Save $50 on the Nintendo New 3DS XL SNES Edition and give your mobile gaming some retro flair

Gaming on the go is fun, and no one does it better than Nintendo. The 3DS has been the undisputed king of mobile gaming for years now, and hasn’t shown signs of slowing down, even with the success of the Switch. If you want to pick up a 3DS with a li…

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Someone sent this ‘Earthbound’ SNES cartridge to space

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Sending stuff to space is always fun, but deciding what to launch is tricky — if you have the choice.

For Ronnie Doyle, his decision was a copy of Earthbound, the 1994 SNES game which has become a cult favourite in the years gone by. 

Doyle told Kotaku he had the opportunity to send something “smaller than a lunchbox” to space, after his grandfather made a donation to a science group called Earth To Sky Calculus.

Of course, copies of Earthbound go for hundreds of dollars now, leaving this to be one expensive and risky experiment. Fortunately, Doyle said the cartridge still works, despite the rough landing. Read more…

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Nintendo’s NES Classic will return to U.S. retail stores on June 29

Rejoice Nintendo fans: the Japanese gaming giant is bringing the NES Classic back to retail stores this summer. Nintendo said the console go on sale again across the U.S. on June 29, with the SNES Classic also set to be available until the end of this year. It isn’t clear what the situation will be outside […]

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Heads up: The SNES Classic is back in stock on Amazon for $80

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Nostalgic gamers, rejoice: The SNES Classic is back in stock on Amazon for $79.99.

If you’ve had FOMO since it sold out most everywhere last year, here’s your second chance. You probably already learned this lesson the hard way, but let us just reiterate: If you see it in stock, do not wait to buy it.

No, seriously. It will probably sell out really fast.

The Super NES quite literally took the internet by storm when it was re-released in 2017. It was on sale for about three months, there was the expected digital stampede, and it’s been sold out on most online retailers (Amazon included) ever since. It even outsold the Xbox One and PS4 — so yeah, today’s restock is kind of important. Read more…

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