2020-1-13 20:00 |
Nintendo Switch owners don't have much to look forward to this year with the game company padding it out with ports and a remaster. The post Nintendo Switch’s 2020 Game Lineup Is Unbelievably Sucky appeared first on CCN.com origin »
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Rumors that the Nintendo Switch game Cooking Mama: Cookstar has had running cryptojacking malware in secret have appeared over this weekend. While developers denied this had happened, Nintendo still pulled the game from the eShop.
2020-4-7 19:55 | |
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Maybe it's something to do with Nintendo Switch, but there are lots of games for it that get announced much too early. The post Game Developers Need to Stop Announcing Games So Dang Early appeared first on CCN.com
2020-1-3 23:00 | |
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Nintendo Switch doesn't push players to waste extra hours in-game for a higher gamer-score or more trophies. It doesn't pull players out of the game by interrupting key moments with notifications.
2019-12-24 23:15 | |
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Supermash is an insane game that births its own games, but the newly-announced Nintendo Switch title could end up being one big mess. The post Supermash Looks Insanely Awesome, but Here’s Why It Could Be a Huge Mess appeared first on CCN.com
2019-12-12 22:19 | |
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Nintendo has made a lot of mistakes in 2019, and the game company needs to fix them in preparation for the next console war. The post 5 Things Nintendo Desperately Needs to Fix in 2020 appeared first on CCN.com
2019-12-6 05:00 | |
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More Super Nintendo games are coming to Switch online, but the company really needs to get on the ball and add more games more often. The post Nintendo Needs to Step Up Its Super Nintendo Game for Switch appeared first on CCN.com
2019-12-6 18:11 | |
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PlayStation has officially secured a berth in the Guinness Book of Records as the best-selling home video game console brand of all time. The post PlayStation Dwarfs Xbox & Nintendo As Best-Selling Console Ever appeared first on CCN.com
2019-12-3 15:36 | |
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Nintendo Switch sales figures are outpacing those of the company’s earlier consoles. This data release seems to suggest the console is a smashing success. However, the numbers don’t quite stand up to closer scrutiny.
2019-11-1 20:29 | |
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Pokemon Sword & Shield will not feature cloud saves. The lack of online features is common for Nintendo. This shows their lack of care or understanding for the internet. Pokemon Sword and Shield is a highly anticipated game.
2019-10-31 08:00 | |
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Nintendo today released sales figures for the Switch, and it should really not come as a huge surprise to know that it’s surpassed 15 million units sold in North America alone. That means Nintendo’s hybrid console is dominating its two main competitors, the PS4 and the Xbox One.
2019-10-18 02:38 | |
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You’ve got to love Nintendo. No one would have begrudged the company if it rested on its laurels after releasing a console as fresh as the Switch, but it hasn’t done that at all. Quite the opposite in fact.
2019-10-10 18:20 | |
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A little under two weeks ago, 2K revealed that it was porting the latest entry in its classic turn-based strategy series, Civilization VI, over to Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One this Nov.
2019-10-4 13:04 | |
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Mario Kart Tour just beat out its fellow licensed gaming properties in terms of day-one downloads — and not by a small margin either. By any metric, the game is the biggest out-of-the-gate success on the app market thus far.
2019-9-28 00:48 | |
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Early signs suggest that Mario Kart Tour is on the cusp of eclipsing Nintendo’s existing spread of mobile games. Despite only launching in the early morning hours yesterday, the game is already making waves within the mobile gaming sphere and has taken the coveted title of Nintendo’s most successful mobile launch to date.
2019-9-28 00:23 | |
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Early signs suggest that Mario Kart Tour is on the cusp of eclipsing Nintendo's existing spread of mobile games. Despite only launching in the early morning hours yesterday, the game is already making waves within the mobile gaming sphere and has taken the coveted title of Nintendo's most successful mobile launch to date.
2019-9-27 00:23 | |
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Nintendo today finally revealed what the heck that ring peripheral it teased last week is all about. Namely, the company’s releasing its Switch version of the Wii Fit, an exercise game called Ring Fit Adventure, which turns that bizarre rubber ring into a whole-body sensor.
2019-9-13 21:04 | |
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Melbourne-based four-person development team House House was out to ruffle some feathers when it announced yesterday the release date for possibly the best-titled game ever – Untitled Goose Game.
2019-9-1 01:25 | |
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In a surprise evening announcement, Nintendo revealed that its next big mobile title, Mario Kart Tour, will arrive on September 25. The company made the announcement in an unceremonious tweet.
2019-8-27 06:27 | |
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Growing up, summers were notoriously bad for new video game releases. We were forced to spend our holidays playing old games, because game publishers were scared to release their best titles during the big break.
