Kraft Team Up With Nintendo For The Ultimate Pasta Party

Super Mario holding a bowl of Mac & Cheese

When you celebrate 30 years of a popular easy-make pasta brand, the last thing you want is a cake with candles in it. As a man of Italian heritage, I would much prefer to have a couple of candles sticking out the top of a bowl of bolognese just like Mama makes, and I’d like […]

Nintendo Of America President Alerted To Mario ROM Hack At Walmart

Images of Doug Bowser, bowser, and the Walmart logo with a rom hack underneath

Sometimes the titles of these news articles amaze me even after I’ve written them down. Nintendo has been in the news a lot recently with their takedowns, cease and desists, and general destruction of the Switch modding and emulation scene. It’s been widely publicised and has put a lot of people off working with emulation […]

Seven New NES Titles Arrive On Nintendo Switch Online

The selection of NES games coming to Switch Online

The Nintendo Switch Online platform is continuously full of surprises, like the Auntie who always gives you money whenever you go around to visit. Nintendo never fails to make me smile with the nostalgic releases they add to the system, and this time they’ve added seven, yes seven NES games for us to play for […]

Super Mario Ice Cream Collaboration Makes Nintendo Even Cooler

super mario baskin robbins commercial

There are some titles that I write for Retro Dodo that make me chuckle a lot because I get to whip out the Dad jokes, and this is definitely one of them. Nintendo has whipped out, or rather ‘whipped up’ something else that has made me pretty excited this morning too as I discovered their […]

Game Boy Camera Webcam Will Soon Be A Thing Thanks To Epilogue

Game Boy Camera webcam footage

You know what I think is wrong with remote meetings these days? It’s the fact that you can see everyone in HD, almost as if they were there with you in your living room. Then there’s all of the crisp colours and the fact that you can share screens and use funny little graphics. I […]

Nintendo Bringing Back Original Developers To Work On New Mario & Luigi Game

Mario & Luigi firing from a cannon

Nintendo isn’t just a family-friendly company, they also look after the people who work for them too. Can you remember when the late great Satoru Iowata cut his wage in half and distributed it amongst his employees so they wouldn’t have to make any cuts? That’s one of the most wholesome moves in the history […]

Picross S: Namco Legendary Edition Sees Pac-Man And More Return To Switch Next Week

Picross S: Namco Legendary Edition sees the addictive puzzle game return to Switch next week with challenges based on Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Galaga and more. Revealed by developer Jupiter, Picross S: Namco Legendary Edition is the latest entry in the beloved puzzle series that tasks players to correctly colour in squares on a grid using […]

After 28 Years, Somebody Has Completed Super Mario 64 Without Jumping

Mario Jumping on the left with a 'no' sign over him, and a surprised mario on the right

It’s taken almost three decades but a dedicated Super Mario 64 fan has beaten Super Mario 64 without jumping once. Twitch streamer Marbler accomplished the feat earlier this week, despite previous assertions from the Super Mario 64 community that the task was impossible. Marbler utilised various techniques identified by players over the preceding twenty-eight years […]

Nintendo Buys Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo has purchased Switch port studio Shiver Entertainment from Embracer in a rare acquisition for an undisclosed sum. Gamers will know Shiver Entertainment as the team responsible for porting wizard-sim Hogwarts Legacy to the Switch, and the developers of the critically panned Mortal Kombat 1 port for Nintendo’s hybrid console. According to a press release […]