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  • Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase and Indie World presentations coming today, August 27th 2024
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    Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase and Indie World presentations coming today, August 27th 2024

    Nintendo is combining their Partner Showcase and Indie World presentations into a one big event, streaming today. New game announcements from the Big N partners and more are coming today. I believe it’s the first time Nintendo is bringing both presentations together in a 40 minute stream. So, not too many games from both partners…

  • Lego reveals new sets from three video game franchises

    Lego reveals new sets from three video game franchises

    The Danish brick toys company has presented new sets from Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog and Fortnite games. What a time to be a Lego and video games fan. The famous toy brick manufacturer revealed a Super Mario World Mario & Yoshi set, a Shadow the Hedgehog set and as many as four Fortnite sets.…

  • Nintendo reveals an Official Switch Joy-Con Charging Stand 7 years after the console launch

    Nintendo reveals an Official Switch Joy-Con Charging Stand 7 years after the console launch

    With tons of third party options Nintendo finally decided to join and release a charging station for the Joy-Cons. Better late than never, right? Joy-Cons, the Switch’s most popular official controllers are mostly charged via the console itself. But for people with multiple Joy-Cons, like myself, having a dedicated charging station made life much easier.…

  • Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club – a Nintendo thriller is coming to the Switch
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    Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club – a Nintendo thriller is coming to the Switch

    A third installment of the thriller series dating all the way back to the Famicom days is making its way to Nintendo’s handheld next month. Recently Nintendo took everyone by surprise by releaseing a short teaser of a horror game. And everyone was like “This doesn’t seem like Nintendo. What is this?”. Not gonna lie,…

  • Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Will it deliver?
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    Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Will it deliver?

    Is the next Metroid Prime game going to become a classic like The Prime Trilogy? We think so. So, it’s been seven years since we first saw that Matroid Prime 4 logo. It’s hard to believe what the fans of the series had to endure. First we didn’t see or hear anything about the latest…

  • Nintendo Switch Online adds three Starfy games, but only in Japanese
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    Nintendo Switch Online adds three Starfy games, but only in Japanese

    The beloved Japanese series’ first games have finally been released outside of Japan. That’s great. But why not in english? If you had a Nintendo DS you might have played The Legendary Starfy game on your console. But did you know it was already a fifth game in the series? Originally released on Game Boy…

  • Why we’re excited for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
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    Why we’re excited for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

    The new Zelda adventure is around the corner. And it will be a breath of fresh air. During the last Nintendo Direct, the publisher announced a new Legend of Zelda game, in which you will finally play as Zelda. And no, those CD-i games are not counting, hehe. As a big fan of Tears of…

  • Nintendo Direct June 2024: Out Top Picks

    Nintendo Direct June 2024: Out Top Picks

    Japanese giant brought us the best Nintendo Direct presentation in quite some time. Here are our top picks for the games announced this June. Nintendo Switch is slowly getting ready to wrap it up and make space for the new Nintendo console. And while we have not hear a lot about new Nintendo titles and…

  • Lego unveils a Legend of Zelda set

    Lego unveils a Legend of Zelda set

    Lego continues its work with Nintendo with a reveal of a set from the beloved franchise. Danish brickmaker just presented their newest set from the Legend of Zelda series. It is quite an intricate set that lets you build the iconic Deku Tree from either Ocarina of Time or Breath of the Wild. I really…

  • Nintendo will open a second US store in San Francisco

    Nintendo will open a second US store in San Francisco

    The Japanese gaming giant will finally open another store in The United States in 2025. Nintendo just announced their plan to open a second official store in America, specifically in San Francisco. This means Americans will get another official Nintendo Store outside of New York City. Not much is known about the new shop besides…

  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom released one year ago

    The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom released one year ago

    The sequel to the highly regarded Breath of the Wild is already one year old. Man, time flies when you’re having fun. Back in the day, Nintendo surprised their fans with a giant sandbox Zelda in Breath of the Wild. Some fans loved it, some fans hated it. Whether you’re in the first or the…

  • Nintendo will reveal the Switch successor by the end of the fiscal year

    Nintendo will reveal the Switch successor by the end of the fiscal year

    Nintendo’s CEO Shuntaro Furukawa just confirmed on X that the Nintendo Switch successor will have an announcement by the end of this fiscal year. Many Nintendo fans, including me, are eager to hear some official news about their next console. Fortunately, Shuntaro Furukawa finally shed some light on the new hardware. It wasn’t much, just…

  • Great Nintendo Switch eShop sale on Star Wars Day

    Great Nintendo Switch eShop sale on Star Wars Day

    May the 4th be with you is upon us and with it some awesome deals for Star Wars games for the Nintendo Switch. As a part of the Star Wars Day celebration we just got a fantastic sale for the Star Wars games on the Switch. The force is strong with this one as we…

  • Game Boy turns 35 today!

