Nintendo

Happy Birthday Nintendo Co., Ltd.! On November 20, 1947, Nintendo Co., Ltd. was established as a publicly traded company, making NCL sixty-six years old. Of course, Nintendo itself is older than that (it was founded in 1889), and you can read about Nintendo’s past right here

The Best Smash Bros. Mod Around Is Getting All Sorts Of New Stuff

The new Smash Bros will drop sometime in 2014. That’s a while from now. But why wait at all when you can play an awesome modded version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl that makes the game feel like new? The trailer above is for the latest update for Project M, a mod for Brawl that…

Make Your Zelda Look Super Slim With This One Weird Trick

When the people behind the new Zelda game decided they wanted to use a top-down camera angle, they realized that looking at Link’s green hat for 20-something hours wouldn’t be all that interesting or pleasant. So they came up with a simple solution: MAKE EVERYTHING SLANTED. Look at that image, you guys. They designed the…

The Nintendo 2DS is being released in South Korea on December 7. So far, it’s only been sold in the West. Wonder what country is next…

Nintendo Marching Band Routine Blows Trumpets (Also, Socks Off)

Ohio State University’s marching band did a killer Nintendo performancelast yearduring a halftime show. This year, Clemson responds.

All The Nintendo Consoles In Pokémon Games Over The Years

Lots of elements reappear in Pokémon games across generations—but one of the very first things we experience in every Pokémon game has to be going up to our television and finding a game system hooked up. It’s always a Nintendo system—typically whatever was new at the time. Pokemon X & Y, for example, puts a…

Three Nintendo Systems Share a Birthday Today

Though plenty of attention this week is on the PlayStation 4’s launch last Friday, and the Xbox One arriving on the next, at the midpoint—today—is a rather significant date in video gaming history: Three Nintendo systems all released in North America on Nov. 18. The Wii U, of course, is most recent, launching last year…

Let’s Compare The New Zelda to its 22-Year-Old Ancestor

Link to the Past has aged quite well, wouldn’t you agree? What we have here is a direct, side-by-side comparison of the new handheld Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds, and its predecessor, the now almost 22-year-old Link to the Past, courtesy of The Bit Block. There’s a stark difference, to say the least, but…

What’s Inside A Video Game Control Pad

Reader Brandon Allen has put together an incredible collection of photographs, in which he’s dissected a number of famous video game controllers, spilling their guts all over a wooden table so you can gawk at what’s inside. PlayStation, NES, Dreamcast, Xbox, most of the major names are represented. Or, well, dissected. I’ve included a selection…

The Week in Games: One to Go

It’s the Xbox One’s turn to shine this week, arriving on Friday along with 22 games, among them exclusives like Ryse, Forza 5 and Dead Rising 3. And, in either the most unfortunately timed or ballsiest release ever, New Super Mario and Zelda titles come out the same day. Here’s the week in games. Tuesday,…

Pokémon X and Y Community Solves Shiny Hatching—and Crowdsources It

For those who can’t get their hands on the magic machine that auto-finds shiny Pokémon for you, there’s the next best thing—a crowd sourced database that will pair trainers in Pokémon X and Y to eggs guaranteed to hatch a shiny. It will depend upon the good will and cooperation of the Pokémon community, particularly…

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

Cheating In Pokémon Is Complicated. It May Also Be On Its Way Out.

Back when news broke that Pokemon X & Y had been hacked,there was an immediate panic about how that would affect players. Would hacked Pokemon start circulating in trades? Would people get sucked into battles with hacked Pokemon that were impossible to beat with normal Pokemon? While being able to generate Pokemon through external means—we’re…

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. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest…

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.

Mario Gets Darker With God, Drugs And Booze

‘Gritty’ isn’t a word I normally associate with Mario, but you know what? Polaris makes it work here. This more mature take on Super Mario comes from screenwriter Evan Daugherty, who is also behind the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Oh, and ‘The Addict’ isn’t the only video he’s helped create—there’s also ‘The Fixer,’…

A Simple Tool That Shows You Every Pokémon’s Strengths and Weaknesses

Typically, if you wanted to know what a Pokemon’s strengths and weaknesses are, you’d need to memorize itor Google it. Now you have a third option: the Pokeffectiveness tool. All you have to do is visit this website and type in a Pokemon’s name. The website should automatically narrow it down to the Pokemon you’re…

Our Favorite Video Game Characters of the Last Generation

Video games immerse us in worlds beyond our own, letting us encounter sights and sounds beyond our imaginations. But no matter the scenery, what would these worlds be without the characters we have fought alongside and grown emotionally attached to over the past eight years? With the impending release of the PlayStation 4, today is…

Smash Bros. Creator Is Always Being Recorded At Work and He Hates It

You wanna see video of Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai in his day to day work overseeing game development? Apparently, there’s tons. Sakurai is hard at work on the upcoming Smash Bros. games for the 3DS and Wii U. According to his column in Weekly Famitsu, generally whenever he talks about editing and changes at…

Watch All Of Today’s Nintendo Direct Right Here

If you missed the latest Nintendo Direct, you can watch all of it right here. Topics included Zelda, Professor Layton, Pikmin 3 DLC and other already-announced games through 2014. But the biggest news is the 3DS update that’s incoming.