Nintendo's Senior Managing Director Shigeru Miyamoto was not a happy man during the GameCube era. The creator of Link and Mario describes Nintendo's fourth-generation console entry as a time of "dilemma." Miyamoto says in a new Famitsu interview, by way of 1UP, that during the Nintendo 64 and GameCu...

Today a Nintendo patent came to light for a hint system which would allow gamers to essentially let games play themselves. We reached out to game developers for their opinion on the patent. The patent, filed by Nintendo Creative Director Shigeru Miyamoto on June 30, 2008, outlines a gaming system mo...

The latest "Iwata Asks" segment, this time touching on Link's Crossbow Training and the Wii Zapper, is a doozy. It's Miyamoto and Iwata kicking back, enjoying tea and biscuits, and telling us all about some of the crazy, crazy shit they may or may not have actually planned for not only Link's Crossb...

Japan made it through Wii Fit mania without a hitch, really. Nobody fell off the board or anything like that. Good times, all around! But, that's Japan. What about elsewhere? Over on Disney community forum (yeah, we know) DISboard, one poster claims: We have all laughed and joked about being told th...

Think that waggle machine is all light-hearted fun? Think again. Nintendo isn't screwing around. Nintendo is dead serious. Listen to company honcho Satoru Iwata talk about Miis: To Nintendo, licensing Mii is identical to licensing Mario. If you read Iwata Asks interview series in website, you can un...

No one honestly thinks TIME's annual 100 Most Influential People list bears any relation to the world's actual power ladder. But it's a decent gauge of which entertainer has the most dedicated fan base. This year, three extreme cult followings have made Shigeru Miyamoto, Stephen Colbert and Rain the...

Shigeru Miyamoto is not some lovable man-child! He used to smoke and gamble. And he gets pissed, man, he gets PISSED. Just listen to what Nintendo honcho Satoru Iwata has to say about him: Miyamoto-san gets pretty scary when he's angry, doesn't he? ...and... Miyamoto-san is really merciless when it ...

This one's for the doubters. Just because Steven Spielberg can make movies, that doesn't mean he can make video games. They're different! And just because he's in tune with cinema, that doesn't mean he understand games, right? Right?! Wrong, says former Dreamworks' employee and current Electronic Ar...

Here it is, feast your eyes, some human wearing a limited edition Wii Fit shirt with a fake Shigeru Miyamoto autograph on it. There are only one thousand of these, and they were only available for those who pre-ordered at the Nintendo World store in New York City. Nintendo really dropped the ball on...