Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nintendo’s recent animated short Close to You initially appeared as a gentle, mysterious vignette: a baby’s pacifier drifts and ...

Fans spent a lot of time trying to decipher possible clues hiding in a recent Pixar-like Nintendo short film featuring a baby and, as it turned out later on, Pikmin. Were they a tease for a new Pikmin ...

Nintendo has cleared up the biggest mystery since Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes story by revealing what the two animated shorts it released this week were all about. The company says these ...

UPDATE: An update from Nintendo has now clarified the nature of this week's two 'Close to You' short films — and, sadly, it doesn't sound like Pikmin 5 is yet on the way. Read IGN's full coverage here ...

This morning, Nintendo posted a nearly four-minute animated short titled “Close to You.” In it, a baby watches as their toys are moved around by some unseen force. Nintendo provided no context or ...

Rather than reveal a new title in the Pikmin franchise, Nintendo has something a bit more unexpected to unveil. The most recent installment, 2023’s Pikmin 4, is getting a free update for Nintendo ...

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Nintendo used its Nintendo Today app to solve the mystery of what was going on in the “Close to You” animated short, as it turns out that video was a Pikmin cartoon. It turns out the “entity” moving ...

Gabriel has been playing games since he was a kid. Loves most RPG games, platformers, and innovative indie games, and can talk for hours about how the first Fallout is the greatest game ever. He ...

Nintendo has released a second version of the animated short that confused many fans and is now likely to have made some of those who guessed what was going on feeling very pleased with themselves.

Since Nintendo has many extremely passionate followers, there tends to be a lot of excitement about the company's upcoming games. Sadly, however, fans aren't always thrilled with information coming ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...