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News New Mario Movie Concept Art Shows Princess Daisy In Action
What could have been
We know that another Super Mario Bros. Movie is on the way (Nintendo confirmed it's coming in 2026, no less), but that doesn't mean that we are quite done talking about its predecessor just yet. In fact, there's something new to look at. Jed Diffenderfer worked as a story developer and artist on the 2023 Illumination/Nintendo...
News Pokémon Executives On Anime Return Of Ash And Pikachu: "Anything Is Possible"
However, the focus right now is on "the new story"
Although the Pokémon anime said goodbye to Ash and Pikachu, it seems there's still a chance the famous duo could return. Speaking to Variety, The Pokémon Company International executives Andy Gose and Taito Okiura are still open to Ash potentially reappearing and "anything is possible", but for...
News Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy & GBC Library With Three More Mario Titles
Update: Available today
Update [Tue 12th Mar, 2024 01:45 GMT]: These three Game Boy titles have now been added to the Switch Online service. To play these games you will need to have an active subscription. Original article [Sun 10th Mar, 2024 13:45 GMT]: Nintendo has held a special 'MAR10 Day 2024' broadcast containing all sorts of...
Review LEGO Animal Crossing - Julian’s Birthday Party - Is It Any Good?
Party of one
The LEGO Animal Crossing sets bring Animal Crossing: New Horizons to life in plastic brick form, featuring minifigures of some of the series' most beloved characters at home and around their island. The first wave of sets launched in March 2024, with Julian's Birthday Party among them. This is the cheapest set in the range (at launch),...
News The Luigi's Mansion 2 HD Box Art Has Been Revealed
Gadd tidings
After a brief MAR10 Day update, we now know that Luigi's Mansion 2 HD will be bringing the scares to Switch on 27th June. What's more, we also now know what to expect from the game's box art. Yep, Nintendo has revealed a first look at the cover for the upcoming game and anyone who played the original Luigi's Mansion 2 (or 'Dark Moon'...
News Nintendo Reveals Box Art And New Screens For Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door On Switch
Unfolding this May
In case you missed it, Nintendo used this year's MAR10 Day celebrations to reveal that Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door will be heading to Switch on 23rd May. Off that back of this date announcement, the Big-N also provided a first look at the game's box art and gave a sneak peek at some new screenshots too. We'll start things...
UK Charts Unicorn Overlord Makes The Top Ten And Sells Best On Switch
WWE 2K24 takes the top spot
Three new releases enter the top 40 UK boxed charts this week, including WWE 2K24 at number 1 and Expeditions: A MudRunner Game at number 16. Most notably for Switch owners, however, is Unicorn Overlord, the excellent tactical RPG from Vanillaware, which debuts at number 7. It also comfortably sold the most on the...
Poll Do You Want To See 'Super Mario Bros. Wonder 2'?
Addressing the other elephant in the room
Today is MAR10 Day (MARch 10th, get it??), so it's no surprise that we are once again thinking about Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the first new 2D Mario game in 11 years. Wonder flipped the script on 2D Mario. The 'New' series had lasted for a whopping 17 years and the visuals and level design were very much...
News Switch Release Dates For Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door & Luigi's Mansion 2 HD Confirmed
Coming soon
Following a rumour earlier this week about news updates for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, Nintendo has now shared the official Switch release dates. Paper Mario will unfold on 23rd May 2024 and Luigi returns in his second scary outing on 27th June 2024. Nintendo has shared a fe
Feature Is Any Mario Game Genuinely 'Underrated'? - 10 Super Mario Games To Reconsider
Appropri-rated
When the word 'underrated' is used in reference to entries in series as venerated as, say, Super Mario or the Zelda, it never quite feels right. Sure, perhaps there are some early oddball entries that people missed — games that were crafted when the template and direction of the series was still in flux — but it's hard to argue...
News Nintendo And Illumination Announce New Mario Bros. Animated Movie
Arriving in 2026
The majority of Nintendo's Mario Day broadcast was allocated to its new movie announcement. Unsurprisingly, it's now officially announced it's working on a new movie "based on the world of the Super Mario Bros. series". It will arrive in the US on 3rd April 2026 and in various other territories in the same month. Nintendo's very...
News The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Returning To Cinemas This Year
It's time for an encore
Ahead of the first year anniversary of the highly successful Super Mario Bros. Movie, it's been revealed the film will be making an encore in cinemas. AMC Theatres has announced the Nintendo and Illumination animation will be returning on 28th June 2024 (
News Wahoo! LEGO Super Mario Is Getting Brand New Sets This August
Happy Mario Day!
