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 […]
Now that we’ve established Chris Pratt’s portrayal of Mario in the animated Super Mario Bros. movie sounds more like Pratt himself rather than an exaggerated Italian stereotype, we can focus on the second trailer, which features the […]
Following the reveal of the spectacular official trailer for The Super Mario Bros Movie today, Nintendo and Illumination have shared a bunch of new posters for each major character in the movie, including Mario, Luigi, […]
Friday afternoons growing up meant a trip to the video store. It was an utter thrill, like a little weekly Christmas, where my mom would turn my sister and me loose among the laminated, empty […]
With a spotlight shining upon him in a crowded LA auditorium, game developer Davide Soliani starts to sob uncontrollably. After years sworn to secrecy, Davide’s dream game is finally being unveiled to the public – […]
The Nintendo Switch is a fantastic machine for role-playing games; it’s something Nintendo has been aware of from the very start. The hybrid nature of the Switch makes it easy to settle in for hours-long […]
Nintendo has announced a Nintendo Direct to reveal the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros Movie, setting a date of Thursday, October 6 at 4:05 p.m. ET / 1:05 p.m. PT — just after […]
The best controllers for your Nintendo Switch aren’t the ones that come with each system. The removable Joy-Cons included with all Switch consoles (except for the Switch Lite) are convenient since they can be detached […]