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To Shigeru Miyamoto, the most exciting thing about games right now is online play and connectivity. This may sound strange coming from the Nintendo figurehead, whose company was among the last to jump into the deep end of internet-enabled consoles with Wii U and 3DS. That’s because the water just …

Some of the most exciting news out of today’s 3DS-focused Nintendo Direct presentations doesn’t relate to Nintendo’s handheld at all. Rather, it seems that Nintendo’s home console DLC plans have stepped up a gear, with the announcement of New Super Luigi U for New Super Mario Bros. U (opens in …

As good as some of the Wii U (opens in new tab)’s launch line-up has been, there are two notable absences. Two very large elephants in the room, one holding a plunger, the other dressed in elfin garb. But fear not. Nintendo hasn’t forgotten about 3D Mario and Zelda. Speaking …

Nintendo has designed the back of the Wii U GamePad (that’s the one with the power-sapping screen) with regular screws, allowing Joe Public the ability to access the rechargable battery and change it. Sounds like a small concession, but it’s not the norm for such devices, as mobile electronics such …

It was perhaps inevitable. Sony is now officially suing both Bridgestone and the company owned by Kevin Butler actor Jerry Lambert over Lambert’s appearance in a Bridgestone ad which promoted a Nintendo tie-in deal. The gist is that Lambert’s involvement, after his long-standing promotional portrayal of a fictional Sony executive, …

Visceral violence, slow motion gore and stirring national anthems made the first trailer for Ubisoft’s foremost Wii U game, ZombiU, incredibly striking. Shown last year as Killer Freaks from Outer Space, things have changed quite a lot in the last 12 months. Set in merry old England during a hellish …

In a title that is being likened to a “theme park,” Nintendo announced today that they’ll be bringing NintendoLand to the Wii U. Similar to Wii Sports, NintendoLand is to be something of a mini-game compilation that will display the qualities of the Wii U system. The mini-games will be …

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition won’t be coming to Wii U, says Trent Oster, founder of distributor Beamdog. Which is regrettable, but hardly show-stopping news. Only Oster’s not done: the Bioware veteran took the opportunity to clarify his company’s stance toward Nintendo, explaining why Beamdog has no further plans to work …

As any publisher of modern video games will tell you, if your game doesn’t have dirty great swathes of dubstep shoe-horned into both its trailer and soundtrack (Far Cry 3, Syndicate, SSX, and probably a thousand other upcoming games, I’m looking at you), then you might as well not bother …

Pokemon fans have been waiting months for Nintendo and Pokemon Company to finally reveal the follow-up to last year’s Pokemon Black and White. That at last happened in Japan today, but in a strange twist, the developer broke from it’s third game/third color tradition. Instead, take your first look at …