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Nintendo’s Bamboo-Walled, Flower-Roofed Headquarters

With corridors made of bamboo, a roof layered with flowering sedum plants and buildings named after Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi and Wario, Nintendo’s new Redmond headquarters sounds every bit as fanciful as the games the publisher makes. The 300,000-square-foot-building sits on a 10-acre site on the Nintendo campus, home to most of the Japanese company’s…

By Brian Crecente Published May 16, 2010

This Sultry Princess Peach Will Stick Around Forever

Or at least until she’s removed. As seen on Hawty McBloggy

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 16, 2010

Flipping Through The Nintendo History System

Artist Bill Mudron shipped out the first issue of The Nintendo History System this week, the first chapter in an 8-part series that offers a fun, historical look at the company’s rise from playing card manufacturer to video game giant. I ordered a copy of the prologue (which quickly sold out) and Mr. Mudron was…

By Michael McWhertor Published May 15, 2010

Don’t Screw With The Girls Of Smash Bros.

Deviant Artist Kuroi-Tsuki shows us the stronger side of Super Smash Bros. Brawl’s female combatants. As seen at Deviant Art – thanks Jenzi!

By Mike Fahey Published May 14, 2010

21 Stars Into Super Mario Galaxy 2, A Few Thoughts Come To Mind

You don’t want me to try to describe the surreal galaxies of the first three worlds of Super Mario Galaxy 2, so how about some more abstract impressions? I’ve spent one evening playing Nintendo’s next Mario game, collecting 21 stars across three of Super Mario Galaxy 2’s world maps. Each map contains several galaxies, which…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 14, 2010

All The Super Mario Galaxy 2 Ads You Could Ever Watch

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is coming to the Nintendo Wii. Soon, even. Here are a bunch of ads. Better yet, a compendium That’s Kazunari Ninomiya and Masaki Aiba playing through the game. Aiba is a popstar and actor — ditto for Ninomiya; however, he’s known to Western audiences for his role in Letters from Iwo…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2010

The DS Is About To Become The Biggest-Selling Console Of All Time

The PlayStation 2 deservedly holds the record as the top-selling video game console of all time. It won’t, however, hold the record for much longer. Because the Nintendo DS is nipping at its heels, and despite having released five years after the PS2, will – barring an unforseen disaster – overtake Sony’s console towards the…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2010

Pokémon’s ‘Smugleaf’: A Meme In The Making

It’s been a couple days since the new starter Pokémon for the upcoming Black/White were leaked in a Japanese magazine, CoroCoro. But already, we may have a new meme. The grass starter Pokémon, whose Japanese name is Tsutaja, has risen above the others and become an overnight internet sensation, inspiring conversation and not a small…

By Lauren Orsini Published May 13, 2010

Reviews

Photo Dojo Micro-Review: This Game Is A Joke

Not since my Mii arm-wrestled the Mii of television’s own Geoff Keighley has Nintendo technology allowed me to witness such a titanic virtual battle of video game journalists as it did the day Photo Dojo allowed me to battle… me. The image you see attached to this Photo Dojo review is of me, the guy…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 13, 2010

Nintendo: Don’t Judge Our 3D Just Yet

Love it or hate it, 3D is making major waves. Nintendo is the latest company to jump on the 3D express by releasing a glasses-free 3D handheld gaming device tentatively called the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo doesn’t only make games for hardcore players. It also makes games for the casuals. So when the company stated it…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 13, 2010

The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The DJ Hero

Producer Mark Ronson taps into the stylings of The Legend of Zelda for his new video for “Circuit Breaker” with a little help from Jordan Galland and Gary Breslin, offering a chance to see Link’s master turntable skills in action. You may enjoy the music more so than the slightly mutated Gibdos, Ropes and Darknuts,…

By Michael McWhertor Published May 12, 2010

Hell Is For Koopas

Did you ever wonder what happened to that unfortunate Koopa Trooper you left bouncing between those two pipes in Super Mario Bros.? Of course you didn’t, you heartless cad. Thankfully College Humor has its ever-bouncing back. The Koopa is sentenced to a life of hell, sure, but wouldn’t it be interesting if there was a…

By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010

Metroid Heroine Rides Through Space On A Ship With No Name

Metroid series lead and co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto teaches us something we never knew we never knew. Intergalactic bounty hunter and Metroid: Other M star Samus Aran’s ship—which bears a striking resemblance to her space suit—doesn’t have a name. In the latest issue of Nintendo Power, Sakamoto answers the question “Does Samus’s ship have a name?”…

By Michael McWhertor Published May 12, 2010

Guess Who Is The World’s Most Successful Game Studio

Develop magazine has released the 2010 Develop 100, an annual listing of the most successful game developers in the industry. Who took the number one slot this year? I’ll give you a hint: Nintendo. I really suck at this whole hint thing. World of Warcraft developer Blizzard may have kicked the house of Mario from…

By Mike Fahey Published May 12, 2010

Here Are Some New Pokemon

Those guesses at what these new Pokémon look like? Wrong! The latest issue of kids’ mag CoroCoro shows what the three new Pokémon for the upcoming Pocket Monsters: Black and White look like. The magazine does note that as with previous generation of Pocket Monsters the “type” is important. According to website PokéBeach, the game’s…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010

Francis Ford Coppola Doesn’t Really Like Today’s 3D

Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is not a fan of today’s 3D, stating it is no different from the technology available in the 1950s. While Coppola does concede that digital filmmaking is suited for 3D and that 3D has improved, he points out that the necessity of 3D glasses…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010

Nintendo Can’t Quit You, Instruction Manuals

It seems we may have been a little premature in declaring the death of the printed manual, with one of the world’s biggest publishers going on record saying that there’s life left in the printed word yet. Nintendo has told Eurogamer that it has “no plans to move away from including [paper] instruction manuals with…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2010

Netflix On Wii Is A Medieval Love Story

One million Wii owners have tried out Netflix. It’s a healthy number, but given the size of the console’s install base, Netflix probably wants more. Cue the expensive commercials targeted specifically at Wii users! It’s like a well-dressed Lord of the Rings meets…Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood. Actually, considering they then show a Notting Hill box…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 12, 2010

Mario Creator “Always” Has Regrets

You’d think that the guy who created Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Wii Music wouldn’t have any regrets. Oh wait. “As soon as we’ve finished a project, I always have regrets about what we could or should’ve done,” said Nintendo’s Shigeru Miaymoto in a recent interview with Edge magazine. “But then there…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010

Waggles At Twenty Paces

This year’s E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles has two of the biggest game companies go literally head-to-head in…waggle. Nintendo has had Wii Remote motion control since the console went on sale back in fall 2006. Sony, however, is adding a motion controller called to the Move to the PS3 later this year. While Sony…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 12, 2010