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Here’s Zelda: Breath of the Wild Running On The Nintendo Switch

On the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon just got debut hands on with the Nintendo Switch. The clip is nine minutes and forty seconds long. It starts off with Super Mario Run, but skip to around 4:55 to see Fallon play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Switch. The Nintendo Switch will…

Report: Nintendo Switch Will Get GameCube Games

Nintendo will bring GameCube games including Super Smash Bros. Melee and Luigi’s Mansion to the Switch via Virtual Console, Eurogamer reports today, citing anonymous sources. The report, by Tom Phillips, notes that those two games along with Super Mario Sunshine are already scheduled for Nintendo’s new system. Phillips also cites Animal Crossing as a game…

Nintendo’s Luigi Miiverse Keeps Getting Hacked In Funny Ways

If you’ve visited the New Super Luigi U Community recently, you might have noticed something was a little different. Instead of prominently displaying the green-overalled plumber, the social media community has seen a number of banner changes that definitely didn’t come from Nintendo. Someone appears to be messing with Nintendo’s infamous community, as there are…

Nintendo Offers Cash Bounties To People Who Find 3DS Exploits

You know all those stories about people who hack into tech companies in such impressive fashion that those companies immediately offer them jobs? Nintendo won’t do that. But they will offer you cash. Partnering with the HackerOne group, Nintendo is offering bounties ranging from $100 to $20,000 to anyone who can find security vulnerabilities in…

BoxBoy 3 is Coming In 2017 (Also AMIIBO)

BoxBoy, the hero Nintendo’s 2016 needed and star of our “best games of the year” list, will return on the 3DS in February (at least in Japan) with a third game in the series, called Goodbye! BoxBoy! And, more importantly, with BoxBoy Amiibo Above is the Amiibo. Below is the box that includes the game,…

Modders Adding Missing Sharing Features To Mario Maker 3DS

One of the defining features of Super Mario Maker on the Wii U is the ability to share your creations with the world via the internet. The recently released 3DS version lacks online sharing for some stupid reason, so the homebrew scene is working to do what Nintendo didn’t. They’re getting there. Released last week,…

Mario Maker 3DS Would Be Great If You Could Actually Upload Levels

Super Mario Maker, one of the Wii U’s best games, comes to 3DS today, which would be great if it wasn’t missing a pivotal feature: The ability to upload your courses online. Although you can still build courses in Mario Maker 3DS, you can only share them via local wireless or StreetPass. You can also…

New Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Footage Is Triggering Some Interesting Theories

Is that Zelda? FEMALE LINK? Is she playable in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Are people reading too much into this? Tonight at The Game Awards, Nintendo showed off some brand new footage from Breath of the Wild, which will be out this spring for Wii U and Switch. First they showed…

Pokémon Sun and Moon Have An Incredible Elite Four Rematch Battle

Once you beat the Elite Four in Pokémon Sun and Moon, you can go back and defend the championship against new challengers. Some opponents, you can probably guess. But there’s one Elite Four challenger in particular that is completely unexpected. (SPOILERS AHEAD!) The very first trainer that you meet on your journey through Alola is…

Player Uses A Pokémon Red Glitch To Quickly Beat Completely Different Game

Fun fact: the Game Boy Color’s memory doesn’t disappear when you turn it off. Players are taking advantage of this quirk in 2016, and using it to bend and break games in entirely new ways. MrCheeze recently uploaded a video showcasing what’s being called a “new kind of credits warp.” You might know the credit…

The relaxing farming sim and role playing game Stardew Valley will make its way to the Xbox One on December 14th. In an additional update, developer Eric Barone has announced release dates for other consoles as well. The game will also release on December 13th for the Playstation 4. A version is planned for the…

Some Pokémon Sun and Moon Fans Don’t Believe Hau Is The Real Rival

Hau is a nice, cheerful boy. He gives you presents. When defeated in battle, he is gracious, and tells you that he had fun. Nothing about Hau seems competitive, which might explain why Pokémon players keep theorizing that he’s not your real rival in Sun and Moon at all. Historically, Pokémon fans associate the word…

Nintendo Attractions Coming To Universal Studios Orlando And Hollywood

Announced last year for Universal Studios Japan, Nintendo-themed areas are also in the works for Universal Studios Orlando and Hollywood as well, promising massive areas filled with things to do, eat and buy. Miyamoto seems overjoyed. It’s a good fit, really. Nintendo’s spent decades building fantastic worlds for us to play it, now Universal is…

What You Need To Know About Pokémon  Sun and Moon’s First Global Event

Game Freak have issued a challenge to all Pokémon  Sun and Moon players: catch 100,000,000 critters before December 13th. If you pitch in, there’s something good in it for you. Sun and Moon make use of a mechanic known as “global events,” which are limited-time festivities where players try to meet a collective goal. Here’s…

Pokémon Sun and Moon Hide A Big Secret In The Poke Pelago Mini Game

Anyone who has played Pokémon Sun and Moon has probably visited that secluded collection of islands known as Poke Pelago. You can send your monsters to Poke Pelago to train, find items, and just chill out. Poke Pelago is also the place that quietly ties the entire story in Sun and Moon together. Maybe you…

Smash Bros. Melee Tournaments Are Shrines To Old TVs

At DreamHack Winter 2016 in Sweden this weekend, hundreds prayed at a competitive gaming altar consisting of a few dozen old cathode ray tube televisions. They were participating in a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament, and the results were beautiful looking. Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, a lot of people are probably buying new…

Watch Smash Bros. Melee Players Compete For One Of The Biggest Cash Prizes In The Game’s 15 Year History

This is what it looks like when one incredible Melee player shows no mercy. DreamHack Winter 2016 is going on right now at the Elmia Convention Center in Jönköping, Sweden, meaning that in addition to tournaments for everything ranging from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to Hearthstone, you can also catch some of the best Smash Bros.…

Mimikyu Is Terrifying In The Pokémon Sun and Moon Anime

Fans felt sympathy for Mimikyu in Pokémon Sun and Moon because of a tragic backstory which claims that it dresses up in Pikachu rags because it, too, wants to be loved like the icon. That’s NOT how Mimikyu feels in the anime, though. The latest episode of the Pokémon anime aired in Japan recently, and…

Smash Bros. Mod Adds Playable Pokémon Sun and Moon Characters

Much of Sun and Moon is spent with Lillie bemoaning that she’s not strong enough to be a trainer. Yet here she is, kickin’ literal butt with the help of a little cutie called Cosmog. Over at modding community GameBanana, SunSpirit has uploaded a skin that replaces the standard Rosalina model with Lillie, of the…

In Pokémon Sun and Moon, The Swimmer Has Evolved Into A Hot Dude

You know, the Swimmer, right? Save for swapping briefs for trunks, the male version hasn’t changed so much over the years. But the one in Sun and Moon sure has! Note: This article contains spoilers. Past male Swimmers wore swimming caps and googles, and since Pokémon Red and Blue, they’ve always looked similar. But here…