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It’s The Perfect Time To Return To Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

Recently, a friend of mine started playing Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the first time. This has had an interesting side effect: Any time I try to play anything else, I just wish I were playing Breath of the Wild. My ironclad resolve to continue making my way through games I hadn’t…

The Next Pokémon Might Be Set In The UK, And Scottish Twitter Is Thrilled [Correction]

The prospect of the new Pokémon game being possibly set in the UK has amused some fans, and I’m laughing along with them. In order to understand these jokes, you’re first going to have to explain the concept of Scottish Twitter. Regional Twitters have regional dialects. A community of Twitter users based in Pittsburgh might…

The Internet Reacts To Pokémon Sword And Shield‘s Starters

Today Nintendo finally released some information about the upcoming Pokémon games for Switch. They’re called Pokémon Sword and Shield, and the starters are absolutely adorable. The region where this game will take place is called Galar, and is based on the United Kingdom. The three starters, Scorbunny, Sobble and Grookey, are the Pokémon that will…

Nintendo Announces Pokémon Sword And Shield For Switch

Generation eight of Pokémon is officially here, as this morning Nintendo announced Pokémon Sword and Shield, to release this fall on the Switch. The pair of games are three-dimensional and cel-shaded, looking better than any Pokémon we’ve seen before. You can watch the first trailer here: Pokémon Sword and Shield will be the first mainline…

Noclip Website Lets You Revisit Your Favorite Nintendo Levels

noclipis a very fun website which has extracted levels from a bunch of excellent Nintendo games and exists solely to let you fly around them like a joyful, nostalgic God. Made by JasperRLZ, there are levels from games like Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, Ocarina of Time, Luigi’s Mansion and even a broken, experimental flyover…

Players Are Flooding Splatoon 2 With Demands for Japan-Exclusive Gear

Western players have been clamoring over Japan-exclusive Splatoon 2 gear on social media for months—now, they’re plastering the game itself with their desperate pleas. Sometimes, Splatoon 2’s developers release exclusive gear through special offers like the one in Japanese magazine CoroCoro, where the Splatoon manga runs. If you buy an issue of CoroCoro, there will…

Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime’s Long Career… Being Asked About Mother 3

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime announced last week that he is retiring in order to spend time with his family and friends, but it is entirely possible he just got tired of answering questions about Mother 3. In 2006, Mother 3, the long-awaited sequel to Nintendo’s cult classic RPG EarthBound, was released on the…

Android Is Kinda Running On The Nintendo Switch

Developers Billy Laws and Max Keller have got a rough version of Android Q up and running on the Nintendo Switch. Given the Switch’s development heritage—the console is an ARM-based tablet—it’s surprising that it’s taken this long to get a version of Google’s OS running, but the progress being made here is exciting. Not necessarily…

Super Mario RPG’s Japanese Version Is Full Of Anime Tributes

They’re missing from the English-language version, sadly, but the original Japanese release of 1996’s Super Mario RPG on the SNES features a bunch of enemies who are very into Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Neon Genesis and even a Sega game. As Legends of Localization point out, when the game was translated into English, a lot…

Etrian Odyssey Nexus Is Busting My Balls And It’s Totally My Fault

I consider myself a veteran Etrian Odyssey player. I’ve hand-drawn dozens of maps across the role-playing game series, meticulously crawled floors for every treasure chest and scripted event, and gotten hundreds of monsters in my codex—conditional drops and all. So I came to the latest title in the series, Etrian Odyssey Nexus, pretty prepared for…

How Reggie Fils-Aime Became A Nintendo Legend

In the spring of 2004, the public perception was that Nintendo was in deep trouble. Going into the company’s E3 presentation in Los Angeles that year, fans wondered which of the company’s heroes might appear, in its time of need, to save it. Mario? Link? As it turned out, they did get a new hero,…

It’s just been announced that Koei Tecmo is co-developing Fire Emblem: Three Houses, working with Intelligent Systems and Nintendo on the upcoming Switch game. Fire Emblem: Three Houses will be out July 26.  

The Internet Reacts To Bowser Taking Over Nintendo

After 15 years, the man, myth, and infinitely meme-able legend Reggie Fils-Aime has finally kicked enough ass and taken enough names. He’s being succeeded as president of Nintendo of America by a man with the greatest name of all: Doug Bowser. Never before have the jokes so readily written themselves. Within seconds of the announcement,…

Nintendo Of America President Reggie Fils-Aime Is Retiring

Reggie Fils-Aime’s body is no longer ready. The longtime president of Nintendo of America is stepping down on April 15, to be replaced by marketing man Doug Bowser, Nintendo said in a press release today. Fils-Aime, who was with Nintendo for 15 years, became an instant gamer celebrity when he took the company’s stage at…

How To Play Your PS4 When You’re Stuck In A Hospital For Nearly A Month

From January 23 through February 18 I was confined to a hospital bed, recovering from a surgical procedure that required me to remain almost completely prone in order to heal. Fortunately I came to the hospital prepared, and managed to still play Kingdom Hearts 3, Jump Force, Apex Legends and Anthem. All I needed was…

Daemon x Machina‘s Demo Is Pretty Good

I knew two things before playing Daemon x Machina. First, it has a wonderfully inscrutable name. Second, it has giant robots. The latter part is all that really matters to me—I adore mechs, from Gundam to Armored Core. After playing Daemon x Machina’s demo, I’m excited for the full game, even if the action doesn’t…

Porn Star Comes To The Nintendo Switch

Nintendo Switch exclusive Oshiete Onedari Shogi (Teach Me Japanese Chess Pretty Please) has players give shogi hints and tips to adult video actress Airi Satou as well as cosplayers Yui Uno and Inori Hanamiya. For a reward, players get photos and clips of them in bikinis, maid outfits and more. In total, there are over…

Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. Sells For A Record-Breaking $100,150

Is this copy of Super Mario Bros. the highest-priced video game ever? That’s what experts in the field of classic game collecting are saying today. A first-run copy of the Nintendo Entertainment System game sold in a private transaction earlier this month for $100,150, and the people involved in the deal say it’s the first…

Three Big Questions After The February 2019 Nintendo Direct

Nintendo crammed a lot of news into yesterday’s Nintendo Direct, but with that came some questions, ones that might not have concrete answers right now but are still worth some discussion. Do we now know about all of Nintendo’s big 2019 Switch games? It’s only February, but consider what we now know is announced for…

Everything That Happened In Today’s Nintendo Direct

The long-awaited first Nintendo Direct of 2019 hit today, and as expected, it was packed full of news sure to please Switch owners looking for more Fire Emblem, Mario, and even Zelda. Here’s everything we learned. Super Mario Maker 2 is coming to Switch—with slopes!—in June 2019. Freaking finally. We can now create our own…