2019-8-26 15:59 | |
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A Nevada man's surprising discovery of a mint copy of a rare 1987 Nintendo video game in an attic is the modern equivalent of finding buried treasure. With fewer than ten sealed copies known to exist, that copy of Kid Icarus brought Scott Amos a $9,000 windfall.
2019-8-4 15:30 | |
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It’s 2019, the Nintendo Switch is the vanguard of the next generation of video game consoles, and — in case you needed reminding — it still doesn’t have voice chat support. Well, at least the company hasn’t personally enabled it yet.
2019-7-24 22:05 | |
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Nintendo this week revealed the Switch Lite, a handheld-only version of the Switch with a slimmer form. Naturally, the inclusion of this new Switch into Nintendo’s stable begs the question of what place the venerable 3DS has in the new family.
2019-7-13 02:36 | |
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Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft collaborated on an open letter protesting the Trump administrations’s controversial proposition on Chinese tariffs. They warn that the worst case scenario would be that game consoles, are on the proposed product list, would get even more expensive.
2019-6-27 03:57 | |
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One of the few criticisms leveled against Nintendo Switch at launch was its game selection. Although Breath Of The Wild was a huge smash, a lot of the other titles left a lot to be desired. I mean, anyone remember 1-2-Switch? Well, following Nintendo‘s E3 presentation this week, that criticism is no longer a concern.
2019-6-13 17:14 | |
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After dominating the streaming video arena, Netflix is set to dip its toes into gaming. At E3 last night, the company announced it’s going to make video games based on its popular original shows, starting with its hit 80s-themed horror series, Stranger Things.
2019-6-13 09:25 | |
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Nintendo showed off a sneak peek this year of an upcoming game — and not just its usual in the glut of “latest installments” in the Pokemon, Animal Crossing, and Mario franchises. No, we’re getting a sequel — an actual sequel — to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
2019-6-12 23:29 | |
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Nintendo today revealed more about its upcoming RPG,& Shield on today’s Direct presentation, including its release date. We now know the game’s release date, and it’s right in the November sweet spot, squished into a release window with long-awaited Kojima wtfery Death Stranding and the first single-player Star Wars release in ages.
2019-6-6 22:40 | |
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Nintendo revealed today it was adding Labo VR support for Smash Bros. Now don’t go getting all lathered up yet. It’s not as extensive as you think — though it’s still pretty nifty for those who want to join two of Nintendo‘s most interesting toys together.
2019-6-1 22:43 | |
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Microsoft and Sony, makers of the eternally-competing Xbox and PlayStation consoles, respectively, today announced they were partnering up to find “joint development of future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure to support their respective game and content-streaming services.
2019-5-17 03:09 | |
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With no great fanfare, a new mobile game called Pokemon Rumble Rush was announced this week. Rumble Rush is the latest in the Rumble series (called Pokemon Scramble in Japan), a lesser spin-off of the main Pokemon games that’s basically a beat-em-up involving chibi versions of your favorite pocket monsters.
2019-5-16 23:31 | |
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Nintendo is preparing to offer up its next mobile game, and rumor has it the company is hoping this one will be a gold mine. Given the franchise it’s from — and what Nintendo has done adapting its less well-known series — it probably will be.
2019-4-25 20:11 | |
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No one expected the Labo. Nintendo’s cardboard-based contraptions for its Switch are the sort of thing only the Japanese game giant could do. I mean, could you imagine Microsoft coming out with an arts-and-craft set that lets you turn the Xbox into a piano? Nah, me neither.
2019-4-11 15:03 | |
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Nintendo is working on two variants of its popular Switch game console, and aims to unveil them this summer. According to the outlet’s sources who have used both devices, they’re apparently not just ‘Lite’ and ‘Pro’ versions of the existing Switch, but are more varied than that.
2019-3-25 12:03 | |
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Cuphead is the latest hit indie game to make its way to Nintendo’s Switch — and it’s bringing Xbox Live with it, piggyback-style. While Microsoft has put forth tentative plans to bring Live to Switch, iOS, and Android, Cuphead will be the first actual game to carry it over, meaning we’ll finaAmerica (@NintendoAmerica) March 20, 2019 Microsoft teased plans to bring Xbox Live to… This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Xbox,Nintendo
2019-3-21 21:58 | |
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PlayStation‘s Japanese store recently marked the PS Vita as scheduled for discontinuation (soon), as we all suspected it would. Now seems like the perfect time to remember what it contributed to the transformation of gaming hardware — namely, the co-mingling of handheld and stationary game consoles, a.
