A new Kickstarter project, Ninty Fresh Issue 1, opened for donations on June 1. In less than 24 hours, they had doubled their initial goal of £2,000 (approximately $2,500 USD). The project has been so successful that they have since added three stretch goals, two of which have been already been reached after five days.…
Announced via the official Japanese Twitter account, the next Spirit Board event in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be focused on characters that appeared on the Nintendo 64 platform. A number of different franchises are included in the announcement image ranging from the familiar Yoshi’s Story and Donkey Kong 64 to the less familiar Custom…
When we look at some of the blockbuster gaming hardware platforms down through the years, a number of platforms come to mind. Notable among them are basically the entire Nintendo handheld family of systems along with the Nintendo Wii, with the Nintendo Switch seemingly also on that same trajectory. The Wii and DS both sold…
The upcoming Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan has seen a fair share of rumors and screenshots since its announcement. Recently, an overhead drone shot surfaced online giving us a substantial view of the park. As showcased in the image above, we can see the layout of the park and its high attention to…
Last week, Reddit user nexusgx shared a quick clip on the r/3Dprinting subreddit showing off one of their recent 3D-print designs: an NES cartridge that doubles as a Switch game card case. The pop-out tray holds up to 12 Switch game cartridges. The tray is held in place with a simple snap latch, so while…
New information is coming out regarding The NPD Group’s April report on games for the United States. One of the biggest things to come out of the report is that the Nintendo Switch has now broken a record which the Nintendo Wii had held for over a decade. That record is the year-to-date dollar sales…
Nintendo continues to dominate. With millions of people under stay-at-home orders, and many of them seeking out new forms of entertainment, the online searches for the phrase “Buy Nintendo” increased by 890% during the first seven weeks of the pandemic, according to MiQ Canada. Gaming was already widely popular, but it’s experiencing a huge rise…
As part of Nintendo’s annual financial results call, President Shuntaro Furukawa was asked questions by those in attendance. While the bulk of the information from said call was released via their annual financial report two weeks ago, Nintendo has only recently released an English transcript for those questions and Mr. Furukawa’s responses. It should be…
The limited 3DS and Wii U Nintendo eShops in Malaysia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are shutting down on July 31, 2020. Maxsoft, a Nintendo product distributor in various countries including Malaysia, announced the closures earlier this week in an Instagram post. The limited Nintendo eShops provide users some basic functions, such…
Nintendo’s list of games with confirmed release dates for their popular console, the Nintendo Switch, is a short one. Out of the six games the Japanese video game giant has officially announced, only two have definitive release dates: Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition is slated for a May 29 release, and Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics…
Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Amie has announced that he is now a part of Spin Master’s Board of Directors. The news comes directly from Fils-Amie’s Twitter, where he describes what he has in common with various lines of toys. Spin Master’s Twitter account responded to Reggie’s announcement simply saying ‘‘Welcome to our family…
Nintendo released its annual financial report earlier this week. The financial portion of the report leads with the core good news for the 2020 fiscal year (FY20) and shows that sales and profits are broadly higher than the 2019 fiscal year (FY19). Net sales were up 9% compared to FY19 and profits were up at…
The GameCube is a console loved by many Nintendo fans and is home to some of Nintendo’s best first-party games. From The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker to Super Mario Sunshine, there are a lot of great games to enjoy. Since its launch in 2001, fans have created some remarkable custom versions of the…
One of the most memorable scenes from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has been recreated in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Twitter user penpen_0907 has utilized the terraforming tools to the limit in order to recreate the courtyard in which Link meets Princess Zelda as a child in Ocarina of Time. The incredible detail…
As we mentioned in a recent article, Nintendo recently had a massive data leak via a third-party company, BroadOn. Included in that leak is a document that includes, in fairly certain terms, the thought process behind a number of Nintendo’s early design choices as they pertain to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (WFC), the online service used…
