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Animal Crossing, Zelda games and more get permanent price cuts — and amiibo bundles, too

Nintendo is expanding its line of budget Nintendo 3DS and Wii U games, adding popular titles from franchises like Animal Crossing and The Legend of Zelda to the Nintendo Selects line-up. Alongside...

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Mario Party invading Japanese arcades later this year

Mario Party is heading to Japanese arcades this summer, and Capcom is hosting. The developer launched a website for Mario Party: Mysterious Challenge World today, which will make its official debut...

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Amiibo, Disney Infinity, Skylanders, Lego Dimensions: A guide to gaming toys

Since its 2011 debut, Skylanders has become a multi-billion-dollar franchise with literally hundreds of merchandising deals. While Skylanders didn't invent the toys-to-life genre - games that use...

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Watch a week-long Mario game marathon played for charity

For the next week straight, TSG.tv (a.k.a. The Speed Gamers) will be continuing its tradition of streaming Mario games live Twitch non-stop for charity. You can watch the event for yourself in the...

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Sony wins hardware and software, with Nintendo growing big in the March NPD report

Video game hardware unit sales decreased by nine percent last month, according to data from the NPD Group, which tracked video game sales for the five-week period from March 1, 2015 through April...

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Silver Mario amiibo spotted in the wild came from a mysterious Chinese site

A YouTube video shows a rumored rare silver Mario amiibo working with Mario Party 10, lending credence to unofficial reports that Nintendo will be offering variants of the figurines. In the video...

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Minimap April 8, 2015: NBA 2K14, Twin Peaks, Eve Online, Deus Ex, Visceral, Snoop, Street Fighter, Arrested Development

Welcome to Polygon Minimap, a daily audio tour through the latest news about video games, related technologies and culture. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe to the podcast (RSS) Here's what...

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Mario Party 10 review: off the board

Mario Party 10 throws a lot of spaghetti at the wall, and still serves up the stuff that lands on the kitchen floor. That's not to say that none of Mario Party 10 sticks — some of its ideas are...

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Bigtime YouTuber says enough is enough; he won't do any more Nintendo videos (Update)

A prominent video gaming YouTuber has had enough of Nintendo, following a copyright claim against a recently published video in which he plays and discusses Mario Party 10. "Angry Joe" Vargas, who...

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How to troll your friends with Bowser graffiti in Mario Party 10

Mario Party 10's three main modes are designed for the three different types of Mario Party players in the world. There's your basic Mario Party, which is modeled after the last game in the series...