"We didn't make this game with the idea that we wanted to make a simplified shooter or a dumbed-down shooter or anything like that," Tsubasa Sakaguchi, a developer at Nintendo recently told me. I wasn't expecting to be having this conversation. » 7/03/14 2:20pm 7/03/14 2:20pm

Last week in my review, I described Tomodachi Life as "a bizarre, alternate universe where everybody had giant heads and spoke in ghostly robotic warbles." If that's not weird enough as it is (and it's already pretty weird), imagine a veritable chorus of Nintendo developers chirping and prancing about in Mii form to… » 6/25/14 6:30pm 6/25/14 6:30pm

Nintendo's making a new 8-player multiplayer shooter called Splatoon for the Wii U. The game, which features squids who are also people and copious amounts of colorful ink, was announced during today's E3 Nintendo Direct. Coming at some point in 2015. » 6/10/14 12:35pm 6/10/14 12:35pm