TL;DR: Animal Crossing New Horizons update 3.0, releasing January 15, 2026, adds playable retro games from NES, Game Boy, and more, requiring a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. The free update ...

Nintendo has been denied a patent application that would've allowed it to own the mechanic of capturing a character or creature in a game, such as that found in Pokémon games. As reported by Games ...

Nintendo is making a lot of Switch 2s. Like, a lot a lot. According to Bloomberg, suppliers have been asked to ramp up production enough for the company to sell up to 25 million Switch 2s by the end ...

Nintendo has fleetingly dropped some bombshell announcements on its Nintendo Today app, but the most recent drop is a real head-scratcher. The gaming company shared a video on the app simply titled ...

Nintendo shared a new animated short online, and it has fans scratching their heads. The new video titled “Close To You” was shared on October 7th and follows a baby in a nursery. “No explanation, no ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The patent is complicated — and dubious. The patent is complicated — and dubious. As first noted by Games Fray ...

Super Smash Bros. Animal Crossing. A new 3D Mario or mainline Zelda. These were all on my hypothetical bingo card leading up to today’s Nintendo Direct stream. And while there was a fair share of ...

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Nintendo doesn't really need to create new franchises, a former developer has said, explaining that the company can simply wrap its fresh gameplay ideas into one of the many beloved video game series ...

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Takashi Mochizuki and Vlad Savov address Nintendo’s idiosyncratic ...

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