We were all shocked to see the announcement of Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Even more surprising, developer Acquire originally had plans to create a sexy Mario design for the latest Mario & Luigi title. This […]
A streamer who gloated about relentlessly streaming unreleased and emulated Switch games is facing a $7.5 million lawsuit from Nintendo. Nintendo is coming down hard on Jesse Keighin, aka “EveryGameGuru,” who had allegedly been streaming […]
Photo Credit: Nintendo While other gaming companies like Square Enix have uploaded their soundtracks to Spotify, Nintendo is going its own way. The company has debuted a new companion app for its Nintendo Switch Online […]
No one has ever applauded me for getting out of bed before. But for the last week and a half a tiny, cheery red machine has been rewarding me with a fanfare when I decide […]
Fooling Alarmo seems at first an easy task. When my 7am alarm went off the first time, I did not get out of bed and start my day. Instead, I aggressively waved my hand in […]
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge No Switch 2, no problem. As promised, the latest Nintendo Direct took place on June 18th, and the focus was on games for the second half of the […]
Chris Pratt was recently asked what we might expect in the Super Mario Bros. 2 movie. But he didn’t limit his answer to just a second movie. No, Pratt is imagining a whole “Nintendo Cinematic […]
Shock of shocks! Hot on the heels of The Super Mario Bros. Movie making—conservatively speaking—a s**t-zillion dollars earlier this year, it seemed only reasonable for Nintendo to keep that ball a-rolling. However, while an animated […]
Nintendo has announced that a live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda is in the works. Wes Ball, director of The Maze Runner trilogy and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, is set to helm […]
Diablo IV, the spookiest of dungeon crawlers, will be steeply discounted through Halloween. | Blizzard It’s hard to believe, but Halloween is now just a little over a week away. Luckily, if you haven’t had […]
The million-dollar question in video games for some time now has been when Nintendo will launch its next console. Next year has seemed like a safe bet for that to happen, but now we have […]
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack will add Intelligent Systems’ Fire Emblem (2003) to its Game Boy Advance (GBA) library on Friday, June 23, 2023. Known as Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade in Japan, this […]
The Dolphin Emulator logo, on a black background. | Logo: Dolphin Did you hear the one about how Nintendo blocked the Dolphin Emulator from making its way to Steam, purportedly with a DMCA takedown? That’s […]
How will we know when Hollywood’s appetite for proven intellectual property has peaked? Perhaps it’s happened already. Was it when Showtime started developing four new projects based on Billions, including two titled Millions and Trillions? […]
Hey, y’all. President’s Day weekend has arrived, and with it comes a slew of phenomenal deals on everything from smart displays and robovacs to some of our favorite pairs of wireless earbuds. We’ve rounded up […]
The latest Nintendo Direct had all the big names — well, aside from Mario. But we got a fresh trailer for the next Zelda game, a surprise launch of the original Metroid Prime, a release […]
Each day, we inch closer to the glorious arrival of The Super Mario Bros Movie. Once it arrives, I figure there will be a moment like at the end of Bill & Ted Face the […]
In 1981 Shigeru Miyamoto created a video game character whose entire personality was contained in what the designer first described as “16 dots by 16 dots.” As that character evolved, those pixels would comprise red […]
2022 may have been a slow year for big AAA video game releases, but it was a great year for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo itself released a bunch of excellent games (including two great Pokémon […]
The positive reception to Kingdom Battle meant that Brillaud, Soliani, and Kirkhope were soon discussing plans for the sequel. Soliani wanted to do what Nintendo does with all of its sequels: go bigger. Sparks of Hope would […]