Universal Studios Japan has reportedly postponed plans to open its Nintendo theme park due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While official confirmation of the delay has yet to be made, according to Business Times and sources "familiar with the matter", the developers of the theme park - which is own by Comcast's NBCUniversal - is expected to formalise its plans publicly soon, possibly as early as this week.

During a recent financial Q&A, Nintendo finally apologized for issues caused by Joy-Cons but will not comment further due to the current class-action lawsuit.

Nintendo has said that Switch hardware production is recovering following months of disruption caused by the coronavirus, while first-party software scheduled for release in 2020 currently remains on track.

Nintendo’s Wii and Wii U platforms will get a new game this summer: Shakedown: Hawaii, developer Vblank Entertainment’s 2019 sequel to Retro City Rampage. Both versions will be released this summer, but as you can probably expect when a modern game is ported to a nearly 14-year-old console, there’s a catch.

Nintendo said 300,000 accounts have been breached since April. Hackers used others' Nintendo Network IDs without permission.

“All I’m doing is putting the solder on,” says installer, who doesn’t sell the chips.

Nintendo has acknowledged reports of unauthorised account logins this month and said it’s investigating the situation. More than 50 users replied to Twitter and Resetera threads last weekend claiming to have had their Nintendo accounts illegally accessed.

Sharing a 12-digit friend code is annoying, but it fits Nintendo’s design philosophy

While some gaming companies are pretty confident about their ability to weather the COVID-19 pandemic, Nintendo is telling its investors to take a more cautious approach with the company. After posting revenue and profit growth in its year-end earnings report yesterday, the company offered a relatively conservative forecast for the current fiscal year.

Released last week, the unofficial Super Mario 64 PC port was made possible by a 2019 recompilation project which saw fans reverse engineer the game’s source code. The DirectX 12-powered port allows players to run Mario 64 natively on PC at far higher resolutions than the original, such as native 4K or in ultra-widescreen mode. Players can also use modern peripherals such as Microsoft‘s Xbox One controller.

Hey all, VGHF founder Frank Cifaldi here. Today I’m tag-teaming with Rich Whitehouse to bring you the story of how we recovered and re-assembled Days of Thunder, an unreleased, never-before-seen title co-authored by Chris Oberth at Mindscape.

Nintendo has announced that it won’t be issuing refunds to those who purchase the incorrect DLC for their copy of Pokémon Sword or Pokémon Shield (via Nintendo Soup). The Pokémon series has continually combined the games together to make one comprehensive version; for example, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire were merged into Pokémon Emerald, and Pokémon Sun and Moon became Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. The eighth generation appears to be chucking that convention out of the window, and replacing it with a DLC.

Just before Christmas, a trip to Nintendo Co.’s flagship store in Tokyo would have required an hour’s wait just to get in and buy a plush Mario toy or a set of chopsticks bearing Luigi’s face. Opened in November on the sixth floor of the renovated Shibuya Parco shopping mall, the constantly packed 300-sq.-meter showcase exhibits the appeal of Nintendo’s intellectual property contrasted against the conservatism that leads it to habitually underestimate its popularity.

Nintendo and Playstation in one console? The collaboration between the two video game giants almost happened and the prototype of the "Nintendo Playstation" is now going up for auction this March.

Nintendo is rumored to be working on a new Nintendo Switch model, and it seems like the Japanese company and NVIDIA are working for a new SoC for the console. According to a rumor circulating online, a new Nintendo Switch model could be released in the final quarter of the year. This new model will not adopt the new TegraX1+, but new custom processors Nintendo is developing with NVIDIA. The GPU will be based on the Volta architecture.

Despite ongoing rumours about a pro model Switch arriving at some point this year, Nintendo hasn't said anything about it. If it does exist, though, don't expect it to be released anytime soon. During the company's latest financial results briefing today, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said there were "no plans" to launch a new Switch model in 2020.

A heartwarming tale

In the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest newspapers, 70-year-old Kuniko Tsusaka recounted how her mother always had a Game Boy nearby to play Tetris. But when her mother turned 95 and her health started to suffer, her Game Boy stopped working.

Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto has discussed how the company has worked to lose its reputation for being a “childish” brand. In a wide-ranging interview with Japanese magazine Famitsu, the Super Mario designer said the company made a “great effort” to shed the unwanted perception of it and become more family friendly during the Wii era.

During the IGN Podcast(1 Hour With Head of Xbox Phil Spencer), Phil Spencer explains the relationship between Xbox and Nintendo. Phil Spencer is an American business executive, who is the current executive vice-president of Gaming at Microsoft. He is currently the head of the Xbox brand and leads the global creative and engineering teams responsible for gaming at Microsoft