The release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has become one of the most successful in France. The newspaper Le Figaro, citing French retailers, reports that 500 thousand cartridges with the game were bought in the country during the debut week.

On February 11, the Western press began publishing the first reviews of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Judging by their reviews, the game was a success. She set a record on OpenCritic, receiving the highest rating from the point of view of critics in the history of the platform.

In the first quarter, Russians bought game consoles much more actively than in January-March 2022. According to retailers’ estimates, demand has doubled over the year.

Nintendo does not plan to finally leave Russia until at least the end of 2025. TASS, with reference to the annual report of <url>, reports that all this time it will maintain a minimal presence in the country.

Composer Ryo Nagamatsu has announced his retirement from Nintendo. He has been cooperating with a Japanese company for 17 years.

In February 2022, an American court sent Gary Bowser, a hacker from Team Xecuter, who sold tools for hacking Nintendo consoles, to prison. He was sentenced to 40 months in prison, but released earlier for good behavior.

Another gaming company has decided to finally leave Russia. Nintendo, in a comment to the Eurogamer portal, announced that it was engaged in the liquidation of the Russian division.

The Library of Congress of the United States, whose collection contains films, sound recordings and many other significant materials for the country, in addition to rare books, has added 25 musical compositions to its register. One of them was the theme from Super Mario Bros.

Last November, Nintendo announced that it was going to launch a subsidiary of Nintendo Systems together with mobile developer DeNA. Five months later, they actually opened a joint venture.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has expanded the list of goods that can be imported into Russia as part of parallel imports. In particular, the list again includes Nintendo products.

Microsoft has signed a contract with Nintendo, according to which Xbox games will be released on the consoles of the Japanese company for 10 years. She also promised to release Call of Duty series games on Nintendo consoles — if the deal with Activision Blizzard is closed.

For the second time this week, it becomes known that the Public Investment Fund (PIF) from Saudi Arabia is increasing its stake in Nintendo. Now he owns 8.3% of the Japanese company.

The Public Investment Fund (PIF), controlled by the Saudi authorities, continues to invest in Nintendo. According to the Trading View portal, the fund increased its stake in the Japanese publisher to 7.08%.

Researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen have developed a test neural network called MarioGPT. With its help, anyone can create levels for Super Mario Bros.

On February 8, Nintendo released Metroid Prime Remastered in its digital store. A week later, the developers of the original game discovered that they were not marked in the credits — they were not too happy about it.

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard continue to send subpoenas to competitors as part of a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This time they subpoenaed Nintendo and Google.

Nintendo has confirmed that the standard edition of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will cost gamers $70. The new price has already appeared on the pre-order page of the game in the Nintendo eShop.

Nintendo can join the number of companies that sell their games for $70. The network noticed that on February 8, the Nintendo eShop opened a pre-order for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom with a price tag of $ 70. However, almost immediately Nintendo removed the possibility of pre-ordering and hid the cost of the game.

Nintendo has announced that it will improve the remuneration of Japanese employees, despite the fact that the company’s own revenues have decreased. It will raise the base salary of both new and current employees by 10%.