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Tingle’s Coming to Blow Up Hyrule Warriors on February 5

A new Majora’s Mask-themed DLC pack for Hyrule Warriors will be arriving in a few weeks, giving the beat-em-up its most unlikely combatant yet. That’s right, Tingle. Zelda’s weirdest rupee-lover is here to kick butt. Just revealed during today’s Nintendo Direct, Tingle will be battling hordes of enemies with a giant bag of money as…

New Wave Of Amiibo Coming Soon

Nintendo offered up some news about its newly-minted Amiibo toy line during its Nintendo Direct stream this morning, including a few new models they said are coming this Spring. Pac-Man! The next round of Super Smash Bros.-centric Amiibo (there are 11 in total) are coming out in February. But we already knew about those. The…

Nintendo’s got a new free-to-play downloadable 3DS Pokémon puzzle game (with microtransaction support, it sounds like) coming this February. It’s called Pokémon Shuffle and might remind you of Pokémon Trozei. It was announced in this morning’s Nintendo Direct by Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata. Here’s some footage from the Direct, capped by Gamexplain….

Two flavors of Puzzle & Dragons comes to the North American 3DS in May 2015. Nintendo is bundling two 3DS versions of the popular mobile game — Puzzle & Dragons Z and Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition — in on package this spring.

New Fire Emblem Announced For 3DS

The team behind Fire Emblem Awakening is making a new game for 3DS, Nintendo just announced. Though this game will be developed by Intelligent Systems, Nintendo says it’ll play differently than the last one, including challenges “the likes of which have never be seen in the series up until now.” No word on a name…

Watch Today’s Nintendo Direct Right Here [UPDATE]

Ready for a new Nintendo Direct? We’re expecting to officially hear the U.S. release date for the New 3DS, along with a whole bunch of other news from the folks behind the 3DS and Wii U. This one’s gonna be a whopping 46 minutes, so we’re expecting a lot of info on Nintendo’s plans for…

The Best Handheld Zelda Game

Ask people to name their favourite Zelda games and they’ll invariably start with console titles. Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Wind Waker, Breath of the Wild. The handheld Zelda games, most of which are excellent, are often left off the list. From the old Oracle games through to Link Between Worlds,…

Looks Like The New 3DS Is Coming Out Next Month

Rumor suggests Nintendo’s New 3DS—a poorly-titled yet excellent hardware revision of the Old 3DS—will be officially announced for North America tomorrow, and that it’ll come out on February 13. Though nothing is official yet, there’s a lot of compelling evidence. The above flier, via NeoGAF, showing a “2.13” release date. A report from the fan…

Ten Things You Might Not Know About Mario Kart

You can never get enough of Mario Kart trivia, if you ask me. Thankfully, the internet seems to feel the same way. Appropriately named YouTubers Fun Facts recently gave their standard treatment to Nintendo’s flagship kart racing game (I poured one out for Diddy Kong Racing after typing that). Watch the short clip here: Mario…

Boba Fett vs. Mario, Mega Man and Pokemon Ends Exactly How It Should

The only possible reason for Mario not running from Boba Fett is that Nintendo’s flagship character doesn’t know who he is. Then, unfortunately for him, Princess Peach’s boyfriend finds out the hard way why he’s the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy. Ouch. This video by YouTuber NicksplosionFX mashes up two beloved parts of…

This Wednesday, January 14, there’ll be a Nintendo Direct at 6am PT/9am ET. It’ll be “focused on spring 2015 Wii U and Nintendo 3DS titles”.

Legendary Secret Nintendo Song Found In Mario Kart 8

The easter egg to end all Nintendo easter eggs has just been unearthed in Mario Kart 8. As YouTubers Somewhat Awesome Games demonstrate in a video published yesterday, it turns out Yoshi was humming it all along—he was just being drowned out by the track’s music. If only we’d all listened to Yoshi better from…

That’s One Pretty (and Expensive) Link Amiibo

I’ll admit that this custom remodelled and repainted LinkAmiibo is beautiful. But is it £70 ($106) worth of beautiful? This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The figure’s been slightly altered, with a repositioned head and the removal of the stand, which looks nicer but apparently makes him less stable. Although I can’t see him…

Smash Bros. Lore Theory May Make You Regret Beating Up On Master Hand

Is it possible that the big bosses featured in every Super Smash Bros. game—Master Hand, Crazy Hand, Tabuu, and Master Core—really represent different aspects of series creator Masahiro Sakurai? It sounds crazy (hand), but this video from The Game Theorists might actually convince you that it’s at least possible. Even if the video has some…

Ten Times One Player Beat Two in Professional Smash Bros.

I’ve been spending a lot of time with the new Super Smash Bros. games on Wii U and 3DS lately, but actually playing doesn’t get me nearly as hyped as this compilation of pros succeeding against the odds. EvenMatchupGaming‘s first Super Smash Bros. “2v1 comebacks” video features ten clips of players whose partners have died…

Nintendo Will No Longer Sell Consoles or Games in Brazil

Nintendo is pulling out of Brazil. The company announced yesterday that it will no longer distribute products there due to the country’s high tariffs on electronics, despite its “many passionate fans” that live there. Nintendo officially blames “challenges in the local business environment,” including “high import duties…and our decision not to have a local manufacturing…

Charity Speedrunner Has Mastered One of My Favorite Games Ever

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars was the first role-playing game I ever played, and it took me years to beat it when I was a kid. Then this guy did it in under three hours. This week’s Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 charity speedrunning marathon has featured some really cool runs, including…

No, People Are Probably Not Gonna Buy A Rare NES Game For $100,000

There is currently a factory sealed copy of extremely rare (there are only two copies in near-mint condition on Earth) NES game Stadium Events listed on eBay. It’s reached a bidding high of $100,000, and it still has six days to go. Unfortunately, there is likely foul play involved. As Wired outlines, auctions like these…

The New Attack on Titan 3DS Game Is a Solid Upgrade of the Last One

Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind -Chain- is an update of last year’s similarly titled Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind. And while it has only one major new feature, it is one that changes the entire game for the better. Good – Harder Than It Looks When it comes down…

Smash Bros. Amiibo Tournament Is One Hell Of An Emotional Rollercoaster

“I knew I should’ve trained him better,” a friend said somberly of her Luigi Amiibo after he got steamrolled by another friend’s Captain Falcon. “I knew he wasn’t ready.” Amiibos, tiny plastic statues of popular Nintendo characters that can interact with a handful of Nintendo games, are all the rage right now. They’re nice-looking, collectible,…