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Nintendo’s Switch racer Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is spending a second week at the top of the UK All Formats Top 40. It retains the crown despite a 71 per cent drop in sales and just marginally manages to outsell Bethesda’s Prey, which debuts in No.2 in its first week …

Nintendo and Ubisoft are teaming up for a new crossover title due out on Switch this August. Kotaku has confirmed that Mario will join forces with Ubisoft’s Rabbids in a game called Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. For what its worth, we’ve heard a couple of other journalists say that …

The desire for households to own multiple Switch consoles could propel sales of Nintendo’s new hardware to Wii-like levels. That appears to be the hope of Nintendo boss Tatsumi Kimishima, who made the bold claim to investors. In the video game business, it’s important for consumers to feel that a …

Nintendo has said that Switch title Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the fastest ever game in the series in the US. The platform holder says 459,000 copies were sold across physical and digital on its first day of release in the US on April 28th. That represents at attach ratio …

Nintendo Switch title Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has raced to No.1 in the UK Top 40 on its first week of release. Amazingly, it’s Nintendo’s first All Formats No.1 since way back in early 2011, when Pokemon White topped the listings in week nine. It’s also the first Mario game …

Nintendo sold over 2m Switch consoles worldwide in its first month on shelves, according to its latest fiscal year earnings report, hitting 2.74m units as of March 31st. That beats recent analyst expectations from SuperData, which pegged the console’s global sales figures at just 2.4m. As a result, Nintendo’s profits …

There’s a greater range of hardware and operating system platforms than ever before. That means more opportunity, and more complications, for games publishers. We catch up with a handful of thoroughly modern publishers working across a range of digital and physical formats to ask them what they think of the …

The Nintendo Switch has only been out for a little over a month, but already one analyst has said that it believes a new iteration could be in the works. As reported by Bloomberg, Citigroup says that despite the Switch’s early success, Nintendo is locking out a large part of …

Last night’s Nintendo Direct announced a number of new Switch and 3DS release dates, and also revealed two new bits of Switch hardware. Headlining the dates are Splatoon 2, which arrives on July 21st, and Arms, which will hit shelves on June 16th. Also confirmed was a Nintendo Switch release …

Hackers who can unearth Switch software vulnerabilities could land themselves a cash reward from Nintendo. Nintendo kicked off its HackerOne scheme last year last year. It offered payouts of up to $20k for anyone who could successfully identify security issues and vulnerabilities with the 3DS. Piracy, cheating and save modding …