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Well it’s gone and happened; Nintendo has used their marketing prowess to hit the target demographic they need to hit in order to keep up and maintain the sort of success that they saw back at the end of May and the early parts of June. The Big ‘N’ has taken Mario to McDonald’s. A new commercial has gone live featuring a happy-go-lucky crew of gamers playing while they enjoy their Happy Meals. You can check out the video below courtesy of YouTube user DaapsTV. That’s pretty nifty ri...

The month of June is being pegged as a big month for both the Wii U and the Xbox One. In the former’s case it’s to do with getting the console’s sales momentum to stabilize; in the latter’s case it’s to do with getting the console to not sell so poorly even with consistent, big games being released on the console. Well, for the Wii U it appears as if things are finally starting to turn around for the month of June… in Japan, anyway. Nintendo Enthusiast picked up word from senior rese...

Now here’s something you don’t see everyday: Super Mario being squeezed into a Sonic game. Usually we see Super Mario mods a dime a dozen working with hacked ROMs, but this time Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Toad and Wario are just a few of the many characters appearing in the partial conversion mod for the PC version of Sonic Generations. Lead by Daku Neko, the mod replaces the NPCs, Sonic, Dr. Eggman and the sound effects and graphical effects to reflect the change of Mario being in the ga...

XSEED Games today announced that the latest iteration in its farming and life simulation series, Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, will launch in North America for Nintendo 3DS on February 28. A pocket plushie based on the new in-game capybara pet – dubbed “Capy-san” – is available as a pre-order item while supplies last at participating retailers. The company also revealed that costumes and headgear based on characters Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and Toad from the Super Mario Bros. fran...

It appears as if the momentum of has carried over from the end of May and into the deep, saturated skin of June. In fact, coming out of the recent Nintendo conference, information was let loose that the game has shifted over 2 million SKUs. Nintendo Everything is reporting that during the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, Nintendo’s representatives did all that they could to assuage shareholders in the direction of the company still being in good hands, even though Nintendo’s worldwid...