IMAGINE if you had every NES game ever released at your fingertips. Imagine if your phone could store and run those games — thousands of games — from an SD card, or even from internal memory.

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

Are we living in a Golden Age, or the Dark Ages? That all depends on perspective — even two neighbouring countries might be in very different stages of history. One society might be on the rise, the other plummeting into chaos, writes Ronan Jennings.

Ronan Jennings bring you the latest in gaming reviews. This week he puts Horizon Zero Dawn, Dirt Rally and Nintendo’s Switch under the microscope.

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.

Shares of Japan’s Nintendo has soared again, more than doubling the firm’s market capitalisation to 4.5 trillion yen (€38.5bn) in just seven sessions since the mobile game Pokémon Go was launched in the US.

Shares in the Japanese company Nintendo have soared this morning off the back of Pokemon Go.

Nintendo has named a 65-year-old human resources executive as president to lead the company’s long- awaited push into smartphone gaming and development of its new console.

HOURS we had spent, the two of us, scrambling for survival on an infested space station. How many corridors had we pushed through? How many enemies had we slain, this hero and I?

Satoru Iwata, who led Japanese video game company Nintendo through years of growth, has died of a bile duct tumour at the age of 55.

A Fianna Fáil councillor has called for the removal of the LGBT community’s rainbow flag from above Cork’s City Hall, one of the world’s longest cruise liners docked in Cork today and Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard has been voted the 2015 Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Nintendo has apologised and pledged to be more inclusive after being criticised for not recognising same-sex relationships in English editions of a life-simulator video game.

Nintendo says its profit for the first nine months of the fiscal year fell 30% because of languishing sales of its Wii U home consoles and game software.

Nintendo's share price has plummeted after the Japanese games console company issued a profits warning.