With the Switch, the 130-year-old gaming giant has once again turned reports of its demise into Nintendo Mania, writes Filex Gillette.

WALK like an Egyptian? How about stalk like an Egyptian! Assassin’s Creed Origins was, surprisingly, one of 2017’s best games. It reinvented a series that had begun to slip into ruin.

Nintendo’s first Mario smartphone title has set a download record but gamers baulked at the one-time cost of unlocking content, prompting investors to push the Japanese game makers’ stock to a one-month low.

Knowing he hasn’t long left Mario, a mentally disabled cancer patient, had to say one last farewell to the giraffe he befriended working at a zoo in Rotterdam.