Japanese video game maker Nintendo’s chief says its Switch console sales are still going strong, while he promised that a successor is coming.

It’s been a terrific year for video games.

Nintendo is developing a live-action film based on its hit video game “The Legend of Zelda.”.

The fate of what could be the priciest merger in tech industry history are now in the hands of a federal judge who must decide whether to stop Microsoft from closing its deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard.

It’s still Mario Time at the box office.

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Audiences said let’s go to the movie theater for “The Super Mario Bros.

Microsoft has struck a deal to make Xbox PC video games available on the Boosteroid cloud gaming platform.

The theme park parent company of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man is getting a new name.

A Saudi sovereign wealth fund now holds 8.26% of the stock in the video game maker Nintendo, making it the largest outside investor in the Japanese gaming company.

Microsoft has agreed to make the hit video game Call of Duty available on Nintendo for 10 years should its $69 billion purchase of game maker Activision Blizzard go through.

An unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for $1.56 million.

An unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros.

This photo, provided by the Strong National Museum of Play, in Rochester, N.Y., Tuesday, March 16, 2021, shows 12 finalists for 2021 induction into the Video Game Hall of Fame. (Strong National Museum of Play via AP)ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Voting is open for the next inductees into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, with Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and Animal Crossing among the 12 finalists. "These finalists embody what it means to be a good game,” said Jon-Paul Dyson, director of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games at The Strong museum, where the hall of fame is housed. The winners are chosen by an international committee of journalists and scholars versed in video games and their role in society. AdThe hall inducted its first class in 2015 with the goal of recognizing electronic games of all types — arcade, console, computer, handheld, and mobile.

FILE - Visitors to the Pax East conference play the new Nintendo Switch video game Animal Crossing, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Boston. Here's a look at the year's tech winners and losers. ___WINNERS:— Nintendo SwitchEven in a year heralding splashy new consoles from Xbox and PlayStation, the Nintendo Switch was the console that could. According to the NPD Group, during the first 11 months of 2020, Nintendo Switch sold 6.92 million units in the U.S. And thanks in part to shoppers consciously supporting small businesses, Adobe Analytics says online sales at smaller U.S. retailers were up 349% on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

Super Mario has been a staple in video games since the original “Super Mario Bros.” was released back in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. But now Nintendo is bringing those fond memories back with an added twist. The company’s latest Mario entry, “Super Mario Bros. 35”, available on Nintendo Switch, matches you up against 34 other Marios in a sort of “battle royale”-type setting. The Nintendo Switch title is available from Oct. 1 until March 31 as a free download for Nintendo online subscribers only. That means you’ll have to pay the $4 per month subscription fee.

This time around it’s Microsoft’s Xbox series X versus Sony’s Playstation 5. When it comes to internal specs, the Xbox series X is just a little more powerful than the PS5, but that difference is minimal when it comes to game play. Xbox just debuted its Xbox Game Pass and Sony’s Playstation Now has been active for some time. Both consoles are also backwards compatible, which gives Series X owners access to Xbox One games, and PS5 owners access to PS4 games. The Xbox series X comes out November 10.

A total of 300,000 Nintendo accounts have been breached since the beginning of April, the company revealed Tuesday, as hackers used others' Nintendo Network IDs without permission. Previously, the company said 160,000 accounts were hacked, but on June 9 it updated those numbers to a whopping 300,000. Nintendo discovered the additional hacked accounts after continuing its investigation, the company said Tuesday in a statement written in Japanese on its website. A Nintendo Network ID is a unique username and password used mainly for older Nintendo 3DS and Wii U consoles. Anyone who previously used a Nintendo Network ID to log in should now use their Nintendo account email address instead.

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