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Mario Golf: Super Rush’s centerpiece feature looks to be Speed Golf, a blend of real-world speed golf gimmick events with Mario Kart inspired power-ups. The mode gets a 90-second closeup out of a five-minute overview trailer Nintendo published Monday morning. In Speed Golf, all players tee off at once, and are racing to finish the hole the fastest. Obviously, this […]
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Wurmple is one of the earliest critters you can capture in New Pokémon Snap, though it takes some serious work to see it do anything special on that opening level. I’d know; I spent hours trying to figure out when and where, exactly, the bug-type monster appears lying on the ground, blank eyes staring straight into the sky. This peculiar […]
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Nintendo and toymaker Build-A-Bear will release a new collection of Animal Crossing: New Horizons-themed stuffed animals on Tuesday, April 6. Build-A-Bear announced the release date on Monday with little notice and did not share what the new Animal Crossing line will actually consist of when it goes on sale. Animal Crossing fans will get a preview of the new Build-A-Bear […]
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A copy of Super Mario Bros. for NES just sold for $660,000 at auction, making it the highest-priced video game collectible ever. The previous record holder was the prototype Nintendo Play Station, which sold through Heritage Auctions in 2020 for $360,000. That outlandish price is more than four times the previous record holder for a video game: a copy of […]
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Fortnite fans will finally be able to buy Joy-Cons that match their favorite game, Nintendo and Epic announced today. The Fortnite-themed Nintendo Switch controllers — featuring a blue and yellow color scheme, with a banana face around the home button on the yellow side — will launch on June 4. The Fortnite Joy-Cons also come with some in-game goodies. The […]
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When it comes to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, there’s no greater threat to the crown than an opponent holding a fearsome blue shell. But the latest speedrunning sensation for the Nintendo Switch racing game doesn’t just embrace the blue shell — fans are actively trying to target themselves. The appropriately-named “Blue Yourself” speedrun category has simple rules: get a blue […]
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After a major delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Universal Orlando’s Super Nintendo World opens on March 18. The grand opening of the Nintendo-themed area will also kick off Universal Japan’s 20th Anniversary Celebration. This news comes less than a week after the announcement that Universal Orlando’s version of the Super Nintendo World won’t launch until 2025. Super Nintendo World […]
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The Super Mario 35th anniversary set that recently dropped for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is more versatile than it might appear. Yes, you can use items like warp pipes and flagpoles to make your game look like a level out of the plumber’s popular platformers, but why limit yourself like that? As experimental fans are finding out, certain items lend […]
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Construction on Orlando’s new Universal theme park has restarted following delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally slated to open in 2023, Epic Universe — which will include Orlando’s own Super Nintendo World — is now scheduled to open in early 2025, according to Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings, as reported by the Orlando Sentinel. Universal released a statement following […]
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The new open-world Pokémon game looks like a great direction for the series, but setting it in ye olden times has implications that we need to discuss, too. Namely, what in the world is going on with these proto-Poké Balls present in Pokémon Legends: Arceus? Per the official description, the device pictured above differs from the balls we use in […]
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