Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Nintendo's Yoshio Sakamoto unravels the truth about the eerie game Emio - The Smiling Man, which revives the Famicom Detective Club ...

You’d think that with how long Nintendo has been around, that truly “surprising people” isn’t something that they would be able to do. However, ever since the most recent Nintendo Direct, The Big N ...

Nintendo is giving players the chance to check out the new Famicom Detective Club game’s first few chapters for free ahead of the game’s release for Switch. Emio — The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective ...

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Last week Nintendo teased something to do with Emio, and it looks like it isn't the survival horror we all thought it might be. In probably the weirdest bit of marketing Nintendo has done in a hot ...

This past July, viewers were taken aback by a mysterious trailer for what seemed to be a horror game being published in-house by Nintendo. The trailer simply featured live-action footage of an ominous ...

On August 29, Nintendo will release its most surprising game in decades. Emio — The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club is an unlikely revival of an NES visual novel series that hasn’t had a new entry ...

Last week, a mysterious trailer for a Nintendo game threw the internet into speculation mode with its cryptic vibes and lack of any concrete details. A man with a bag on his head and the word “emio,” ...

The latest entry in Nintendo's Famicom Detective Club series masterfully orchestrates music, setting, and player expectations to create an unnervingly suspenseful finale. My Best Buy Plus and Total ...

Get a breakdown of the mysterious case in this Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club launch trailer. Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club will be available on Nintendo Switch on ...

In Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, a student has been found dead in a chilling fashion, his head covered with a paper bag with an eerie smiling face drawn on it.