The company that gave the world Mario, Link, and Samus is the undisputed champ of the modern console war, with nearly 150 million Switches sold since 2017. But now, speculation is rampant about the company’s next console, rumored to launch in 2025.
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Feel like celebrating Zelda’s 25th birthday with something big, bulky and heroic? It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this stuff. This Zelda sword and shield (of which there are two sets, one for Ocarina of Time and one for Twilight Princess) were made by Fiberglass Blades, a small custom accessory and weapon builder specialising in…
What if the Mario Bros. weren’t out saving the Mushroom Kingdom, but were actually just down-on-their-luck plumbers from…Boston? Prostitutes, beatings, pianos and mushroom use follows. Called “The Plumber”, it’s the work of New York sketch comedy group Captain Hippo, who describe the video as “The true life story of the Mario Brothers, like you’ve never…
If you ever need a reference point for how ferocious – and some would argue unnecessarily so – Zelda fans can be about their beloved franchise, one need only look at a public showcase Nintendo held in the year 2000. For a few years between the mid-1990s and early 2000s, Nintendo decided against revealing major…
Forget for a moment that the 3DS is hitting U.S. retailers in late March. In early March, black and white Pokémon DSi units are coming to the States, each priced at US$179.99. The bundles were released in Japan last year.
Before the Nintendo 3DS was called the 3DS, it had a codename. It was a prototype that Nintendo was developing as the Nintendo DS’s successor. And initially, it did not have 3D. The portable’s console manager Hideki Konno tells Famitsu that the planning for the DS’s successor commenced when the original DS was finished, complete…
Fishing, Graffiti, AR Shot, Mii Pics and Star Pics are among the titles purported to be heading to the Nintendo 3DS’s AR Games, reports GameLife. While the other games are fairly self-explanatory, Star Pics is an augmented reality title that uses Nintendo characters like Mario, Link, Kirby, Metroid’s Samus and Pikmin (Mii Pics supposedly uses…
Pokémon games are always released in Japan months before they make their way to Western markets. It’s not conspiracy; instead, it’s because developers GameFreak like to make sure Pokémon names truly mean something, regardless of the language used.
If the console rivals had come together twenty years earlier, it would surely have looked like this. By Gadget WK
Professor Layton is the star of a series of puzzle-solving adventure games. Featuring beautiful animated cutscenes, they feature Layton and his young sidekick, Luke. They are hugely popular in Japan, which means one thing: other game companies are now ripping it off. Shamelessly. First there’s — no, wait. First there was Professor Layton, then, there’s…
When the 3DS launches in the US, there will be sixteen games available. In Europe, there will be thirteen. In Japan, there will be eight. In Australia? Think less Only a single Nintendo title will be available when the handheld launches on March 31, and that is Nintendogs + cats. It will be joined by…
Over the past 25 years, not every single Legend of Zelda game has been made by Nintendo. Some were developed by Capcom, and are outstanding in their own right! And some were made by other people, and are supposed abominations At least, that’s what popular opinion will have you believe whenever the topic of the…
The Nintendo Channel has released new video of three of the Nintendo 3DS‘s North American launch games, PilotWings Resort, Steel Diver and Nintendogs + Cats. Will any of them convince you to put in a pre-order? The 3DS will launch later this week in Japan, so we’ll soon have extended hands on coverage of some…
Game designer Eitan Glinert (Slam Bolt Scrappers) told me over dinner last week that he’s really good at Mario Kart games, good enough that, a year ago believed he and his colleagues at Fire Hose Games could gold-medal all the races in all the console Mario Karts for charity in a 36-hour stretch. Unfortunately, Glinert…
Forget its glasses-free 3D, the Nintendo 3DS is unlike any Nintendo video game before it because it will debut without Mario or Luigi. The previous nine major gaming machines from Nintendo — all of the big ones, from NES to Wii — had these guys. The Mario-shaped hole emerged today when Nintendo released its 3DS…
Nintendo’s nebulous 3DS launch window includes months for the game company to fill their slate for the new portable. But what will U.S. gamers be able to pick up the day the 3D handheld goes on sale? This morning Nintendo finally dropped a list on us that includes all 16 games available on March 27.…
I often get emails from readers, asking where they should go while visiting Japan. There are the obvious answers like Akihabara or Den-Den Town. But one place I usually recommend, a Nintendo-funded museum in Kyoto, is closing its doors. For the time being, at least. Dubbed Shigureden, it sits in Arashiyama, a quaint Kyoto village…
Japanese artist ag+ has commemorated the 25th anniversary of the release of the original Legend of Zelda in the best possible way: with one of the most amazing pieces of fan art you will ever see. If Nintendo had a chapel and (bear with me) that chapel had an ornately-painted ceiling, this would surely be…
Nearly every single Legend of Zelda video game is revered, if not as an all-time classic, then at least as a pretty good/good/great game. The franchise’s one major departure onto TV screens? It was not good. Not at all While Mario was turned into a big Hollywood movie and Metroid was long rumoured to be…
The Great Gatsby—the “NES” version, that is—started its strange life as a single screen shot, a pixelated recreation of Francis Cugat’s iconic cover art for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel. “It was just too funny,” says The Great Gatsby NES lead developer Charlie Hoey of that artwork “all NESified and blocky with PRESS START…
Pixel artist Jude Buffum mixes terrariums with the familiar flora and fauna of Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Castlevania, illustrating what’s required to keep a Hylian fairy and Piranha Plant alive at home. Buffum’s prints are available at his online shop and at next week’s Game Over IV show at Giant Robot…
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