In an interview with Kotaku on Tuesday, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said Nintendo’s handheld business in the Americas was up for the first three quarters of 2018, compared to 2017. After added fact-checking, Fils-Aime now tells us that Nintendo’s handheld business in the U.S. was up for the first… Read more
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The president of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, was in New York this week to sell his company’s big holiday…
Sometimes you have to go to extreme measures to hang out with the popular crowd. As seen on the Switch’s eshop today. Read more
Reggie Fils-Aime is in hype mode. That is the main gear for the president of Nintendo of America the week before…
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Earlier this year, I foolishly thought Nintendo and the people at HAL Laboratory might allow 2018 to be something…
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Kingdom Two Crowns, the sequel to the sidescrolling strategy/building game Kingdom New Lands, will be out on console and PC on December 11, publisher Raw Fury announced today. More surprisingly, the game’s medieval European campaign will be supplemented by a Japanese one, with more settings added post-release.
When I’m in the mood to play a video game, I’ll grab my Switch, a PS4 controller, maybe my Xbox One controller or my…
So, uh, does anyone know what happens in the Red Dead Redemption 2 stranger mission with the photographer and, was…
Smash Bros. lead creator Masahiro Sakurai Tweeted yesterday that Smash Ultimate’s “DLC line-up is now complete,” with the characters decided by Nintendo. He also asked fans to “refrain from flooding us” with requests for other characters when the devs aren’t asking for feedback. Smash fans, we don’t call the shots,… Read more
Many a critic will discuss a game’s verbs: the things you do in the game. That’s too general an approach for me. I’m…
I’m about to go away for a week, vacationing far from my PS4. I’ve been trying to use the last few days to get the…
Rockstar Lincoln, a UK-based studio that has been handling a lot of the quality assurance testing for Red Dead…
Some mobile games play psychological tricks with you to get you to keep playing. Others hook you the much better…
WarioWare fans who were eager for the series to finally return this year had to settle for a best-of compilation on…
The latest Lara Croft adventure has only been out for a month and has already had its ending patched and its DLC…
As a fan of anything that you pay a lot of attention to, you accept a certain amount of, let’s call it,…
I thought I wouldn’t care about Nintendo’s newest 3DS release. I played Luigi’s Mansion on the GameCube ages ago. I…
We sometimes hear the tales behind the making of Nintendo’s greatest games: the Zeldas, the Marios and the Metroids.…
If I had more time, I’d begin playing games a little differently than I have for the last 30 years. I’d start them,…
The presence of microtransactions in a big video game can poison the player’s experience, leaving them to wonder if…