Tag: nintendo
5 Questions now that Nintendo is making games for phones
So Nintendo is finally going mobile - which is BIG news. Here's five questions we're asking as a result. 1) Isn't this different to what the company has said before? Yep. In the past the company has alternated wildly between outright denial and leaving the door open but ruling it out. For example, producer Kensuke…
Nintendo joins the 21st century and announces plans to develop mobile games
Massive gaming news this morning - Nintendo has made a dramatic U-turn and has today announced that it will soon be developing games for mobile devices in partnership with Japanese app developer DeNA (pronounced like "DNA"). The new deal between the companies sees Nintendo acquire 10% of DeNA, and DeNA will take a 1.24% shareholding…
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are working together to tackle DDOS attacks
Whilst the three major console manufacturers may be fierce rivals most of the time, there is at least one thing that unites them: Frustration with denial of service attacks, the sort of which took down Xbox Live and PSN over Christmas. Speaking to Game Informer, outgoing Xbox head Phil Spencer revealed that he has been…
Amiibos to unlock partial NES and SNES games on WiiU
Nintendo has managed to find yet another way to leverage its back catalogue of titles, announcing plans to use Amiibo figures to unlock old games. According to Kotaku, the plan was announced in a call to Nintendo investors. Presumably the way it will work is that when you touch your Mario figure on the WiiU…
Nintendo finally agrees terms for YouTube streamers
Whilst the rest of the world has been on board with video game streaming via Twitch and YouTube for a number of years now, old man Nintendo has only just agreed to legally allow it - announcing the launch of the Nintendo Creators Program. Peace is breaking out across YouTube as the Nintendo Creators Program…
Tetris pulled from Nintendo e-shop
Few titles are so closely linked with a console than Tetris is with Nintendo's Game Boy - it was the game that proved handheld gaming could work. So it's a shame to see that the 1989 original will no longer be available on 3DS via the Nintendo e-shop. According to The Telegraph, the reason is…
Is Nintendo working on a “doughnut” shaped device?!
Reports suggest that Nintendo is working on a device with a screen that will have a hole in the middle. Why? We've no idea. The news comes courtesy of the Japan Times, which reports that Nintendo will be using Sharp's "Free-Form LCDs", which apparently can be manufactured in any shape the client wants - and…
Nintendo to sell empty boxes in shops. Really.
Far be it from us to question Nintendo in its infinite wisdom, but the company has just announced that it will be selling empty boxes. Seriously. Buyers of Nintendo Pocket Football Club and Mario vs Donkey Kong from shops will open the case to find... um... nothing. Well, just a download code for the titles.…
Is Nintendo considering dumping region locking?
Could Nintendo be about to enable gamers to import titles from Japan and the US without forcing them to play on a foreign console too? That's what new claims indicate. Region locking used to be par for the course on games consoles, but in recent years the likes of Sony and Microsoft have seen the…
Nintendo working on a sleep monitoring gadget
Nintendo's next release could be enough to send you to sleep - though that could be exactly what is intended. Earlier this year we heard rumours of Nintendo getting into healthcare as a means to diversify from its troubled WiiU - and now Reuters (by way of Yahoo News) is reporting that the company has…
