Nintendo just released its weirdest game in years, and it's only on mobile

A new Nintendo game is out... on smartphones. Pictonico! is a WarioWare-style microgame compilation that pulls from your photo library to add your friends' and family's faces to the games. The pitch is that simple, and that irresistible.

Nintendo just released its weirdest game in years, and it's only on mobile. A new Nintendo game is out... on smartphones. Pictonico! is a WarioWare-style microgame compilation that pulls from your photo library to add your friends' and family's faces to the games. The pitch is that simple, and that irresistible. I just gave it a quick try and could picture the delight and hilarity of my 7-year-old daughter when I show it to her later. I also snapped instantly into the game's one-two-three-go WarioWare groove, perfectly translated by developer Intelligent Systems, which has worked on WarioWare almost from the start. It all makes perfect sense. But it's also pretty unexpected, because Nintendo had seemed to completely renounce mobile games after a flirtation with the form in the mid-to-late 2010s. Nintendo had turned to mobile as Wii U flou...