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What appears to be a Nintendo Switch running some sort of test software has turned up online. Reddit user boondar143 claims to have purchased the console online from Best Buy on Cyber Monday. When he went to set it up for his family, he discovered the device loaded to an odd looking menu screen. On…
At their annual investment meeting at the back end of June, Nintendo came out to clarify the company’s policy surrounding video game censorship. President Shuntaro Furukawa stated that questions regarding content are best left up to ratings boards like the ESRB, and noted that Nintendo, and indeed all modern video game platforms, have parental controls…
The Switch is truly a great gaming system. Perhaps one of the best Nintendo has ever made. However, the same cannot be said about its controllers. To put it mildly, the Joycons are a wee bit rubbish, and that’s getting to be a big problem. Now, having a set of detachable controllers is a brilliant…
We’ve talked quite a bit about the growing encroachment of politics in video games in the past year. It seems every gaming company has decided to jump on the bandwagon to push one agenda or another. Alright, let’s be honest, it’s mostly the same agenda. Though there are a few that are starting to push…
A common complaint about the Wii U was just how poorly third party titles ran on the system. Nintendo’s black sheep console has often been accused of being underpowered. Yet even the most graphically demanding first party games seem to run smooth as butter, for the most part. At least no worse than what you’d…
Nintendo is finally jumping in on the virtual reality bandwagon, with cardboard. It’s been widely rumoured the company was working on a virtual reality headset that would use the Switch itself as a display. Now they’ve finally taken the covers off, and it’s a Labo kit. The device is very similar to Google Cardboard, another…
Nintendo has announced they will be officially ending the Creators Program for user generated video content at the end of December 2018. In a press release issued on their site, the company stated that they are “ending the Nintendo Creators Program (NCP) to make it easier for content creators to make and monetize videos that…
Nintendo recently won a $12.2 million lawsuit against a married couple who ran LoveROMs, a site for downloading vintage console games. Over the past year, the company has hit many ROM sites hard, with many opting to just shut down over fears of similar suits. The whole subject of ROMs and emulation is probably the…
Nintendo has announced that not all games will support cloud saves as part of their premium online service, in order to prevent cheating. Yep. The company says they are concerned that people could abuse the cloud save system to either retrieve previously traded Pokemon, or regain previously lost points in games like Splatoon. The House…
Nintendo was widely expected to officially announce paid online for the Switch in their Nintendo Direct this week. The conference has since been put on hold due to a pair of tragic natural disasters that have struck Japan in recent days. What’s waiting a few extra days though when we’ve already gone a year and…