"I hope that it does become a reality"
If you have ever wanted to see Nintendo's Metroid series get adapted to the big screen, you're not alone. During a recent interview with CNET, Metroid Dread producer Yoshio Sakamoto - who originally worked on the series as a designer - voiced his own interests in seeing Samus in cinema. He finds the idea of it...
News Nintendo To Invest Huge Sums In Game Development And Online Infrastructure
Initiatives beyond standard R&D costs
Throughout the Switch generation Nintendo has benefitted from a lucrative period of sustained profits, putting it in a distinctly 'cash-rich' position. In its most recent financial reports presentation it's now outlined bold plans to invest significant amounts of money in three key areas. It's important to note...
News Nintendo Reiterates 'ESG' Initiatives On The Environment, Diversity And Transparency
Will continue to target 'environmentally conscious products'
Nintendo's extensive financial results briefing has plenty of information in various areas, and right at the back is the company's renewed commitment to its 'ESG' Initiatives - Environment, Social and Governance. It reiterates some information seen in the most recent corporate social...
News Nintendo Talks About Its Future And Reconfirms Next Gaming System Is Coming In "20XX"
An update from Nintendo's president
There's always talk about what's next for major gaming companies like Nintendo, but what is actually next for Nintendo? Well, in its latest Corporate Management Policy Briefing led by president Shuntaro Furukawa - the company has shared another incredibly vague update about future hardware plans - essentially...
Subscriber count growing alongside hardware install base
During Nintendo's latest Corporate Management Briefing, it was revealed its paid subscription service - Nintendo Switch Online - now has over 32 million members, as of September 2021. The last significant figure was in September 2020 when the company said it had over 26 million users...
News Nintendo Is Opening A New Store In Japan
Expected to be up and running by the end of 2022
Nintendo has announced it will be opening a new retail and merchandise store located in Osaka, Japan. It'll be located within the Daimaru Umeda building. It will be the second store to open in the company's homeland, following on from Tokyo in 2019. It's currently scheduled to open "at the end of...
News Zelda: Skyward Sword On Switch Has Already Matched Its Lifetime Wii Sales
The sky is the limit
It seems Nintendo's decision to remaster and port its 2011 Wii release The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD to the Switch has well and truly paid off. In the company's latest financial report, it's been revealed the Nintendo Switch version of the game has already sold 3.60 million units as of 30th September 2021. As...
News Nintendo's Profits Remain Down But On Track, Despite Drop In Switch Sales Projection
Confirms previous Nikkei report on production issues
Earlier this week Nikkei reported that Nintendo was encountering production issues related to the ongoing chip shortage, which has also been a problem for Sony and Microsoft with its latest hardware. In the updated Q2 financial reports issued by Nintendo it's effectively confirmed that report,...
News Nintendo Adds N64 Controller Support To 3D All-Stars Version Of Super Mario 64
Play like it's 1996
Well, here's a surprise - Nintendo has now added N64 wireless controller support to the Super Mario 3D All-Stars version of Super Mario 64. In other words, you can now play the classic N64 Mario game, similar to how to back when the game was originally released on the N64. Here are the full patch notes for Version 1.1.1,...
News Metroid Dread Version 1.0.2 Is Now Available, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
A "final boss fix" and more!
We weren't necessarily expecting regular patches for Nintendo's recent release Metroid Dread, but it seems there are still quite a number of issues that need to be resolved in the game. As a result of this, MercurySteam has rolled out yet another update including a handful of general fixes - to improve the overall...
News Nintendo Won't Have Any More Switch Online N64 Controllers Until 2022 (North America)
If you missed out, you'll just have to wait
If you happen to be located in the North America and were unable to get hold of the wireless Nintendo 64 controller for Switch Online, you'll probably have to wait a while for a restock. An update on the official Nintendo Store page for this region has changed a notice about more controllers being made...
News Nintendo Has Now Shut Down Its Dr. Mario World Mobile Game
"Thank you for everything!"
