Jam out to Wii U eShop’s 2015 holiday music
It’s the holiday season, and Mario is delivering cheer for your ears. Nintendo is continuing the tradition of sprucing up its eShop downloadable game...
The Game Awards trailer roundup: Telltale Batman, Rock Band VR, and more
The game industry got together last night in Los Angeles to celebrate some excellent releases from the last 12 months. But The Game Awards is also...
Nintendo’s new boss says NX console won’t be a new version of Wii or Wii U
Nintendo’s new president Tatsumi Kimishima told Time magazine in an interview that the NX video game console won’t just be an extension of the...
Pokémon Picross is two great flavors that taste only OK together
Games are wonderful because they are problems that you can really solve. Unlike life, where every solution creates new problems, you can find the...
Watch us play Fast Racing Neo — the Wii U’s spiritual successor to F-Zero
Old gaming consoles used to get plenty of “fast racing” games, but one developer is doing its damnedest to keep the genre from dying....
Splatoon tournament has Nintendo’s employees splatting each other for dominance
December is a time to goof off — even if you make games. Nintendo of America just started livestreaming a special tournament for its...
Xenoblade Chronicles X impressions: Size matters
With Starfox Zero being delayed into 2016, Nintendo’s biggest holiday release – both figuratively and literally – is Xenoblade Chronicles X, the followup to...
Mario Kart 8 gets an esports show on Disney XD
Disney XD, a channel focused on content for kids, announced a new show today called Clash of Karts: Mario Kart 8, which will team up young gamers with popular YouTube personalities like Strawburry 17 and AtomicMari in a one-hour, multiround Mario Kart 8 competition.
Nintendo Power’s Epic Center: a golden age of console role-playing games
In the thick of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System zeitgeist in 1995, noted games magazine and company propaganda machine Nintendo Power started printing a...
Nintendo’s biggest successes — and fumbles — from the era of the Super NES
It’s been 25 years since the Super Famicom — better known to us Westerners as the Super Nintendo, or SNES — launched to long lines...