Earthbound (known as Mother 2 in Japan) is coming to North America and Europe, and will be available for the Wii U Virtual Console before the end of the year.

Nintendo is celebrating the Famicom’s 30th birthday by releasing select Wii U Virtual Console games for 30 cents. Right now, you can get F-Zero for 30 cents. Japan has a slightly different list with Earthbound for sale for just 30 yen starting on March 20.

Earthbound creator, Shigesato Itoi, wrote his thoughts and feelings about his beloved series in poetic fashion.

Nintendo announced a slightly different Virtual Console line up for the Famicom’s 30th anniversary.

Before you get excited, it’s not Earthbound 4.

Earthbound creator, Shigesato Itoi, and Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, recently had a chat about the series in a Japanese magazine.

A few prototypes are floating around and one of those can be yours.

Banpresto is selling a giant sized Mr. Saturn doll. It’s 45 centimeters (we’ll round that to 1.5 feet) tall! Unfortunately, a gift like this is hard to come by.   I’m not talking about the only in Japan kind of limited. You have to be lucky to even buy one. Only 500 giant Mr. Saturns [...]

What is Brownie Brown up to these days? The Tokyo based developer recently finished Blue Dragon Plus for Japan and in the future they might be working with the Wii. Shinichi Kameoka, President of Brownie Brown, tells us, “I’d like to try making games for the Wii. We’re optimistic about it and looking into it.” [...]

Now that Siliconera has grown to include the voices of many talented writers, readers may want to know what these writers think about current issues in the game industry. Siliconera Speaks Up is a new weekly feature which highlights the different perspectives which make up the team of writers.   This week’s hot question: The [...]

Thanks to two years of fan-translation efforts I finally had a chance to play Mother 3.  After putting a handful of hours in, I’m amazed that no one at Nintendo wants to give the English-speaking world a chance to play this charming RPG.   Without giving too much of the story away, the game is [...]

The collective community of Mother/Earthbound fans at Starmen.net banded together to launch a campaign to bring Mother 3 outside of Japan. For the past few weeks members have been mailing envelopes to Nintendo with Earthbound fan art, circulating Earthbound propaganda posters on the internet and organized a flood of phone calls to Nintendo requesting a [...]

  Mother (aka Earthbound outside of Japan) has a huge following even though a single game was released in North America. Nintendo of America flirted with the idea of releasing the NES game, but since the Super Nintendo was out they canned the project. Prototypes of the NES cart do exist and one popped up [...]