If there's one thing that Nintendo absolutely detests, aside from the prospect of making the older Pokemon titles available on modern hardware, it's anyone that misuses their IPs, is involved with ...

Nintendo’s fired off a new volley of legal notices against the Switch emulation scene. Close to a dozen GitHub pages were hit with DMCA takedown requests over the weekend. However, while several of ...

It was always going to happen. Nintendo has come down hard on hackers and pirates, so those particular communities are going to always double down in their efforts to hit back. To what ultimate ...

An interview with Switch 2 devs revealed that the Nintendo Switch 2 relies partially on emulation to play Switch 1 games. The two systems do not have compatible hardware, so native backwards ...

Nintendo flexed its legal muscle once more, as the company issued takedown notices to several Switch emulator repositories hosted on GitHub. Though the emulation crackdown by Nintendo remained an ...

It’s been a few weeks since the Nintendo Switch 2 hit shelves, but if we’re being perfectly honest, there’s not much reason to buy one yet. I’ve been revisiting my OG Switch to stave off the FOMO, but ...

Wind the clock back to 2024 and Nintendo’s legal attack on Switch emulators RyuJinx and Yuzu. The emulators had incurred the wrath of the notoriously litigious company by, in some cases, openly ...

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TL;DR: Top Nintendo IP lawyers at the Tokyo eSports Festa stated that emulators are technically legal, even though Nintendo has been shutting down popular emulators. It was only last year that ...

There's a huge library of games on the Google Play Store, which is probably enough to keep most satisfied. But if you're looking for something specific, like retro or console gaming, then you may need ...

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