Nintendo gives NX contract to Nvidia
Poisoned chalice
After AMD appeared to have sewn up the console market, it had been widely tipped to have its GPUs under the bonnet of the Nintendo NX, however the former maker of playing cards has given the contract to Nvidia.
Nintendo slumps
Wii is no shaft of gold
Nintendo has just posted its latest financial earnings report and the former playing card maker posted an operating loss of $49 million for the first quarter of its 2016 financial year.
AMD is on the up
Opinion Intel must be worried
Last week’s AMD results show that the company is set to make more headway this year and next, with its upcoming Zen processors definitely giving Intel the heebie jeebies.
Saudi Arabia pronounces a fatwah on Pokemon
Dark satanic acts by global masonry apparently
Saudi Arabian clerics have renewed a 15-year-old ban on Pokemon as the “satanic game” starts to possess the rest of the world.
Nintendo suddenly booms
Pokemon gave it get up and GO
Shares of Nintendo have jumped nearly 10 percent to a six-year high on Friday mostly on the back of the surprise success of its Pokemon GO augmented reality game.
Pokemon Go captures the world’s attention
Nintendo share rises 23 percent
It is not official but the world went crazy about the Pokemon Go augmented reality game. Young people and so-called adults are playing the game so much that it got down to mainstream media and even caused a massive crash in the US.
Nintendo’s VR delayed by a cunning plan
We really have to do something about fatigue
Nintendo is keeping fairly quiet about its VR plans, although a system is clearly on the drawing board.
Nintendo NX will mean a return to the cartridge
Like the 3DS
We have suspected that the Nintendo NX rumours was going to abandon optical discs for game storage, but we thought it would move to download only.
Nintendo NX coming in March 2017
But don't expect to see it anytime soon
Nintendo has confirmed that it is to launch its next-generation games console, codenamed 'NX,' in March 2017 but it will not be showing off any prototypes at the Electronics Entertainment Expo.
Nintendo to get back into VR
Is this a return for the Virtual Boy?
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn which claims that the outfit which nearly killed off VR gaming with its “Virtual Boy” wants to get back into the industry.