Nintendo Alarmo Review: Nagging Nostalgia
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 […]
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Nintendo Direct June 2024: all the news and trailers
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 Teases a ‘Nintendo Cinematic Universe’ on the Horizon
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 […]
Nintendo Announces Live-Action LEGEND OF ZELDA Movie in Development
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 […]
Live-Action Legend of Zelda Movie Announced by Nintendo
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 […]
Microsoft and Nintendo are slashing prices on plenty of spooky titles for Halloween
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 […]
New Nintendo Console Release Date Planned for 2nd Half of 2024
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 […]
Fire Emblem Joins GBA Nintendo Switch Online on June 23
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 […]
Read the emails: Valve helped Nintendo kick the Dolphin Emulator off Steam
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 […]
Do We Need a Nintendo Cinematic Universe?
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? […]
The excellent Nintendo Switch OLED is on sale for $50 off for President’s Day
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 […]
Nintendo Direct February 2023: the biggest news and trailers
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 […]
Official Mario Movie Poster Revealed by Nintendo: It’s Beautiful
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 […]
Universal Studios Hollywood powers up with Super Nintendo World
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 […]
10 great games for your Nintendo Switch from 2022
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 […]
Three Music Legends Collaborated on One Nintendo Game. Sparks Flew
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 […]
Nintendo Reveals New Trailer for Super Mario Bros. Movie: Watch
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 […]
Mario Movie Posters Revealed by Nintendo for Every Character
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, […]
The Genki Covert Dock Mini makes packing the Nintendo Switch a cinch
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 […]
Mario and Rabbids: Sparks of Hope review – a decent strategy game in flimsy Nintendo wrapping | Games
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 – […]