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Eiji Aonuma Interview Sheds Light on Breath of the Wild

Eiji Aonuma, producer of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, recently had an interview with Gamekult, a french gaming website, and Perfectly Nintendo provided a summarized translation. The…

January 27, 2017 | 09:30 EST

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Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Director Confirms Alternate Endings And Epona

As ever for a member of its legendary series, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is easily one of 2017's most anticipated titles. Coming to the Nintendo Switch and Wii U, details regarding the…

January 25, 2017 | 09:30 EST

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Amazon Listing for Breath of the Wild Official Guide Gives Glimpse Into Scope of Game

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the upcoming entry in the highly regarded Zelda series, seeing its debut along Nintendo's newest console the Nintendo Switch. While gameplay has been shown…

January 22, 2017 | 08:30 EST

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Nintendo’s Final Wii U Game will be Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

With all of the excitement (and consternation) that has been bubbling up since Nintendo’s big Switch presentation on January 12th, it’s hard not to think about the current state of the Wii U and its…

January 20, 2017 | 01:30 EST

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Nintendo Switch Event - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The final showing for Nintendo's event was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The segment started with several members of Nintendo's staff joking about not being able to reveal a launch date…

January 13, 2017 | 01:38 EST

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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove Coming to Nintendo Switch

Yacht Club Games have revealed a few things that they have planned for Shovel Knight in 2017. Firstly, the game and its expansions will be coming to the Nintendo Switch, though they refrained from…

January 12, 2017 | 11:17 EST

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Nintendo Download, Week of December 22, 2016: Opening the Bottle

Both the Nintendo 3DS and the Nintendo Wii U have had multiple titles released this week on Nintendo's eShop, along with Nintendo's annual holiday sales. Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is the newest…

December 23, 2016 | 03:26 EST

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[Rumor] Zelda: Breath of the Wild Won't Be a Switch Launch Title

A report from Eurogamer suggests that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will not be ready in time for the launch of the Nintendo Switch in March 2017. According to Eurogamer, sources close to…

November 15, 2016 | 05:20 EST

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[The Wire] 4 New The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Trailers

Today's more prominent Nintendo announcement is still hours away, but that hasn't stopped Nintendo from releasing new footage of the highly anticipated The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.…

October 20, 2016 | 09:45 EDT

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Zelda Fan Receives Care Package from Nintendo to Honor His Brother

Video games can leave a powerful impact on the relationships we have, especially with our siblings that grew up on the couch next to us. Corey Austen has been a Zelda fan since childhood, a love he…

September 12, 2016 | 09:00 EDT

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Five More Games Join Xbox One's Backwards Compatibility, Including Bayonetta

Xbox One's backwards compatibility allows people to play select Xbox 360 games on the new console and the list of playable games is constantly growing. Five more games are now joining that expanding…

September 8, 2016 | 08:43 EDT

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Splatoon Splatfests Ending

Throughout the existence of Splatoon, inklings have loved to let their tentacles down and cut loose with a big party. All of Inkopolis gets down with a giant party, a concert with the Squid Sisters,…

June 30, 2016 | 09:53 EDT

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Zelda: Breath of The Wild needs two million copies sold to become profitable

Zelda: Breath of the Wild needs to sell over two million copies in order to become profitable for Nintendo, a target that seems feasible considering how the past titles in the series have fared…

June 29, 2016 | 03:55 EDT

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Mighty Problems for Mighty No. 9 Launch - Keys, Wiis and DLCs

Fourteen months past a target date funded by $3.8 million, Mighty No. 9 has finally launched... in manner similar to a Titan missile with a failing vernier engine, corkscrewing its way across the…

June 22, 2016 | 11:31 EDT

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Nintendo E3 2016 - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Nintendo has given a quick trailer showing off the stunning new Legend of Zelda game, titled Breath of the Wild, today at E3.  Posted online, the three-minute trailer shows Link roaming a…

June 14, 2016 | 01:51 EDT

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Splatoon's Squid Sisters Confirmed For Live Concert In Paris

Nintendo has announced that a live Squid Sisters concert will be performed next month in Paris.  In a recent twitter post (below) from Nintendo UK, the live performance is set for July 8th and…

June 3, 2016 | 09:30 EDT

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Splatoon Drops New Weapon Sets

