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If your Nintendo Wii is buried under a pile of clothes in your closet, don't fret, we have good news for Donkey Kong fans. Nintendo is releasing Donkey Kong Country Returns HD for the Switch with a refreshed look. Originally released on the Wii, this version will be visually amped up to modern graphics standards with...
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There are three certainties in life—death, taxes, and rumors surrounding Nintendo's next game console. We want no part of the first too, but regarding the latter, the latest leak purportedly offers up a first glimpse of Nintendo's upcoming Switch 2 console (or whatever it ends up being called), and in particular the...
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While some retailers and companies got a jump start on the Black Friday festivities, by and large, Nintendo held strong until the actual day-of-savings was upon us, which it now is. And with it comes a host of discounts for Nintendo Switch owners, including somewhat rare markdowns on popular games that, years after...
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Nintendo still is not ready to reveal a successor to its immensely popular Switch console just yet, but it is sharing some additional information that will come as great news to owners of current generation Switch consoles, especially those with big game libraries. In a post on X/Twitter, Nintendo President Shuntaro...
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Nintendo surprised just about everyone with its announcement of the Alarmo, especially with gamers waiting on the eventual arrival of the not-so-secret Nintendo Switch 2. Alarmo is a proprietary device with limited out of the box functionality, and so in time-honored tradition, someone figured out how to run Doom on...
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Nintendo fans hoping for a new console will need to continue waiting patiently, as the company’s latest announcement still has nothing to do with its next generation Switch. Although the wait should be a little more bearable with the company's latest project, Nintendo Music, which is an app available now for iOS and...
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As gamers wait with bated breath for the eventual reveal of Nintendo’s next console, which has already seen several leaks, the company is reaching back into the Wii U catalog to bring another fan favorite to the Nintendo Switch. Sci-Fi RPG Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is coming in March of 2025 with...
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Fan favorite Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete gets an official release date for iOS and Android. The current free-to-play version, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, will shut down after a seven year run on November 29, 2024.
Animal Crossing: New Horizon players were saddened when Nintendo announced the 2.0 update...
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A Brazilian journalist has suggested that Nintendo could reveal its promised and much-anticipated successor to its Switch console—possible called the Switch 2—in the coming days, perhaps as early as next week during the company's next shareholder meeting. It's important to note, however, that this is largely...
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It appears as if the Nintendo Wii U is a hardware failure waiting to happen, which is less than ideal now that Nintendo no longer repairs the console for customers. According to information posted on X by the Retro Blast account, the console is starting to die on owners. To avoid this fate, it’s recommended that...
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The retro gaming experts at Analogue are at it again, this time bringing the Nintendo 64 into the modern age with the Analogue 3D console it teased last year. The company already has a strong track record of bringing back older consoles in style, having released their modern interpretations of the Gameboy, NES, SNES...
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Nintendo fans are hoping for a Switch 2 announcement, which could come any day now, though it probably won't until sometime next year. Instead of a next-gen console, however, Nintendo has something else up its sleeve and it's a bit mysterious. It's some kind of "Playtest Program" for Switch owners, and Nintendo is...
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Nintendo has dealt yet another blow to the Switch emulation scene, which has long been a thorn in the company’s side. After taking down Yuzu through the courts earlier this year, it seems as if the only other viable emulator, Ryujinx, is no longer available online. This time, however, Nintendo didn’t even need to sue...
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With the end of the year and holiday season coming, it is only natural that we start to hear about more video game news. Sony has already revealed its expensive and controversial PlayStation 5 Pro, leaving the floor open for other news, some of which we'll see today at its State of Play event. Nintendo, which makes...
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Palworld, the first game to become a hit in 2024, now finds itself at the center of a legal battle. The game’s developer, Pocketpair, is being sued by Nintendo alongside The Pokémon Company. In a statement, Nintendo says that “this lawsuit seeks an injunction against infringement and compensation for damages on the...
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Officially, Nintendo put the world on notice that a "successor to Nintendo Switch" is slated to arrive "within this fiscal year," which for Nintendo spans July 2024 to March 2025. Unofficially, a rather large photo dump may have given us a preliminary glimpse of the next-generation handheld game console's design, both...
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While folks are digesting the recent Sony PlayStation 5 Pro announcement, Nintendo is in the background waiting for its own console reveal. A potential announcement may come as soon as this month, with a release timeframe in Spring of next year. The current Nintendo Switch has been in the market for over seven years...
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Whatever it ends up being called in actuality, the "Switch 2" is definitely real and definitely on the way. We know that because Nintendo itself has tacitly confirmed that it is working on such a thing by saying that it won't be releasing this fiscal year, which ends in March 2025 for Nintendo. We might hear something...
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Nintendo has finally released some more details about one of its upcoming Fall releases for the Nintendo Switch, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which was initially unveiled in June of this year. The latest entry in the RPG series will allow players to explore a new world made up of islands, while Mario and Luigi will be...
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A prototype of a Nintendo PlayStation SNES controller has sold at auction over the weekend, with the winning bid coming in at a whopping $35,000. Yes, controllers are expensive in general these days, but $35,000 could get you a decent vehicle (or at least a really nice down payment on one). So why would someone pay...
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Back in May, Nintendo spilled the beans on its Switch 2 launch plans, saying a "successor" to its wildly popular handheld game console would arrive "within this fiscal year." Nintendo's fiscal year runs through March 2025, so any time before or by then is fair game, right? Maybe not. Game developers are seemingly...
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Nintendo raised some curious eyebrows last week when it dropped a creepy, 15-second age-restricted trailer that appeared to tease a first-party horror game for the Switch. This prompted tongue-in-cheek comments about the direction of Luigi's Mansion 4, though we now know exactly what Nintendo was actually teasing—a...
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