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Nintendo launched a little free to play title on the 3DS a while back called Pokemon Shuffle. Since it is a free puzzle game, micro-transactions were incorporated but a new 3DS console exploit allows you to completely bypass the annoying paid for items and just enjoy the game. The 3DS …

What Nintendo will actually do with its Amiibo figurines has been up for much debate since the little NFC equipped models were released last year. Off the bat they gave us extra costumes in certain games and our own AI cooperative partner in Smash Bros, but these are cross title …

Nintendo's new 3DS seems to be off to a good star, having sold around 335,000 units since its launch last week in Europe and North America. Two big contributing factors would be the launches of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. The information comes from …

Eiji Aonuma, the man behind almost every Zelda game since Ocarina of Time, has been talking up the latest entry in the series, set to release sometime this year on the Wii U. He previously stated that the game would feature revamped puzzle solving and exploration mechanics, utilising a more …

Nintendo has apologised to UK and other European Wii U owners, after it announced that over two years after the console's release, it has not and will not be bringing the TVii feature to the continent. According to the Japanese game maker, it was simply too difficult to localise all …

It turns out that Netflix might have a live-action Legend of Zelda TV series in the works. According to a source familiar with the project, the show is still in the early stages of development and Nintendo is currently on-board. The show is going to be about an ordinary boy …

Nintendo announced its new creators program recently, allowing YouTubers to partner up with the publisher for gameplay videos but the company seems to be having trouble getting through the amount of submissions it has received so far. Now that the partnership program has come out of beta and is open …

Nintendo hasn't been the most YouTuber friendly publisher out there but after quite a bit of backlash and reflection, the company is finally coming around to the idea that Let's Players should be able to make money off of Nintendo game footage- just as long as the publisher gets a cut. Nintendo's …

Nintendo hasn't had anywhere near the success this console generation when compared to the last. A lot of the blame for that can be placed at the feet of marketing and the fact that the casual game market is very different from what it was just a few years ago. …

Despite Nintendo's best efforts to keep the 3DS locked down and uncrackable to those looking to play ROM files, a new exploit has been discovered, allowing users to emulate Game Boy Color titles. The whole thing works by ‘injecting' ROM files in to the memory of a legitimately downloaded Game Boy …

Asking anyone you know who's not a big gamer and chances are they still haven't heard of the Wii U. It's amazing to think that two years on from its release, Nintendo is still in that position, but hey, apparently that doesn't matter too much, as the Wii U is …

Yesterday, Nintendo announced the new 3DS XL for the US and UK markets alongside a brand new Majora's Mask themed edition. It turns out, people really really wanted the Zelda themed hand-held as it has pretty much sold out everywhere, just a day after pre-orders went live. Over at GameStop, …

There is a lot of Nintendo news hitting the web today thanks to the Nintendo Direct Conference, despite the ‘new 3DS XL' coming out in the EU and US next month, new games for the now ‘old' 3DS are still being announced. The developers of the highly praised Fire Emblem: …

Nintendo Direct just finished up earlier today so there are a fair few announcements hitting the web right now. One of the bigger things to be announced is the release date for the ‘New 3DS XL' outside of Japan. The hand held console will launch on the 13th of February, …

Due to the high taxation on imported video games and consoles in Brazil, Nintendo has opted to pull out of the market and will no longer sell its products in the country. Nintendo of America confirmed the move, stating that “high import duties that apply to our sector” are to …

Back in May Nintendo already confirmed that it had started development of its next-generation home console. In October it also transpired that the company would design system-on-chip for its forthcoming system in the U.S. According to a new media report, Nintendo contracted AMD to provide graphics processing technologies for the …

Apparently, Nintendo is looking to buy ‘free form' LCD screens from display manufacturer, Sharp. These new free form screens rearrange the circuitry throughout the display, allowing for more unusual shapes, breaking away from the traditional rectangle screens we see these days. According to The Japan Times, Nintendo could be planning …

Apparently Sony Pictures is developing an animated Super Mario Bros movie, leaked emails have revealed. The emails came from the recent Sony hack, which saw sensitive documents leaked on to the web. The negotiations for the movie apparently finished with Nintendo back in October. “I am the proud father of …

Nintendo has been the punching bag of the home console world for the past couple of years, with people poking fun at the slow uptake of the Wii U and the fact that many of the major third party developers haven't deigned to port their games to the system. While …

Dumb question really. I should have just posted the download link and waited for the applause to roll in. Of course you should probably also send some praise via the developer's way too, since they're now the first person to give us the ability to throw pokeballs with our real …

Nintendo and Philips have managed to come to a settlement agreement over a patent legal dispute. Back in May, Philips tried to stop the sale of a few Nintendo devices in the US, claiming that two of its motion control patents had been infringed, this claim was upheld in court …

A ‘defective' version of Nintendo's Samus Aran Amiibo figure has managed to sell for $2500 on eBay. These figures usually only just $12.99 but the Samus figures usually ship with just one arm cannon, while this one had two, making it a very rare one off mistake. The unit is …

It looks like Nintendo's plans for ‘the new 3DS' might be bigger than we thought as the company has announced that it will discontinue the 3DS XL in Japan following the launch of the handheld's successor. For those of you who missed the initial announcement, a few months back Nintendo revealed …

If there's one thing that Nintendo has that the other big console makers don't, it's a very strong history of portable gaming titles. Sure Sony has its PSP and Vita back catalogues, but neither can hardly compare to the sheer volume of games that have been released on the various …

UK retailer, GAME, is set to launch special console bundles for Black Friday, including an Xbox One with four games and a Wii U with Super Smash Bros, Super Mario U and an Amiibo. There are strong rumors of a Playstation 4 bundle as well, although that one has yet …

Yesterday we learned of some released-too-early information about Mario Kart 8, that along with its upcoming Zelda based DLC pack, it would also have the ability to give your Mii character a new costume, with the use of Nintendo's take on Skylander's like figurines, known as Amiibos. Nintendo's release jumped …

One of Nintendo's big pushes for this Christmas season is the little NFC enabled figurines of its most famous characters, called Amiibos. The idea behind them is to give people a way to track in-game character progression with something a little more exciting than a memory card. However Nintendo also …

A few Super Smash Bros 3DS players have been hit with massive 136 year bans from playing the game online. The lengthy penalties seem to have been dished out due to a bug in Nintendo's automated anti-griefer system, which is designed to punish anyone aggressively targeting a specific player during …

Nintendo wants to get into the stat tracking business, with a brand new piece of hardware that sits by your bedside and keeps an eye on you while you sleep. Not with a camera mind you, but with sensors that can detect the quality of sleep you're having, as well …

Hold your horses folks, it looks like you might need to make good on that bet after all: hell has indeed frozen over. Or at least it looks like it might be about to, as Nintendo is currently on track to make a yearly profit for the first time in …