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Goodbye
Nintendo has revealed it will close its controversial creators program at the end of this year. The website for the program will also be shutdown on 20th March 2019. Replacing the program are new guidelines, which are intended to make it easier for creators to monetise their Nintendo videos. They also won't have to submit their content to...
News Switch Owners Aren't Worried About Visual Presentation, According To Crashlands Dev
Substance is what it is all about
Thanks to the success of games like Shovel Knight, Celeste and Hyper Light Drifter, 2D video games have experienced a resurgence in recent years. Believe it or not, but there was a period where these types of games were considered relics of the past, with the industry at the time pushing for a 3D
News Pokémon: Let's Go Sales Hit 1.5 Million In US Alone, Super Mario Party Surpasses 1 Million
New sales data revealed
New data provided by Nintendo has given us a good look at up-to-date game sales statistics, revealing a number of impressive totals for major releases across the US. Firstly, despite only being available for less than two weeks, Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! have already secured 1.5 million sales between...
News Nintendo Hits Huge Milestones As Switch Sales Soar Across Black Friday And Cyber Monday
"It prints money" etc.
Recent tidbits of information had already given us the impression that Nintendo has had a successful week at retail - the new Pokémon games were reportedly the fourth most purchased item on Black Friday and the Switch was the best-selling console on Cyber Monday -
News Japan's My Nintendo Store Is Now Offering Free Posters, Switch Online Trials And More
We miss you Club Nintendo
While the discounts available from the European and North American My Nintendo websites are welcome, many have been left rather disgruntled at the decline of physical goods over the years. At present, those sites only offer discounts on 3DS and Wii U titles, but those old enough to remember the glory days of previous reward...
News More Than Ten Games Are Being Announced At The 2018 Game Awards
Geoff isn't holding back
This year will be the fifth edition of The Game Awards and the focus is on making it bigger and better. The event organisers intend to do this by expanding the show's reach across multiple digital platforms, bringing back the live orchestra and allowing new ways for viewers to vote and interact. That's not all, though. In a...
News Analysts Believe Nintendo Will Fall Short Of Its Target To Ship 38 Million Switch By March 2019
2018 was a "reality check"
Despite Nintendo's strong hardware sales as we enter this year's holiday period, there are a number of analysts who believe the Japanese company will fall short of its target to ship 38 million units by March 2019. According to the average of eight analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg, the Switch is on track to ship...
News Nintendo Switch Was The Best-Selling Console On Cyber Monday
Third place in the charts overall
Yesterday, it was revealed Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go was the fourth best-selling product during the Black Friday sales. Adobe has now released information to highlight the most popular products in the US on Cyber Monday. In more positive news for Nintendo, the Switch was the third bes
News Reggie: Nintendo Of America Generates Around 60% Of Its Revenue During The Holiday Season
The season is "critically important to our company"
The holiday season is an important part of the year for any company in the entertainment world, with key products usually being advertised as the perfect gift for our nearest and dearest. As shoppers flock to stores, said products are sold in their millions, and it would appear that Nintendo's...
News Nintendo And Pokémon Developer Game Freak Apply For 'Miracle Twin' Trademark In Japan
What could it be?
Nintendo, alongside Pokémon development companies Creatures and Game Freak, has applied for a brand new trademark in Japan. The trademark is for 'ミラクルツイン', literally translating as 'Miracle Twin'. According to JapaneseNintendo, the trademark is hoping to cover purposes including "controllers, joysticks, chargers,...
News Mario + Rabbids Wins Best Game At BAFTA Children's Awards
A victory over three PlayStation titles
In October, Ubisoft's Nintendo Switch title Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was nominated for 'best game' at the British Academy Children's Awards alongside three PlayStation titles including Everybody's Golf,
Covering all bases
Earlier this month, Nintendo secured trademarks for The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks and Mario Vs. Donkey Kong. This
News It Looks Like An (Unofficial) Game Boy Advance Mini Is On The Way, But It Plays NES Games
Close enough?
While you're probably still clinging onto any remaining hope you might have for an upcoming N64 Classic Mini, you may be intrigued by this little tease for a miniature Game Boy Advance design. Before you get too excited, though, this is absolutely not a real GBA Mini - it's actually a NES game emulator. If you're a regular reader of...
