Following their last Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo featured a Game Center CX special, featuring Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, where he plays Balloon Fight—a game that he programmed ...

In this week’s Iwata Asks, Hideki Kamiya is joined by his boss, Atsushi Inaba, as well as Nintendo producers Hitoshi Yamagami and Shingo Matsushita to discuss development of The Wonderful 101.

But before Iwata was championing the expansion of gaming, he was creating games as a programmer. One of the games he worked on early in his career was "Balloon Fight," an NES classic that iterated ...

It's been a sad start to the week, as the industry is still reeling from the sudden passing of Nintendo's late president, Satoru Iwata. Since yesterday, scores of artwork and sentimental ...

Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s president Satoru Iwata delivered a keynote speech at the Tokyo Game Show 2003 and touched upon such subjects as the videogame industry in general, what types of products sell ...

At a keynote speech at the 2003 Tokyo Game Show, current Nintendo president Satoru Iwata expressed his concern that games were becoming too complicated and could alienate the nongaming crowd. He ...

A man who has been with Nintendo practically since he was old enough to work, the late Satoru Iwata first turned heads when he programmed Balloon Fight for NES. Famed Nintendo composer Hirokazu ...

In short, quite a bit. Sakurai says he might not have joined HAL if not for Iwata, ... Massive Super Smash Bros. mod adds the N64 fighting game's actual announcer, ...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed that the company does not intend to produce any further iterations of the Game Boy Advance, despite the success of the GBA SP and GBA Micro. In an ...

Satoru Iwata, the late president of Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co., has won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 19th annual Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain (D.I.C.E.) Awards ...

Riot Games has given its long-awaited League of Legends fighting game a proper name: 2XKO. It’s a title that touches on the project’s 2v2, tag-team gameplay, but more importantly, ...

The death of Nintendo’s previous president and CEO Satoru Iwata was more than just the loss of a corporate ... Wednesday night’s Game Developers Choice Awards show debuted a new tribute to the ...