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Nintendo is back with another hype-filled 3DS-focused Nintendo Direct. Will they announce Picross 3D 2 for North America? Dole out more Pokémon Sun & Moon news? Declare next year to be the year of Wario? Watch and find out.

In its first week on sale in Japan, Nintendo 3DS title Metroid Prime: Federation Force only sold 4286 copies, according to Famitsu’s sales data. The game came in at number 20 in the weekly sales ranking. In comparison, The King of Fighters XIV, which also went on sale the same day, sold 23,242 copies that…

A Year Later, One Mario Maker Player Is Still Trying To Make The Hardest Level Ever

Francis Travers spent has spent over 650 hours creating, and then trying to beat, a single level in Mario Maker. Travers’ ambition is to create the most challenging Mario level ever, even if it means spending 2016 trying to best a creation that may actually be impossible. Perhaps this story sounds familiar. Immediately after it…

An upcoming Nintendo Direct focused on 3DS games will take place this Thursday, September 1st at 10AM Eastern Time. Nintendo’s press release notes that “NX will not be discussed or revealed in this broadcast.”

Guy Pulls Off Pokémon Permadeath Run Only Using A Rattata

Rattata are found near the start of Pokémon games for a reason: they’re not very good fighters. Eventually, most players cycle out a Rattata on their team for something bigger, better, stronger. Not this particular Pokémon fan, though. Pokémon Challenges is a Twitch channel chronicling one German player’s grueling adventures. Earlier this year, the channel…

It’s Time We Got A Super Wario Bros. Game

Nintendo is notorious for surprising players with games that fall on both sides of the fan service spectrum. Whether we’ll ever get a title starring the beloved anti-hero duo that is Wario and Waluigi is unknown, but it would sure make for a wonderfully bizarre outing. For years now Nintendo has featured Wario and Waluigi,…

The Best (And Worst) Console Redesigns

It’s not uncommon for home and handheld consoles to get a drastic makeover in the years after their launch. Sometimes even after they’ve begun playing second fiddle to a new more powerful sibling. With the Xbox One S fresh in our memories and a thinner version of the PlayStation 4 all but confirmed, it’s the…

Miitomo‘s Japanese High School Rap Song Is Kind Of Catchy

The latest in a series of Japanese promo videos for Nintendo’s mobile social networking app demonstrates Miitomo’s ability to bring plucky teens together in song, which unfortunately isn’t a real thing. We’ve not heard much from Miitomo in a couple of months, what with all the Pokemon Go-ing happening, but the app is still going…

The Nintendo Console From The 80s Made For Recording Gameplay Footage

These days, if you want to record direct video footage of a video game, all you need to do is press a button. But back in the 1980s, this was a complex and expensive process! This piece originally appeared 10/28/15. Magazines and video producers often needed custom, elaborate equipment to get images of games, which…

Capcom Is Making A 3DS Game That Uses Train Passes

According to Famitsu, Capcom is developing a new 3DS title that uses smart cards for an upcoming title. These cards, also known as IC cards, are issued by Japanese railway companies and used as train passes and digital money cards. Players simply touch their train pass on the handheld’s bottom screen and will get items…

The Tokyo Olympics Could Be The Geekiest Olympics Yet

As reported earlier, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared at the 2016 Rio Olympics’ closing ceremony as Mario. But that wasn’t the only Japanese pop culture cameo. Other iconic characters from gaming and anime popped up in a Tokyo Olympics promotional clip shown during this year’s closing ceremony, Such as Pac-Man. Captain Tsubasa from the…

In April, Nintendo announced the sale of the company’s stake in the Seattle Mariners. That sale is now complete, with Nintendocollecting $661 million

Mario Stars In Olympics Closing Ceremony

With the Rio Olympics drawing to a close, Tokyo is up next in 2020. And to mark the occasion, Mario made a surprise appearance at the closing ceremony tonight, warp-piping from Japan to Brazil and transforming into…a cosplaying Japanese Prime Miniter Shinzo Abe. Really. Here’s footage of the Rio-to-Tokyo handover show, which begins with a…

Pokémon Go Player Tries Getting A Million XP In A Day, Gets Treated Like Cheater

As far as Pokémon Go is concerned, only cheaters should be able to get massive amounts of XP in a short amount of time. Well, about that… Jimmy Derocher is a hardcore Pokémon Go player who has spent the last couple of weeks devising an ingenious plan to accrue as much XP as humanly possible.…

The New Sandcastle Pokémon Is Terrifying

It is 2016 and official Pokémon art now depicts Pikachu DYING. What a time to be alive (or not, in this case!) We’d already heard that Pokémon Sun and Moon would include a haunted sandcastle Pokémon, but today The Pokémon Company unveiled footage showing the critter in action: The official Pokémon website also updated with…

Nintendo Once Published A Game Featuring Nazis, Baby Jesus And The KKK

In 1991, Nintendo published an adventure game (developed by Pax Softnica) in Japan for the Famicom Disk System called Time Twist. It is not the kind of game Nintendo would publish in 2016. Hardcore Gaming played through it the other day, and say “it seems like they took a look at Nintendo of America’s censorship…

The Super Smash Sisters Are Encouraging Badass Women To Compete At Smash

Toeing the line between camaraderie and fierce competition is near-impossible, especially in fighting games communities, but the Super Smash Sisters have mastered it, with bite. Smash Sisters isn’t a club as much as an ongoing event, a series of Super Smash Brothers Melee and Smash 4 crew battles across the country. The goal is to…

Style Savvy: Fashion Forward Certainly Keeps A Girl Busy

This is me, 43-year-old bearded man Mike Fahey, taking a short break from being a fashion boutique manager, hair stylist, makeup artist, clothing designer and interior decorator in Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. I can’t imagine how I found the time. The third installment of Nintendo’s Style Savvy franchise has arrived, transporting us to a magical…

Majora’s Mask In-Game Ocarina Is A Surprisingly Versatile Instrument

I wasn’t initially impressed with PuppetMaster9‘s compilation of popular tunes played using the in-game Ocarina from The Legend of Zelda: Major’s Mask for the 3DS. Then he got to “Baker Street.” Such a sucker for that song. You may have seen some of PuppetMaster9’s performances when they started blowing up on Twitter back in March.…

Metroid Prime‘s First Boss Battle Captured Perfectly In Lego

Last year Lego builder and Metroid Prime fan Jared Rosenblitt recreated the exciting battle between the terrifying Meta Ridley and Samus atop the Chozo Artifact Temple. To celebrate the series’ 30th anniversary, Jared hit reset and went back to the beginning of the game. Metroid Prime is one of our favorite games as well, so…