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Nintendo sues Bowser (not that one) over Team Xecuter’s Switch hacks

Enlarge / A prototype SX Core device soldered to a Nintendo Switch motherboard. (credit: Team Xeceuter) Months after his arrest on 11 felony counts last year, Nintendo has filed a civil lawsuit against Gary “GaryOPA” Bowser, the leader of notorious Switch hacking group Team Xecuter, in a Seattle federal court. The suit (as obtained by […]

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Random: Real-Life Jeweller Says Princess Peach’s Crown Would Be Worth £240 Million

Zelda’s is only worth £18k. With her very own castle, kingdom, and personal superhero to look out for her, the idea that Princess Peach is absolutely minted isn’t exactly surprising. Still, it’s always good to have facts backing up our wild claims – as factual as a post about fictional pieces of jewellery can be, […]

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Voxel-Style RPG Dungeon And Gravestone Offers “Over 500 Quests”, Launches On Switch This Week

A follow up to BlockQuest Maker. Looking for a new dungeon-crawling RPG with a Minecraft-style look and feel? Well, you might want to keep an eye out for Dungeon and Gravestone when it launches on the Switch eShop this week. The latest project from Wonderland Kazakiri, which also released BQM – BlockQuest Maker on Switch […]

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Narita Boy’s One-Of-A-Kind ‘Techno Edition’ Costs A Whopping $11,000

And it’s still available. We really enjoyed our time with Narita Boy when it launched on Switch at the end of last month, but we never could have expected that it’d soon be treated to a special edition quite like this. Team17 and Studio Koba have unveiled the Narita Boy: Techno Edition, a “premium and […]

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Bandai Namco Was Offered New Pokémon Snap Thanks To Its Work On Pokkén Tournament

In safe hands. Whenever there’s a new Pokémon game on the horizon, fan expectations are always high – and that goes double when we’re talking about a sequel to a much-beloved sub-series. For New Pokémon Snap, The Pokémon Company has entrusted Bandai Namco with development duties, and it sounds like the project is in safe […]

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Mini Review: Toree 3D – Low Poly, Pint-Sized Platforming For Pennies

Nostalgic 3D platforming? Balan Wonderworld, take note. Say what you like about fancy level design and clever mechanics that turn everything you know about the genre on its head, but when it comes to 3D platformers there’s really only one reason we return to our favourites again and again: throwing Mario around a course feels […]

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Random: Hacker Creates The Game Boy Tetris Of Your Dreams

Lots of easy pieces. Tetris on the Game Boy is one of the best multiplayer titles of all time, even if it did exist in a period when wireless local play was the stuff of a madman’s dreams. Instead, players would have to connect their consoles using the (easily lost) link cable – and it’s […]

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Restored Images Show Nintendo’s Headquarters As They Existed In 1970

Including a look at its Hanafuda factory. Nintendo’s Hanafuda playing cards were printed on large sheets before being cut into individual cards First founded way back in 1889, Nintendo has now been around for 131 years. The company has unsurprisingly gone through a number of major changes in that time, and a newly-restored set of […]

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Sega Reportedly Launching A New Pokémon Arcade Game

‘Pokémon Cologalina’. It’s time for our latest episode of ‘why must Japan get all the cool things?’, as Sega looks to be launching a new arcade game based on the Pokémon franchise. According to Arcade Heroes, Sega has unveiled ‘Pokémon Cologalina’, a new medal game which will have cabinets set up in arcades across Japan. […]

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Random: Did You Know Wii’s ‘Why Not Take A Break’ Screen Was Inspired By EarthBound?

It’s all thanks to the ‘Two-hour Dad’. Thanks to the launch of Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s Legendary CEO, a new book that pulls together various Iwata Asks interviews and touching words from Iwata’s colleagues at Nintendo, fans are discovering (and rediscovering) all sorts of fascinating facts about the company. Over […]