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A woman walks past Nintendo game characters, Pokemon, displayed at a shop in Tokyo on April 26, 2012. Japanese game giant Nintendo on April 26 posted its first-ever annual loss since becoming a public company, blaming a soaring yen and price cutting on its consoles for losing about $530 million.

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  • New rage keeps Somali boys off street: video games

    -- who were pushed out of Mogadishu last year by African Union and Somali troops -- banned recreational pleasures like movies and Nintendo .With the militants gone, Somali teens and boys are bingeing on entertainment systems like Sony 's PlayStation, a development   Read more »

  • Nintendo sinks into loss on weak sales

    Co. sank into a 43.2 billion yen ($533 million) loss for the fiscal year just ended as weak sales of the Wii home console and the strong yen eroded earnings.Kyoto-based Nintendo, once the star of video games with franchises like Pokemon and Super Mario, has   Read more »

  • Louvre goes visual with Nintendo 3Ds guide

    audio guide is so 20th century.So the famed Paris museum is going 3D visual with its electronic guides in a deal with Japan's Nintendo to provide game consoles to help visitors who navigate its labyrinthine halls by the millions each year.The game consoles   Read more »

  • Microsoft says no plans for new Xbox anytime soon

    hardware at the event. Rather, it plans to focus on games, music and other entertainment for the Xbox 360 , which came out in 2005. Nintendo Co. will be showcasing the Wii U, the successor to the Wii. Unlike the Xbox 360 or the PlayStation 3, the current Wii   Read more »

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  • Click to view larger image I'm Back!

    on all the new Wii U and 3DS games. After that I'll be back in London to put together my first issue of the Official Nintendo Magazine in four years and trust me: it's gonna be a corker! I'm off home to pack my bags right now but I thought I would share a 9:43 AM from The Official Nintendo Magazine Read more »

  • NULL News: Nintendo Announce BFI Partnership

    BFI and Nintendo are launching a short film-making competition and entrants will be encouraged to create short films that capture the imagination and showcase the art of 3D videography. Winners will have the opportunity to get their work shown to 'some of 9:34 AM from N-Europe Read more »

  • Click to view larger image Injustice coming to Wii U next year

    game starring DC super heroes such as Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. This is the second DC super hero game to be heading to a Nintendo platform after LEGO Batman 2, but considering that has been developed by Ed Boon, the brains behind Mortal Kombat, it 7:43 AM from The Official Nintendo Magazine Read more »

  • Nintendo announce 3DS video competition with BFI

    on from the 3DS photography competition, Nintendo have announced a new 3DS film-making competition. Win and you could have your film shown at this year's London film festival Nintendo has joined forced with the BFI for the 3DS film-making competition in which 6:42 AM from The Official Nintendo Magazine Read more »

  • Why play marbles when there's Xbox?

    games are exhilarating, absorbing and possibly addictive, but if you were an intelligent eight-year-old, would you eschew Super Nintendo's Star Fox for a yo-yo? It's a question parents across the western world might ask themselves as they indulge in periodic 4:17 AM from Winnipeg Free Press Read more »

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About Nintendo

Nintendo Company Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha?) is a global company located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel. Eventually, Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion. In 2007, Nintendo ranked tenth on the list of largest software companies in the world. Besides video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team in Seattle, Washington. According to Nintendo's Touch! Generations website, the name "Nintendo" translated from Japanese to English means "Leave luck to Heaven". As of October 2, 2008, Nintendo has sold over 470 million hardware units and 2.7 billion software units. In that same month, the company's Canadian division, Nintendo of Canada Ltd., was named one of BC's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc., which was announced by The Vancouver Sun, The Province and the Victoria Times-Colonist.

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