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There will be no new Mario game in 2015, says Nintendo of America’s director of product marketing Bill Trinen. That’s according to an interview in the Reno Gazette-Journal, which covered a wide range of topics, including Ultimate NES Remix , a general return to old-school …Read more »
Eschewing calls to put its games on smartphones, Nintendo’s instead looking for three properties to boost its flagging profits this holiday season – Smash Bros. , Pokemon , and a new product category called amiibo. Amiibo, which launched last month, probably need no introduction among …Read more »
New Super Mario Bros. U is getting its own unique brand of DLC today in the form of New Super Luigi U , which puts the spotlight on Mario's lankier, more agile brother. The downloadable stand-alone release, which continues Nintendo's Year of Luigi, is priced …Read more »
Yep, guys, it’s another story to file under the “Japan gets all the cool stuff” column. What’s got us asking why life is so unfair this time? It’s the virtual console rerelease of of the cult Super Nintendo hit Earthbound – aka Mother 2 – …Read more »
Two weeks after launching in North America, the Wii U was released on its home turf of Japan on November 8th. Anecdotal response to the Wii U has been positive so far, with long lines forming at electronic stores throughout the country, including Yodobashi Camera …Read more »
The Rhythm Heaven series has always been a shining combination of strange and charming, and the Nintendo Wii-bound Rhythm Heaven Fever doesn't appear to be changing that winning formula. Dig into some quick song and gameplay samples below, and see if you'll be able to …Read more »
Nintendo's downloadable 3D Classics for 3DS take original Nintendo games and pop them out into 3D like a sprite-loaded diorama. Sounds great, right? It could be, unless the game in question happens to be a "classic" no one in their right mind would ask for …Read more »
By now you've probably seen plenty of video showcasing the controller for Nintendo's Wii successor, Wii U. It was the true centerpiece of their E3 2011 press conference. There's still so much about the hardware that remains shrouded in mystery, but Mario/Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto …Read more »
In immediate retrospect that headline makes almost no sense, and yet it remains. Such is the curse of being so easily entertained, and hey, speaking of being entertained, let's see what Nintendo has in store for us this week. Since the headline spoiled it already, …Read more »
Despite its reputation for mostly housing highly accessible family games, Nintendo's console has quite a bit to offer those into more niche genres than one might expect. Take for example Ultimate Shooting Collection , which UFO Interactive brought to North America in February of last …Read more »
The name Nintendo has been associated with the lighter side of gaming for as long as most people can remember, and that's not gonna change any time soon. Many will recall the disappointment of owning a "superior" version of Mortal Kombat on Super Nintendo, only …Read more »
Sit back and behold, because you're about to witness the impossible. Just when you thought Nintendo was pushing even more Wii units than they could ever manage, Square Enix goes and announces Dragon Quest X for the console. Combine that with the wildly popular DS …Read more »
Perhaps this will inspire the inevitable return of the weekly Virtual Boy column that once pounced about the old-school Otaku USA blog. It's certainly not out of the question, but it'll be hard to top a release week like this one in the near future, …Read more »
Yesterday rumblings about an HD upgrade of Okami in Japan quickly became great news for North America, too. Capcom has officially announced Okami HD , with plans to bring it to PlayStation Network as a digital download this fall. Okami HD will be priced at …Read more »
Illustration by Daniel Krall [Excerpted from the August 2007 issue of Otaku USA Magazine] Set the Way-Back Machine for December 10, 2005... Hours from now, the Xbox 360 will launch in Japan. Almost a full year later, the PlayStation 3 hits Japan, followed closely by …Read more »
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