Nintendo’s E3 streaming plan is more than just Zelda for Wii U
Nintendo has said that The Legend of Zelda for the Wii U is the only game it will show at this month’s Electronic Entertainment...
Forget the NX — Nintendo gets into the shoe game with Vans
We’re all wondering what Nintendo is going to do next. Few of us expected shoes. The Japanese game maker is in a transition period...
The origins and secrets of the Super Mario Galaxy games
A tech demo for the GameCube inspired the creation of Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. You can learn more about that and other interesting...
The rise and fall of Nintendo’s Miitomo: Massive downloads don’t mean success
As we outlined in our previous post in April, Nintendo’s first mobile app, Miitomo, debuted and quickly shot to the No. 1 rank on...
Nintendo’s underappreciated StarTropics series comes to the Wii U
You might be a big Nintendo fan, but it’s likely you’ve never played StarTropics. You should fix that. Nintendo revealed today that StarTropics and...
Doom keeps terrifying TV viewers, as Uncharted keeps charting in game ads
You’re still going to need to sleep with the lights on. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real time, to...
Nintendo’s Yo-Kai Watch 2 is coming to the U.S. on September 30
Nintendo announced today that the ghost-collecting Yo-Kai Watch 2 is coming to the U.S on September 30 for 3DS. It will release in two versions (a strategy used by Nintendo’s popular Pokémon series): Bony Spirits and Fleshy Souls. They will add 100 Yo-kai (those cute, ghost-like monsters) to the series.
Nintendo eyes expansion into film business
TOKYO (Reuters) – Movies like “Mario Kart” and “The Legend of Zelda” could soon be coming to a theater near you. Nintendo Co Ltd...
April 2016 NPD: Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank lead as gaming industry drops 15%
April was the Dark Souls of months for the game industry. Consumers spent $509.5 million on new game-related products at retailers in the United...
Nintendo’s Star Fox and Bravely Second rank among April’s best-selling console games
It might be a rough year ahead for the company, as the Wii U home console dies a slow death while everyone waits for the launch of its successor — the NX — next March. Still, two Nintendo games managed to make market analyst The NPD Group’s list of the best-sellers of April in the $99 billion games industry.