No impact on the financials for now.

Pokémon Go is making a great deal of money, but according to Nintendo it will not provide a material impact on their financials for now.

In a statement issued ahead of this Wednesday's first quarter financial results, Nintendo has stated the release will have a minor impact on their financials... Read more...

The charts giveth, and the charts taketh away.

The NPD sales charts for June have some new data, but the Nintendo data remained steady.

In the combined formats top 10, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens was the #3 best seller combined on all consoles, and the best selling new release of June. Minecraft, which had its WIi U physical release in... Read more...

It's a nightmare to play against.

The arcade version of Pokkén Tournament is still getting updates, including a brand new character.

Mythical Pokémon Darkrai was added to the game in a special summer update this past Friday, which also added Garchomp, Braixen and Shadow Mewtwo plus additional modes and tutorials. This brings the total roster for the game to fifteen playable Pokémon.

The answer to the ultimate question of freshness.

Following two days of brutal ink combat, the final Splatfest results are in.

Team Marie 360, Team Callie 340 (54-46, 51-49) At Kelp Dome, the Callie side came just short of flipping a popularity defecit in the final worldwide Splatfest competition. Regional breakdowns of the worldwide Splatfest were not available. With the win, Marie went 4-3 in 2016 in North America and Japan, and 3-4 in Europe/Australia.

Slate your action adventure itch before the year is out.

The Wii U launched with a Darksiders game, and it will go out with one.

Nordic Games confirmed the legitimacy of retail listings for a Wii U version of the 2010 PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 game, with a release date sometime in the 4th quarter of this year (Oct-Dec), at the Gamepolis event in Spain this weekend. The port will release along remastered releases for the PS4 and Xbox One, and will be both a physical and eShop release.

Sega has released a trailer for a follow-up to Sonic Generations, announced for platforms including the Nintendo NX. UPDATED with a statement from the producer.

Friday night during the Sonic 25th Anniversary Party, Sega revealed a new 3D Sonic game, known simply as Project Sonic 2017. The published teaser trailer is an edited cutscene that shows "Classic" and "Modern" Sonic teaming up. It appears that the new game is taking cues from Sonic Generations, a... Read more...

Fast blasting, high scoring and ties!

One part of Metroid Prime: Federation Force has just dropped on the eShop.

The Blast Ball multiplayer game is available now as a free download. First shown at the 2015 Nintendo World Championships, the 3-on-3 multiplayer game was later revealed to be a side part of Federation Force. The demo will support online servers until the full game releases on August 19 (NA)/2 September (Europe).

The rare non-VC New 3DS exclusive appears this week.

Following a week of major action on the retail front, it's back to eShop normalcy this week in North America. The headliners are New 3DS exclusive Wind-Up Knight 2, a game published by Unity intended to show that the engine can work on the (New) 3DS, and for North America a legitimately free game (no DLC) in Humanitarian Helicopter. UPDATE: Humanitarian Helicopter is $10/$12, despite the Nintendo website showing free.

The Wii digital software library continues to grow in Japan.

Ten more Wii titles are coming to the Wii U eShop over a five week period starting on July 27 in Japan. For My Nintendo account holders, Nintendo is offering 30 percent off of these games through coupons they will be sending out to email addresses associated with accounts. These coupons will start... Read more...

One of the best selling 3DS titles is going to grow like the weeds in the village.

New Leaf is going to stay fresh this fall with new amiibo card and figure support.

Nintendo of Europe has confirmed the additions will come to the 2013 release this fall in a free update. The Animal Crossing cards and figures will add their respective characters into the game, as well as select amiibo such as Callie and Marie.

Plus a training upgrade.

A group of new Pokémon have been announced for Sun and Moon, including localized names for a couple of Pokémon revealed in CoroCoro magazine.

The Pokemon known as Kiteruguma in Japan will be known as Bewear in English, while Mimikkyu will simply be Mimikyu. Bewear's "Fluffy" ability trades half... Read more...

RPGs to the left of me, cavemen to the right.

Hope you took last week off to sort through the backlog, because especially in North America it's another busy week. The 3DS, having not released an RPG for three months in North America which represents a lull this year, launched 7th Dragon III Code: VfD on Tuesday and will bring Monster Hunter Generations... Read more...

An official Nintendo Entertainment System with HDMI? What a time to be alive.

Nintendo will be releasing new hardware this November, but not what most expected.

The classic Nintendo Entertainment System will be reissued on November 11 in North America and Europe, with a suggested US MSRP of $59.99 (Australia $99.99). It will be a smaller version of the system that will come... Read more...

Update: Trainer account issue FIXED.

Pokémon Go can be updated to version 1.0.1 for iOS users today, hopefully solving the frequent crashes players have experienced.

The update focuses on stability improvements for trainers using an Apple device:

And Nintendo sees maybe 15% of that benefit.

A mobile intelligence group has confirmed that within a week, Niantic's Pokémon Go is the most adopted mobile game in US history.

SurveyMonkey Intelligence released the report estimating that the game is on track to surpass the likes of Snapchat in terms of mobile US userbase, and has already... Read more...

One for a big game, one for the size of the discount

Two big sales will be hitting Europe with their eShop update tomorrow.

To coincide with the launch of Pokémon Go in Europe, the Virtual Console releases of Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow will be 30% off from 14 - 28 July - for a sale price of €6.99.

Also coming with tomorrow's update is a massive... Read more...

The opening salvo includes three of the system's big guns.

North America's Virtual Console is adding another system back from the Wii.

TurboGrafx-16 titles, first revealed in ESRB ratings a few months ago, will come to the Wii U's Virtual Console tomorrow with the releases of Bonk's Adventure, R-Type and New Adventure Island. Much like the Wii pricing,... Read more...

The bear will provide thrills, chills, and faints.

A new trailer and this month's edition of Japan's CoroCoro magazine have revealed two more Pokémon to debut in Sun and Moon this November.

The two debutants are named Kiteruguma and Mimikkyu in Japanese. Kiteruguma is a large Normal/Fighting type who resembles a red panda, with the new ability... Read more...

Niantic's founder reveals his plans for the future of the game.

Trading has been confirmed as a planned feature of Pokémon Go, coming "fairly soon in the future" according to Niantic founder, John Hanke. In interviews with Game Informer and Business Insider, Hanke elaborated on the future improvements coming to the game.

He agreed that trading has always... Read more...

Some might call this week a cooldown.

This week represents a sea of calm in between the mass of insanity of the last couple of weeks and next week's double shot of the Year of the 3DS RPG. We have a small eShop collection from RCMADIAX that has both ice (SKEASY) and fire (VOLCANO), but no Knuckles. There's also a little fighting game imported from Europe in Steel Lords... but that's it.