The COVID-19 pandemic has put a damper on many different events in the past year. Concerts canceled, weddings rescheduled, and vacations ruined. So, if you already had your tickets ready for the February 5 opening of Super Nintendo World, you should probably cancel your flight. Due to the “emergency declaration” and spike in COVID-19 cases…
Beginning June 30, 2021, Netflix’s services will no longer run on the Wii U or the 3DS. Nintendo already removed Netflix from both eShops on December 31, 2020, meaning new users will be unable to download it. However, existing users may still re-download and use the application until its discontinuation in June. It is not…
After months of quietly working behind the scenes, the Super Nintendo World theme park is finally coming to fruition. Universal Studios Japan released a worldwide virtual premiere on a special website that allows visitors to take a virtual tour of the park from the comfort of their own home. Viewers can tour all the features…
The year was 2003. I had finally accepted that I liked Zelda, even though I had never completed any of the games. My interest in Zelda came in three steps. I’ve written about the first two steps in a previous article. Ocarina of Time put in a lot of work to stake its claim to…
The character Gulliver from Animal Crossing is a video game trope that pays homage to Jonathan Swift’s satire from 1726. In both novel and game, Gulliver experiences a series of travel mishaps that result in grand adventures. In the novel, Gulliver’s escapades are a vehicle to ridicule English customs; however, in the Animal Crossing series,…
Nintendo’s Japanese website has released the company’s Six-Month Financial Results Briefing Q&A. This document features Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa answering key questions regarding the performance and demand for the Nintendo Switch’s family of systems. Furuwaka states that the Nintendo Switch platform is continuing to grow: ”Nintendo Switch has seen cumulative sales exceeding 60 million units…
Nintendo has revealed details on its upcoming Black Friday deals, and they include a Switch bundled with a digital copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. The video game giant also revealed its Black Friday console bundle includes three months of an individual Nintendo Switch Online membership. The package deal will cost $299.99 and will be…
Starting from November 9, Nintendo will be reducing the price of individual Joy-Con controllers. Currently they retail at $49.99 but will be dropping by 20% to $39.99. Nintendo is also doing something similar in Japan, with a price decrease taking place starting on November 6. There is no news on whether this will happen in…
Dreams are home to many things. They hold beautiful things that leave your heart aching upon awakening, but they also hold dark and dreadful things that send your heartbeat racing as you shoot up in bed, trying to remind yourself that it’s all just a figment left behind in dreamland. Because of Link’s Awakening, there…
Didn’t think that Breath of the Wild Zelda could fight? Think again. New footage from the Nintendo Treehouse presentation reveals the princess herself taking a piece of the action in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Her Triforce powers haven’t awakened yet, mind you. But thanks to Sheikah technology, Zelda can get her own licks in…
The strong! The burly! The one! The only! Master Kohga! It has been confirmed that Master Kohga will appear in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity in footage shown of the game during Nintendo’s recent Treehouse Live presentation. While playing as Urbosa in the Gerudo Desert, the presenters briefly pulled up the Battle Log screen, which…
We’re all very excited to see Impa playable in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, and during yesterday’s Nintendo Treehouse Live event, we got to see her in action again — and what a spectacle it was! The main highlight of this new footage is Impa fighting a towering Hinox. Age of Calamity’s encounters seem just…
Yesterday’s Nintendo Treehouse Live showcased a lot of new details about Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, and we’ve been squeezing every detail that we possibly can out of the gameplay shown. One fascinating piece of info that we received is a mission mode of sorts to help you train with weapons. We got a glimpse…
If I have any flaws — a debatable position, I assure you — it might be a distinct lack of patience. It’s true, I just don’t like to wait. When presented with two options, one immediate, one delayed, I’ll often choose the former even if the latter option might be better in the long run.…
It was a thrilling day for Zelda and Mario Kart fans alike on November 13, 2014, the day that The Legend of Zelda DLC pack launched on Mario Kart 8. This introduced Link as a racer for the first time ever in the series, as well as the amazing Zelda-themed track, Hyrule Circuit. We were…
