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The Nintendo Switch Phone App Goes Live With Splatoon 2

During today’s Nintendo Direct, Splatoon 2 showcased a mobile feature called SplatNet 2. It will be available as part of the Nintendo Switch Online phone app coming alongside the game on July 21st. SplatNet 2 is a mobile phone feature that connects players to the game while they’re on the go. Here’s what we know:…

Splatoon 2 Has A New Pair Of Squid Idols And They Are Perfect

Given that Marie and Callie have split, squid kids need new pop singers. Enter Pearl and Marina, Splatoon 2’s freshest new sound. Like the first game, Splatoon 2 will feature “Splatfests” where players can join teams based on voting preferences. During these events, the common square lights up, and music booms through the streets—all courtesy…

Nintendo Has Now Been Making Video Games For 40 Years

July 2017 marks a big anniversary for Nintendo: The company has now been producing video game hardware and software for 40 years, beginning with the Color TV Game 6 and Color TV Game 15 in July 1977. Like most game hardware of the 1970s, Nintendo’s first two machines were Pong clones. In fact, they were…

We played more of Super Mario Odyssey’s demo and performed some great tricks, including this death-defying leap into a swimming pool. We’ll share more over the next few days.

Snorlax Wins International Pokémon Tournament By Eating A Ton

Last weekend’s North American International Championships had two big surprises: not only did Australians sweep the tournament, a Snorlax dodged more than half a dozen chances to be paralyzed or flinched. And, in classic Snorlax fashion, it won a tournament by eating. As one of the smaller and newer regions to Pokémon’s Video Game Championship…

The Year’s Biggest-Selling Games And Hardware In Japan So Far

It’s July. We’re past the year’s halfway point, so now is a good time to take stock and see how things are doing in the Japanese game industry. Famitsu is reporting game and hardware sales data from December 26, 2016 to June 25, 2016. Here are the ten top-selling games for that period: 10. 1-2…

How People Are Cooling Down The Nintendo Switch 

If you’re hot this summer, you can bet the Nintendo Switch is, too. The hardware already gets heated and is bound to do more so as the temperature rises. Here’s how folks have been trying to cool down their Switches. Note: these are not recommendations! An Opolar laptop cooler has been shoved onto a Switch.…

Player Clips Through Wall In Breath Of The Wild DLC And Discovers Hidden Area

Included in the first Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC are the Master Trials, a sixty level challenge where players fight enemies in search of an upgrade for the Master Sword. That’s what Reddit user Sharkystheshotty was doing when they unexpectedly stumbled into an alternate, lo-res world. “Was on trial three on the Medium trials…

Nobody Thought Competitive Pokémon Player Would Win A 4 vs 1, But He Did

Competitive Pokémon players usually forfeit matches with seemingly unbeatable odds. But the first day of the North American Pokémon International Championships is a perfect lesson in why never giving up can pay off. Giovanni Costa, this season’s consummate Eevee player, found himself facing down one of the most talented players from Germany, Tobias Koschitzki, in…

Here’s the trailer for Max Brass, the first DLC character coming to ARMS who we originally learned about thanks to Nintendo’s livestream during E3. The Roman Centurion-inspired will be free when the DLC finally arrives, although Nintendo hasn’t yet revealed when that will be.

The Conflict Over Custom Loadouts In Arms Tournaments

Arms has been a surprise hit on the Switch, but the competitive-minded players who have latched onto it are having difficulty establishing a standard format for high-level Arms matches. Each fighters in Arms has three default choices for each of their arms. Helix has his Blorb, Ice Dragon and Guardian, while Min Min has Ramrams, Megawatts…

Seriously, Nintendo: It’s Time For Mother 3

If you watched the June 19 episode of WWE Monday Night Raw, you surely noticed something interesting in the crowd: A wrestling fan in the front row holding a giant pink posterboard sign that read “Localize Mother 3.” This was not the first such sign that had been spotted at a WWE taping; Kotaku even…

Breath Of The Wild Characters Are Terrified Of The Tingle DLC Costume

Breath of the Wild added some awesome outfits with some new downloadable content but none are as terrifying as Tingle’s costume. The mere sight sends NPCs into a panic, allowing Link to terrorize towns up and down the Hyrule countryside. You can watch the mischief in the video above. It’s okay Tingle, some day the…

How To Find Zelda: Breath Of The Wild‘s New DLC Items

Breath of the Wild’s first big downloadable content dropped last night and it is full of cool items to find. If you’re too important and busy to hunt them down yourself, don’t worry. This guide will help you look like the best dressed adventurer in all of Hyrule. When you load up the DLC, a disembodied…

The first DLC pack for The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild is now available. As previously reported, it adds some very cool stuff. 

The Nintendo Switch vs 40 Hours Of International Flight

Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting the team in our New York office. The best part of that was the burgers and beers! The worst part was having to spend 40 hours on a plane going from Australia to the US and back. Or so I thought. Even a couple of years ago,…

The Switch version of Namco Museum will include Pac-Man VS. Co-developed by Nintendo and Namco for GameCube in 2003, the 4-player game has three players as ghosts and one player, on a separate screen, as Pac-Man. Two Switch consoles will be required to play this version. Namco Museum is out July 28.

Only Tiny Pokémon Could Fight In This Official Tournament

The Pokémon Company offered players a chance to mix things up last weekend with an online competition where only shrimp-sized monsters could strut their stuff. The Tiny Tournament let players use almost any Pokémon in the ever-growing National Pokédex, as long as they were under one meter (3’03”) in height. That means Pokémon such as…

The Wii U Is Still Getting Virtual Console Games For Some Reason

While Nintendo fans across the globe wonder if the Switch will ever get some sort of Virtual Console, the Wii U continues to get an inexplicably steady stream of classic games. Why? Because Nintendo. Today’s entries are Bonk 3: Bonk’s Big Adventure and Devil’s Crush, two TurboGrafx-16 games that will undoubtedly be popular among all…

Mario Kart 8 Update Gives You Even Better Items When You’re Losing

Yesterday’s Mario Kart 8 Deluxe update fixes a lot of bugs for online matches, as well as making the game a bit more fair for players that are losing. While the jury’s out on whether or other racers in AI matches are cheating, losing against real life players in online matches is no less frustrating.…