photo: Michael San Diego (Shutterstock) A big question about the Switch 2 has just been answered. While everyone (at least in the US) sits in front of the TV watching the results of the 2024 election, Nintendo has officially confirmed that its next gaming console will be backwards compatible with the Switch. The Week in ...
In 2010 a group of Halo 2 Diehards called “Noble 14” remained logged in to the multiplayer shooter For weeks after Microsoft shut down online servers for the original Xbox on April 14th. The service’s final player was Apache N4SIR, which finally launched just after midnight on May 11th. Fourteen years later, a group of ...
Picture: Infinite Case / Secret Laboratory It’s Pride Month, which means there are gay flags everywhere. This also applies to the Nintendo eShop, although you might have to look a little closer to find it. In the Featured section, scroll down for a while and you’ll see that someone has quietly snuck in a rainbow ...
screenshot: youtube Nintendo’s decision Close both the Wii U and 3DS eShops may make good business sense for the company, but for fans and lovers of video game history, it is catastropheas feared Many of the removed games will disappear and never be seen or made available again. Why game archivists fear the 3DS/Wii U ...
Picture: Spike Chunsoft Sometimes, The games announced or presented on a Nintendo Direct are the same in the West as they are in Japan. Sometimes it’s not until you turn back and watch the Japanese video that you realize it has news about a new summer vacation game. The Boku no Natsuyasumi Series, which has ...
picture: Nintendo/Disney/Kotaku The Nintendo Switch certainly feels like its time is coming to an end. Six years old this year, it was already a technological generation behind when it was released, and there’s no question that it’s increasingly having trouble running the games it hosts. Despite all of this, and despite the rise of the ...
picture: Nintendo The organizers of the Smash World Tour have today announced that they will be shut down after Nintendo told them “without warning” that they “could no longer operate”. The tripwhich is operated by a third party (since Nintendo has traditionally been so bad at it) had become one over the years of the ...
picture: Nintendo / Kotaku In years past, this would have been the week for the big annual Nintendo Direct in June, but in 2022 the Mario manufacturer is nowhere to be seen so far. However, according to a Sony Santa Monica writer, the company could still plan to end the month with some kind of ...
image: Nintendo Nintendo’s decision to close its Wii U and 3DS stores has been met with widespread criticismnot for the closures themselves—this always happens to old hardware—but for the way it has once again reminded the world of how terribly Nintendo handles access to its back catalogue, easily the most beloved (and valuable) in the ...
image: Nintendo In a post titled “Wii U & Nintendo 3DS eShop Discontinuation”Nintendo just announced that in March 2023 the online storefronts for both systems will be ceasing operations. But in a practical sense the closures will begin a lot sooner than that: – As of May 23, 2022, it will no longer be possible ...