2019-2-20 01:12 | |
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When Nintendo launched Switch some years back, it seemed the Japanese game had found a worthy successor to the Wii. The company cut its forecast for annual Switch shipments for the fiscal year from 20 million units to 17 million, an indication that the hybrid console might be struggling to acquire new users.
2019-2-3 12:44 | |
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The numbers for 2018 are coming in, and it appears the video game industry is getting along just fine. The year turned out to be an alright one for the industry, and it upends predictions that the focus on revisiting older games via remasters and nostalgic re-releases would put a crimp on things — namely, um, my own prediction.
2019-2-1 03:08 | |
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The numbers for 2018 are coming in, and it appears the video game industry is getting along just fine. The year turned out to be an alright one for the industry, and it upends predictions that the focus on revisiting older games via remasters and nostalgic re-releases would put a crimp on things — namely, um, my own prediction.
2019-2-1 03:08 | |
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The group says it wants to promote blockchain tech in video games and help smaller game developers compete on a global scale.
2019-1-18 00:25 | |
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If you’ve never played Rocket League before, there’s now a good reason to give it a go: the massively popular soccer-with-RC-cars game has just introduced full cross-platform play across every modern OS and console – including the Nintendo Switch – so you can team up with players regardless of what system they own.
2019-1-15 11:09 | |
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Nintendo today revealed the Switch has now sold over 8. 7 million units at the 21-month mark in the US, more than both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One did when they were the same “age. ” Given how little we know about the sales of at least one of the consoles past that mark, this might be the last time we get to compare the three reliably.
2018-12-19 02:24 | |
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The Nintendo Switch added another indie feather to its cap this week with the release of and activating beacons to cleanse polluted sections. I couldn’t tell you why — in that classic short indie game fashion, the game doesn’t deliver its story directly, opting to use environmental cues and visual markers in order… This story continues at The Next Web
2018-11-30 21:00 | |
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We’re all eager to get our hands on the new Super Smash Bros. It looks like it’s going to be an amazing trip down memory lane in beat-em-up wrapping, especially as we’re getting so many new characters to play with.
2018-11-27 00:49 | |
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I played a lot of video games when I was a teenager. I have fond memories of hours dedicated to the pixelated missions of the likes of Zelda and Mario Bros on my family’s Nintendo Entertainment System.
2018-11-20 15:42 | |
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Is maths cool? It’s a question that has plagued philosophers for centuries. For every hip cat like Einstein, there are thousands of math teachers who ruin numbers for everyone. Luckily though, there are some stars out there, such as the person who worked out the maths behind the dice rolls in Nintendo‘s new Switch game, Super Mario Party.
2018-10-8 12:50 | |
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Nintendo has filed a patent for something that appears to be a case that turns your phone into a Game Boy — functioning buttons and all. The patent, discovered by Siliconera, shows a shell casing for a phone that covers all but a small portion of the upper screen.
2018-10-6 20:08 | |
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Like any Nintendo fan, Chris Taylor is stoked for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Chris, though, isn’t sure he’ll live long enough to see the game hit shelves on December 7. Taylor was first diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, about three years ago.
2018-9-22 02:55 | |
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Nintendo confirmed over the weekend that Fortnite, the planet’s collective mania of the moment, would not require a Nintendo Switch Online subscription in order for players to indulge in their battle royale antics.
2018-9-17 21:01 | |
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Your favorite mustachioed duo, Mario and Luigi, are back with "Mario & Luigi: Brothership," the latest chapter in their legendary saga
A new Harvest Moon game called "One World" will be released this fall. Let's look at what makes this installment different from the rest. The post Harvest Moon: One World Game Is Coming – What Makes It so Special? appeared first on CCN.com
Nintendo has made many strange choices, but their friend codes are the most outdated of them all. A leaked presentation shows their flawed reasoning. The post Nintendo Is Stuck in the Past – Their Logic Behind Friend Codes Proves It appeared first on CCN.com
Nintendo is being sued again, and it's by that same company that thinks their phone controllers are being copied somehow by the Switch. The post Ridiculous Nintendo Switch Lawsuit to Ban U.S Imports Goes Full Stupid appeared first on CCN.com
Animal Crossing: New Horizons elitists are taking issue with a longtime gimmick. This "scandal" has never been more pointless. The post Animal Crossing Purists Have a Stupid Beef with New Horizons appeared first on CCN.com
Borderlands Collection is finally making it's way to the Nintendo Switch, but if you buy the physical copy, you're in for a nasty surprise. The post Borderlands Collection Falls Prey to Infuriating Switch Port Trend appeared first on CCN.com
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is exactly what we need to fight the despair and loneliness of our seemingly-endless coronavirus quarantines. The post Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Exactly What We Need to Fight Coronavirus Despair appeared first on CCN.com