LEGO will be bolstering its Super Mario line with multiple new sets due out later this year on 1st August 2024. Yes, apart from the announcement of Mario Kart-themed LEGO (coming next year), to celebrate Mario Day this year it's unveiled three new kits: The Bowser Express Train, King Boo's Haunted Mansion, and Battle with Roy at...
News Super Mario 'Mario Kart' LEGO Releasing In 2025
Ready, set, build!
As part of the Super Mario Day celebrations, Nintendo has announced it will be releasing Mario Kart sets in 2025. At the very end of LEGO's Super Mario broadcast, it shared an incredibly brief teaser - showing off the outline of a kart. This new line will be part of the Super Mario line, but nothing else has been shared about it...
Soapbox It's Time For Mario's Weird Minigames To Make A Comeback
The Mansion always wins
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Jim's after some more bitesize Mario weirdness, which he got his fix of on the DS... Super Mario Bros. Wonder was great. It had elephants, it had sweet little blobs of...
Review LEGO Animal Crossing - Nook’s Cranny & Rosie’s House - Is It Any Good?
The Rose and Cranny
The LEGO Animal Crossing range brings a variety of Animal Crossing: New Horizons characters to blocky life across five sets (initially, at least) that enable you to connect them and create your own Animal Crossing island in Lego form. Keen Lego fans will spy a similarity to the defunct Fabuland theme, now with a Nintendo...
News Nintendo's Free Super Mario Bros. Movie Guidebook Is Now Available In English
"Discover all the secrets"
As part of this week's Super Mario celebrations, Nintendo has now released an English version of its Super Mario Bros. Movie digital guidebook. In case you missed our original post, this guide allows Mario Movie fans to "enhance" their viewing experience with all sorts of "Easter eggs and fun facts". Although the guide...
News Game Boy Emulator Developer Permanently Removes App From Google Play Store
"My family comes first"
Following the news about Yuzu's takedown earlier this week, there's now another Nintendo-related emulator story making headlines. As reported by The Verge, Pizza Emulators - known for work on Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance emulators on Android - has decided to permanently remove its apps from Google's Play Store. The...
Review LEGO Animal Crossing - Isabelle’s House Visit - Is It Any Good?
House call
The LEGO Animal Crossing sets released in March 2024 feature a range of different minifigures and island elements bringing back memories of 2020's Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the form of everyone's favourite plastic bricks. As we run through each of the sets to see which one is best, here we're looking at Isabelle's House Visit —...
News Princess Peach: Showtime! Developer Seemingly Revealed In Demo's Code
We've got a Good-Feel(ing) about this
Nintendo has released a free demo for Princess Peach: Showtime! and aside from giving us our first hands-on experience with the upcoming adventure, it seems that it also contains some important information about Showtime's as-yet-undisclosed developer. According to dataminer @LuigiBlood, Good-Feel has been in...
Review LEGO Animal Crossing - Bunnie's Outdoor Activities - Is It Any Good?
New Horizons on the block
Nintendo's latest collaboration with Lego has resulted in a handful of Animal Crossing sets, a crossover that fans have been begging for ever since the firms' first collaboration, the LEGO Super Mario sets, were announced back in March 2020 — coincidentally Animal Crossing: New Horizons' launch month. In the years since,...
Random New Pokémon Ad Positions 3DS As 'Retro', And The Internet Disagrees
New Pokémon ScaVi ad seems to think so
Get your Rawst Berries at the ready, folks, because you're about to feel a burn. The 3DS is now a retro console. Okay, maybe not officially. But it is certainly old enough for Nintendo to be using it in sentimental flashback sequences and for that, we feel ancient. This revelation came to us thanks to a new...
Video Nintendo Releases Two New Commercials For Princess Peach: Showtime!
The show starts later this month
While a lot of the focus is on Mario this week, Nintendo has still been able to spare some time to promote Peach's upcoming Switch release. Princess Peach: Showtime! will be arriving on 22nd March 2024, and ahead of the game's launch, Nintendo has uploaded two brand new commercials giving players a quick glimpse...
PSA You Have Until Next Week To Add "Unused" 3DS And Wii U Funds To Your Nintendo Account
The deadline is almost here
As we get closer to the official shutdown of online play and other functionality for the 3DS and Wii U next month, Nintendo has issued a reminder this week to merge your unused eShop balance while you still can. If you haven't already, now is the time to add these funds to your Nintendo Account, so they can then be used...
News Nintendo Switch Online 14-Day Free Trial Is Now Available (North America)
Wahoo!
Mario Day is almost upon us (10th March - MAR10, get it??) and Nintendo is wasting no time with getting the celebrations underway. Those who want to make the most of the calendar event of the year can now pick up a 14-day Nintendo Switch Online trial for free. This offer will be sticking around until 18th March at 6am GMT / 5am CET / 1am ET...
