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The company that gave the world Mario, Link, and Samus is the undisputed champ of the modern console war, with nearly 150 million Switches sold since 2017. But now, speculation is rampant about the company's next console, rumored to launch in 2025.

Here's 21-year-old illustrator Piper Thibodeau's rather cartoony reimagination of the Kanto starter Pokémon. Compared to Charmander in the third picture, Squirtle and Bulbasaur both look so grumpy and bored, you might consider not using them in battle at all. Read more

Nintendo has been a family business. After the company's former president Hiroshi Yamauchi died last fall, he left his stake in the company to his four children. And now, Bloomberg reports, they're looking to sell stock.

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The history and evolution of the Moblins are no longer a secret to everybody, thanks to this all-encompassing feature by GameXplainGameXplain. Here is something I did not know until today: The etymology of "Moblin." It's derived from the Zelda brutes' name in Japanese, which itself comes from the Japanese words for

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One of the greatest games of all time is now on the Wii U Virtual Console, finally. Just two months after The Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds, you can get Link to the Past on your GamePad today.

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