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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.

Happy Birthday, Shigeru Miyamoto. The creator of Mario, Zelda, Pikmin and many more games we love turned 61 today.

These Pokémon, made by the digital artists of iheartjlp, look really dark and make me feel they're from a not-so-shiny alternate universe rather than from one of the well-known regions. The Jigglypuff on the top right, for example, looks quite serious. Read more

Nintendo just bought a stake in NicoNico Douga's parent company Dwango. The company provides content via smartphones, but Nintendo says it won't be using Dwango for that. More on Siliconera.

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy launches Feb. 28 for Nintendo 3DS and will be in stores and on the Nintendo eShop. The game will feature a storyline uniting the two Layton trilogies.

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The lovely 3DS role-playing game Bravely Default is out on February 7 in North America, Nintendo just announced. Looks like they're ditching the subtitle for this one.

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