During a Nintendo Direct today, Nintendo announced a new collection of Super Nintendo games headed to Virtual Console exclusively on the New 3DS. Nine games in total were announced for this upgraded ...

An article on the upcoming Japanese game distribution service "Noid" in this week's Famitsu seems to hint at the possiblity of a new title in the classic Mother (known as EarthBound in the West) ...

Nintendo is really starting to show some love to its nearly forgotten EarthBound franchise. The publisher recently released the Super Nintendo classic on the Wii U’s eShop store for $10. Now, Nintendo ...

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For most of the genre’s lifespan, “role-playing” was synonymous with fantasy—warriors swinging swords, wizards casting spells, dungeons full of monsters and treasure, et cetera. But one deeply unusual ...

Every once in awhile, a weird little game like “EarthBound” shows up. The game’s odd marketing campaign led to poor sales, casting the franchise into near-obscurity outside of Japan, according to ...

Earthbound creator, Shigesato Itoi, and Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, are close friends. In the past, Itoi has been the host in “Iwata Asks” style discussions with Nintendo employees, including ...

EarthBound, the endearing Japanese role-playing game from the Super Nintendo era, delivers a very particular brand of surreal humor and sentimentality. It’s part of a series known as Mother in Japan, ...

The news of Satoru Iwata's death filled me with sadness, and a desire to return to Earthbound - the game that, without his skills, would not exist as it does. I first played it when I was a teenager, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. I still find some of the British voices a bit odd, despite being ...