A gamer said he spent over 5.6 million Japanese yen — or over $40,000 US dollars — on Nintendo stock, and used his opportunity to ask a question during the Japanese gaming giant's annual shareholder meeting Wednesday about a fan-favorite series he wants to see revived.

Nintendo appreciates its passionate and patient fan base, but says it's difficult to make (and remake) all the games it's asked for. At the company's annual general meeting (independently translated by IGN), Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa was asked if there were any plans to release remakes or new entries in long-dormant franchises such as F-Zero.

I used to marvel at all the indie games I could finally play. Now I've already got access to them elsewhere for cheaper.

PlayStation's Horizon TV series will seemingly be called Horizon 2074, indicating that it's partly set during the fall of civilisation that takes place 1,000 years before the games.

Sure, it was vastly inferior to its nemesis Game Boy — not to mention, the size of a brick — but the people who had one loved it, and continue to do so this day. Isn’t that worth a second look?

It’s been 50 years since Nolan Bushnell co-founded Atari, which brought video games to the mainstream. To celebrate, we asked Bushnell what he learned during the early years—and what we’ve lost sight of since then.

All the buttons are on the front, and they’re easier to press.

The unfair increase of prices and the decay of the industry

Playing WoW was the "most embarrassing thing" in his life, Harbour says.

From Akalabeth to Xenobia, many rare PC titles are now considered elaborate scams by @kyleorl

Apple is adding native support for the Nintendo Switch Pro and Joy-Con controllers in iOS 16. Riley Testut, one of the iOS developers behind AltStore, discovered the new controller support in a developer beta of iOS 16 that was released yesterday.

It’s hard to believe that already a year and a half has passed since the Nintendo 3DS family of handhelds ceased production. Obviously, Nintendo saw no further need to keep the product afloat amid rocketing sales of the hybrid Switch, a console that has now claimed fifth place in all-time hardware sales — a particularly startling feat considering it has only been on the market for five years.

Many parents feel guilty when their children play video games for hours on end. Some even worry it could make their children less clever. And, indeed, that’s a topic scientists have clashed over for years. ...

"Culturally, the company didn’t see a huge opportunity in online."

When it comes to repairability, Valve didn’t stop at the bare minimum. We hope their smart, repairable choices become industry standard.

Through a series of extraordinary events, Zelda grows a hero in all of us. 

It took developer Tantalus Media a year and a half to turn The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's original Wii motion controls into regular button inputs for Nintendo Switch HD version. CEO Tom Crago shared the trials and tribulations of the game's development with the Fragments of Silicon podcast (as spotted by Nintendo Everything) and also dismissed rumours of a Zelda: Twilight Princess port for Switch.

Nintendo sells consoles based on the strength of its game experiences rather than the power of their processors, but technology marches on regardless, and the venerable NVIDIA Tegra X1 is getting pretty long in the tooth. While its ARM Cortex-A57 CPUs are roughly comparable to the old AMD Jaguar CPUs in the last-generation consoles, it only has four, and only three of them can be used by games.

Nintendo Switch’s sales momentum in the United States has pushed it past its most significant rival. The hybrid home/handheld’s lifetime sales have now surpassed the PlayStation 4, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group.

After nearly a year since the last update for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s still-unnamed sequel, Nintendo recently announced it will delay the game’s release until spring 2023. Good things, it seems, come to those who wait. And then there are Zelda fans who decide to make their own games instead.