Miitomo, Nintendo’s sophisticated new smartphone app, is a hybrid of free-to-play game and social network. By combining aspects of each, it becomes a disarming information gathering project. On its ...

Nintendo has slowly come around to the idea that launching games on mobile platforms is quite lucrative. But Nintendo's first foray into mobile apps wasn't a game, it was a social network called ...

For years, fans and analysts had anticipated Nintendo's move to smartphone gaming-- expecting to see ports of popular Mario titles, or a portable version of the Wii and Wii U's virtual console games.

Harassment, hoaxes, mob justice, public shaming, doxing, citizen journalism, disinformation, snuff, celebrity breakdowns, racist chat-bots, joke plagiarism and an endless stream of delectable cat gifs ...