It was released in Japan on April 27, 2000, in North America on October 26, 2000, and in Europe on November 17, 2000. Approximately 314,000 copies of the game were sold during its first week in Japan, and three million copies were sold worldwide. The game was rereleased for the GameCube as part of The...
Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, a creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, an adventure mode where players can play custom maps created by other...
Splatoon is a third person shooter for the Nintendo Wii U. Its primary mechanic revolves around covering things in ink and your ability to swim through that ink. Swimming through ink enables you to swim up walls, hide in ink puddles, etc., allowing for complex gameplay mechanics you don't normally get...
Mario Kart 8 is a kart racing game and the eighth major installment in the Mario Kart series, developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii U video game console. Like other games in the series, in Mario Kart 8, players control characters from the Mario franchise and participate in kart racing on various...
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) is the first game developed in collaboration with the Iñupiat, an Alaska Native people. Nearly 40 Alaska Native elders, storytellers and community members contributed to the development of the game. Play as a young Iñupiat girl and an arctic fox as they set out to...
Super Mario Maker lets people’s imaginations run wild. For the first time ever, friends can have fun playing through levels they create for one another. The Wii U GamePad controller makes it so easy for anyone to create levels; it may feel like simply sketching out ideas on paper. Players can...
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. The world is your canvas and the ground itself is your paint. Grab your tools and go! Make weapons to fight off a variety of enemies in numerous biomes. Dig deep underground to find accessories, money, and other...
Its popularity led to many spin-offs, versions of Angry Birds being created for PCs and gaming consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters, a televised cartoon series, and an upcoming feature film. Rovio is investigating ways to expand the Angry Birds brand, including merchandise, television...
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, stylized as Shantae: ½ Genie Hero, is an upcoming platform video game in development by WayForward Technologies for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. The game in this case follows a similar structure to that...
EarthBound Beginnings, originally titled as EARTH BOUND in North America, is the first installment in the Mother series. It was developed by Ape Inc., Nintendo Tokyo R&D Products, and Pax Softnica, and was published by Nintendo for the Famicom on July 27, 1989. For its Japanese release, the game was...
All the challenging ground-pounding, barrel-blasting, side-scrolling mine cart action from the Donkey Kong Country series is back along with a bushel of new game-play elements and features. And now, there are four playable characters! Dixie Kong is back to join the adventure as a playable character alongside...
It is the nineteenth main installment in the The Legend of Zelda series and the first original Zelda game developed with a high-definition resolution. The title will feature open world gameplay that constitutes a departure from the series' normal conventions, such as the inclusion of a realistic, advanced...
The game was first released in Japan on December 17, 1999 and in other regions in 2000. The objective is to earn the most stars of all players on the board; stars are obtained by purchase from a single predefined space on the game board. The type of mini game is determined by the color of the spaces...
It was published by Nintendo in North America in February 2004, in Australia in March 2004, in Europe in April 2004, and in Japan in May 2004. However, while she escapes the planet in her gunship, she is attacked by Space Pirates, causing the ship to crash back onto Zebes, near the Space Pirate Mothership....
Following a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, the game was initially released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U in June 2014, and ports of the game for OS X and Linux followed in September of the same year. Shovel Knight is a 2D side-scrolling platform game presented in 8-bit...
A Nintendo Switch port came out on April 12, 2018. The game follows a scientist named Wilson who finds himself in a dark, dreary parallel world known as the Constant and must survive as long as possible. To this end, the player must keep Wilson alive, fed, and mentally stable as he avoids a variety...
Golden Sun is the first installment in a series of fantasy role-playing video games developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo. Golden Sun's story follows a band of magic-attuned "Adepts" whose purpose, as it is revealed early on, is to protect the world of Weyard from...
It is part of the Resident Evil video game series and takes place between the events of Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5. It was designed to bring back the content and horror of the series' roots, while at the same time trying to modernize the gameplay. Resident Evil: Revelations is a survival horror...
All three games star the title character as their protagonist. The first game in the series was directed by Hideki Kamiya, who created the Devil May Cry franchise when he was working in Capcom. It was the third title in Platinum's four-game contract with Sega. Although it was Platinum's most commercially...
The objective of Harvest Moon 64 is to restore and maintain an abandoned farm left to the player by their grandfather. Along with restoring the farm, there are a number of other side quests that the player may choose to partake in, including training and racing a horse, selling crops, participating in...
"Hive Jump is one part Spelunky, one part XCOM, and all parts alien ass-kicking. You and your friends assume the role of JUMPERS, and blast your way through subterranean alien hives in run-and-gun 2D platforming action. Kill aliens, avoid traps, collect resources, and defeat the hive queen lurking at...
Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag begins in 1715, when pirates established a lawless republic in the Caribbean and ruled the land and seas. These outlaws paralyzed navies, halted international trade, and plundered vast fortunes. They threatened the power structures that ruled Europe, inspired the...
It is the third 3D original game in the Super Mario series and the eighth main instalment overall. The levels in the game consist of galaxies filled with minor planets and worlds, with different variations of gravity being the central element of gameplay. The game is the eighth best-selling Wii game...
Kirby"), is a puzzle platformer game in the Kirby series developed by HAL Laboratory for the Nintendo DS. Instead, the player only uses the stylus and touch screen on the DS to play the game. After Kirby fell asleep in a field, Necrodeus, the evil leader of the Skull Gang, appeared from the sky....
