Worthy of a jamboree. Nintendo has revealed that Super Mario Party Jamboree has shipped a total of 6.17 million units since its launch on 17th October 2024. This not only makes it the best-selling game of the financial quarter for Nintendo, but it’s also now the fastest-selling Mario Party entry in franchise history (thanks, Pierre485)….
Welcome to 2020! We’re kicking things off this year with a slightly late Players’ Choice poll for the final month of the last decade. A bit of a slower month, but not without its stars: Untitled Goose Game was a hoot (a honk?) at holiday parties worldwide, Arise: A Simple Story wove a beautiful tale…
New writers have also been chosen. Earlier this year, our friends at Nintendo Life reported on a Deadline exclusive about John Wick writer Derek Kolstad working on a script for a potential Streets of Rage movie. At the time, Deadline had reported that the Sonic the Hedgehog producer ‘dj2 Entertainment‘ and ‘Escape Artists‘ (known for…
If you played a Cthulhu lore drinking game during The Sinking City then I pity your liver. It had tentacles, a New England setting, a sanity mechanic, a troubled private detective, an asylum level, analogies for racism incongruously placed next to depictions of actual racism—all these genre clichés shuffled onto its damp stage, shuffled around…
We’re a couple of weeks away from our release date, and we’ve just finished recording the last of the voice acting, which means it’s a good time to tell you about the actors! The Witness deliberately riffs on several traditional elements of game design, and one of those elements is the classic audio log, where…
But he’ll always give Pikmin the spotlight. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie goes beyond the Mushroom Kingdom and introduces a whole new cast of characters. As we now know, there’ll also be some faces that aren’t even from this particular Nintendo universe. It’s led to discussion once again about a possible “Smash Bros.-style Nintendo Cinematic…
I’m a lifelong RPG reroller: I’m obsessed with restarting these things over and over until I’m sure that my first time hitting the credits will be perfect. My white whale for the past 15 years? Fallout: New Vegas, one of my very favorite games, which I finally completed for the first time after 323 hours…
Ultimate War was originally an N64DD title shown off at Spaceworld ’99. Spaceworld 2000 was a pivotal moment in Nintendo’s history, featuring the first unveiling of the Nintendo GameCube, as well as a closer look at the Game Boy Advance prototype, and showcases of some of the last games expected to hit the N64. So,…
As always, NPD‘s monthly report is not just for software. they also discuss hardware sales. For January 2020, the Nintendo Switch saw a very familiar trend continue. NPD analyst Mat Piscatella says that the “Nintendo Switch was the best-selling hardware platform of January in both unit and dollar sales”. There was one key difference, though….
Bandai Namco has good news for fans of the One Piece franchise as the latest game One Piece Pirate Warriors 4 is destined for the Nintendo Switch on 27th March 2020. The company has also published a rather nice pre-order trailer. If you do decide to pre-order and you opt for the Kaido Edition of…