News Former Switch Exclusive Octopath Traveler "Delisted" On The eShop, But There's No Need To Worry
Update: Square Enix is "working on this"
Update [Tue 5th Mar, 2024 12:55 GMT]: Square Enix has publicly acknowledged Octopath Traveler's temporary removal from the Switch eShop. The publisher and developer — who worked with former Tenchu developer Acquire to create the turn-based RPG — states "We are working on this and will update when the...
News Super Mario LEGO Announcement Teased Ahead Of Mario Day 2024
Details about new sets might have been leaked
Following the arrival of the Animal Crossing sets last week, Nintendo and LEGO are now teasing "something" ahead of 'MAR10 Day' later this week. Whatever is planned is apparently getting revealed on 9th March during an "exciting" Super Mario-themed broadcast. In the brief trailer above, you can hear...
News Switch Online's Missions & Rewards Adds New Icons You Can Only "Get By Playing"
Super Mario World icons now available
Nintendo has just made new themed icons available to Switch Online members. These include a set of icons based on the Super Nintendo hit Super Mario World as well as the popular Switch release Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Redeeming these icons is a little different this time. Not only do you need a Switch...
News Switch Emulator Yuzu To Pay $2.4 Million To Nintendo & Cease Development
3DS emulator Citra to also shut down
Tropic Haze, the creators of the Switch emulator Yuzu, have agreed to pay Nintendo USD $2.4 million in damages as well as shut down the emulator for the hybrid console, along with the 3DS emulator Citra. This news comes just a week after Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the creators, and around a day after Tropic...
UK Charts Final Fantasy Pushes Mario vs. Donkey Kong Further Down The Standings
Cloud watching
The latest UK charts are in and it is no surprise who's sitting at the top spot this week. We predicted it, you predicted it, of course, this week's champ is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on the PS5. Square Enix's latest managed to beat both EA Sports FC 24 and Hogwarts Legacy this time around (which is no mean feat) and it means that...
Random Zelda Modder Recreates TOTK's Ultrahand In Ocarina Of Time
Sheiking things up
When it came to exploring The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's massive Hyrule, Ultrahand felt like a gift from Hylia herself. Why would you walk anywhere when you could build a hoverbike in seconds? A part of us wished that such a feature had always been around to help us traverse Link's previous trials. If only there was a...
Anniversary Switch Turns Seven Today, With Over 11,000 Games On The eShop
Thank you, NX
We struggle to remember a time that we thought of the Switch as a 'new' console. Maybe back in 2021 with the release of the OLED and the pandemic popularity of Animal Crossing? Perhaps. For the most part, everyone is keen to jump on the "god, the Switch is sooo old" bandwagon. The thing is, they are right and boy are we reminded of...
News Pop Up Parade "Pull Back" Kirby Car Now Available To Pre-Order
A new Good Smile Company release
Last month, Good Smile Company teased new figma including a Pop Up Parade version of the Kirby car, based on his transformation in Kirby and the Forgotten Land. This item is now available for pre-order and will set you back USD $25.99 (or your regional equivalent). It's estimated to ship in Q4 2024 and even zooms...
Feature Meet Morphcat Games, The New-Gen NES Devs Pushing The 8-Bit Envelope
"No one has come close to exhausting its full capabilities"
Four decades after it became an international sales phenomenon and dominated a crowded games market, the Nintendo Entertainment System – the 8-bit box that gave birth to some of the medium’s biggest enduring franchises – today finds itself playing host to something else entirely: new...
Reminder LEGO Animal Crossing Sets Are Out Today, Will You Be Picking One Up?
Celeste ‘til last
It feels like it has been a long time coming, but the LEGO Animal Crossing sets are now available. Like, right now! There are five different sets for you to choose between, each of varying sizes (and prices). The one that is going to set you back the most Bells is the Nook's Cranny & Rosie's House set, which is available for...
Random The Simpsons Meets Mario Kart In Bizarre TV Mash-Up
It's-a me.... Lisa..?
The Simpsons is, somehow, still a thing in 2024. Regardless of what we might think of its overall quality, however, there's no denying that the cartoon is able to pull off some truly weird and wacky crossovers. While presumably not an official crossover by any means, the show has recently strayed into the realm of Mario Kart...
Guide Splatoon 3: Fresh Season 2024 - Every New Weapon, Stage & Feature
Freshly squeezed
Splatoon 3's next season, 'Fresh Season 2024,' has brought a whole bunch of new content to the Splatlands. Fresh Season 2024 began on 1st March 2024 and added new stages, weapon loadouts, gear and more. All of the newbies were shared on the @SplatoonNA and @NintendoUK Twitter accounts, and we have collected together each and every...
Random Rare '80s Super Mario Figures Have Been Preserved Via 3D Scanning
Mamma-mia!
Remember when we highlighted the delightful efforts by @KeshiCorner in preserving Zelda history by 3D scanning a bunch of rare figures from the 1980s? Well, they're back at it again with another set of awesome figures from Bandai that would have otherwise remained lost in the relentless passage of time. This time around, we're looking at...
Talking Point What Would Make You Happy To Give Up Physical Games And Go 100% Digital?
Concessions stand
While the demise of physical media has seemed like an inevitability for many years now, boutique publishers are helping to keep a passionate base of physical-only fans with a stocked game library. The scenario right now isn't ideal, with eShop releases often only getting a physical version months later (once a publisher has gauged...
News Sega Implies That Releasing Sonic Superstars Next To Super Mario Bros. Wonder Wasn't Smart
You don't say
During Sega's Q&A session for its Q3 financial results (thanks, Nintendo Everything), the firm has finally acknowledged that releasing Sonic Superstars right next to Nintendo's own Super Mario Bros. Wonder probably wasn't the best idea. Though of course, it doe
News Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
It wants "a shutdown of the emulator"
Nintendo has always had an incredibly strong stance against video game piracy and it's now taking legal action against the creators of the Switch emulator Yuzu. As highlighted by Stephen Totilo of Game File, the Japanese video game giant known for hits like Super Mario and
Guide Pokémon Presents February 2024: Every Announcement, Full Livestream
Legends Z-A! Trading Card Game Pocket! Tera Raids!
The February 2024 Pokémon Presents has come and gone, giving us a shorter showcase than we are used to seeing from TPC. At only 13 minutes in length, the presentation wasn't full of big hitters, but that's not to say that there wasn't some good stuff to be found in it — and Pokémon Legends: Z-A...
Random Paul McCartney Loved Koji Kondo's Work So Much, He Invited Him Backstage
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, Nintendo 64?
During a recent interview with Gene Park of The Washington Post, famed Nintendo composer Koji Kondo reminisced of his work with Nintendo and the impact that his music has had on the industry after its induction into the National Recording Registry. One particular anecdote that caught our...
Guide Best First-Party Super Nintendo (SNES) Games
Nintendo's Super NES games, as ranked by you
Looking for a list of Nintendo's first-party Super NES games? Wondering what the best first-party Super NES game is? Our round-up of every first-party SNES game is, unsurprisingly, a good place to start! Our ranked list of the Top 50 Best Super NES Games Ever covers every game on the system, but here...
Guide Best First-Party NES Games
Nintendo-developed NES games, as ranked by you
Looking for a list of Nintendo's first-party NES games? Wonder what the best first-party NES game is? You've come to the right guide. Our ranked list of the Top 50 Best NES Games Ever covers every game on the system, but here we're looking specifically at Nintendo-developed NES games released in the...
Rumour New Report From Nikkei Corroborates 'Switch 2' Delay Into 2025
Nintendo keen to avoid stock shortages
A new report from Nikkei Asia has corroborated previous reports that the 'Switch 2' - the affectionately named successor to the Switch - will release at some point in 2025, with the report stating that the console won't launch until March 2025 "at the earliest". Nikkei states that the reasoning behind the...
Random Nintendo Updates The Domain For Its Japanese Site
One additional key press required
Nintendo has announced that it has updated the URL for its Japanese website, meaning those who wish to pay a visit will need to hit an additional key on their physical/virutal keyboard (the horror!). All jokes aside, the firm states that the change is down to "server environment improvements", though as pointed out...
UK Charts Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Slips Down The Ladder To Third
Unleash the minis
After its debut at number one last week, Mario vs. Donkey Kong has slipped down to third in the UK Boxed Charts, leaving EA Sports FC 24 and Hogwarts Legacy to take number one and two respectively. It's still a good showing for the plumber, however, with three Mario titles once again settling in nicely in the top ten. Elsewhere,...
News Nintendo Highlights February Partner Showcase Games With New Infographic
A bounty of Switch games
Did you miss the Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase earlier this week? Looking for a quick and handy visual for each and every title shown off? Well, you're in luck, as Nintendo has posted its usual infographic on Twitter for the latest Partner Showcase. Nintendo usually follows up its presentations with one of these a few...
Guide 78 Switch Games To Pick Up In Nintendo's 'Play On Sale' (Europe)
Everything we've scored 9/10 or higher
Reminder: The Play On Sale ends this weekend (25th February), so be sure to grab anything you planned to before time's up. We've already got Telltale's Walking Dead First Season on Steam, but it's only £2.59!... What's that? Another Switch eShop sale, you say? Oh why not, let's have it. Yes, Nintendo's back...