#nintendo

#nintendo

Nintendo has a huge problem with leaks they don't seem to be able to fix. I can promise you that Nintendo is absolutely furious.

Nintendo and Illumination decided to casually spoil one of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's big surprises by sharing a poster of Fox McCloud as he will appear in the film when it premieres next week.

The Game Boy Jukebox plays music instead of games, and only from the original Red and Blue Pokémon games, and only if you insert one of 45 small cartridges corresponding to the track you want. It's absurd, but I respect it. Also, it's $70. Which is less respectful and even more absurd.

Nintendo's fired off a new volley of legal notices against the Switch emulation scene. Close to a dozen GitHub pages were hit with DMCA takedown requests over the weekend. However, while several of the Nintendo Switch GitHub pages have given in to Nintendo's demands, the development team behind the Eden emulator has boldly refused. Instead, they proceed with publishing a new v0.2.0 build of the Eden Switch emulator on GitHub just days later.

It's another edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku's daily roundup of gaming news, rumors, and culture. I'm still bummed about yesterday's report that The Outer Worlds franchise is essentially on ice after last year's entry struggled to sell. It's an exceptionally solid immersive sim RPG that feels like it's on the verge of being something truly special. But those 30-percent profit margins on games given away for free on Game Pass are a killer.

Nintendo has had plenty of highs over its few decades in the video game industry. Popularizing home consoles with the NES, introducing new audiences to games through the Wii's motion controls, and the touchscreen Trojan horse that was the Nintendo DS, to name a few. But often these successes were followed by missteps; the Wii sold 100 million units, while its follow-up, the Wii U, couldn't even manage a quarter of that.

Google has just started rolling out access to its new "experimental research prototype" Project Genie, an AI tool powered by Genie 3 and Gemini that allows users to create interactive, explorable worlds with a simple text prompt. Unsurprisingly, someone has immediately used it to generate a bunch of playable Nintendo knock-offs, including a The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild clone, complete with a usable paraglider.

Nintendo, a company that regularly brings in billions of dollars each year , could have easily afforded to set up a real photoshoot to promote its upcoming line of coming to its New York City and San Francisco stores in February, but it looks like it might have used genAI instead. At least, that's what people think after looking at the photos of parents playing with their kids and the toys.