Following on from shock announcement back in July, Nintendo has now officially shut down Dr. Mario World for mobile devices. When you boot the game up, you'll now receive an end-of-service notification. As previously revealed, Nintendo is also working on a webpage titled "Dr Mario World Memories" - allowing players to...
Random Chris Pratt Will Also Be The Voice Of Garfield
"It's-a me...Garfield!"
Nintendo and Illumination recently announced Chris Pratt would be taking over vocal duties for Mario in the upcoming animated movie due out in cinemas next year. It's a pretty big moment for Nintendo's Italian mascot, who up until now has been voiced by the legendary voice actor Charles Martinet. While Pratt himself has said...
Review Blazing Rangers (NES) - A New NES Game In 2021? Youbetcha, And It's A Good 'Un
Toasty!
Gaming is not short of NES-like experiences these days; titles filled with 8-bit-style blocky pixels, beepy music, and some controllable character for you to take from the left side of the screen to the right. These games tend to chase the past from a comfortable distance, the harsh technical restrictions of almost 40 years ago something to...
News Animal Crossing's Happy Home Paradise Update Will Be The Game's "First And Only Paid DLC"
Launching alongside the "final major free update'
We've heard how Animal Crossing: New Horizons will soon be receiving its final major free update, but what you might not have also known is that the Happy Home Paradise expansion for the game - arriving on the same date (5th November) - will be
Feature Spookiest Video Game Music - Halloween Playlist
Darkness falls across the land
It is almost Halloween! Or, well, it was when we wrote this — but the Halloween spirit lives on all year long for some of us. Whether you're looking for a playlist to have on in the background of your Halloween party, or you just really love to live life on the edge of your seat by listening to creepy songs in the...
News N64 Classic GoldenEye 007 No Longer "Banned" In Germany, Could A Re-Release Be Coming?
Review process actively requested by "one of Nintendo's European partners"
Rare's legendary Nintendo 64 shooter GoldenEye 007 is believed to be stuck in licensing hell, but there's been a very exciting development in Germany that has now got fans wondering if it could finally be making a return. According to a number of sources, the game is no...
News Nintendo Shuts Down Offices In California And Toronto
SVP of Sales and Marketing has also moved on
A report from Kotaku has revealed that Nintendo has shut down its branches located in California and Toronto. Nintendo America's SVP of Sales and Marketing, Nick Chavez, will also be moving on - revealing on LinkedIn he's joined KFC and the Yum! Brand. Nintendo America shared the following statement...
News Nintendo Launches Three New Zelda Websites To Celebrate Game & Watch
The Triforce of Website
It might be only us games journalists that get hot-under-the-collar for brand new Zelda key art, but this day is extremely special for us: Nintendo have just released three new websites for The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II, and Link's Awakening to prepare us all for the release of the Zelda Game & Watch in November. And...
Feature The Scariest Game On Every Nintendo Home Console
Almost forty years of fear
“Family friendly” is a term often used to describe anything and everything Nintendo touches, but we all know better than that, don’t we? The famous Japanese card maker’s consoles have been knee-deep in the dead for as long as they’ve existed. So! In the spirit of this spookiest of seasons we’ve selected some...
Anniversary Can You Believe It? Super Mario Odyssey Is Now Four Years Old
Mario is now an adventurous globe-trotter
It might seem like yesterday or a lifetime ago, depending on who you talk to, but this week marks the fourth year since Super Mario Odyssey made its debut on the Nintendo Switch. The title is currently the sixth best-selling Switch game of all time - having now shifted over 21 million copies around the...
Poll Pikmin Is Now 20 Years Old - Which Is Your Favourite Game In The Series?
Whistle-blower
With all the talk around the launch (and state) of Nintendo 64 games with the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, it may well have slipped your notice that Pikmin — the Nintendo RTS series that grew from an idea Shigeru Miyamoto had while chilling in his garden — is now two decades old. Yes, time marches on and we retro gaming...
Random Hey, A Switch Online N64 Game Description Mentions Golden Sun
Nintendo actually remembers Camelot's classic RPG series
If you were a fan of Nintendo during the Game Boy Advance generation, then you might have experienced Camelot's fantasy role-playing series Golden Sun. It got two games during this time and even allowed players to transfer across some content to the second game, Golden Sun: The Lost Age. As...
