The ride never ends!

Following last week's Nintendo Network maintenance, it appears there will be a second round tomorrow.

The Nintendo Network status page lists online play and leaderboards as down from 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET tomorrow to 7p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET, and the eShops, Wii Shopping Channel and DSiWare Shop as all down from 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET to the same end time.

A battle of real ultimate power will be coming soon.

Nintendo has announced the next Splatfest for North America, and the first post 2.2 competition will feature an important scoring change.

The competition will take place beginning at roughly 11:57 p.m. Eastern time on October 30 and cover all of Hallowe'en before ending at just after midnight Eastern on November 1. The teams will consist of pirates (Callie) against ninjas (Marie).

One of the best versions of a classic game releases as a download in time for Hallowe'en.

Resident Evil 4's Wii edition will come to Europe next week as a downloadable title.

Originally announced on the Nintendo of Europe Twitter feed this morning, the 2007 Wii re-release of the 2005 PlayStation 2/Gamecube title will launch for €19.99/£17.99 with a 20% discount for launch week.

The... Read more...

Great Scott! Can you beat Marty’s score?

In honor of Back to the Future Day, Nintendo has released Wild Gunman on the European Wii U Virtual Console. You might remember this as the game Marty McFly destroys when he travels to the distant and techno-heavy future of 2015 in Back to the Future Part II.

In place of the NES Zapper gun, players can use the Wii remote to play this “baby’s toy”.

Costumes and spooky games get you in the spirit of All Hallow's Eve.

North America’s got some big games on the menu this week, even if some of them aren’t on the eShop. The Wii U gets two Just Dance titles, Guitar Hero Live (though technically off-topic for our purposes since it's only available in stores) and Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, while the 3DS will... Read more...

So the Nintendo Network logo was legit after all.

Nintendo has announced the upcoming Mario Tennis Ultra Smash will feature online play and Amiibo support.

A recent fact sheet from Nintendo confirmed that the November 20 release will have support for online in both Mega Matches and standard tennis. Doubles matches will be supported with two players on the same Wii U, or with an Amiibo partner.

Looks like Europe is getting a baby's toy in time for Back to the Future Day.

Europe is adding to the Zapper love on the Wii U Virtual Console this week, while North America may be picking up a new platform soon.

The European downloads for this week include both Hogan's Alley and Wild Gunman, both NES games, for the Wii U. These would be two of the other Nintendo published... Read more...

Super Mario Maker off to a flying start.

Following a slight delay for database upgrades, the September US sales estimates are out from the NPD group and Super Mario Maker performed up to expectations.

The early September release sold approximately 445,000 copies in the US during the NPD reporting period (Sept 11 - Oct 3), and has sold... Read more...

At this point, they're giving it away.

Nintendo has announced a Yo-Kai Watch bundle just prior to the game's launch.

Starting on November 6, a bundle of a Nintendo 2DS and a preinstalled copy of the Level-5 developed RPG will launch for US$99.99, the current MSRP of the system.

Be sure to check out Josh Max's hands-on preview of the game from New York Comic-Con as well.

And a new hub for Nintendo developers opens.

Although Nintendo will not be talking about the NX platform until next year, sources indicate devkits are in the wild.

A report in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required; reproduction) has announced that the dev kits for the NX have been distributed to key partners. The article claims that the NX devices would use "industry-leading chips" for their processors, and that a mobile (handheld) and a TV console are both in development.

Even the Wii Shop is closing for a few hours. UPDATED October 16.

Nintendo has scheduled a full online maintenance for Monday North America time that will take all of the services offline for a few hours.

The maintenance is scheduled to take place from 1 p.m. Pacific (4 Eastern) to 5 p.m. Pacific (8 Eastern) on Monday, and will affect all of Nintendo's online... Read more...

Spoilers: You won't be unleashing the Kraken as much.

A major update for Splatoon is coming early next week, and it's bringing a whole host of balance changes.

The listed changes (PDF link) cover multiple weapon buffs and debuffs such as rollers needing to hit dead center for a one-hit splat, walk speed increases for the N-Zap line and adding additional Rainmaker shield damage to the Slosher line. Sub and Special weapons have come in for a nerf, most notably the Kraken.

Japan had their shot last weekend, North America's up. (UPDATE: Europe too, with a discount!)

Nintendo has begun emailing their newsletter mailing list in North America to send out codes for a private Zelda: Tri Force Heroes beta.

The beta times are scheduled for particular times this weekend, and the email gives one code to the recepient and two to give to friends to test the three-player game.

They say the News Editor’s heart grew three sizes that day.

After a head-scratching delay of an entire season and a bit, North America finally gets Yoshi’s Woolly World this week on the eShop as the headliner for Wii U. It’s also sold at a discount compared to regular Wii U titles because of the Yarn Yoshi Amiibo, which melt even this writer’s icy heart.... Read more...

One continent has a really tough call to make.

Europe and Australia might not see Yo-Kai Watch this year, but they have a new substitute.

Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of Australia have both confirmed their region's release dates for Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. The fusion RPG will release in Europe on 4 December, and Australia on 10 December.

Mostly for Japan, but there's a bunch of potential Virtual Console candidates.

The game listing that showed Twilight Princess HD also revealed a large quantity of games for the Wii U Virtual Console as well.

Some of the game titles were translated, but a translation on the NeoGAF message board shows multiple games with Japan region tags and a few with European tags. Some of the games have already come out in other territories as well.

Coincides nicely with a late night concert.

An icon has been unearthed on the eShop that doesn't point to an existing game but could be a sign of a remake coming soon to the Wii U eShop.

A hacker recently unearthed an icon on the Wii U eShop for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The icon does not point to anything downloadable on the eShop, and does not have the traditional icon used for Wii games on Virtual Console of the title screen with a white border.

Time to try your hand at Jibanyan and company on October 22. (UPDATED)

If you're curious about the Yo-Kai Watch phenomenon and live in North America, take heart that a demo has been announced..

The surprise announcement was sent out on Nintendo's Twitter feed this afternoon and claimed that the demo would be available immediately, however it was not on the eShop as of 5:15 Eastern time. Details about transfer to the full game and file size are still pending as well.

And we're talking directly, not "buy our PS4 musou game to get the RPGs you want".

It might be obvious soon just what the cost of a localization is, if SquareEnix's plans for localization come to fruition.

In an interview with Game Informer, SquareEnix Europe CEO Phil Rogers spoke of a desire to crowdfund some localizations of games. "I think that is a partnership that can be... Read more...

If you're going to go full cinematic universe you might as well go all out.

It won't just be the Avengers duology represented in LEGO Marvel's Avengers.

A panel for the title was held at New York Comic Con in which it was announced that the game would include story elements from six Marvel Studios films in the LEGO style. In addition to the Avengers films, the following movies will be represented: