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...
Nintendo off of list of 100 top brands for first time
Nintendo’s upcoming changes feel a little more urgent today. Consultancy company Interbrand released its annual list of the world’s top brands, and Nintendo isn’t...
Here’s why Super Smash Bros. 4 is thriving a year after its debut
One year ago today, Nintendo released Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, introducing us to the fourth iteration of the popular fighting game series....
Super Smash Bros. gets two new DLC stages: Wind Waker and Super Mario Maker
Nintendo finally seems to understand that people want to buy a lot of new content for its games. The Japanese company made two stages...
Super Mario Maker already sells 1 million copies
If you’re Nintendo, you can always count on Mario. The Japanese game company revealed today that Super Mario Maker has already sold 1 million...
Mobile megahit Monster Strike is coming to 3DS in Japan this December
One of the most lucrative games in the world is rolling over to Nintendo’s handheld platform. Monster Strike, which is already a huge success...