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Nintendo Announces New Amiibo, Limited Edition Smash Bros Ultimate

Nintendo has announced five new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate amiibo, as well as a special Limited Edition package containing a GameCube controller and adapter. This news follows today’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Direct,…

Nintendo Clarifies Metroid: Samus Returns Amiibo Content Gating

Nintendo was in hot water last week when it was first revealed that the upcoming Amiibo’s being launched for Metroid: Samus Returns would have gated content attached to them. Most…

Metroid: Samus Returns Amiibo Needed for Fusion Difficulty And More

Nintendo’s amiibo have always walked a line between the pure toys to life products like Disney Infinity, being downloadable content, and serving as collector figurines for Nintendo’s iconic characters. The downloadable…

Nintendo E3 2017 – Metroid: Samus Returns

Metroid: Samus Returns is one of the big surprise announcements that Nintendo had up its sleeve for their Treehouse stream today. The game is a re-imagining of the 1991 Gameboy…

Games That Should Be on the SNES Classic

Nintendo may have tolled the death knell for the NES Classic Edition, but that doesn’t mean we can’t sit around a metaphorical campfire and compare our lists for what games…

Nintendo & UNIQLO Release 25 Fan Designed Shirts

Japanese clothing brand UNIQLO has named the winners of their collaboration with Nintendo contest for an upcoming limited release T-Shirt line based on some of its most iconic characters. This collection features designs…

Metroid Prime: Federation Force Is Not Selling Well In Japan

Released just over a week ago, Metroid Prime: Federation Force is not doing too well in the Japanese market. As reported on Eurogamer a few days ago, the spin-off title…

KekRaptor: Nintendo Making New Tech For IP Protection

Intellectual property is probably one of the most valuable assets available to human beings today, or at least you would think so given how rabidly people jump to defend and…

AM2R Receives Update, Available to Download Again

After DoctorM64 completed and released Another Metroid II Remake and Nintendo subsequently took it down with a DMCA, a new update for AM2R released on the project’s website. The blog for AM2R lists a new set…

[Updated] Nintendo Hits “AM2R” Metroid 2 Remake With DMCA

On August 6th, the long awaited fan-powered port of Metroid 2: Return of Samus hit the Internet, dubbed AM2R, Another Metroid 2 Remake. The remake was a massive undertaking by loyal fans…