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Nintendo Confirms It Will Make Apps (And Maybe Games) For Phones

Nintendo has confirmed it will soon be releasing content for mobile phones. And games could be part of it. Japanese news outlet Nikkei first reported the news that Nintendo would produce smartphone content earlier this week, which Nintendo partially denied. Turns out they were both kinda right. At a business presentation in Tokyo today, President…

One Awesome Way The Wii U Is Improving: Game Loading

Thank the maker. Realising that the Wii U is a drag to fire up then slog through to get playing, Nintendo is going to streamline the way you get into games and programs on the console. How? Like this. The video up top shows a new, simpler, faster way to get into your games. There’s…

Nintendo Will Release New Platform In 2015-16 (But It’s About Health?)

During a presentation in Tokyo earlier today, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata made a surprising announcement: the company will in 2015-16 be releasing a new platform. For your health. Seems that with its back to the wall, Nintendo is looking out for its next “blue ocean”, the next untapped market. And it thinks it’ll find this…

Nintendo will license its character to new partners, says company president Satoru Iwata. There’s a precedent for this: Nintendo has already done the same for arcade games.

Nintendo Knows The Wii U Is Struggling, Promises Improvements

The 3DS is doing pretty well! The Wii U, however, is not. You know it, I know it, and you bet Nintendo knows it, because the company just announced a raft of changes and improvements they’re bringing to the system (and the way it’s marketed). Recognising that the console needs to be marketed better, president…

Mario Kart 8 will be released in May, Nintendo revealed at a financial briefing in Tokyo today. No word if that includes the Western release as well. (Note: It’s worldwide!)

​The First And Only English-Language Review Of Super Mario Bros.

These days it can feel like half the internet is made up of video game reviews. That wasn’t always the case—after the video-game crash of the 1980s, there were so few video game publications that one of the most important games of all time was barely reviewed at all. In the video above, cat-owning video-game…

Video Games That Are Awkward To Play In Public

For most portable video games, you’re not being particularly brave when you play them out in meatspace. The button-pressing and D-pad-pushing is fairly surreptitious in the vast majority of on-the-go titles; you can play without making too much of a spectacle of yourself. But other games make you look like an idiot during your morning…

​Nintendo’s Recent Drama, Summed Up In One Cheeky Image

Flat Wii U sales. Decreases in executive salary. Wishes for Nintendo to do something radically different. There’s no doubt that the House of Mario is facing serious challenges. They’re having a big investor meeting tonight. And the image above, tweeted out by a parody account pegged to Nintendo America president Reggie Fils-Aime earlier today, suggests…

Pokémon NPCs Say The Most Bizarre Things

The characters populating the world of Pokémon are kind of…special. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you scratch your head. Some will just be kind of random—but that’s exactly what makes them so good, as far as fans of the franchise are concerned. I mean, how iconic is the line about comfy shorts?…

10 Things You Should Know About Bravely Default

If you’ve got a hankering for some medieval RPG action, you’re in luck—in just a bit over a week, North America will finally get to play Bravely Default, which comes out for the 3DS on February 7. I’ve played 16 hours of Square’s newest role-playing game, on a review copy provided by Nintendo, who published…

Let’s Compare Old Video Game Scenes With Their Movie Counterparts

Copying scenes from movies, and putting their 8-bit replicas into their licensed video games was a bit of thing back in the NES era. NYC-based artist Brother Brain started a series where he compares these particular scenes using animated GIFs. The top one is Predator on the NES. And here’s Kevin from Home Alone, and…

Nintendo Boss Is Taking a Huge Pay Cut (Because of the Wii U)

The Wii U isn’t doing as well as Nintendo had hoped. Someone must take responsibility! That someone is Nintendo president Satoru Iwata—as well as other Nintendo execs. According to Nikkei, Iwata is having his pay cut in half due to Nintendo’s poor performance. Other company directors will get pay cuts between 20 and 30 percent.…

The sub-boss battle music from Bravely Default: Flying Fairy is some of the most hilariously over-the-top JRPG battle music I’ve ever heard. From 1:50 to the loop-around, it’s… it’s like composer Revo built a giant robot out of DragonForce members, gave it a Red Bull and told it to perform three lead guitar parts at…

See How Powerful Your Pokémon Are In X & Y

Not all Pokémon are made equal—one Magikarp may kick way more butt than other Magikarp, even if they’re the exact same level. That’s because every Pokémon has hidden stats called “IVs” attached to things like their “attack” and “speed”—and there’s a way to tell what these values are in-game. Pokémon X & Y have been…

The Super Bowl Ends With a Safety, Says Tecmo Super Bowl

Yesterday Madden NFL 25 gave its prediction for Super Bowl Ex El Vee Eye Eye Eye, handing it to Denver, 31-28, on a field goal in overtime. Today, the guys keeping alive 1991’s Tecmo Super Bowl offered their own version of events: another OT game, with Denver winning on a goddamn safety You can see…

Nintendo Denies Smartphone Game Rumors

Yesterday, a report from Japan’s Nikkei newspaper asserted that Nintendo would be putting trailers, promotional info and mini-games about upcoming releases on smartphones. Now, a statement from Nintendo says that they won’t exactly be doing that. Engadget has a full statement from the House of Mario that shoots down the rumor that made the rounds…

Watch Kirby Suck Like He Has Never Sucked Before

The coolest thing about Kirby has always been his ability to suck in his enemies and absorb their powers. And the newest game in the series, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, definitely has plenty of that. In Triple Deluxe Kirby now has five new copy abilities: sniper, beetle, circus, bell, and, my personal favorite, hypernova. And that’s…

Report: Nintendo Will Be Releasing ‘Free Mini-Games’ On Phones

This year looks to be Nintendo’s toughest. Nintendo, however, is looking to change that. Respected Japanese newspaper Nikkei reports that within this year, Nintendo apparently plans to use smartphones to win back gamers. Well, kind of. According to an unconfirmed Nikkei report, Nintendo plans to release trailers for new games on smartphones (presumably Android and…

23 More Illuminating Hours With Assassin’s Creed IV

When a new year starts, I go back and finish the previous year’s Assassin’s Creed. I spent early 2013 rediscovering AC III. I’ve rung in 2014 by playing 23 more hours of Assassin’s Creed IV. I have some more thoughts about this one… Actually, first, I have a lot of videos to show you! These…