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Abandoned Miis come back in a homebrew Wii game
Janne Schimmel and Rein van der Woerd pulled forgotten avatars off secondhand Nintendo consoles
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The Nintendo Switch wants to be your new, favorite stalker
Cue the establishing shot: a suburban home at night. Its window drapes are open. In the distance, a skyline looms over the horizon like a mountain peak. Inside, a man sits in the dim glow of a television. He’s slouched low, pushed back by the emanations. The marketing rhetoric leans into classic ent
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Pneuma has things to say. Don’t listen to them.
I babble, therefore I am
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What We’ve Lost: Nintendo In Iwata’s Words
The man who gave us our first real glimpse behind Nintendo’s iron curtain.
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Simogo thanks Iwata by returning the gift of whimsy and play
Thank you, Satoru Iwata.
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Super Smash Bros. for 3DS is not a videogame-it’s a galaxy
How deep will you get sucked in?
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Miyamoto: Virtual reality is "in direct contrast with what it is we’re trying to achieve"
When it comes to the console space, Nintendo’s mantra is making games that bring people together face-to-face. We’ve seen that with the Wii U and its Gamepad, the Wii in general, and the 4-player docks of Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. So virtual reality presents a quandary for the quality face time soug
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Oculus Rift + Kinect + Wii Balance Board = hoverboard ride of your dreams
Just when you thought your childhood dream of hoverboarding would never materialize … Enter: project Hoverboard VR, a virtual reality setup that simulates those bodacious fictional levitating skateboards of the ’90s. Jiggered together from gaming peripherals that don’t get out much these days, the s
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Nintendo’s Iwata talks making fun, non-videogame-related appliances
Remarks by Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata have again made us wonder what kind of bat-shit crazy mystery device the Japanese gaming giant is working on. Interviewing with a Japanese outlet, he strongly suggested that their secretive “quality of life” project, which they announced back in January,
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SXPD is part digital comic, part racing game, all very pretty
The trouble with reading digital comics if you also play games is that you’re always choosing between, say, playing Hearthstone or reading Fables on your tablet. SXPD, as we see in this 30 seconds of footage, asks, “Why limit yourself to one or the other when you can do both?” The offering is not so
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Controllers Controlled
A roundtable with Nicolas Nova, Aram Sinnreich, and Tracy Fullerton on what the thing in our hands does to the way we play.