Random Only 300 Of These Fiorentina-Themed Game Boy Pockets Were Ever Released
Football in your pocket
If you live and breath calcio, you might be fond of the Serie A Italian football side Fiorentina. Even if you just love the global game and are also a fan of Nintendo, you'll probably remember this team's classic 'Nintendo' kit of 1998. To this day, it remains one of the club's most iconic and memorable designs. During this...
Random Man Shares Emotional Globe-Spanning Journey With Snorlax Plush After Buying It While Drunk
"Please help me, I ordered this large boi when I was drunk"
Loving and playing video games can be an expensive hobby - not just thanks to the games and hardware themselves, but also thanks to the avalanche of extra toys, figures, and merchandise that are produced as a result. Most of us will have experienced a desire to purchase the odd extravagant...
News Chinese Bureau Receives Plaque From Nintendo For Enforcing Copyright Laws
A job well done
Nintendo is serious about protecting its intellectual properties. Recently, the Japanese company has cracked down on trademark and copyright infringement in different locations around the globe. In an attempt to spread the message far and wide, it has now awarded a plaque to the Shenzhen Bureau for "protecting copyrights" and the...
Random Official Legend Of Zelda Art Shows Link In A Revealing New Light
NSFW?
For most Nintendo fans, seeing the slightest glimpse of Link is enough to instantly recognise one of our favourite heroes. The Legend of Zelda protagonist is famous for his green (or blue) tunic, his (now old) pointy hat, his Master Sword, and even those familiar grunts and "hyah" noises, but we've never seen him quite like this before. Yes,...
Random Japanese Man Named Miyamoto Arrested For Selling Modded Super Famicom Mini
No, not that one
A 39-year-old man located in Japan has been arrested by police for selling modded Super Famicom Classic Mini consoles to three individuals in online net auctions. According to a report by Asahi via Nintendo Soup, the man added a total of five games to each of the modified systems and then resold them for approximately 61,500 yen...
Make the Switch today
Here's an interesting video that is sure to fuel rumours about a possible Switch revision. Nintendo's American YouTube account has uploaded a step-by-step video walkthrough explaining how users can transfer data from one Switch to another and also format their system in preparation for trade-in or sale. The safe bet is this...
News Dev Behind Darksiders II For Wii U Worked On An E3 Demo Nintendo Never Showed
No harm done
Reflect on the troubled era of the Wii U generation and you might recall the 2012 launch title Darksiders II, developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ. Being one of the few third-party releases during this time, it remained one of the standout games throughout the system's life - often drawing comparisons to The Legend of Zelda and...
News Octopath Traveler Crowned Nintendo Game Of The Year At Golden Joystick Awards
Dead Cells takes out best indie title
As 2018 wraps up, the award shows begin. While we wait for the votes at The Game Awards to be tallied, over in the UK, Square Enix's Octopath Traveler has been crowned 'Nintendo Game of the Year' at the 2018 Golden Joystick Awards. The London-based awards show covered 23 different categories, with the majority...
News Nintendo's Share Price Hit By Largest Drop In Two Years After Nvidia Shares Crash
Falling by more than 10%
Nintendo's share price fell by more than 10% today, resulting in the largest drop experienced by the company since 2016. Share prices began to fall early this morning (in Japanese local time), continuing to plummet for the majority of the trading day. Shares fell to as low as ¥31,350 at one stage (which is as low as it has...
News A Mario Kart Lottery Is Headed To Japan With Chances To Win Some Amazing Prizes
We'll take the Lakitu clock
In yet another episode of 'Japan gets all the cool stuff and it's really getting unfair now', a new Mario Kart-themed lottery has been announced where fans can win some lovely household items based on the franchise. The lottery comes courtesy of Bandai, which has revealed that it will be bringing all of the lovely...
News It Looks Like Nintendo's Generous Supply Of Post-Release Game Content Is Set To Continue
DLC and free updates aplenty
Considering Nintendo was fashionably late to the online-focused, DLC-releasing party, having a look at the company's current lineup of post-release content is rather surprising. Major releases like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey have received DLC expansions or regular content updates,...
News Technical Infrastructure For Nintendo To Stream Games Outside Of Japan "Doesn't Exist"
Current tech also does not meet requirements
Streaming has been touted as the way of the future by a number of video game industry giants. Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot believes this technology will become the primary way people play games in the future. Meanwhile, EA is investing heavily in cloud-based technology with
News Nintendo Embraces Opportunity To Share New Games At E3 2019 As Sony Opts Out
Business as usual
Sony has surprised the rest of the video game industry, with the confirmation it will not be attending E3 2019. Despite the absence of the Japanese tech giant, the official press release notes how "industry momentum" will drive next year's show to new heights. On the Nintendo front, there's nothing to worry about. In the same PR,...
