Category: Nintendo News

On Thursday, April 11th, the 20th BAFTA Games Awards will highlight the “outstanding level of creative excellence” from a variety of developers across the world. While BAFTA is the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the organization behind the ceremony has been honoring innovations and achievements in videos games for the past two decades. The first BAFTA Game Awards were given out in February 2004, where The Wind Waker won the Adventure Game award. At the 2018 BAFTA Game…

On February 26th, 2024, Nintendo filed a U.S. federal lawsuit against Tropic Haze, alleging that the developer is responsible for the pirating of over 1 million copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom during the week and a half preceding the title’s May 12th, 2023 release. According to Nintendo, Tropic Haze’s open-source Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu gives users the ability to “unlawfully decrypt and play virtually any Nintendo Switch game — including Nintendo’s current generation and most…

February continues to be a busy month for delivering Nintendo news, as the company announced in a post on X today that a Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase will be airing Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 at 6AM PT/9AM ET on Nintendo’s YouTube channel. A #NintendoDirect: Partner Showcase is coming! Watch on-demand via YouTube on 2/21 at 6am PT for around 25 mins of info focused on #NintendoSwitch games coming in the first half of 2024 from our publishing and development partners….

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), in partnership with IGN, presented the 27th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards last night, shining a spotlight on last year’s greatest video game achievements. Alongside other acclaimed 2023 titles like Baldur’s Gate 3, COCOON, and Alan Wake 2, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was nominated in several award categories, including Outstanding Technical Achievement, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, and, of course, Game of the Year. Tears of the Kingdom took home…

Nintendo had a really big 2023, and it seems the company is looking to patent elements from two of its biggest titles. As pointed out in a recent Hatena Blog post by user naoya2k, it appears that patents for elements from both The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Super Mario Bros. Wonder were filed by Nintendo in 2023, though they were only recently made publicly available. Let’s look at the supposed Tears of the Kingdom patent first….

A new financial report from Nintendo confirms that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has sold 20.28 million units as of December 31st, 2023, making it the ninth best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch. With 780,000 units sold in Q3 of FY2024, Tears of the Kingdom is poised to surpass the Switch’s eighth best-selling game, Super Mario Party, which currently sits with lifetime sales of 20.34 million units. Reported as well is the ranking of the 10 best-selling games…

One of the key recurring events in the video game industry is The Game Developers Conference. GDC is a yearly conference that brings together programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business leaders, and journalists to foster community and showcase innovation. In addition to the various expos, lectures, and panels, the conference has its own set of awards (The Game Developers Choice Awards). GDC 2024 will take place in San Francisco from March 18th to March 24th. In a recent…

Koji Kondo will be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) Hall of Fame at this year’s D.I.C.E. Awards on February 15th. Kondo is the main composer for many of the soundtracks for both the Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda series. He composed the four main background themes for the original The Legend of Zelda on the NES and composed the soundtrack for Ocarina of Time all on his own. In a press release, Kondo had this…

Nintendo announced yesterday that, on April 8th, 2024, at 4 PM PDT, online services will shut down for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U line of systems. We knew the general timeframe for this suspension late last year, but the exact date and time is now confirmed. As for what this decision entails, “online play and other functionality that uses online communication” will be terminated. “This also includes online co-operative play, internet rankings, and data distribution,” and it applies to…

Last month, Nintendo announced the cancellation of Nintendo Live 2024, which was due to take place on January 20th and 21st in Tokyo, Japan. Among the festivities planned for the event was a live orchestral Zelda performance, so you can imagine our disappointment when we learned that the event had been cancelled. Luckily for Zelda fans everywhere, Nintendo announced today that the “Legend of Zelda Orchestra Concert” originally planned for Nintendo Live 2024 will be presented on Nintendo’s YouTube channels…