Nintendo's president is still on the mend.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata will miss this week’s annual shareholders meeting due to his ongoing recovery from surgery to remove a growth from his bile duct, according to a letter to shareholders put forth by Iwata.

The surgery was necessitated when the growth was discovered during a routine... Read more...

Maybe one day though.

The famed game designer Shigeru Miyamoto believes dual Wii U GamePad experiences are possible, but aren't likely to happen at this point in time.

In an interview with IGN, Miyamoto stated, "Certainly as we've been working on Wii U, I think we're at a point where we don't feel it's realistic to... Read more...

The 2DS-centric Nintendo showcase will set up for weekend-long stays in a different city each week.

Play Nintendo Tour 2014, a traveling family-friendly event highlighting the 2DS and a selection of its most well-regarded titles, has begun. The tour will stop in a different city every weekend up through September 1.

The event seems to focus on the 2DS as an ideal entry point for gamers of all ages, and some of the most popular titles available on that system will be playable, including the following:

Get to all your favorite shows faster and easier.

A new update has been released for the built-in Wii U application Nintendo TVii that brings multiple new features to the app.

Now with a dynamic home screen, you can switch to any program that is on by simply tapping the icon of the show, as opposed to changing the channel manually. There is also... Read more...

A GLA-Class kart is expected to be available for download this summer.

Nintendo is distributing Mario Kart 8 DLC in the form of a downloadable kart modeled after the Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class.

This DLC was announced for Japan the day before the game’s release, but has now been confirmed for other territories via the Twitter accounts for Nintendo of America and Europe.... Read more...

You will be able to Splatoon by yourself or with a friend.

Splatoon will have single-player and multiplayer modes, according to an interview with the game's project lead, Tsubasa Sakaguchi, and Producer Hisashi Nogami. Additionally, the game will be coming out in the first half of 2015 as a full retail product.

In regards to this revelation, Nogami stated the following:

Start your summer off with some dodge ball of the Super variety!

So we took a week off from E3 to focus on that event, and now that we’re back you’d think that things would be a bit slow, right? Wrong! A large amount of games have been released across not only the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, but even the Nintendo DS! Nothing major, but seeing that all three systems... Read more...

And more on the way.

Harvest Moon 2 and Lufia: The Legend Returns are coming soon to the 3DS eShop, according to Natsume's official Twitter.

Recently Natsume posted an image from their E3 pamphlet detailing their digital offerings for the Nintendo 3DS, with Harvest Moon and Lufia listed as "coming soon." The company... Read more...

You have to work for this update.

Wii Fit U update version 1.3.0 was released on June 18, adding new courses, automation, and more to the game.

There are a total of twelve new courses both for the Walking Challenge and Climbing Challenges. The courses let players walk and climb around different areas of the world to to discover cultural and historical information. Completing these new courses will unlock new headgear for your Mii.

An independent game just in time for Independence Day.

Armillo now has a firm date of July 3 for its release on the Wii U eShop, developer Fuzzy Wuzzy Games has announced.

The game has been in development for three and a half years and has seen its debut delayed multiple times, but it's now locked in for both America and Europe with a special introductory price of $6.00/€4.50 during its first three weeks on the eShop. After that, it will bump up to its regular price of $8.00/€6.00.

Well if a Wii U version won't sell, I guess a Wii version will!

FIFA 15 is making its way to the Wii and 3DS, though no version for the Wii U.

While FIFA 15 for "next-gen" systems has multiple new features to set itself apart from previous entries, the Wii and 3DS versions most likely only have an updated roster as their selling point. The press release states... Read more...

Free games for the kids from the kids.

Four games from last year’s Nintendo Game Seminar are set to be released on the Wii U eShop on June 19. The games, which will be hitting Nintendo’s online store for free, were crafted by two teams of students in Tokyo and two teams of students in Osaka.

The game crafted by Tokyo’s Team... Read more...

The lucky students who get in will be crafting 2D games using Unity for Wii U.

Registration for the 2014 Nintendo Game Seminar opened up in Japan this week. Interested parties have until June 29 to send in their applications. Afterward, the top 28 applicants—14 from the Kansai area and 14 from the Kanto area—will be chosen to participate in the seminar from late August to late March 2015.

It opens the possibility for an outside source to take over the majority of stock.

Capcom shareholders announced yesterday that they have voted to end their takeover defense, allowing the possibility of a takeover.

Gamasutra notes that most companies have defense blocks that disallow stock majority takeovers. However, with Capcom dropping this, these defenses have been lifted. They've originally instituted such defenses since a 2008 vote. The company's board could still opt to vote for a new plan.

#2 and #9, respectively.

The NPD Group released their numbers for May, with Mario Kart 8 and Kirby: Triple Deluxe charting.

For the two days it was out in May, Mario Kart 8 managed to take the #2 spot. Kirby: Triple Deluxe, which was released at the beginning of May, came in at #9. The number one game of the month was... Read more...

The company is having internal discussions about what to do with the series and wants to serve fans of both traditional and Prime styles of play.

Nintendo is talking about what to do next with the Metroid series and hopes to have news to share on that front soon, according to a Kotaku E3 interview with Nintendo Software Planning & Development head Shinya Takashi.

When asked about the current status of the series, Takashi said, “So... Read more...

Nintendo's Tezuka reveals some interesting tidbits on the origins of Mario Maker.

Before becoming Mario Maker, Nintendo originally intended to make a Mario Paint title on the Wii U leveraging the GamePad, Takashi Tezuka revealed to us in an interview.

It isn’t clearly stated whether or not the idea was anything more than a concept, however. Tezuka stated that partway through,... Read more...

A mismatch of talent came together to help construct the new Wii U title.

Mario Maker is being developed by a team consisting of many different members from other internal Nintendo groups, Takashi Tezuka revealed to us in an interview. Originally, the Mario course tools team came up with the concept, but when it was turned into a game, this new team was created to tackle the project.

And you thought your GamePad was already greasy.

Toys featuring the characters from Mario Kart 8 for Wii U are headed to McDonald’s Happy Meals for the month of July.

The toys feature Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Toad, Peach, Donkey Kong and Yoshi, as well as a Mario themed visor. These toys will be a part of a gender-split happy meal, being the boy focused version.

We might see more than just the original Mario Bros. and NSMB skins in the final version of the game.

Art assets from other Super Mario Bros. games, such as Super Mario Bros. USA, Super Mario 3, and Super Mario World are being considered to be implemented into Mario Maker, Takashi Tezuka revealed to us in an interview. While Tezuka could make no promises, he went on to say that the development team is considering the use of different skins in the the game but currently are not sure which ones they are going to use in the final version.