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

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.

Though shortage of parts results in 20% decrease YoY

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.

An alleged official Nintendo Game Boy Advance emulator called Sloop has been found, suggesting GBA games may head to Switch Online (NSO).

Without thinking too hard about it, what’s the maximum number of coins you can knock out of multi-coin blocks in the original Super Mario Bros.? Did you say 10? Well, you’re wrong, but it’s not your fault. You just haven’t done a deep dive into the almost 37-year-old game’s code like a complete weirdo.

Will The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 launch on an as-yet unrevealed Nintendo console? Some tech experts are theorizing that could be the case based on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2's most recent round of footage.

Before there was Mario, Nintendo made Japanese cards

"giving people an indication of what the plan is helps"

Kirby is no stranger to reinvention. His ability to transform himself into all sorts of shapes and sizes aside, the games he’s in often experiment with new settings and gimmicks as well – whether it’s rolling a limbless Kirby with the DS stylus in Canvas Curse, piloting mechs in Planet Robobot, or fundamentally changing how he transforms in Epic Yarn. Kirby and the Forgotten Land might seem like another addition to that list at first glance, this time warping the traditionally 2D structure into 3D levels.

The war that has caused Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been the focus of current information in all areas, including video games, with different companies in the sector creating different initiatives to help victims of war and canceling its commercial activities in the Russian country as a protest measure.

The official Nintendo Russia support page confirmed that eShop for the region is in a maintenance mode, keeping people from accessing it.

Nintendo has temporarily put its Russian eShop into maintenance mode, the company said in a notice on its Russian website, which appears to mean that players in the country can’t buy digital games from the store.

Those with an active Nintendo Switch Online account just got a handful of new options to further customize their player profiles. Live now, players will be able to complete weekly missions from Nintendo to earn currency called Platinum Points, which can be redeemed for digital wallpapers, physical items from the My Nintendo Store, and new icon elements from games like Super Mario Odyssey and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It’s all part of a new “Missions and Rewards” feature bundled in with Nintendo Switch Online.

The list of games overtly inspired by Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda franchise isn't small, but it's nevertheless impressive to see what some of the smallest development teams, in particular, can achieve. Ocean's Heart is a recent example on the Switch eShop, a game that's been upfront in acknowledging its sources of inspiration.

Fog returns to Zelda, fixes to Paper Mario and more...

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a beautiful tragedy that gets to the heart of growing up. 

Gary Bowser was recently sentenced to over 3 years in prison and ordered to pay millions to Nintendo for what his lawyers say was a relatively minor role in a Nintendo Switch piracy ring.

A video game reseller has discovered hundreds of factory-sealed Nintendo and Sega games from the 80s and 90s inside a storage facility in Nebraska.