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Nintendo Hypes Splatoon 3 And More As Labor Complaints Continue

picture: Nintendo / MobyGames / Kotaku It’s been nearly a month since a former employee filed a National Labor Relations Board complaint against Nintendo alleging surveillance, coercion, and retaliation. Outside of an initial statement denying the company engaged in union-busting, the house of Mario has remained publicly silent in the face of an increasing number […]

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Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope Still On Track For 2022 Release

Image: Nintendo, Ubisoft In July last year, Ubisoft and Nintendo revealed Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope – a sequel to the 2017 tactical turn-based Switch release Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Last we heard, the game was “coming 2022”, and it seems it’s still on track. In the French company’s latest earnings report, Sparks […]

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Apple Discontinues iPod, Mobile Gaming Icon, After 22 Years

photo: justin sullivan (Getty Images) Pour one out for every kid who one-strapped a backpack in middle school, as they’re likely in mourning today. With Apple’s discontinuation of the 7th-generation iPod Touch, announced yesterdayit’s official: the iPod is dead. Ostensibly, the iPod was a music device, meant to digitize song libraries and move listeners away […]

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Nintendo Says It Wants To Avoid A Repeat Of Wii U With Switch’s Successor

Image: Nintendo Since Nintendo announced its financial results yesterday — where it revealed that the Switch has now sold more than 107 million units worldwide, and predicted that profits would again drop in the next financial year — there’s been an awful lot of chatter about a Switch successor, hasn isn’t there? In a Japanese […]

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Pokemon Legends Arceus Outsells Classics, Proves Risks Pay Off

screenshot: Nintendo According to the fiscal report that Nintendo released today, Pokémon Legends: Arceus sold 12.64 million units last year. While it doesn’t usurp Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and shining pearl‘s combined sales figure of 14.65 million, it’s nevertheless impressive for an original title that deviated so far from every mainline game in the series. legends […]

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As Switch Hardware Sales Slow, How Long Can Nintendo Delay ‘Switch 2’?

Image: Nintendo Life / Zion Grassl Nintendo’s report for the 2021/22 financial year dropped today, and while Switch continues to sell well and software sales are looking healthy, signs that enthusiasm for the five-year-old system is beginning to ebb are also apparent. To be clear, the results present a far from gloomy outlook for the […]

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Internet Hero Blows Up On TikTok For Saving Poor Nintendogs

picture: Nintendo / BennyPVideos / Kotaku Last month, Ben was riding on the last train home from a concert, when he spotted an odd little black object on the floor. It turned out to be a left-behind nintendogs DS game cartridge. After getting back home, he got it to work and discovered two lost pups […]

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This Adorable Hand-Sculpted Pikachu Also Charges Your iPhone

Wireless charging’s best feature is simply being a more convenient way to power up devices without having to struggle to find and plug in a cable, right? But why settle for a boring puck sitting on your nightstand when Twitter’s Yoshirin Nendo you have shown us that wireless chargers can be far more creative and […]

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Random: Switch Console Sales Outstrip The Poor Wii U’s Total Software Sales

Image: Nintendo Life Nintendo’s latest financial results demonstrate strong sales for the Switch, despite a 20% drop YoY as a result of semiconductor shortages. With a total of 107.65 million Switch units sold, the console is inching ever closer to the lifetime sales of the Game Boy and the Nintendo DS. Just to highlight its […]