Splatoon's popularity has not diminished over the last year. Although Nintendo had claimed to be cutting off additional content updates back in January, since then a set of eight weapons, called…

May 31, 2016 | 02:20 EDT

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Final Platform Survey for Mighty No. 9 Coming This Monday

Comcept, the developer of Keiji Inafune's Mighty No. 9, have announced via twitter that the final platform survey for the game will be sent out to all eligible Kickstarter backers this coming Monday…

May 14, 2016 | 10:06 EDT

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Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition Now Available on Xbox One

  Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition is now available for purchase on Xbox One. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzaM7aS1n54 Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition (developed…

April 30, 2016 | 10:16 EDT

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Shovel Knight Surpasses 1 Million Digital Sales

  This morning David D'Angelo, a developer at Yacht Club Games, announced via a Gamasutra blog post that their game Shovel Knight has just passed 1 million in digital sales. The physical release of …

April 14, 2016 | 09:47 EDT

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Mighty No. 9 Suffers Another Mighty Delay

In a continuing tale of woe that has surrounded Keiji Inafune's kickstarter project Mighty No. 9 it has been delayed yet again. Originally marketed with a plan of April 2015 release, and then delayed…

January 25, 2016 | 08:47 EST

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Pokken Tournament to Release on March 18th

2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise, and what better way to celebrate than reaching new genres? Pokken Tournament has already been wowing arcade-goers in Japan for months, and it…

January 15, 2016 | 01:02 EST

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Splatoon Additional Content Dries Up In January

If you've owned the Nintendo Wii U this year, you've probably heard of a little game called Splatoon, a game that pits 2 teams against each other in a wild online painting contest whilst asking…

December 22, 2015 | 09:30 EST

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Shovel Knight No Longer Getting Physical Xbox One Release, Sees Price Increase

  The long awaited physical release of Shovel Knight is not going 100% as planned, as developers Yacht Club Games announced that their retail copies will be going for a higher price than originally…

October 8, 2015 | 11:43 EDT

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Mighty No. 9 sets a new release date, demo available

After a number of delays and setbacks, Mighty No. 9 has unveiled its latest official release date. According to the official Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter update - Comcept in conjunction with their…

September 25, 2015 | 11:31 EDT

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Mighty No. 9 sets a new release date, demo available

After a number of delays and setbacks, Mighty No. 9 has unveiled its latest official release date. According to the official Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter update - Comcept in conjunction with their…

September 25, 2015 | 11:31 EDT

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Plague Knight DLC Now Available for Shovel Knight

  The Plague Knight DLC, Plague of Shadows, for Shovel Knight was announced a while ago, and now it is finally here. It prominently features one of the bosses from Shovel Knight, Plague Knight,…

September 18, 2015 | 03:18 EDT

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Mighty No. 9 Demo Delayed

Yesterday, Comcept announced a few updates for their upcoming Kickstarter game, Mighty No. 9, and one piece of news was not well received. The bulk of the announcement dealt with a robot design…

September 17, 2015 | 11:14 EDT

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Shovel Knight Amiibo Official, Out in November

  The Shovel Knight amiibo is real.  After a longstanding rumor of a Shovel Knight amiibo began circulating last week, which came to a head through a deleted post on twitter by U.K retailer GAME.…

August 30, 2015 | 12:58 EDT

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Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows Update Trailer

  Following the success of Yacht Club Games' NES style action platformer Shovel Knight, a free update dubbed 'Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows' has surfaced on the developers' website with a flashy…

August 26, 2015 | 12:05 EDT

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Pokken Tournament is coming to WiiU in 2016

Released early this morning via their YouTube Nintendo has announced that Pokken Tournament, the previous Japan only arcade title, will be getting its world wide release in the Spring of 2016 for…

August 21, 2015 | 11:06 EDT

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Mighty No. 9 Delayed Until 2016

Mighty No. 9's already troubled development just received an extra helping of uh-oh. Comcept's crowd-funded indie platformer was much anticipated upon its announcement. Considered a spiritual…

August 5, 2015 | 09:50 EDT

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Major Splatoon Update Set for Early August

Nintendo has confirmed that an update is coming for the Wii U third-person shooter Splatoon. The new content will be free of charge and available for download on Thursday, August 6th. Here's what…

