Shigeru Miyamoto Weighs in on Tetris

Shigeru Miyamoto Weighs in on Tetris

In the mid eighties, Tetris was being quietly passed around the video game industry. When it made it's way to Nintendo, Then Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi asked game industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto to try it out. When Yamauchi asked Miyamoto a few days later if Tetris was any...
Goodbye to a Legend; The Passing of Bernie Stolar

Goodbye to a Legend; The Passing of Bernie Stolar

Growing up in the 90's, I was enamored with the "Console war," the battle between Sega and Nintendo. I found myself strictly on the Nintendo side, but was also intrigued by Sega. A friend of mine had Genesis and would spend hours, sometimes days on it. While I...
Creating Color for the Colorblind: Dr. Don McPherson

Creating Color for the Colorblind: Dr. Don McPherson

Dr. Don McPherson is the co-founder of EnChroma, a company responsible for possibly the most groundbreaking technology in the field of color deficient vision. What was once considered to be moderately treatable with lenses that only work outdoors has now been refined with the invention of technology that...
E3 2018 Predictions: Nintendo

E3 2018 Predictions: Nintendo

Nintendo is one of those companies that is hard to predict. They're well known for dropping megaton announcements at random times during the year, and those announcements are often met with complete pandemonium. There's no other game developer on the planet that can create more buzz than Nintendo....
Satoru Iwata Describes Gaming

Satoru Iwata Describes Gaming

In 2006, The late Nintendo President Satoru Iwata stood on stage at the Game Developer's Conference San Francisco and talked exclusively about what makes games fun. During his closing remarks, he told a captive audience the most spot-on summary of his company's vision. "At Nintendo, we do not...
Nintendo Direct Scheduled for March 8th, 2018

Nintendo Direct Scheduled for March 8th, 2018

Nintendo has announced that its newest Nintendo Direct will be released tomorrow, March 8th, 2018. According to Nintendo, 3DS and Nintendo Switch games slated for release in 2018 will be the focus. In addition, Nintendo has promised new details on Mario Tennis Aces, a new Mario-based tennis title...