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Nintendo’s miniature NES Classic Edition (opens in new tab) is more than just a shrunk-down version of the beloved console with an HDMI port. According to Julie Gagnon, communications manager at Nintendo of Canada, it also features the ability to create save files for each of its 30 included games, …

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You could date the underpinnings of the concept back to text-based adventures (“You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike”) or to the randomly generated environments of ASCII roguelikes, but the definitive impossible maze appears in the original Legend of Zelda. Link finds himself contemplating two perpendicular …

Every generation longs for the comforts of the past, but the business of nostalgia has never been so lucrative. Series more than 20 years old are back on television or being adapted for the silver screen; remakes and reboots are rife – circumstantially, even the decades-obsolete Sony Walkman tape player …

You can trace Wario’s roots back to 1989’s Super Mario Land (opens in new tab). No, not the sequel in which he made his debut, but Gunpei Yokoi’s original, which took Nintendo’s beloved mascot well outside his comfort zone to a world of sphinxes and submarines, aliens and Moai statues. …

A version of this article originally posted on this site in February of 2013. All bets are off! 2013 began with the announcement of the unexpected crossover Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem. December saw the reveal of the even more surprising Hyrule Warriors, a Dynasty Warriors and Legend of …

In case you missed it yesterday, Nintendo released its April-June quarterly results, and the news was a mix of good and bad for the company. The worst bit was that the Wii U sold an impressively low 160,000 units globally (opens in new tab). To give some context on how …

One of Super Smash Bros. Brawl’s most significant additions was The Subspace Emissary. The single-player (or two-player co-op) campaign starred much of the game’s franchise-crossing cast in battles, platforming segments, and cutscenes. But according to series designer Masahiro Sakurai’s latest column in Weekly Famitsu (translated by Kotaku), that darn internet …

The StreetPass Plaza got much busier for North American 3DS owners today. Nintendo rolled out an update which beefs up the Mii-swapping suite with four new purchasable games, and, of course, dozens of hats. After performing a system update, players can get the skinny on the new games thanks to …

Shigeru Miyamoto is working on a brand new franchise. The Nintendo luminary told Famitsu (translated by Kotaku) that, with Pikmin 3, Super Mario 3D World, and Mario Kart 8 set to appear on Wii U, it’s a good time to branch out. “Next Spring, with the release of Mario Kart …