    Game Boy turns 35 today!

    Today, April 21st, 2024 marks a 35-year anniversary of one the worlds most famous handheld consoles, the Game Boy. Introduction On this day in 1989, Japanese gamers got their hands on the Game Boy. And while it was hardly the first handheld on the market, the first being Microvision in 1979, a whole 10 years…

  • Corn Kidz 64 is coming to Nintendo Switch

    Corn Kidz 64 is coming to Nintendo Switch

    The best 64-bit era throwback game in recent memory is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Corn Kidz 64 is a weirdly awesome game with that feeling of playing on an actual N64 console. It was created and released by BogoSoft in October 2023 on Steam and now it’s coming to the Nintendo Switch. And let…

  • Nintendo’s Indie World showcase coming on April 17th

    Nintendo’s Indie World showcase coming on April 17th

    The next indie games presentation with around 20 minutes of content is coming tomorrow. As much as we would love to see a proper Nintendo Direct as soon as possible, I think we all appreciate a good indie games showcase. Smaller developers have had a great run with the Nintendo Switch. With many classic titles…

  • Wii U and 3DS online services shut down today, April 8th, 2024.

    Wii U and 3DS online services shut down today, April 8th, 2024.

    The grim day for many Nintendo fans has finally come. The online services for both Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo 3DS consoles shut down on Monday, April 8th at 7 PM ET and 4 PM PT. Here’s the full statement from Nintendo: Thank you very much for supporting our products. At 4pm PDT on April…

  • Nintendo releases more footage of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

    Nintendo releases more footage of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

    Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake is closing in as we get new footage from Nintendo a month prior to the game’s release. Nintendo started pushing some more marketing for their next release. They shared new footage video on X along with a graphic including a letter from Princess Peach to Mario, in which she…

  • Is the Nintendo Switch release schedule lacking this year? Not really.

    Is the Nintendo Switch release schedule lacking this year? Not really.

    We hear a lot about Nintendo’s lack of first party Switch games this year. But is it any different and worse than the console’s previous years? Well, not really. At least not much. We indeed hear more about remakes than original new titles this year, but we need to address the reality of Switch’s life…

  • The Legend of Zelda movie director ensures fans won’t be disappointed

    The Legend of Zelda movie director ensures fans won’t be disappointed

    As you may or may not know, Nintendo is working on a live-action Zelda movie. The weirdest part is, that they are co-producing it with Sony. Since the project was announced, fans were a bit skeptical and scared about what could happen with their beloved franchise’s adaptation. Myself included. We’ve heard very little about the…

  • Pokémon Works subsidiary set up at The Pokémon Company

    Pokémon Works subsidiary set up at The Pokémon Company

    Seems like The Pokémon Company may have a surprise for the fans in the future. The company set up a new subsidiary named Pokémon Works in Japan on March 4th, 2024. The word about the new branch came from Joe Merrick on X: The Pokémon Company in Japan have set up a new subsidiary: Pokémon…

  • MAR10 Day 2024 – every announcement from Nintendo

    MAR10 Day 2024 – every announcement from Nintendo

    The Mario Day is upon us and Nintendo has a few really cool things to show us this year. From the latest release dates for new games to a new Mario Bros. Movie from Illumination! We have plenty to talk about, so let’s go. As you may know already, march 10th has been an official…

  • Yuzu Emulator creators have reached a settlement with Nintendo

    Yuzu Emulator creators have reached a settlement with Nintendo

    After just over a week Yuzu Emulator creators have settled with Nintendo after the lawsuit accused them of “facilitating piracy at a colossal scale”. Turns out they decided to give up without any legal fight and will have to pay up a big sum of 2.4 million $ to the gaming giant. Not only that,…

  • Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu creators sued by Nintendo

    Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu creators sued by Nintendo

    Nintendo adds yet another lawsuit to their rich portfolio with the latest enemy being the creators of a very popular Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu. Nintendo of America files a public lawsuit against developers on the 26th of February. This lawsuit signifies yet another attempt in a fight the gaming giant continues with anyone messing with…