Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, who is promoting The Super Mario Bros. Movie, was questioned by Game Informer if “other Nintendo” properties may be made into movies. Even if Nintendo Pictures is now a reality, there is “probably nothing to reveal in the immediate future,” despite fans’ hopes for The Legend of Zelda and Metroid adaptations. Given how long Nintendo and Illumination ...

Mario’s latest animated film is being celebrated. YouTube’s Gaming section released a video highlighting “nearly 100 billion views” of Mario-related material on the platform. Mario’s YouTube milestones: More speedruns of Mario are uploaded on YouTube than any other game series – Over two million YouTube channels have uploaded Mario videos – A new Mario video is uploaded on YouTube every ...

After their March shutdown, Nintendo will refund gamers who don’t want to transfer their Wii U and 3DS eShop credit to Switch. Japan only. From 6 April 2023 through March 2025, Japanese residents can contact Nintendo to obtain money back on their untransferred eShop credit, according to OatmealDome’s translation of Nintendo’s official Japanese Twitter account. The service is inaccessible if ...

The Pokémon Company will distribute a limited-time code for a Scarlet and Violet Pokémon during the Pokémon European International Championships in London next weekend. Palafin, a pure Water-type dolphin Pokémon (thanks, Serebii!), will be shared on stream. Switching out the innocuous dolphin and bringing it back exposes a muscular bi-pedal dolphin with massive stat boosts. It’s dangerous. Gavin Michaels’ Palafin ...

We are getting ready for the internet to soon be overrun with hidden references and spoiler chatter now that the Super Mario Bros. Movie is finally out. However, one feature of the movie that stands out to us right away has to do with the credits, where it appears that Grant Kirkhope, the composer for the Donkey Kong 64 game’s ...

Many of the titles of some of Nintendo’s most well-known platform games, such as Super Mario World, Kirby’s Dream Land, and Donkey Kong Country, just make sense as they are. As a naming convention, it all makes sense, right? The addition of the word “Country” in Donkey Kong Country for the SNES, however, has a more profound connotation, according to ...

The latest gameplay clip for Asylum Square Interactive’s retro-inspired platformer Tiny Thor shows off how gorgeous it still looks. The next 16-bit-style adventure, which was announced in February, may have a retro aesthetic and feature pixel-perfect platforming, but it also has its own unique twist. Mini-Mjölnir will be used by tiny Thor to navigate several Norse Realms, including Midgard, Svartalfheim, ...

Just a few weeks after its most recent significant “Fractal” upgrade, Hello Games has announced yet another free update for No Man’s Sky. The new update, titled “Interceptor,” adds new foes, resources, and a new Starship class to the game’s narrative while also introducing a new corruption that is spreading throughout the cosmos. Quite a few new things, then! We ...

Next weekend, from April 14 to 16, the Pokémon Center Pop-Up will be back at the ExCel in London, and you can now formally reserve your spot. The Pokémon European International Championships take place during the same few days when the store is open. The Pop-Up is the third time in London that a transient Pokémon Center has opened. In ...

Some of Capcom’s video game franchises, including Street Fighter, have already been adapted for the big screen, and more are expected to follow. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Legendary has acquired the “film and TV” rights to Capcom’s classic fighting series Street Fighter, which debuted in arcades in 1987 and laid the groundwork for the fighting genre with the ...