Nintendo Week

Join the Nintendo Week crew as Alex, Ben, and Colin discuss the latest Nintendo Direct from beginning to end, covering Paper Mario: Color Splash, Kirby: Planet Robobot, SNES games on the New 3DS, and tons upon tons more news. Then we dig into a few stories that came out this week, including the discovery of Twilight Princess Picross and a rumor Destructoid published that Nintendo is funding Beyond Good & Evil 2 as an NX exclusive. This week's outro music is a bouncy light rendition of “Toad Town” from Paper Mario, by Michelle Heafy, ThunderScott, and 8BitBrigadier.

Everybody's sick this week as we're joined by Braxton Burks, the creator of the popular Pokémon Reorchestrated fan project, to discuss a huge amount of Pokémon news, including the Virtual Console rereleases, Pokémon GO, and the announcement of Gen VII. Plus we address an extremely juicy new set of NX rumors that detail all the goals of the system, and it sounds crazy enough to work like magic. After the break we introduce a new segment called Places and People, where we sit down to chat with various people from around the Nintendosphere. This week's break music is Bulby's awesome 8-bit remix of Pokémon XY's Bicycle Theme. Our outro music is Pokémon Reorchestrated’s fantastic rendition of the Champion Battle music from Pokémon GSC.

Everybody's sick this week as we're joined by Braxton Burks, the creator of the popular Pokémon Reorchestrated fan project, to discuss a huge amount of Pokémon news, including the Virtual Console rereleases, Pokémon GO, and the announcement of Gen VII. Plus we address an extremely juicy new set of NX rumors that detail all the goals of the system, and it sounds crazy enough to work like magic. After the break we introduce a new segment called Places and People, where we sit down to chat with various people from around the Nintendosphere. This week's break music is Bulby's awesome 8-bit remix of Pokémon XY's Bicycle Theme. Our outro music is Pokémon Reorchestrated’s fantastic rendition of the Champion Battle music from Pokémon GSC.

The crew holds a super-sized podcast this week in celebration of fifty episodes! We touch on exciting news subjects including Pokkén Tournament, Geno's Smash candidacy, the producer of The LEGO Movie eyeing Nintendo, and tons of juicy rumors. Afterwards we hold THREE discussion segments, starting with a new one we call the Game Corner, followed by the Mystery House and a special round of the Glitz Pit. This week's break music is Bulby's 8-bit remix of Final Fantasy VII's battle theme. This week's outro music is a cover of Mother 3's love theme, by Epic Game Music.

Thanks to nearly an hour and a half of technical difficulties, we're bringing you a Nintendo Week Micro this week, with a segment that's a sort of hybrid between the Lightning Round and the News Block. If all goes well, we'll be back in full next week with all the great segments we originally had in store for you today! This week's outro music is Thunderstruck, by Big Giant Circles.

Celebrate our one-year anniversary with a new and improved Nintendo Week! We're introducing new segments and tons more to make the show better than ever. Join Alex, Ben, and Colin as they discuss a mountain of news, including a new Pokémon, Undertale's Nintendo port-in-progress, Aonuma's debate on giving Link dialogue, incoming Amiibo of Callie and Marie, and Nintendo's consideration of VR. After the break we introduce two new segments: The Gossip Stone, where we dissect the latest rumors from the Nintendosphere and deem them True or Trubbish (subjects include Mother 3 and the NX release date), and The Glitz Pit, a podcast-game segment where YOU join us in a fight for ultimate glory. This week's break music is Bulby's EarthBound-inspired remix of Bonetrousle, from Undertale. This week's outro music is "Welcome Home," from the new Undertale album "Live at Grillby's."

This week featured a ton of news, including new games like Detective Pikachu, some credible rumors about NX, Paper Mario, and more, a controversy over Fire Emblem Fates, and impressions of recent games like Pokémon Picross and Mario & Luigi. After the break, we dig into the rumor that Super Smash Bros. is coming to the NX as a launch game, discussing new content, modes, and more that could come to the title. This week's break music is Bulby's version of the X-Naut Fortress theme, and the outro music is "Chillin' with the Bros." by Amphibious.

Alex, Ben, and Colin talk about recent news from Zelda: Twilight Princess HD, ESPN's decision to start covering competitive Smash, Nintendo's plans to expand into making anime, and lots more. The party amps up after the break, when we're joined by Xander Mobus, the voice behind the Super Smash Bros. Announcer. We shoot the breeze about his experience working with Nintendo, his thoughts on Smash, and more, followed by a whole bunch of hilarious catchphrases form all around the Nintendoverse and character names the internet desperately needed. This week's break music is Bulby's remix of Smash 64's bonus game theme, and the outro music is a Big Band medley of Smash Bros. tunes.

Alex, Ben, and Colin dig into big plans from Pokémon's 20th anniversary in the news section of this week's show, followed by big stories on Shovel Knight, Mother 3, a new game based around Amiibo, and more. After the break, we're back with another Mystery House segment to answer listener questions—subjects include Nintendo's unsung heroes, characters we'd love to have as Amiibo, and where Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and more can go next.

Alex, Ben, and Colin dig into big plans from Pokémon's 20th anniversary in the news section of this week's show, followed by big stories on Shovel Knight, Mother 3, a new game based around Amiibo, and more. After the break, we're back with another Mystery House segment to answer listener questions—subjects include Nintendo's unsung heroes, characters we'd love to have as Amiibo, and where Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and more can go next.