Nintendo joins ESA’s new Accessible Games Initiative
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At GDC 2025 today, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced the Accessible Games Initiative, a cross-industry effort to provide consumers with clear information about the accessibility features available in video games.
Nintendo will be participating as a founding member company along with Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft, Nintendo of America and Ubisoft. Sony Interactive Entertainment, Amazon Games, Riot Games, Square Enix, and Warner Bros. Games are also participating.
Here’s a bit of information about how it all works:
Ken Kutaragi, the father of PlayStation, has a Nintendo PlayStation tucked away in his closet
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It’s been revealed that PlayStation co-creator Ken Kutaragi has a Nintendo PlayStation prototype tucked away in his closest, and it’s a bit different from the hardware we’ve seen previously.
Julian Domanski, a professional photographer in Japan, recently met up with Kutaragi and shared a few photos of the hardware on social media. Needless to say, these things are pretty rare. Domanski mentioned that “the last one in existence was believed to have sold at auction for $300,000.”
Here’s the full set of images:
LEGO Pokemon sets announced
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We’ve already seen LEGO cross over with Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Animal Crossing, but it’s now been announced that another Nintendo-related property is getting the same treatment – that being Pokemon.
Earlier today, a video was posted by LEGO Mexico on Facebook before it was quickly pulled. During that period when it was available, fans were able to preserve it in full. While it doesn’t show much, Pikachu is teased in LEGO form. It’s a quick clip, though it’s nonetheless clear that we’re getting LEGO Pokemon sets in the future. It’s now confirmed that this will all kick off in 2026.
Here’s that video in full:
Palworld dev was surprised by Nintendo / Pokemon lawsuit, was “a very depressing day”
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During a talk at GDC 2025, Pocketpair global community manager John Buckley responded to the lawsuit Nintendo and The Pokemon Company filed against the company over Palworld.
Buckley spoke about how the move came as a shock for Pocketpair since the team “did legal checks” before the game’s release. He also mentioned that “it didn’t feel good obviously” and “it was a very depressing day” when the lawsuit came in.
More: Palworld, Pocketpair
4 ways the next Animal Crossing could improve multiplayer
Posted on 2 months ago by Ethan in Features, General Nintendo, Switch | 0 comments
One of the most highly-criticized features of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is its multiplayer system. Strangely enough, though, multiplayer was also one of the reasons the game became such a runaway success. It released during the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, which played a big part in why New Horizons sold almost 50 million units. Players were able to use Animal Crossing as something of a communication medium during this time – where people couldn’t meet up and hang out in real life, they still could in Animal Crossing to an extent. That being said, once players actually visited each others’ islands, they found that there wasn’t all that much to do. You could take others on a quick tour of your island, but that wouldn’t take much time After that, all that’s left is to walk around and look at things. Animal Crossing’s multiplayer has always been like this, to an extent, but its shallowness kind of hit a peak with New Horizons.
So today, we’re looking at multiplayer in the Animal Crossing series and how Nintendo could improve it for the next game in the series. There’s real potential for something great here, and we have some ideas on how to make it much better.
Pokemon Build-A-Bear plushie line reveals Wooper
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Build-A-Bear is back with the announcement of another Pokemon Build-A-Bear plushie, and next up is Wooper.
Wooper, originally appeared in Generation 2 with Pokemon Gold and Silver. The Water Fish creature is known for the transparent mucous membrane covering its body.
More: Build-A-Bear, Pokemon
Nintendo San Francisco store announced [update: opening date]
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May 24: Nintendo will open a new store in San Francisco, the company just announced.
This is notable news as the company only had one official store previously in the United States. That of course is Nintendo New York. The location first opened in 2005 and was first called the Nintendo World store. In 2016, it was rebranded to Nintendo New York.
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Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo teardown shows it has Switch 2-rumored tech Hall effect sensor
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iFixit recently posted a teardown of Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, and while there aren’t massive discoveries, it has been found that the device makes use of a Hall effect sensor – which is rumored for Nintendo Switch 2.
With the sensor, iFixit mentions that this will help preserve the alarm clock in the long-term. This is more resistant to wear and tear, so it shouldn’t break as easily. Additionally, the sensor helps to improve accuracy while using the dial to navigate the alarm clockâs menus
Pokemon GO dev Niantic to sell its gaming business to Scopely [update: official]
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February 18: According to a report from Bloomberg, Niantic is gearing up for a sale of its video game business to Scopely. The outlets cites “several people familiar with the discussions.”
No official announcements have been made at this time. However, Bloomberg states that a price of $3.5 billion is currently being thrown around. An official announcement is expected in the weeks ahead.
More: Niantic, Pikmin Bloom, Pokemon GO, top
SNES consoles appear to get faster as they age, according to new data
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New research has been conducted about the SNES, indicating that Nintendo’s classic console is actually getting faster as it ages.
Over on Bluesky, TASbot asked system owners to help with the data gathering process. Eligible users ran the smpspeed ROM test from lidnariq through flash carts. 143 users participated, and based on the results, SNES consoles are running faster in 2025 compared to the system’s original specifications. We’re able to see that the Audio Processing Unit (APU) runs faster than it did previously. This has the possibility of notes having the capability to be played at a higher pitch.
