Watch the new Super Mario Bros. speedrun world record and despair, mortal
You are probably pretty good at games. I’m sure you’ve finished a Call of Duty or Assassin’s Creed in your day. Well, it’s time to...
Super Mario Maker sells 500K copies in U.S. and gives Wii U a boost
Nintendo had a strong September thanks to its beloved plumber mascot. Super Mario Maker has already sold 500,000 copies in the U.S. since its...
September 2015 NPD: NBA, NFL games have big month as hardware sputters
Correction: This story originally credited the Metal Gear Solid V PS4 bundle for holding back its sales on the software chart, but that package...
Nintendo is rebalancing Splatoon next week — rollers getting nerfed
Splatoon’s getting a major rebalancing update on October 20, which should hopefully make fights fairer in Nintendo’s colorful third-person shooter for Wii U. Nintendo released detailed...
Magic Leap’s Graeme Devine on how to design for mixed reality and the impossible
Graeme Devine has had a storied career in games, working on projects such as The 7th Guest at Trilobyte, Age of Empires 3 at Microsoft,...
Ingress maker Niantic spins off from Google and raises up to $30M from Pokémon and Nintendo
Niantic, the Google-spawned company that created the popular mobile game Ingress, is spinning out on its own. It has raised up to $30 million...
Yoshi’s Wooly World is adorable but can’t match Yoshi’s Island’s brilliance
Sometimes, a game is so good that it can actually become a problem. I think that’s how Nintendo feels about Yoshi’s Island, the classic...
DeNA West boss: We should announce our Nintendo mobile game ‘soon’ [update]
Correction: I originally wrote that DeNA’s Shintaro Asako implied a timeline for Nintendo’s announcement, but that is not accurate. I apologize and regret the...
Chibi-Robo Zip Lash is fun in small doses
It’s a big, weird world out there for must of us big ol’ homo sapiens, but imagine what it’s like for a tiny, 4-inch...
Super Mario Maker is down for maintenance tonight
Someone hand Nintendo that hammer from Donkey Kong, because it needs to do some work on its Super Mario Maker servers. The engineers at...