Watch us throw people into a pachinko machine in Nintendo’s Miitomo mobile game
I just dropped a friend of mine into a pachinko machine to help me win a cat outfit. This is Nintendo’s first mobile game,...
How Super Smash Bros. Melee’s esports community keeps the fighter relevant 15 years after release
Fans can keep a game relevant as long as they want. Daniel Lee, the editor in chief of Melee It On Me, spoke at...
Pokkén Tournament takes Pokémon somewhere new: the fringe of fan fiction
If the idea of Pikachu dressed up in a luchador costume and fighting against other Pokémon on the deck of a ship where a...
Fire Emblem Fates sells 400K copies in the U.S. despite just 9 days on market
Nintendo has turned Fire Emblem into a hit franchise. The publisher revealed today that the strategy role-playing release sold 400,000 copies at physical retailers and...
February 2016 NPD: Far Cry, Fire Emblem, and Street Fighter fail to lift U.S. game spending
February had a lot of blockbuster game releases, but that wasn’t enough to match spending from last year. Consumers spent $842.5 million on new physical...
Nintendo: Zelda Wii U is ‘like going from Japanese food to Western-style food’
The Wii U is getting a totally new entry in the revered Zelda series this year, and the game’s producer is suggesting that it’s going...
Wii U’s 2016 eShop music is fire
The Wii U’s digital game store has a hot new track that you have to hear. Nintendo regularly updates the eShop download channel on...
3DNES emulator turns your old 8-bit Nintendo games into 3D nightmares
Two-dimensional games are for old people. Thankfully, a new emulator will let you play aging games with a fresh coat of 3D paint. 3DNES is...
Machine Zone’s Mobile Strike tops Far Cry: Primal in Super Bowl month ad spending
Machine Zone blew away the competition in the Mobile & Video Games category this month for TV advertising, with spending estimated at three times...
Zelda’s Link is Google Maps’ latest Easter egg
It’s dangerous to go to that new antique store in that part of town you never go to alone! Take this. Link, the hero...