Primary development focus will remain on Switch
Since the Switch arrived on the scene in March 2017, there's been strong demand for Nintendo to double down on its games development for the platform rather than waste resources on providing new experiences for the 3DS line. Speaking to Kotaku, Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime...
News Reggie: N64 Classic Mini Is "Not In Our Planning Horizon", But Wouldn't Ever Rule It Out
NES and SNES were "limited time opportunities"
With the NES Classic hitting stores in 2016, and the SNES Classic following suit in 2017, it likely comes as no surprise that fans were expecting a potential Nintendo 64 Classic (the next home console in Nintendo's historic lineup) to arrive at some point this year. A couple of months ago, an N64...
News Dragalia Lost Developer Outlines Its Plans For The App's Future
Including an update on the story's next chapter
Dragalia Lost has been a rather successful little endeavour for Nintendo and developer Cygames; we praised it for being a "remarkably well-executed ARPG" in our review earlier this month, and the game managed to generate $16 million in its first two weeks on sale, outperforming
Not a bad decision, huh?
At this point, everyone and their cat knows about Tetris; the highscore-chasing, block-placing phenomenon has sold hundreds of millions of copies around the world, captivating the minds of its players for years on end. One cog in the Tetris success machine is Henk Rogers, a game designer known for securing the rights to...
News Nintendo Wins $12 Million From Trademark And Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
An expensive settlement
Earlier this year in July, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against two ROM and emulator websites at the federal court in the US state of Arizona for trademark and copyright infringement. The latest development is the owners and operators of these now-defunct websites - a married couple - have agreed to a settlement exceeding $12...
A celebration of all things Golden Sun
Golden Sun, and especially its lead protagonist Isaac, has seen an awful lot of love and attention over the last few months thanks to countless Super Smash Bros. Ultimate rumours; many believed that Isaac would become a playable character in the game thanks to various speculation efforts shared online, but the...
News Nintendo Was "Extremely Supportive" Of Nippon Ichi During Switch Development Of Disgaea 5
Heck yea, doods
Nippon Ichi Software - the Japanese developer and publisher best known for Disgaea on the Switch in recent times - has had plenty of success thanks to its release of Disgaea 5 Complete. In last month's issue of Edge magazine, company President Sohei Niikawa discussed how Disgaea 5 was "practically" a launch title for the Switch and...
Video Learn About Nintendo's Failed Harry Potter Pitch For The N64
Expelliarmus!
With the sequel to Fantastic Beasts arriving in cinemas worldwide on 16th November, there's no better time to talk about the secret history of the Harry Potter video game series. In a new Did You Know Gaming video, independent game researcher Liam Robertson takes a look at Nintendo's failed Harry Potter pitch during the N64 era. Prior...
News Pokémon Developer Game Freak Opens Its Own Twitter And YouTube Accounts
In 2018...
Game Freak, the Japanese video game developer best known for the ridiculously popular Pokémon series, has now opened its very own Twitter and YouTube accounts. The studio already has a rarely-used Facebook page, but it appears that these new social media platforms are set to be used on a much more frequent basis. Game Freak's first ever...
News Nintendo Suspending Wii Video Streaming Services Early Next Year
The end of an era
Netflix recently sent out an email notifying users Nintendo will be suspending all video streaming services on the Wii - including the Netflix Channel - at the end of January 2019. Here's the full message below, courtesy of a post on Reddit: Unfortunately, Nintendo will suspend all video streaming services on Wii—including the...
News Nintendo Is Currently Recruiting For A New 3D Legend Of Zelda Game
Level design and 3D graphics
A couple of job listings have appeared on Nintendo's Japanese website, revealing that the gaming development giant is looking for staff to help work on a new 3D The Legend of Zelda title. At the time of writing, two job listings have been posted online - one for a 3D computer graphics designer, and one for a level...
Random Brie Larson Reveals She Wants To Make A Metroid Movie After Dressing As Samus For Halloween
We'd give it a watch
If there's one Nintendo franchise that has the potential to create a genuinely good movie, it's Metroid; with the space wars, aliens, and a lone, mysterious hero at its core, the series seems like a decent fit for a silver screen adaptation. Of course, we've already heard that the Metal Gear movie director Jordan Vogt-Roberts...
