picture: Nintendo / MobyGames / Kotaku It was nice almost a month since a former employee filed a National Labor Relations Board complaint against Nintendo for surveillance, coercion and retaliation. Aside from an initial statement the company denied being involved in any anti-union activity, the House of Mario has remained publicly silent in the face ...
photo: SOPA images (Getty Images) Today in his annual profit statement, Nintendo cited the ongoing chip shortage as the reason for a steep annual decline in Switch hardware sales… while saying in the same breath that the company’s goals were being met. Well, technically. During Nintendo’s fiscal 2022, which began last April and ran through ...
In 2009, THQ pulled off a publicity stunt plating a Nintendo Wii in 24k gold and attempting to deliver it to Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty never really got his hands on the console, but now, after over a year of auction hijinx, maybe you can. I actually wrote about this last yearwhen the console ...
photo: Luke Plunkett You’ll have seen a lot of Reggie Fils-Aime news lately. The man has a book out that tells stories about the notoriously secretive video game industry, so that’s to be expected. Much of it is instructive, some of it emotionallysometimes even a little puzzling. However, one section simply has me upset. It’s ...
screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku REST IN PEACE Wii sports. There are only ten pins in bowling. Boxing is gone. The most awaited mode – Golf – isn’t even available yet. But perhaps the most egregious crime committed by Nintendo Switch Sports So it completely marginalizes Miis, the lovable avatars created by weird players that have ...
screenshot: Nintendo That’s how I know Nintendo Switch Sports is a good party game: I hate my friends now. It’s one thing to lose a typical local multiplayer game, a smashed or Soul Calibur or what do you have. It’s quite another thing to keep getting beat the lights out of your body with a ...
If you have never heard of My family showit means you You probably haven’t visited this page in Aprilsince the exhibition debuted in 2005 We covered his annual showcase of incredible cartridge art. Japanese game store Meteor is home to the gallery, which each year invites both local and international artists to submit designs for ...
picture: Sony Combined at Sony PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now in June, the new most expensive tier will be $18 per month and include time-limited trials. But most games currently don’t have such demos. To fix this in the future, game developer reports now Sony will require all developers of games with a wholesale price ...
picture: Sony Any PC gamer among you, or even more serious Xbox owners (who have had this for years) will be familiar with a technology called Variable Refresh Rate or VRR, a feature that permitted “a dynamic display refresh rate that can vary continuously and seamlessly on the fly.” This feature is coming to PS5 ...
photo: Gabe Ginsberg (Getty Images) If you live east of the Mississippi and have ever had to send your Switch to Nintendo for Joy-Con drift, then it’s definitely gone through a single repair shop in Syracuse, New York. Although Nintendo handled the process for filing repairs, the actual work was done by a company called ...