News Smash Bros. Ultimate Hosting New Fighter Tournament This Weekend
The weekly events continue
To celebrate the completion of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter roster, Nintendo will this week be hosting a special tournament event restricted to new fighters only. This includes new additions to the roster in Ultimate, as well as Echo fighters and DLC characters. You've got fighters like Banjo-Kazooie and Steve...
March of the Pikmin
If playing golf is the best way to spoil a walk, Niantic's hope for Pikmin Bloom, the long-awaited follow-up/sister title to the wildly successful Pokémon GO, is to create the exact opposite — something to "spice up your daily walks" and turn an everyday stroll into something flower-filled and joyful. Rolling out across the...
Feature LEGO Designer Reveals Why The Super Mario 64 Set Is A '?' And Not An '!'
"With ? Blocks, you never know what you’ll find inside"
The Lego Super Mario 64 ? Block got Nintendo fans all hot under the collar when it was announced on social media. Its clever folding design in particular provides a real wow moment, as the innocuous block unfolds to reveal intricate, microscale recreations of iconic levels from Super Mario...
News Charles Martinet Wants To Voice Mario For As Long As He Possibly Can
"I want to voice Mario until I drop dead"
Chris Pratt might have been cast as the voice of Super Mario in Illumination's upcoming animated movie - due out next year, but for the good majority of Nintendo fans around the world, the original voice of Mario will always be Charles Martinet. Although he voiced Nintendo's mascot before the N64 era, his...
News Switch OLED Model Rates 2 Out Of 10 On Screen Durability Scratch Test
You might want to get a screen protector
The Nintendo Switch OLED has been out for a handful of weeks now, and if you haven't already applied a screen protector - you really should. While Nintendo claims the screen is made out of glass, YouTube channel JerryRigEverything (via VGC) has now put the new screen to the test and it's only got 2/10 for...
News Nintendo's First Patch For Metroid Dread Is Now Available, Here's What's Included
The crash error has been resolved
Last week, Nintendo issued a notice on its support website stating how it had been made aware of an error "near the end" of Metroid Dread that forced the software and game to close. It said it was working on a fix to prevent this from happening, and it's now officially arrived. This minor patch bumps the game up to...
News Suda51 Says It Would Be "Really Cool" To Reboot Or Remake Nintendo's Older IP
Make it happen, Nintendo
The legendary game designer Suda51 - who has just wrapped up work on No More Heroes 3 for the Switch - has once again admitted how cool it would be to collaborate with a company like Nintendo and "reboot or remake" some of its older IP. Here's exactly what he had to say during an interview with our friends over at VGC:...
News Get Serious About Fun With A Nintendo Of America Internship In 2022
Hang out with Bowser and friends
We've got to that point in the year (again) where Nintendo of America is currently advertising internships on its careers website. At the time of writing, there are 16 positions listed, and all of them are located at Nintendo of America's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. They'll run from June through to August...
Anniversary We've Almost Been Watching Nintendo Direct Presentations For 10 Years Now
Can you believe it?
Nintendo is obviously one of the pioneers of the games industry, and from time to time, it still comes up with groundbreaking ideas that change and shape how people consume and play video games around the world. One of its more genius moments over the past decade (at least from a business/marketing perspective) was the creation...
Random Forget Dread, It's All About Metroid: Other M On Twitter Right Now
Fans are "defending" the Wii entry for all sorts of reasons
Metroid Dread might have just been released for the Nintendo Switch (and it's outstanding by the way), but over on social media, the conversation is all about Team Ninja's 2010 Wii title, Metroid: Other M. While it was mostly well-received back then, as time went on it's fallen out of...
News Metroid Dread Studio Hit With Allegations Of Poor Organisation And Management
"The bad atmosphere is constant and it is very tense"
Following on from disputes over Metroid Dread developer MercurySteam's policy regarding the in-game crediting of staff, further allegations have surfaced in the last few days which suggest questionable management practices and handling of employees at the Spanish studio, makers of the...