Enlarge / Are we looking at an official Game Boy Advance emulator made by Nintendo? (credit: @TrashBandatcoot / Twitter ) In most cases, the release of yet another classic console emulator for the Switch wouldn’t be all that noteworthy. But experts tell Ars that a pair of Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulators for […]
Enlarge / Coconut Mall, it’s good to have you back in modern Mario Kart. But how about the rest of this week’s new racetracks? Do they bode well for the total, $25, 48-track DLC pack? (credit: Nintendo) Despite Mario Kart 8 Deluxe launching as a retread of its original Wii U version, we still strongly […]
Enlarge / Go on, leave your Switch OLED on nonstop for 3, 500 hours and more. It may not be the best idea, but at least one tester in the wild has found it takes that many hours before the screen is negatively impacted. (credit: Aurich Lawson) For many Nintendo fans, the launch of the […]
Enlarge / What better way to celebrate 43.3 million copies sold than to add some paid DLC? (credit: Nintendo) Nintendo fans who watched the game maker’s latest announcement-filled Nintendo Direct video may have hoped to see reveals of previously announced Switch sequels like Metroid Prime 4 or the sequel to Breath of the Wild. Sadly, […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Nintendo) Nintendo’s latest financial report to investors, issued as an overview of its fiscal year’s third quarter, came with a momentous announcement for the veteran video game and console producer: Switch has joined the 100 million-worldwide-sales club. What’s more, Switch’s current tally of 103.5 million means the device has leapfrogged over […]
Enlarge / Usually, NSO trials like this feel like teasers for full-price purchases. This one is different. (credit: Nintendo of America ) Nintendo mixes cool , weird , and ho-hum perks into its $20/year Switch Online subscription service, including one we don’t generally talk about: limited-time game trials. Other modern gaming services include this sort […]
Enlarge / We wish we had better news to report about Nintendo’s first easy-to-access N64 collection in a long time. Alas. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Nintendo) On Monday, Nintendo released its latest collection of emulated N64 games—and its first since the Wii U’s Virtual Console—as a package of games exclusively available on its Switch consoles. […]
Enlarge / We’re well past the days of CRT TVs by default, and Nintendo Europe’s latest welcome update acknowledges this. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Monday, Nintendo of Europe announced a very region-specific—and era-specific—tweak for its upcoming collection of N64 games on Switch: an option to switch between the video standards PAL and […]
Nintendo Switch OLED, on sale later this week for $349. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] For all the portable game systems Nintendo has launched, including mid-generation revisions, few have included cutting-edge upgrades to a key element: the screen. Historically, Nintendo has been in the back of the pack when compared to competitors’ screens. The Game Boy’s […]
The new EMMI droid can kill longtime space bounty hunter Samus Aran in one blow. Your job in Metroid Dread is to make sure that doesn’t happen. [credit: Nintendo ] Thanks to one of Nintendo’s slowest game-release eras in its modern history, this week’s Metroid Dread stands out as arguably the company’s biggest new first-party […]