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CultureMy Goodness, Nintendo’s Profits Increased Over 400 Percent
During the three month period from April to June 2020, Nintendo’s operating profits increased by 427.7 percent. In its latest financial earnings statement, Nintendo revealed its year-on-year sales increased by 108.1 percent, while the company’s net profit is up 541.3 percent. Out of that, dedicated video game platform sales, which includes hardware, software and accessories,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 6, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsHalo Infinite, Only On The N64
Last month Microsoft showed off a ton of footage from the upcoming Halo Infinite, featuring a crash landing and a very upset pilot. They looked OK in high definition, but there’s something about them that looks even better imagined as an N64 game. This video by Hoolopee does exactly what it suggests, recreating 1:42 of…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2020 -
CulturePikmin 3 Deluxe Comes To Switch October 30
Cross another game off the “Wii U Games That Still Need To Come To Switch” list. Beloved action-puzzler Pikmin 3 is getting the deluxe treatment, releasing on Switch October 30 with full story mode co-op, new side missions, lock-on targeting, and new difficulty options. There’s nothing quite like guiding colorful plant creatures with unique abilities…
By Mike Fahey Published August 5, 2020 -
Carrion‘s Switch Icon Is Less Horrible Now
Phobia Game Studio’s Carrion is a cool little game in which players terrorize scientists as a hideous tentacled monster. It used to have a Switch game icon that looked like a grotesque body opening. Now its icon looks like mutant lobsters at play. It’s a definite improvement. The biggest improvement to the Carrion Switch icon…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2020 -
CultureSuper Mario 64 Took 622 Days To Develop, Suggests ‘Gigaleak’ Document
Super Mario 64 is arguably one of the best games of all time, not only due to how fun it is but also because of the technological leap it represented for the platforming genre. According to a document included in the recent “Gigaleak,” however, this monumental project took less than two years of actual development.…
By Ian Walker Published August 3, 2020 -
CultureSmoking Toad, F-Zero Beavis, And Other Weird Nintendo Gigaleak Finds
The recent “Gigaleak” of Nintendo assets has given us an inside look at the development of some of our favorite games. But as one might expect from a massive collection of prototypes and early builds that were never meant to see the light of day, there’s a good deal of weird and otherwise out-of-place stuff…
By Ian Walker Published July 31, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThrowing Paper Mario‘s Confetti Is My Happy Place
Sadly, it feels like I’m reaching the end of my time with Paper Mario: The Origami King. I’ve loved everything about it—well, almost everything—but my favorite part has got to be the simple act of tossing confetti around. The Mushroom Kingdom is in total disarray by the time you get to explore it thanks to…
By Ian Walker Published July 30, 2020 -
CultureGigaleak Suggests Animal Crossing Could Have Been ‘Human Crossing’
Was Animal Crossing almost Human Crossing? Files unearthed in the massive Nintendo “Gigaleak” suggest that homo sapiens were once intended to appear in the first entry of the popular life-sim series, a Japan-only release called Animal Forest Some background: Animal Forest—or Dōbutsu no Mori, in Japanese—released in 2001 on the N64. Later that year, it…
By Ari Notis Published July 30, 2020 -
CultureOffbeat ’90s RPG Moon Finally Heads West August 27
The official English translation for “anti-RPG” Moon: Remix RPG Adventure will come out for Nintendo Switch on August 27, almost 23 years after it launched on the original PlayStation. Moon was the brainchild of the now-defunct Japanese studio Love-de-Lic, which was founded by a team of developers who had previously worked on games like Chrono…
By Ian Walker Published July 30, 2020 -
CultureAnimal Crossing: New Horizons Camera Glitch Is Back As An Official Feature
Players can once again show off their islands in clutter-free videos thanks to a new feature that dropped in last night’s Animal Crossing update which makes it possible to turn off the game’s HUD while using the in-game camera. Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ in-game camera makes it easy to automatically gets rid of these annoying…
By Ethan Gach Published July 30, 2020 -
