Black Friday rekindled the best Walmart game deals, and they’re going fast. We’ve still got a few days left on the hardware deals, but bundles are selling out quickly, and most of the retailer’s game deals will end on November 30. That said, there are still plenty of great deals …
Read More »Get a Poke Ball Plus $19.99 in this Black Friday deal
This is the lowest price possibly ever, letting you buy the Poké Ball Plus for $19.99, which is a $30 saving. (opens in new tab) It usually costs fifty bucks so that’s a hell of a good deal for a controller that’s also a ‘working’ Poke Ball, and comes with …
Read More »Here are the 14 biggest Nintendo Direct announcements, from Animal Crossing to Xenoblade
The Nintendo Direct for Wednesday, September 4 was 40 minutes of familiar fun and dreams made real. OK, that second part may be a little bit of an overstatement, but it’s not every day you find out that your raccoon landlord is about to start paying you for picking weeds …
Read More »New Nintendo Switch Joy-Con colors are coming this fall: Blue/Yellow and Purple/Orange
Two new Nintendo Switch Joy-Con colors are coming this fall, and if you’re the kind of person who’s already getting excited for Halloween, at least one will be a must-buy. The official Nintendo of America Twitter account announced that the new color pairs, Blue/Neon Yellow and Neon Purple/Neon Orange will …
Read More »Nintendo E3 2019 Recap: Best of Nintendo at E3 2019
The Nintendo E3 2019 show has ended, and as the last item on the E3 2019 schedule (opens in new tab), it sloed things out with plenty of highs and a few lows. E3 2019 games (opens in new tab) like Animal Crossing: New Horizons have been pushed into 2020, …
Read More »Heres what you need to know from Nintendos investor Q&A: new online Switch game and more
Nintendo was always going to have a tough time making 2018 look good compared to the Switch/Zelda/Mario miracle that was 2017, and its investors cut it zero breaks in a freshly translated Q&A session on Nintendo’s official site (opens in new tab). Their prodding resulted in a rare look inside …
Read More »Watch out, these Nintendo Switch NES display ghosts are way too early for Halloween
The Nintendo Switch Online Service (opens in new tab) has finally gone live, but there seems to be a problem with its NES games library that’s really freaking people out. Some users who play the NES games using the “CRT Filter” setting – which tries to emulate the original effect …
Read More »This cardboard Nintendo Switch designs THE BEST… but its only for contest winners
If you want the coolest special-edition Nintendo Switch system yet, you’ll need to get creative. Nintendo is giving away cardboard-themed consoles, docks, and Joy-Cons away to winners of the next Nintendo Labo Creators Contest, and… I love them. They look phenomenal. There’s just something about taking something high tech and …
Read More »7 lesser-known Nintendo Switch games that could get big fast
Once you get a Nintendo Switch (opens in new tab), you kind of don’t want to play games on anything else. That could be a problem if it was just Mario, Link, and company that you could undock and take with you on your daily adventures. But the Nintendo independent …
Read More »16 games the Nintendo Switch Virtual console needs (including, yes, lots of Gamecube)
The Nintendo Switch’s Virtual Console won’t be available at launch. That means two things. Firstly, it means relentless Twitter moaning. Secondly, it means a silver lining of extended, excitable speculation as to what might appear on it. I’m here to concentrate on the latter. And there’s’ a particular reason to …
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