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...
F-Zero and Super Mario World still hold console-launch lessons for Nintendo 25 years later
Twenty-five years ago, the Super Famicom launched with some of the best games Nintendo has ever made: F-Zero and Super Mario World. Both left a...
‘Mystery Science Theater’ guys release riff of cheesy gaming classic ‘The Wizard’
Everyone’s favorite Nintendo savant is back, and it’s time to laugh at him. Rifftrax, a site about making fun of movies (also called “riffs”)...
Activision outpaces EA, Bethesda for TV ad engagement and spending as holiday heats up
Console games remain the industry leaders in TV ad engagement as Activision, Electronic Arts, Bethesda Softworks and Nintendo all push new releases from some...
Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash is fun, but it’s just a blip in a crowded season
While this Wii U does manage to make improvements to the core gameplay and is much more fun than the series’ last outing — Mario Tennis Open on the 3DS — there’s just not a lot to the game.
Animal Crossing: Amiibo festival is a boring, random mess
Before you buy Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival, grab a dice and roll it. If it lands on an even number, you win. If it...
Level 5 boss on Yo-Kai Watch, localizing car accidents, and the Pokémon comparison
Yo-Kai Watch is a Japanese phenomenon, and now it has come West (read our review). Gamers in the U.S., Canada, and other Western nations...
Nintendo wants to dazzle us with Japanese role-playing games in early 2016
When we think of most Japanese role-playing games that come out today, austere affairs with limited budgets generally come to mind. Nintendo apparently wants to...
Nintendo Direct trailer roundup: Zelda HD, Cloud in Smash, and more
Nintendo just had one of its big Direct livestreaming events, and it had a lot of cool announcements. If you missed anything, we’re going...