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Owners of Nintendo’s upcoming NES Classic Mini won’t be able to add new games to its library. The $60 machine, announced yesterday, includes 30 built-in games. Nintendo has now confirmed to Kotaku that the machine does not use physical media and cannot go online, meaning no future titles can be …
Read More »Pokemon Go targeting global rollout ‘soon’ as Nintendo shares skyrocket
You think Pokemon Go is big now? You wait until it’s available in every country on the planet. And that might not be that far out. Niantic chief executive John Hanke has told Reuters that his company intends to roll out Pokemon Go to around 200 countries relatively soon”. By …
Read More »Pokemon Go is already the biggest mobile game in US history, report says
After less then a week of availability, Pokemon Go has made it right to the very top of the all-time US mobile market. SurveyMonkey reckons that the game had attracted just under 21m daily active users. That overtakes the previous record holder, Candy Crush Saga, with an estimated 20m. Within …
Read More »Nintendo is releasing a new NES
A baby version of the console that changed it all has been confirmed for America. NoA has announced what it calls the NES Classic Edition. It’s out in the UK and US on November 11th and will include 30 games, which presumably will be installed on the machine. The hardware …
Read More »You can own that fake NX controller for between $4k-$10k
Remember that time it looked as if we might just have caught glimpse of Nintendo’s still highly secretive NX controller? Well, we hadn’t, it transpired. Which of course EVERYONE said they OBVIOUSLY knew the moment it was unveiled as a hoax. And the video that confirmed the hoax was actually …
Read More »Washington’s Holocaust Museum seeking Pokestop delisting
Of all the suitable places to go Pokemon hunting, The Holocaust Museum in Washingston DC is probably right near the bottom of the list. It will be no shock, then, to hear that the organisation is not best pleased that Pokemon Go has placed three Pokestops within its building, resulting …
Read More »Movie makers suddenly want back on the Pokemon train
Pokemon has within the space of a week become one of the hottest properties on the planet. So it shouldn’t come as a massive surprise to hear that film studios are among the many businesses looking at the colossal success of Pokemon Go and wondering how that could work for …
Read More »You can hire people to play Pokemon Go for you
Pokemon Go is so good that you’d be willing to pay someone to play it for you, right? Oh no wait that’s mental. But mental or not, this prospect is now a very firm reality. Bidvine is a site that allows folk to advertise for jobs they need doing and …
Read More »Niantic calms Pokemon Go data access fears
Pokemon Go co-creator Niantic has said that it is not accessing iOS users’ entire Google accounts. It emerged yesterday that, if a Google account is used at sign-in, the iOS version of the game grants itself complete access to the associated user account upon installation. This led to fears that …
Read More »Pokemon Go UK release ‘within a few days’
UK gamers may not have long to wait to get their hands on the official release of Pokemon Go. The game’s rollout outside of North America and Australia/New Zealand was earlier described as being on hold as co-developer Niantic struggled to keep up with the server demands of the title’s …
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