July 28, 2015 | 02:08 EDT

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Splatoon Shoots Out First Update with Ranked Mode and More

After its release last week, Splatoon is already getting its first batch of free downloadable content today. Splatoon's official twitter has just announced that the newly released game from…

June 1, 2015 | 04:32 EDT

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Mighty No. 9 Beta Ending Tomorrow

The Mighty No. 9 team announced today that they will be discontinuing the beta on May 20th. So if you're a backer, you have to act now to get in your last bit of game time before the beta goes away.…

May 19, 2015 | 04:54 EDT

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Mighty Delay for Mighty No. 9 as it Adds A Publisher

For a while now, Mighty No. 9 was indicated to be released in April of 2015, but those who were watching the project didn't see that happening considering the lack of updates regarding the release.…

April 28, 2015 | 08:33 EDT

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Shovel Knight Coming to PlayStation Platforms on April 21st

Trying to cash in on nostalgia is a trick that gamers are intimately familiar with at this point. Games throwing in pixel graphics and an 8-bit soundtrack with no regard to actual quality is a common…

April 11, 2015 | 09:18 EDT

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Shovel Knight reveals Plague of Shadows, also Battletoads

Shovel Knight, Kickstarter star and indie darling, looks to be receiving a free expansion starring one of it's once-enemies. Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows sees the alchemical antagonist Plague…

March 4, 2015 | 09:49 EST

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More Bayonetta Incoming?

For a long while, it looked as though Platinum Games would never be able to make a follow-up to the universally acclaimed Bayonetta. However with the help of Nintendo, a sequel was made in the form…

January 3, 2015 | 04:38 EST

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PS Experience: Shovel Knight To PS3/PS4/Vita

Hot off its win of Best Indie of the Year at The Game Awards last night, Yacht Club Games has announced today at the Playstation Experience that Shovel Knight will be coming to the Playstation 3,…

December 7, 2014 | 12:01 EST

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Judge of "The Game Awards" Says He Would Quit If Bayonetta Won

A judge on The Game Awards panel tweeted last night about his happiness that Bayonetta 2 did not win Game of the Year, and that he would have had to quit had it won. Every judge has their personal…

December 6, 2014 | 10:48 EST

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Mighty No. 9 Beta Ending Soon

In the recent preview posted earlier today, the team revealed that the Mighty No 9 beta will be coming to an end soon. Since the game was successfully funded on October 1st 2013, the backers have…

December 1, 2014 | 11:37 EST

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Paranautical Activity removed from Steam after death threat to Gabe Newell

A game developer, after venting their frustration with Steam, made a death threat targeting managing director at Valve, Gabe Newell. Paranautical Activity, a horror themed FPS, has had a rocky…

October 21, 2014 | 09:00 EDT

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Nintendo Fans Turn to Twitter to Rally Support for Bayonetta 2

Nintendo fans have turned to Twitter recently to rally support for the upcoming Wii U title, Bayonetta 2. Gamers anticipating the soon-to-be released game have adopted the hashtag OperationPlatinum.…

September 12, 2014 | 09:00 EDT

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Bayonetta 2 Direct: It takes Two to Tango in Tag Climax (And More!)

Earlier this week, we mentioned that Nintendo had planned a Nintendo Direct for the upcoming Bayonetta 2 for today, and indeed, it has come and gone! We've attached the recording of the Direct below…

September 4, 2014 | 10:28 EDT

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Bayonetta 2 Nintendo Direct Announced for Thursday

Yesterday Nintendo announced the latest in their line of Nintendo Directs focused on upcoming Wii U titles; and Bayonetta 2 is the star of the show, this time! The direct is scheduled for 3PM PST (…

September 3, 2014 | 07:00 EDT

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Bayonetta 2 Release Date

Confirmed by Nintendo, Bayonetta 2 will be on shelves October 24th, 2014. Bayonetta 2 is developed by Platinum Games and is exclusive to Wii U and comes packaged with the original Bayonetta for…

August 29, 2014 | 10:49 EDT

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Pokken Tournament officially announced

After all of the leaked screenshots it seems Pokken Tournament the collaboration between Pokemon and Tekken is for real. After a hint about the two player arcade fighting game finally a trailer has…

August 26, 2014 | 11:41 EDT