If you have My Nintendo points to burn and you aren't already a Nintendo Switch Online member, here's a two-birds-with-one-stone sorta tip. Nintendo is (once again) giving out a seven-day trial code for Nintendo Switch Online in exchange fo...

Nintendo has been slow and finicky with its Super Nintendo game rollout for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. We're still waiting on big-hitters like EarthBound, Super Mario RPG, and the Donkey Kong Country series, to say nothing of count...

[Update: The SNES Switch controllers are back in stock in North America this morning. Good luck!] In an ideal world, everyone who wanted a Super Nintendo controller for Switch would be able to buy one, and we'd have access to hundreds of SN...

There has been a long-standing disparity between the quality of Switch Online in Japan and the rest of the world. Sure, it's mostly subtle. For a while, Japan typically got an extra NES game each month with their subscription. They also per...

Nintendo sure has its own way of running the Nintendo Switch Online classic game library. A new batch with four games – two on NES, two on SNES – is joining the service on February 19, 2020. On the Super Nintendo front, subscr...

In the most recent corporate management policy briefing for the fiscal year ending in March 2020, we get a tiny little update from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa on the state of the Switch Online service. Surprisingly, it's a lit...

Over the past month, Nintendo of America has been running a half-price deal on the NES controllers for Nintendo Switch, but the promo is ending. Today is your last chance to get a pair of gamepads for $30. The deal is limited to one order p...

Back when Pokémon Sun and Moon released, I hopped onto Smogon.com and took a stroll around the Uncharted Territory forum to explore the potential of a lot of the newer Pokémon. A lot of them held down their posi...

On Monday, I wrote an article about Nintendo Switch Online its lack of new SNES and NES games. I said all I wanted for Christmas was some new titles on the service, and I guess there is a Santa Claus because Nintendo has revealed six new ga...

Back in September, Nintendo Switch Online celebrated its first anniversary of being a sub-par online service by adding something fans had wanted since it debuted: SNES games. The Super Nintendo is arguably one of the best consoles of all ti...

Switch Online users have been asking for more perks to justify the cost of the subscription, but this probably isn't what anyone had in mind. Revealed this week amid all of the Terry Bogard and version 6.0 news, there's now a "free gift" fo...

In 2014, Next Level Games announced it would be working with Nintendo exclusively on its future projects. For fans of its games, the move made sense. Next Level Games has a rich history of creating outstanding products with Nintendo at its ...

If you're lucky enough to have visited a big-city arcade within the last few years, you may have seen a crowd gathered around a pair of giant flatscreen monitors. If you heard them hollering things like "Over there! Snail!" "Look, look, loo...

Continuing its use of Tetris 99 to advertise the newest first-party games coming to the Switch, Nintendo has announced a Luigi's Mansion 3 Tetris Maximus Cup for this weekend. The event will run from Friday, October 25 through Monday, Octob...

Nintendo has always been searching for a way to solve the "getting kids to pay for online" problem in the Pokemon series, and they found their answer with the Pokemon Bank app. For a few "measly" clams (oysters?) a year kids could...

Despite its faults, I will always look back on my time with the original Luigi's Mansion fondly. After being forced to play as Luigi for years as my older brother would always get to be first player, it was nice to see Nintendo put him...

Not long ago, we informed you Dr. Kawashima is coming back for another round of brain training, this time on Nintendo Switch. While that announcement only gave word on the Japanese release, we now know when European Switch owners will be ab...

I skipped the NES gamepads for Nintendo Switch, but those new SNES controllers? I couldn't resist! If you were lucky enough to place an order in time (not only are quantities limited, but you also need to be a Nintendo Switch Online subscri...

Another month, another Tetris 99 theme to collect. What seems to be clockwork now, Nintendo has announced that another Maximus Cup is coming to its popular battle royale puzzler. This time, the theme up for grabs is based on Super Kirby Cla...

Nintendo is introducing a new "perk" for the Switch Online service, but there's a catch. You can now subscribe to Switch Online and get a bundled discount price on select games, ranging from 11% to 15%. Not only is it mostly for new members...

This is something I'd like to see more of. Although Switch Online has its own problems, Nintendo is thankfully allowing folks to swap a solo account into a family membership very soon. Starting October 1 according to a tweet from Nintendo o...

With the dawn of the SNES Switch Online app, now seems like a good time to remind people that Nintendo has a bunch of official instructional manuals up on their site to use and peruse. Although these NES and SNES archives are meant for the ...

In today's contest we're giving away Switch copies of Torchlight II! Normally I'd do some sort of intro here, but look, Torchlight II on Switch gives you a pet unicorn. That's my introduction to today's game and contest. You get a pet unico...

Like the Virtual Console before it so many moons ago (RIP), Nintendo has been slowly drip-feeding us Switch Online NES suite games on a monthly basis. I'm talking two, maybe three if you're lucky (and eat your peas) each month. But now...

[Update: The first batch of Super Nintendo games is now live for subscribers. You can download the launcher app from the eShop – it's listed in the Nintendo Switch Online category.] Nintendo Switch Online is ready to entire the next ...