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The Apple Of Gaming

A great piece by Craig Grannell at Revert To Saved about the current state of Nintendo: For a long time, I considered Nintendo the Apple of gaming—a company that cared about the details and about the right things (fun, excitement, enjoyment). Nintendo’s problem these days is that Apple is now the Apple of gaming—and the...

The iPhone & iPad Are Killing Nintendo As Famous Game Maker Posts First Ever Annual Loss

Is it time to retire game consoles? That’s the question buzzing around in the wake of Nintendo announcing its first yearly loss, forcing a downgrade of the 3DS future. The creator of Super Mario said it lost $575 million (45 billion yen), surprising experts...

Shameless Mario Kart Clone Hits The App Store

We’re all fans of Mario Kart and many of Nintendo’s classic titles. But as much as we’d love to see them arrive on iOS, we don’t care much for shameless clones. We’ve seen countless Super Mario clones in the App Store, but Mole Kart...

Is Nintendo Trying To Lure iOS Developers Into Wii U Development?

Wii-U-ebooksFollowing a report that claims Nintendo is set to open up its own app store for its upcoming Wii U console, there are now suggestions that the Japanese gaming giant is “actively courting” iOS developers in a bit to lure them over to Wii...

Nintendo’s Miyamoto stepping down, working on smaller games

REDWOOD CITY, CA—The creator of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda will step down from his current position at Nintendo but remain with the company to work on smaller, more personal projects, Wired.com...

Review: 3DS Mario Kart 7 drives cautiously

Here is the best thing about Mario Kart 7: This time, Nintendo didn't screw it up. When you think of Nintendo's hit products, you don't necessarily think of the Mario Kart racing games (specifically) as a...

$200 Mario and Zelda-themed 3DS hardware bundles coming November 24

Nintendo knows that first-party franchises are its greatest strength, and the Nintendo 3DS finally has games featuring Link and Mario. Now that we're heading into the holidays, Nintendo hopes to capitalize on its newly stre......

Nintendo 3DS From An iOS User’s Perspective

Last week, I bought a Nintendo 3DS with Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. And coming back to “regular” portable console gaming after four years of multitouch iOS gaming felt strange. As I explained in my Aquaria review yesterday, I started playing with a Super Nintendo Entertainment System when I was six. Actually, my...

The Best Alternatives to Super Mario Bros On iOS [App Store Roundup]

Pizza-Boy-for-iPhoneI fell in love with Super Mario Bros. when my parents bought me a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) for Christmas as a young boy, and I’ve been obsessed with Super Mario games ever since. There’s nothing that would please me more than having...

Flurry: iOS + Android destroy Nintendo + Sony in U.S. portable gaming revenues

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata declared Apple and iOS as the “enemy of the future” back in 2010. Not only was he right, according to new estimates for the U.S. portable game software by revenue from Flurry Analytics, 2011 seen Nintendo’s grip on the market slide even further as iOS and Android games triple their marketshare...

Group votes Apple biggest influence on game industry

You're having a run of bad luck there, aren't you, Mario? First, your company might be posting its first annual loss in more than 30 years, and now a group of video game professionals claim that neither you nor Zelda (or the PlayStation and Intern...

How Super Mario’s latest adventure plays with 3D

Part of the initial appeal of a new Mario game is pressing buttons and watching what happens. In Super Mario 3D Land, the most magical button is the 3D slider. The Nintendo 3DS lets you adjust the “volume” of th......