What does the perfect video game controller look like?
In the 40+ years since video game consoles first started appearing in people’s homes, video game controllers have gone…
Tetris 99 is a singular creation of evil, time-devouring genius
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming…
Bowser has taken over Nintendo Of America
As reported by our friends at Kotaku, Nintendo Of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has announced that he’ll be…
An engineer got Slack to run on a Super Nintendo, so now we never have to stop working!
If you use Slack to stay in touch with your friends or work colleagues, you most likely have the client on your…
If you've longed to see a hatchet lodged in Mario's head, boy does Nintendo have a treat for you
Intellectual property either dies ignominiously or lives enough to see itself turned into a porn parody. Or, if you’re…
The Nintendo Switch's paid online service will finally launch next week
When Nintendo launched the Switch in March of last year, the system was missing some of the basic online functionality…
People fucking love the NES Classic
Why does Nintendo even bother? It spends millions of dollars every year developing new Super Mario games, convincing…
WarioWare Gold is the result of 15 years of mad genius
How on earth has it taken seven years for a WarioWare game to end up on the 3DS? If anything, a sweeping, deranged…
Let us consider Toad, whatever the hell he is
We turn today to Toad. He is some sort of mushroom man? This is about as legit a description as exists in Super Mario’s …
Get to know Waluigi, the Nintendo character everyone loves to shit on
If you even moderately pay attention to video games, you have probably seen—and wondered what the fuck is going on…
The Game Genie was originally meant to do much more than help you beat Battletoads
For a kid in the early ‘90s, knowing somebody with a Game Genie was tantamount to knowing a character from the movie Hac…
Super Smash Bros. for Switch will feature every Smash character ever
Earlier today, Nintendo devoted 25 whole minutes of its E3 Nintendo Direct news blast to introducing the new Super…
PSA: Blowing into your old video game cartridges is actually bad
Everybody knows that when your NES cartridges aren’t working right, the best way to fix them is to hold the open end up…
Super Smash Bros. is coming to Nintendo Switch this year
Nintendo’s latest video news dump ended with a very big, very inevitable announcement: Yes, Super Smash Bros. is coming…
Celebrating the Game Boy Camera, one of Nintendo’s weirdest, most ingenious inventions
After an incredible year that saw the successful launch of its latest console, the Switch, and the release of two…
Nintendo officially announces a Super Mario movie from the Minions studio
In November, we reported on a rumor that Nintendo was in talks with Universal about making an animated Super Mario movie…
Nintendo is already shutting down its weird social network app Miitomo
In 2016, Nintendo hesitantly stepped into the world of mobile gaming with Miitomo, an odd social network of sorts that…
Dark Souls, Donkey Kong, and all the new Switch games Nintendo announced today
Nintendo fans spent this week in a tizzy as rumors of a Nintendo Direct newscast announcing an updated slate of 2018…
We’re pleased to inform you that Zelda is actually the boy
With an ever-expanding video game market that’s continuously adding to the accepted lore of beloved characters, it can…
Mamma Mia: The studio behind Minions might make a Super Mario Bros. movie
Nearly 25 years after Hollywood’s first baffling attempt at bringing video games’ most iconic figure to the big screen,…