Nintendo started a global retweet event with a goal of having 10,000 global retweets by tomorrow at 6:59pm PT, but the event practically only needed minutes to be completed.
One reason, and one reason ONLY that it needs to remain on handhelds: Public guest wifi typically uses a login web page that you need to access even if you can connect to the point itself. My Vita can do this at work but my 3DS (even though it has a browser) cannot.
In an interview published this week, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima told Time that the Switch won’t have an internet browser at launch, which made me wonder: Do people really use console internet browsers?
Especially now that FE Heroes is out, Pokemon GO and Mario Run are nothing put fleeting afterthoughts to me. Better luck next year with the Animal Crossing one.
For a moment, I ask you to take a deep breath and reflect on the unsolved mysteries of the games industry. Where is Half Life 3?Who is Wario, really? Why won’t Pokémon Go’s developers actually add the features the game so desperately needs?
Summoning five star characters in Fire Emblem Heroes’s horny casino is rare. While you can promote weaker characters, the mechanic is a terrible grind.
In the West, Shigesato Itoi is most famous as the guy who made the Mother games. But in Japan, his main job has been copywriting, including penning taglines for Studio Ghibli movies.
Holy Shit… I had a thought that “What if Donald Trump attacked animals too? What would happen?” And then immediately thought “Ok, not even he could be stupid enough to hurt animals. We already know there’s enough racists to forgive him… sadly… but people will protect animals…” And yet… Is he actually just going “Not enough people hate me. What else can I do?”
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Rihga Royal Hotel in Osaka has nine pairs of edible men’s shoes. They come in three different shades of leather (er, chocolate) and look like real shoes.
The Sapporo Snow Festival is now underway in Japan’s northern most prefecture Hokkaido. One of this year’s main sculptures is Final Fantasy VII themed, featuring Cloud and Sephiroth.
Reading about stupid "problems" like these makes my head hurt.
When I first moved to Japan at the turn of the century, I was told that noodle lovers need not fret about making slurping sounds while eating. Among some, that attitude is changing. There is now concern over “noodle harassment.”
Meet “VR Sense.” This is a Koei Tecmo’s dedicated VR arcade cabinet. It won’t only have VR headsets, but is equipped to respond to all five senses, including smell and touch.
by Hannah Keyser on Deadspin, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku
I went to the set of this year’s annual Puppy Bowl, and I made sure to bring a camera. The more I type, the more you’ll have to scroll past to see the baby animals, so I’ll cut that shit out.
>Doesn't release the last three Smash Bros amiibo, continued to make it a royal pain in the ass to obtain new ones >Wonders why sales have plummeted
While Nintendo made some bank by selling over 1.5 million units of the NES Classic Edition, their amiibo figures and download sales saw a big decline in the past fiscal year.
Splatoon 2 will have voice chat. According to Nintendo, it will use “smart-devices and the ability to bring eight Nintendo Switch systems together for eight-person local multiplayer.”
jesus fucking christ, STILL doing this shit, Gamestop?
Have you gone to GameStop over the past few months and tried to buy a new game? Have they told you that it’s not in stock? They may simply be lying to you, fueled by a new program that discourages GameStop salespeople from selling unopened copies of video games.
In October, 16-year-old Smash 4 champion Leonardo Perez (“MK Leo”) vowed to claim first prize at Genesis 4, an international Smash tournament in San Jose, California. Perez, whose 16th birthday landed on the tournament’s opening day earlier this month, arrived from Naucalpan, Mexico City a few days prior to practice…
Not to take away from that achievement, but they most certainly did not spend that amount of time or thought on first-aid animations. I'd almost rather they do the spray-on stuff from previous games than this hilarious "dump an entire bottle of liquid on your hand" gesture.
You know what’s scary? A closed door. Anything could be on the other side of that door, man. Are you sure you even want to open it?
Final Fantasy VII released on this day 20 years ago in Japan for the PlayStation, and Kingdom Hearts’ official Twitter account uploaded a new Kingdom Hearts III screenshot to celebrate.
Square Enix is hosting their special Final Fantasy 30th anniversary event today, where they showed off a new key visual for Final Fantasy VII Remake featuring Cloud and Sephiroth.
Animal Crossing’s first smartphone game was expected to release sometime around Fire Emblem Heroes, the game that it was revealed with, but it looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer.
Back in November there were rumors going left and right about Nintendo ending the Wii U console’s production, but the company has officially ended its production in Japan.
