Nintendo Week

The season of giving is upon us, and once again Groose climbs aboard his mightly Loftwing to deliver the finest presents to every good Nintendo fan in the world. Join our heroes as they unite once again, to discuss their wishlists for the coming Nintendo Year.

Nintendo Week returns for November 2020 to discuss Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, Nintendo's recent decision to shut down a popular Smash tournament, and all the best eShop savings you can find in this year's Black Friday sales, including Hades, Assassin's Creed, Pikuniku, and so much more.

Zelda, Pokémon, Luigi's Mansion... This week your hosts explore the spookiest experiences Nintendo has to offer. Listen... if you dare

The gang reunites with some fresh new faces to discuss all the news from our supersized gap year, including Animal Crossing, Xenoblade, Hyrule Warriors, Paper Mario, and of course some Super Smash Bros. DLC.

The gang reunites for a new episode pre-E3 2018. This week we discuss Pokémon Let's GO, Super Smash Bros., and make our predictions for E3 2018. This year's outro music is insaneintherainmusic's cover of Coconut Mall, from Mario Kart Wii.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as they join each other IN PERSON to discuss their experience at E3 2017, including Super Mario Odyssey, the Raving Rabbids, Splatoon 2, surprise Metroid games, and so much more. This week's outro music is "Jump Up, Superstar," by Mayor Pauline.

Join Colin, Alex, and Ben as they play catch-up from all of 2017 to discuss everything there is about Nintendo Switch and all its incredible games, followed by Alex and Colin's E3 predictions. This week's break music is Bulby's 8-bit rendition of Hau'oli City's theme from Pokémon Sun and Moon. This week's outro music is "Super Mega Ultra Pipe House," by DDRKirby(ISQ)

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Join Alex, Ben, and Colin for the first Nintendo Week of 2017, doubled in length as we emerge from our slumber with rusty podcasting skills and much to say about Nintendo Switch and all that surrounds it. We cover everything we learned from the Switch Presentation, including hardware, software, pricing, third-party relations, and so much more, before moving onto what all this tells us about Ninten...

Join Ben and Colin as they herald the end of 2016 by discussing tons of news about Nintendo Switch, Super Mario Run, Pokémon GO, and tons more. This week's outro music is InsaneInTheRainMusic's rendition of Vast Pony Canyon, from Pokémon Sun and Moon, featuring SwigglesRP.

Join Alex, Colin, and Ben, for an extra-long episode as we answer your questions all about Nintendo Switch in the Mystery House, including questions about 3D platformers, Mother 3's international release, Decidueye joining Smash Bros. to represent Pokémon Sun and Moon, and more. Then we hold a long discussion segment all about the overwhelmingly cool new trailer for Zelda: Breath of the Wild, whic...

Join Alex, Colin, and Ben, as we break down another huge amount of Nintendo news, including EA's support for Switch, Phil Spencer's wish to see Banjo in Smash, what feels like yet another delay for Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and tons of reports about Nintendo Switch's software lineup. After the break, we sit down to talk about the newly-launched Pokémon Sun and Moon, and our full thoughts on what...

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as they boil down the last few weeks of Nintendo news, including tons of news and reports relating to Nintendo Switch, Animal Crossing's major new update, the official end of Wii U, Croagunk's inclusion in Pokkén Tournament, Game Freak's comments on future Pokémon remakes, and tons more. This week's outro music is insaneintherainmusic's rendition of "Still Alive," from Po...

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin this week, as we open up with a Dream Land segment about our wishes for Mario Kart on Nintendo Switch, from characters, to courses, game modes, and more. Afterwards, we have a longer-form discussion about the future of the Virtual Console with Nintendo Switch, and the new ways Nintendo can continue releasing their back-catalogue of classic games. This week's outro music i...

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as they boil down an enormous week of news about Nintendo Switch, followed by stories on Pokémon fan games, Hyrule Warriors, and more in the News Block. After a quick look down Fortune Street, we take it to the Tea Table to discuss every single Nintendo-made game in the Wii U's library and call our bets on what's getting ported to Nintendo Switch. This week's outro music...

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as they discuss a swarm of Pokémon topics from the past week, including the leaked full lineup of new Pokémon, Ultra Beasts, and Alolan Forms, alongside our experiences with the Sun and Moon Special Demo Version. Afterwards we shift to Colin's time with Nintendo's fall lineup, including the NES Classic Edition and Mario Party: Star Rush. And finally, after the break, it's...

Colin travels by himself through semi-arid terrain on his ostrich horse. With a gaunt appearance and an empty stomach, he suddenly stops at the smell of something; he looks over to find a man cooking a large piece of meat over an open flame. Colin puts a hand over his gurgling stomach and moves the hand to his sword hilt. However, upon seeing that the man is traveling with a pregnant woman, he con...

GameXplain's Andre Segers joins Alex, Ben, and Colin this week for an episode dedicated entirely to Paper Mario: Color Splash. Andre and Colin's review copies are both in, so the four of us explore our experiences with the game and whether it's worth all the hype (and anti-hype). This week's outro music is an excellent rendition of the Toad Town music from the original Paper Mario, arranged and pe...

Join Alex, Colin, and Ben, as we discuss the last few weeks of news, including the new series Pokémon Generations, new Ultra Beasts from Sun and Moon, Nintendo’s strategy for making mobile vs. console games, Nintendo’s new position for someone to enforce DMCA takedowns, Pokémon GO’s further-declining numbers, and tons more. This week's outro music is insaneintherainmusic’s live jazz rendition of t...

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin for a new segment called Indigo Plateau, where this week we explore our top five Wii U games, alongside our honorable mentions. We discuss games like Smash, Mario Kart, Shovel Knight, Splatoon, Donkey Kong, Pikmin, and tons more. This week's outro music is "Windmill Advisory,” a wonderful remix of the Windmill Hills theme, from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, by Pum...

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin, as we discuss Nintendo and Apple's budding relationship kicking off with Mario’s first mobile game, before diving into tons of news from Pokémon Sun and Moon, Pokémon GO’s Apple Watch launch, and more. This week's outro music is "Mushroom Madness," a New Super Mario Bros. remix by Jredd.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin in an extra-long episode as they discuss tons of news from the past few weeks, including Nintendo's involvement with eSports, Pokémon GO's decline in users, recent and extremely thorough reports about NX, and tons more. After the break we dig into this morning's Nintendo 3DS Direct to discuss Super Mario Maker, Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World, Zelda Amiibo, Animal Crossing,...

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as they discuss their most-wanted features for Nintendo's NX in the Dream Land segment, and then settle the timeless question—what's the greatest Zelda game ever made?—in The Glitz Pit, Nintendo Week's podcasting debate game.

This week is filled with a lot more Pokémon in the News Block, followed by a super short round of Fortune Street and Gossip Stone, where we’re gonna talk about a new controller patent and the rumor that NX is launching with Mario and Pokémon games within its first six months. This week's outro music is insaneintherainmusic’s incredible jazz medley of several songs from the Pokémon series.

Join Alex, Ben, and Colin this week as we discuss the recent debacle surrounding AM2R, the fan-made Metroid II remake: all the joy it brought followed by Nintendo's unfortunate move to strike it down. Afterwards we take it to our Trainer Tips segment, to help listeners like you navigate the cold hard world of gaming on Nintendo platforms in 2016. There we discuss our recommendations for SNES, 3DS,...