Category: Nintendo News

Super Nintendo World, the theme park land once slated to open in the summer of 2020 at Universal Studios Japan, is now aiming for February 2021 instead. February 4th, the date currently planned as the opening date, has been projected to be the date in which Nintendo fans can see for themselves well-known characters and images constructed in real life. Although the attractions teased in images seem to only adhere to Nintendo’s Super Mario franchise, it is possible that merchandise…

After being out for more than three years, the Nintendo Switch has quickly become a fan favorite. And the Switch’s ever-growing popularity shows us that the system is not going anywhere any time soon. On November 30th, Nintendo released a new system update for the Switch with some major new features. Most notably, the newest update allows for Switch users to wirelessly transfer photos and videos from the Switch to their smartphones. Once a photo or video is taken, a…

No game is perfect. Due to the complicated nature of their creation, each game is bound to have a few bugs or glitches in it. Some bugs can provide hilarious moments, such as the giant chickens in Skyrim; others can slow down game progression. But the worst ones of all make a game unplayable. Thankfully, in the digital era, developers have the ability to squash bugs after a game’s release! Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity‘s first update rolled out this…

HEY! LISTEN! If you have a My Nintendo account, you should take five minutes out of your day to browse Nintendo’s home page for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Visitors to the site who are logged in through their My Nintendo or Nintendo Switch Online accounts can search for icons of the Champion companions for 20 platinum points each! Simply scroll through the different detail pages and click on the tiny warriors. The site shouldn’t reveal spoilers for any but…

When Breath of the Wild was released, there was some division amongst fans regarding the game’s soundtrack. Music is a crucial part of building atmosphere and adds to the overall enjoyment of the player’s experience. So, it is understandable that fans would be interested in the musical direction of Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity. As part of an interview with Japanese publication 4Gamer, producer of the Zelda series Eiji Aonuma, and Koei Tecmo leads Ryota Matsuhita and Yosuke Hayashi gave…

Chris Slate, the former Editor-In-Chief of Nintendo Power hosts a brand new episode of his podcast, and it is all devoted to Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity! Chris is joined by Chiko from Nintendo Treehouse and Joe Bustos from the Nintendo of America social team. The podcast aims to share their impressions of the game after beating it, without revealing any big spoilers. Chris refers to how the different mechanics from Breath of the Wild such as shield surfing have…

When Breath of the Wild released in 2017, not only did it successfully launch the brand new Nintendo Switch, it also ushered in a new era for Zelda games in which gameplay and story conventions of old were thrown out the window and rebuilt from the ground up. One of the biggest changes the game brought to the series was the way in which it told the main story. When you first start the game, Link wakes up from a 100-year coma and has…

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is on the eve of its launch, and there is a great deal of excitement surrounding the game. Age of Calamity seems to be Nintendo’s big fall title, and the company is marketing the game as such. In addition to a variety of trailers and advertisements, Nintendo has added a new physical product to the My Nintendo rewards program: a sleek memo pad. This gorgeous Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity memo pad is available for…

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. If you don’t want to know any gameplay details before the game’s release, please bookmark this article and enjoy the read at a future date. Thank you! Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang, hosts of the show Nintendo Minute, held a knockout challenge contest for the soon-to-be-released Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. The show is part of a series presented on Nintendo’s YouTube channel that typically highlights new and future…

It seems Nintendo has had quite the success with their latest console. The past three years have offered big titles like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which in particular was a major portion of their sales ever since the game released this past March. As of October, 22.5 million units of the Nintendo Switch have been sold in the US, contributing greatly to Nintendo’s reported booming profits. According to…