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Siliconera has discovered that back in May 2017, Nintendo filed a US patent… that was an update to another patent for a passive walking apparatus designed to carry things. The interesting part? It apparently doesn’t have much to do with video games. Since the patent was published last week, we have an understanding of what Nintendo is going after.

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Nintendo is continuing to celebrate the start of 2019 with some special art. We have images featuring Splatoon, Fire Emblem Heroes, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and Animal Crossing attached to this post.


It’s already 2019 in some places of the world, and gaming companies, developers, and more are celebrating the occasion. We’ve rounded up some of the New Year’s greetings below.


The Sonic Adventure series is revered by fans, but SEGA has doesn’t much with it in recent years. Perhaps the first step in bringing it back would be a remake.

Speaking with Retro Gamer, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka said he believes the first Sonic Adventure “is a unique game offering even 20 years after its release.” At the same time though, he “can see the rough edges it has, which really makes me want to remake it again.”

The Pokemon Company just released the first trailer for Pokemon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution. Watch it below.

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The Japanese Twitter account for the Kirby series is celebrating the end of 2019 the only way it knows how. To kick off the start of 2019, some special art was shared on the social media account. We have it above.

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Back in May, Switch Pro Controller support was added on Steam. Valve has now offered a look at the top games played on its platform with the device across three different categories.

Below are the full results:

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

This month’s EDGE review scores are as follows:

This week’s issue of Famitsu contains New Year’s greetings for a variety of developers. Two representatives from Game Freak were included as part of the feature: Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori. Both reflected on the past year and vaguely teased what’s to come in the future:

Here’s what Masuda and Ohmori said:

This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta look back on some of their favorite moments of 2018. Check out the full episode below.


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