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Super Smash Bros. Switch Tournament Competitors Announced

Eight players from around the world will face off on the Nintendo Switch in a Super Smash Bros. tournament during the week of E3. Here are those eight. Nintendo will host the livestreamed Smash Switch tournament on June 11-12. The announcement trailer’s title “Introducing: The Players! – Super Smash Bros. Invitational 2018″ has some YouTuber…

Nintendo Can Do So Much Better Than Virtual Console

Virtual Console is no more, but that doesn’t mean that Switch won’t become the best place to play classic games. It’ll just be done in a different way than what Nintendo’s tried in the past. And that’s a good thing, because Virtual Console kinda sucked. Now, by “Virtual Console kinda sucked” I do not mean…

Breath Of The Wild Looks Rad As A Game Boy Color Game

You can already play Breath of the Wild portably on your Nintendo Switch but what if there was another option? A fan-made videotransforms the game into a gorgeous Game Boy Color version that will make you eager for a full ROM hack. The video from Nintendo Wire imagines Breath of the Wild for the Game…

You Now Have Four Months To Lose All Your Switch Saves In A Freak Accident

Last night,Nintendo announced that the Switch will be getting cloud-save backups in September. That means you have four months to drop your Switch into a lake, or let your dog chew it up, or accidentally back over it with your car. Since the Switch came out in March of 2017, it has been impossible to…

Virtual Console Is Not Coming To Switch, Nintendo Says

In the wake of news that the Nintendo Switch’s online subscription service will include a Netflix-like library of NES games, fans have been wondering: Is the Virtual Console coming back? The answer to that question is no, according to Nintendo. “There are currently no plans to bring classic games together under the Virtual Console banner…

Nintendo Switch’s Online Service Will Finally Let You Back Up Your Saves

Cloud saving will finally come to the Nintendo Switch with the upcoming online service, which launches in September, Nintendo said today. Finally, you won’t have to worry about losing all 200 hours you’ve sunk into Zelda—as long as you’re willing to pay. “Details about this feature will be available before the paid service launches in…

Ambitious Mod Reworks Breath of the Wild To Make Zelda The Hero

Princess Zelda spends most of Breath of the Wild sealed away in Hyrule Castle along with Calamity Ganon but an ongoing mod project is working hard to give her an adventure of her own. The Zelda Conversion project will let players explore the world as Zelda, adding new armor and story tweaks. The project started…

Want To Make Zelda? Nintendo Is Hiring!

Nintendo has a level designer job listing for working on The Legend of Zelda series. The gig is at the company’s Kyoto headquarters. The job entails working on dungeons, the field (or map), cutscenes as well as designing enemies. Nintendo is looking for those with experience as game planners. The listing is in Japanese and…

Game Boy Creator Said He Didn’t Leave Nintendo Because Of The Virtual Boy

Gunpei Yokoi’s last major release at Nintendo was the Virtual Boy. It was a disaster, and there has long been speculation that it caused Yokoi to resign. In an article he wrote before his tragic death, Yokoi explained why he left the company. The Virtual Boy’s failure was not the reason. The Virtual Boy was…

250 Fake Nintendo Games That Don’t Exist, But Probably Should

*Checks calendar* oh boy it’s that time of year already, when artists from around the world dream up fake Nintendo games then print them out on cartridges for us to look at them and think, oh hell yeah, why wasn’t there a No Man’s Sky for the Famicom? The cart designs are part of an…

Mariners Go Retro To Showcase Starting Lineup

The Seattle Mariners announced their lineup for a game yesterday using the respectable pixelated mode of Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for the Super Nintendo yesterday, and it was actually really cool. I, for one, am incredibly proud of a brand who tries to engage with this millennial obsession with video games and…

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Is Delightfully Difficult

It is incredibly fun to die in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, a game that assaults your senses with enough cute animals, wonderful animations, and lovely music to make you forget that it’s beating the hell out of you. Tropical Freeze, which came out for Wii U in 2014 and launches again for Switch today,…

How Nintendo Labo Is Doing In Japan 

Last year, it was seemingly impossible to get a Nintendo Switch in Japan. The console was always selling out. What about Nintendo Labo? Right now, you can easily pick one off the shelf. Well, it’s made of cardboard, so Nintendo can make a whole bunch, right? True, it’s not as complex to make as game…

I Still Enjoy Watching People Play Quest 64

Quest 64 is the first game I ever watched someone speedrun. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing at the time. It was the late ‘90s, and the term was not yet in common use. My younger brother managed to beat the game in a single sitting, something I’d never previously imagined being possible…

The Nintendo Labo Can Make Some Serious Music

Oh, you thought you were cute playing a little piano on the Nintendo Labo? Here’sJapanese musician Geniway showing just how good the software’s suite of music tools can be. Here’s a Final Fantasy XIII tribute he stitched together: And here’s some Splatoon for good measure: If you’re wondering why he keeps shaking the thing: it’s…

You can now use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller in the Steam beta client, including its gryo sensor. Valve hasn’t said when it will be available in the main client, but back when support for the PS4 controller was first introduced on Steam it took a little over a month.

FTC Warns Nintendo, Microsoft, And Sony To Review Warranty Terms

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony a 30-day window in to change their console warranty language to let consumers know they can make repairs or use third-party replacement products without voiding them. The FTC said in a press release on April 10 that various companies, including some in the video game…

Nintendo’s new president Shuntaro Furukawa certainly wants the Switch to succeed, but according to Nikkei, he is aiming at a smartphone game to generate over $900 million in sales. “In what I can see now,” he said, “the thing I want to make the big are smartphone games.” Update May 2 – 9:00pm: An earlier…

A Nintendo Labo Powered Wheelchair

Now that Nintendo Labo is out, people are doing cool things with it. Using the motorcycle Joy-Con to control a wheelchair has to be among the coolest of them. This was created by Japanese researcher and inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji. Since Yoshifuji was in high school, he has developed new technology for electric wheelchairs, and this…

Donkey Kong Game Disappears From eShop Ahead Of Switch Re-Release

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was first released on the Wii U in 2014, and has previously available as a digital download on Nintendo’s eShop. Now that the game has been re-released on the Switch, though, it’s been noticed that the cheaper digital version of the game is no longer available. There are reports of…