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A Super Nintendo World is also reportedly opening at Universal Studios Singapore sometime between 2020 and 2025. The theme park will also open at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka next summer and at Universal Studios Hollywood sometime after that.

Super Mario Lost Levels, Punch-Out!! Heading To Switch This Month

Punch-Out!!, Star Soldier, and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, aka the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, are the next games coming to Nintendo’s NES library on Switch Online, on April 10. In other words, it’s another fairly safe, predictable month for Nintendo, with no especially surprising releases and nothing that hasn’t already been in…

That Is A Lot Of Shy Guy Cosplay

For the last few years, an ever-growing group of cosplayers have been using April Fool’s day as an excuse to team up all over the internet, pulling off massive showcases of characters like Nurse Joy and Misty. This year, the focus was on Shy Guy. Here’s Nurse Joy, for example: And Misty: The group has…

Not Everyone Loved The Smash Balls In Nintendo’s Latest Smash Ultimate Tournament

Hundreds of PAX East attendees crowded around a small stage in the expo hall last Saturday afternoon to see if Seth, one of the top-ranked Smash players in Chicago, could keep his team alive in Nintendo’s North America Open against his opponent Poltergust. As both players deployed deadly items and Final Smash attacks, the hall…

Smash pro Nairo is currently giving random challengers from the crowd a chance to get wrecked in Ultimate at Nintendo’s PAX East booth.

Every member of FTWin at PAX East’s Splatoon 2 tournament will walk away with a gold-skinned Switch Pro controller after taking first place. They’ll go on to represent North America at the World Championship at E3 in June and make Nintendo collectors everywhere extremely jealous. 

Watch Out For Smash Balls In This Weekend’s Nintendo-Sanctioned Tournament

The finals for the Smash Ultimate North America Open kick off at 1 p.m. ET, live at PAX East in Boston and streaming on Nintendo’s YouTube. This is a Nintendo-sanctioned Smash tournament, so the rules are less strict than your typical competitive Smash tournament. Items will be on (albeit set to “low”), and so will…

Man Pleads Guilty To Hacking Both Microsoft And Nintendo

A 24 year-old man from England has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking into both Microsoft and Nintendo’s servers, causing an estimated $3-4 million damages. As The Verge report, Zammis Clark—a former security researcher at Malwarebytes—went before a court in London this week accused of accessing servers at both companies, stealing user information, accessing files…

Twenty-Two Years Later, Nintendo Gets Final Fantasy VII 

It’s 1995, and the role-playing game rockstars at Square are trying to decide what to do with the seventh entry in their flagship series. They look over at the Nintendo 64, and then they size up Sony’s brand new PlayStation, and they decide to go with the latter, changing the video game industry forever. Today,…

Smash Players Are Begging Nintendo To Fix Donkey Kong’s Giant Punch

Donkey Kong is stronger than ever in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but there are still two big glitches holding the super heavyweight fighter back from reaching his true potential. His fans are desperate for Nintendo to set things right. For a couple months now, players have been getting used to the latest version of Donkey…

Report: Nintendo Is Releasing Two New Switch Models

Expanding on a rumour they first published last year, The Wall Street Journal now reportsthat Nintendo is planning on releasing two new models of the Switch, and both may be out in 2019. The first,they say, “will have enhanced features targeted at avid videogamers, although it won’t be as powerful as Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4…

No, Cuphead On Switch Won’t Be Any Easier

The retro-themed, hand-animated indie darling Cuphead is headed to Switch on April 18, and its developer is excited for a whole new group of players to try it, and maybe even play some impromptu two-player at a rooftop party with single Joy-Cons. But the studio isn’t about to make the notoriously difficult action game any…

Nintendo’s Switch VR Games Have (A Little Bit Of) Nintendo Magic

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Nintendo is about to offer a lower-tech version of something other gaming companies are doing, but with a clever, inspired twist. It’s doing it this time with its entry into the world of virtual reality gaming—assuming Virtual Boy doesn’t count, I mean. Nintendo Labo VR Kit, to…

Nintendo Reveals The 10 Current Best-Selling Indie Games On Switch

Indie games make up a crucial and vibrant part of the Switch’s great library of games, as evidenced by yesterday’s Nindies showcase. At the Game Developers Conference event today, Nintendo shared which indie games have sold best on Switch up until now. While many of them are familiar faces, like Stardew Valley, a few new…

Blaster Master Zero 2 Is An Amazing Sequel To A Rebooted Classic

Two years ago, Inti Creates released Blaster Master Zero, an outstanding remake of Sunsoft’s NES classic about a boy, a frog, and a futuristic combat vehicle. This week’s surprise sequel, Blaster Master Zero 2, sees Jason and the crew of the SOPHIA taking the battle against evil mutants into deep space. It’s the follow-up I’ve…

A port of roguelike bullet hell Nuclear Throne and a surprise new sequel, Blaster Master Zero 2, are both coming to Switch… today. Nintendo just announced these during their indies showcase.

All The Cool Indies Nintendo Announced Today For The Switch

The Switch is a very good platform for indie games, and it’s only getting better. During today’s “Nindies Showcase,” Nintendo announced 16 independent games newly coming to the Switch, including Cuphead, Stranger Things, and a Crypt of the NecroDancer/Zelda mashup. Out Today It’s a surprise Blaster Master Zero sequel! Blaster Master Zero 2 is out…

A Surprise Zelda Game Is Coming From An Acclaimed Indie Studio

Well, this is very different and pretty damn cool. Nintendo just announced that the people behind the excellent musical dungeon-crawling game Crypt of the NecroDancer are making a Zelda game called Cadence of Hyrule. It’s out this spring. The game appears to bring Cadence, the protagonist from Brace Yourself Games’ hit indie, to Link’s world.…

Xbox Gem Cuphead Is Coming To Switch

Cuphead was one of the best Xbox One and PC side-scrollers of the last few years—and on April 18, it’s coming to Nintendo Switch. Cuphead is a challenging side-scroller where you play as a personified cup going after a gauntlet of deadly and beautifully animated bosses. When it landed on Xbox One and PC in…

Today’s Nindies Spring Showcase kicks off at noon Eastern. It’s a 30-minute presentation featuring a slew of independent games coming to the Switch. Watch it right hereor via our YouTube embed.