Nintendo Switch goes on tour: It may be coming to a city near you
March can feel like a long way away for Nintendo fans dying to try the company’s new system. Well, if you’re lucky enough to...
Super Mario Run beats Pokémon Go’s first day with 2.85 million downloads
Pokémon Go may need to make way for a new mobile success story. Super Mario Run had more downloads on its first day than the...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Be patient. The Metaverse will come. And it will be open.
I hear a lot of speeches. But Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games and a longtime graphics guru, stitched together the best vision...
The DeanBeat: The road ahead in VR and AR will have two steps forward, one step back
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of...
Super Mario Run is the top-grossing iOS app in 30 countries (update)
Nintendo has the biggest game on iOS right now. Super Mario Run is No.1 on the iOS download and grossing charts in the United States, according to intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That’s abnormally high for a game without free-to-play microtransaction spending.
GameStop: Nintendo 64 is the hottest system in the retro-gaming scene
The NES Classic Edition has made old games cool again, and GameStop has found that it has plenty of demand for classic systems among...
8Bitdo’s wireless NES Classic controller solves the cable problem without losing the nostalgia
Nintendo has one of the hottest holiday gift items of 2016 with the NES Classic Edition (our review), but that system’s short controller cable has...
NES Classic Edition sold 196,000 systems in November in the United States alone
Nintendo had one of the best selling consoles in November. The NES Classic Edition sold 196,000 consoles in November in the United States, according to...
November 2016 NPD: Pokémon has its biggest debut in franchise history
November gave us the PlayStation 4 Pro, the PlayStation VR, and the NES Classic Edition, but spending is still down. The video game industry...
Super Mario Run’s internet-connection requirement is dumb
Nintendo is bad at the internet. Remember Friend Codes? Well, they’re back in the publisher’s first Mario game for mobile devices. But that’s not...