News Illumination Founder Says Mario Animated Movie Is Embracing Miyamoto's "Creative Voice"
Promising signs
In the past year, there's been a rapid increase in the amount of video game themed television shows, movies and animations being developed. Major live-action movie blockbusters are being created for Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu, and the animated Castlevania Netflix series is already on season two. In a recent interview with...
News Nintendo Is Closing The Official Wii U Facebook Page This Friday
Goodbye, old friend
As of next March, the Switch will have been on the market for two years. Even though this new hybrid device has been available for some time now, Nintendo's kept certain services operational on its existing platform the Wii U. This extends to support and social media pages for the system that originally started out life in 2012...
Random Former Sega President Admits The Mega Drive Was Created To "Beat" Nintendo
Chasing success
In the latest issue of Japanese publication Famitsu, Sega's former President Hideki Sato - who led the company between 2001 and 2003 - reflected on the period prior to the release of the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. When asked about the planning that went into the creation of the system, Sato confessed the team simply wanted to create...
Random Now You Can Finally Experience What It's Like To Be Eaten Alive By Kirby
Dreams do come true
It's easy to idolise - or even be jealous of - the many star characters in the Super Smash Bros. series; they have some serious skills in combat, they're adored by an incredible army of passionate fans, and they get to experience what it's like to be eaten alive by Kirby before being spat back out like an unwanted olive. If any...
News Nintendo's System Specs Have Always Been A "Big Barrier" For Bethesda
Until the Switch came along
Not long ago, Bethesda held a panel at PAX Australia 2018 discussing its games and even speaking about relations with certain other companies. At the time, Bethesda's Marketing Executive Pete Hines said Fallout 76 wouldn't be coming to the Switch and it was also briefly mentioned how the MMO
Random NPD Reveals Best-Selling N64 And Game Boy Color Games From The Mid To Late Nineties
Retro flashback
While we're used to seeing the latest video game charts, it's easy to forget how they looked roughly twenty years ago. NPD Video Game Industry Analyst Mat Piscatella recently shared the best-selling game charts from the mid to late nineties. In terms of Nintendo charts, he featured the big systems of the time including the Nintendo...
News Success Of Nintendo's Mini Systems Made It "Perfect Timing" For SNK To Release Its Own Device
Restoring the past
In the same interview with DualShockers where SNK Producer Yasuyuki Oda spoke about the possibility of bringing the newest entry in the King of Fighters series across to the Nintendo Switch, he also mentioned how the release of Nintendo's miniature line of systems made it "perfect timing" for the Japanese company to release the...
Video Watch All Of The Nintendo Treehouse Footage Right Here
Hours of entertainment
Immediately after the final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct before the game's big launch, Nintendo's Treehouse Live event began. During this stream we got a look at multiple Switch titles including Yoshi's Crafted World, Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!
News New Data From Nintendo Shows The True Selling Power Of Switch's Evergreen Titles
Sales are amazingly consistent
Joining the many juicy nuggets of information revealed by the recent financial briefing, Nintendo has shared graphical sales representations of the Switch's evergreen titles, showing just how strong and important these sales are to the company. The first chart shows the combined sell-through for Splatoon 2, The Legend...
News The 3DS Is Far From Dead, Nintendo Says It's "Continuing With Efforts To Expand Sales"
"We will do our utmost to foster sales opportunities"
Ever since the Switch was first released in early 2017, questions have been raised over the realistic lifetime of Nintendo's other current system, the 3DS. Despite launching in 2011, and having been on the market for almost eight years - not to mention the new focus on Switch taking away some of...
News Mario Kart Tour "Service" Still On Track For Its Mobile Debut
Get ready to race
While there's still basically no information regarding the upcoming mobile release Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo's latest Q2 2019 financial briefing has reconfirmed the game is still on course in terms of development. The "service" is arriving sometime before the end of March 2019: We also plan to start a service for Mario Kart Tour,...
News Super Mario Party Has Sold 1.5 Million Copies In The Month Of October
Time to celebrate
Following early reports of surprising sales success for Super Mario Party, Nintendo's Q2 2019 financial briefing has now revealed the new Switch title sold a total of 1.5 million copies in the month of October. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said the latest entry was a return to form - with the game channelling the series'...
