Wario's Game Boy Roots Explain Nintendo's Musk Discomfort
Elon Musk in a Wario suit should have been forgotten by lunchtime. Five years later, two of Nintendo's former senior marketing leads are still…
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Miyamoto Claims He Hates Toad — His Mario Kart Picks Say Otherwise
Shigeru Miyamoto told Entertainment Weekly back in 2012 that Toad was his least favorite Mario Kart character. Then, between 2014 and 2015, cameras…
A Second Wii U Flop Could Have Sent Japan's Gamers to PC
Picture a 2026 where Nintendo ships PC ports and the Switch never happened. That's the alternate timeline Dr Serkan Toto, CEO of the Tokyo-based…
Super Mario Sunshine on Switch 2: Save States Fix It
Super Mario Sunshine is finally playable on a handheld without hunting down a GameCube, a memory card, and a CRT that still turns on. It's live on…
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's Free Patch Is Nintendo's Switch 2 Play
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has now outlived two console generations' worth of its own sequels, and Nintendo just handed the 14-year-old game a…
That One Coin Just Reset Every Mario Kart 8 World Record
Nintendo snuck a tiny line into the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe patch notes that sounds administrative: player speed has been increased by the equivalent of…
Mario Kart 8's Switch 2 Update Leaves World in the Dust
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, first released on Wii U in 2014, just received its most significant Switch 2 update to date. Version 4.0.0 delivers clearer…
Best Nintendo Switch 2 Games So Far, Ranked for Handheld Play
Switch 2 has been out for over a year, and IGN just collected every first-party game it scored 8 or higher. The list runs from Donkey Kong Bananza to…
Switch 2's $500 Price Hike Comes With Two New Bundles
The Switch 2's second year is starting with a $50 sting. Nintendo confirmed the console's base price will jump from $450 to $500, and to soften that…
SNES Classics on Switch: 10 Games That Shine on Handheld
The Super Nintendo's 16-bit era is a natural fit for handheld play: tight level design, no load times, and a rhythm that suits both five-minute…
Wii Remote Joycons for Switch 2 Are Real—and Handhelds Win
Gaming's greatest magic wand just got a second life on Nintendo's newest handheld. Modder Kouzex has torn down original Wii Remotes and Switch 2…
Nintendo's Weirdest Games, Judged for Handheld Play
Ask a docked player to rank Nintendo's most baffling releases and you'll get a list of punchlines: the forgotten 1-2 Switch sequel, the Animal…