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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Super Mario playground from the Wii Games: Summer 2010 summit earlier this month, as seen on PopCultureGeek’s Flickr stream
A pair of artists recently drew and painted Donkey Kong daddy and Mario maker Shigeru Miyamoto. Why did the candy turn into creepy Kirby? Why did they make Miyamoto creepy? (Click the triptych to enlarge.) The photo on the left was included in a 2004 interview between Miyamoto and Next Level games, during the pre-Wii…
And it is apparently called “Wii Remote Plus”. The box art for upcoming Wii title FlingSmash seems to be bundled with a new Wii Remote. The box notes, “Bonus Wii Remote Plus Inside!” The game is compatible with Wii MotionPlus, the motion add-on peripheral for the Wii Remote. The Wii MotionPlus was released in 2009…
Takashi Okamura starred in one of the greatest Japanese ads Nintendo Co., Ltd. has ever created. The ad appeared back in late 2005 and early 2006 as part of Nintendo’s “Hot Mario” campaign. It starred Osaka comedians Okamura as Mario and his comedy partner Hiroyuki Yabe as Luigi. While the vast majority of Japanese commercials…
“1985” by Mike Mitchell, an accurate visual representation into the young mind of a Nintendo Entertainment System owner who knew nothing but the pack-in joys of Super Mario Bros., now 25 years old. Via SuperPunch
Wii owners who have already earmarked funds for Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii may want to fork over some of that cash to GameStop, especially if they want to encase their Wii Remotes in banana pouches. GameStop is offering the Wii-owning banana fan something cute and clever with which to dress up their…
Of all the ways to play using motion-detecting video games, swordplay seems to offer the most potential for fun. The give and take of fencing and Kendo seem like easy rules to mimic in a video game and the slashing motion of using your sword to attack and block seem like the sort of big…
Earlier this week I received a Wii Party pinata in the mail, it was pretty clear what had to be done. Good thing Ash is reviewing this particular game.
We know games are going 3D, but did you ever stop to wonder what would happen to game menus? Scaleform are some of the development community’s unsung heroes, responsible for the user interfaces and menu systems for many of today’s biggest games. In this clip, they demonstrate how those menus will look runing in 3D,…
Irrational Games was founded in 1997. Lucasarts in 1982. Sega in 1940. Each of those three companies may feel like old-timers relative to their field, but they’ve got nothing on Nintendo, which todaycelebrates its 121st birthday Yes, it was on September 23, 1889 that Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a company that at the time specialised in…
The sharp-eyed bloggers over at Aggrogate noticed something amiss with today’s issue of freebie New York newspaper Metro. Instead of a sexy cover for the pub’s Sex Issue, the Metro was wrapped with a faux cover dedicated to the panic in London caused by puzzles. That’s right, Nintendo took over the New York paper with…
Nintendo is celebrating the 25th birthday of Super Mario Bros. on the original NES in its own way, but the investigative reporters at The Onion offer piercing insight into series you won’t read anywhere else.
Meet Rambi, the rideable, sleepy-eyed rhinoceros who doesn’t mind stepping on a few thorns in the name of giving Donkey Kong a ride in Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii. Frankly, Donkey Kong Country Returns looks so incredibly straightforward there’s not much more to add here, other than we hope that Miney the Mine…
Toronto-area model and psychedelic artist blackfeatheredcrown shows her devotion to Nintendo in a very appealing fashion. Catch the whole set on her Flickr page. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
These pack of diminutive Wii remote and nunchuk is too cute for words… so I shot a video instead. The Miniremote has LED illuminated action buttons, a textured rubber grip and is a third smaller than the much less cute Nintendo remote. The MiniChuk has a click-free thumb button and formed rubber grip. The pack…
Nintendo’s next handheld game machine, the Nintendo 3DS, will be significantly more powerful, thanks to hardware specs that represent a vast improvement over the Nintendo DS and its more powerful successor, the Nintendo DSi. IGN, citing “persons familiar with the hardware who spoke to us under the condition of anonymity,” report that the 3DS will…
On September 18, Pokémon: Black and White went on sale in Japan. It probably did pretty good, right? No, no it didn’t. It did amazing In its first two days on sale in Japan, Black and White sold 2.63 million copies. By comparison, 2006’s Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl sold 1.58 million in its first week…
The Japanese game industry is dead. This week has been a flashback of last year’s Tokyo Game Show — complete with gloom and doom from Capcom’s Keiji Inafune. “I think Japanese gaming is dead,” Inafune told the New York Times. “When I say these things, I’m called a traitor. But I love Japan. I want…
That delightful Japanese commercial celebrating Super Mario Bros’ 25th anniversary has received a surprise extended cut. Only thing is, there’s no new footage. Above is the old trailer. Short, and cute! Below is the updated version. Longer, and less cute. Wondering what’s being said? Basically, DON’T BLOW ON CARTRIDGES. EVEN DS ONES. IF THEY NEED…
Nintendo DS puzzle master Professor Layton, channeling the fashion expertise of 2009 DS fashion game Style Savvy, in an unexpected tie-in between the recent Fashion Week and Layton’s newest game… talks about hats. As do his friends. post
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