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EXCLUSIVE: Crackle has set March 1 as the world premiere date for five-part documentary series Playing with Power: The Nintendo Story. The show is written and directed by Jeremy Snead and executive produced (and narrated) by Sean Astin. World rights were acquired by Screen Media Ventures, the exclusive supplier of…

EXCLUSIVE: After Nintendo’s $9 billion 25% stock price jump followed the launch of the Pokemon Go mobile game in the U.S., all Hollywood has renewed the chase for a deal to turn Pokemon into a feature film. I’m told that Legendary Pictures is moving toward a deal to land the rights to make a live-action film based on…

Scammers sent out an email today purportedly from Pokemon Go app maker Nintendo and Niantic that announced it will begin to charge $12.99 a month to use the full version of the massively popular game to compensate for the “overwhelming response” and “the need for more powerful servers.” The game is currently…

Nintendo is worth $9 billion more today than it was on Thursday on the eyepopping success of Pokemon Go, an augmented reality version of the game introduced in 1995. Nintendo shares appreciated 24.5% on the Tokyo exchange today, and are up more than 30% including Friday, following the release of the free-to-play app…

Satoru Iwata, the beloved president of Japanese gaming company Nintendo, has died of bile duct cancer. He was 55. Iwata joined Nintendo in the 1980s, working on games including Balloon Fight, EarthBound and the Kirby franchise, working his way up the company ladder before taking on the top post in 2002. Stepping in…

Sony’s PS4 videogame console continues to rack up high scores in its sales race with Microsoft’s Xbox One and Nintendo’s Wii U, passing 10 million units sold nine months after its mid-November debut. Sony execs reported the sales landmark today in Cologne, Germany, during a briefing ahead of the big GamesCon…

Though videogames can be massive sellers (witness those billion-dollar debuts last fall for Grand Theft Auto V and Call of Duty: Ghosts), every title faces rapid obsolescence, at least in gamers’ eyes. Three years after hitting the shelves, even the hottest titles can look woefully quaint compared to the latest stuff…

Not even the arrival of fast-selling sequel Mario Kart 8 could rev up sales of the Wii U game console, as one-time video game king Nintendo continued to struggle in its first quarter. Operating losses of 9.47 billion yen ($92.2M) were twice as bad as expected in consensus analyst estimates, while sales dropped more…

Coming off three years of losses and facing two well-funded competitors with hot-selling new consoles, video game veteran Nintendo needed to do something at this year’s E3 convention to show it’s still relevant. Its solution this morning: Announce lots of sequels to some of its most beloved franchises (always a sure…