CultureFans Spot Countless Differences In ‘Gigaleak’ Pokémon Diamond Prototype
Early prototypes of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl have emerged from the Nintendo “Gigaleak.” Like much else involved in this Snorlax-sized trove, it’s a lot to comb through, so Kotaku reached out to Pokémon expert Lewtwo to help sort through the many differences between the prototypes and the Diamond and Pearl we all know. Users on…
By Ari Notis Published July 29, 2020 -
CultureOne Of The Leaked Nintendo Games Is A…Hockey RPG
In the dying days of the Nintendo Entertainment System, well into the early 1990s, Taito had plans to bring arcade game Hit The Ice to the console with some pretty substantial additions. It never made it, but that wasn’t for lack of effort; the game was actually completed, just never released. As gaming historian Frank…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 28, 2020 -
CultureBrand-New Animal Crossing Villager Found In The Gigaleak
The hits just keep on coming thanks to the recent “Gigaleak” of internal Nintendo data. Some of the latest findings include a trove of assets from Animal Crossing’s Japan-exclusive N64 predecessor Animal Forest, including the complete source code, a never-before-seen villager, and weird versions of Nook’s shop. I’m sure most of you are aware of…
By Ian Walker Published July 28, 2020 -
CultureAnimal Crossing‘s Second Summer Update Adds Fireworks, Dreaming, And Cloud Backups
The second free summer update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons launches on July 30. Along with regular fireworks celebrations and the bizarre ability to visit other islands via dreaming, the update also brings one of the game’s most eagerly anticipated features—the ability to backup and restore player islands in case of lost or damaged Switch…
By Mike Fahey Published July 28, 2020 -
CulturePreviously Unknown Super Mario 64 Enemy Found, Added To The Game
These big Nintendo leaksaren’t just for curiosity’s sake; there’s a real practical element to them as well, like the fact modders have been able to find lost and unused enemies in titles like Super Mario 64 and get them back in the game. Like Motos here. Motos is an enemy that was designed, created and…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 27, 2020 -
CultureMassive Star Fox Leaks Include Crystal-Clear ‘Do A Barrel Roll’ And Slippy’s Angelic Voice
The internet was recently set ablaze by a dump of Nintendo assets known as the “Gigaleak.” This batch includes incredible finds, like early Yoshi prototypes and even Luigi files in Super Mario 64. But my favorite part has been hearing the Star Fox 64 cast speak with crystal-clear clarity via new digital audio files. The…
By Ian Walker Published July 27, 2020 -
CultureIt’s True: Luigi Really Is In Super Mario 64, And Fans Are Thrilled
For nearly two and a half decades, Nintendo fans have been trying to verify that Mario’s brother Luigi was somehow hidden away in the files of Nintendo 64 classic Super Mario 64. Thanks to this weekend’s so-called “Gigaleaks”, Luigi’s Mario 64 files have been verified, finally proving one of the longest-running gaming myths to be…
By Mike Fahey Published July 27, 2020 -
CultureStar Fox 2 Almost Had A Black Female Pilot With Incredible Hair, And I. Am. Smitten.
One drip of information in the deluge coming from Nintendo’s latest “Gigaleak” was source code and unused assets for Star Fox 2, including a never-before-seen human character. Completed in 1995, Nintendo shelved the game out of fear it’d look inferior to the next-gen graphics of the PlayStation. (The game was subsequently released as an unlockable…
By Ash Parrish Published July 27, 2020 -
CultureHuge Nintendo ‘Gigaleak’ Reveals Tons Of SNES & N64 Secrets, Like Luigi In Mario 64
One of the longest-running and most interesting stories of 2020 has been the slow emergence of a ton of confidential, historic data contained within some big Nintendo leaks. Another round of stuff originating from this data spill landed over the weekend, and it covers everything from Super Mario 64 to Star Fox 2 to Super…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 26, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsMario Modder Creates All-New Zelda Game In Ocarina Of Time’s Engine
Kaze Emanuar, who we normally post about thanks to his astounding work modding Mario games, has with the help of some friends only gone and made an all-new Legend of Zelda game. It’s called The Missing Link, and has been made in the Ocarina of Time Engine. Set in between Ocarina and Majora’s Mask, it…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 26, 2020