Editing Nintendo Power (section)

{{short description|American video game magazine and podcast (1988–2012)}}
{{about|the magazine and podcast|the cartridge rental service|Nintendo Power (cartridge)}}
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{{Infobox magazine
| title           = Nintendo Power 
| logo            = [[File:Nintendo Power logo.svg|frameless|class=skin-invert]]
| logo_size       = 250px <!-- default is 180px -->
| image_file      = Nintendo Power.jpg <!-- cover.jpg (omit the "file:" prefix) -->
| image_caption   = First issue, July/August 1988
| editor          = Steve Thomason <!-- up to |editor5= -->
| editor_title    = [[Editor-in-Chief]] <!-- up to |editor_title5= -->
| previous_editor = Chris Slate
| staff_writer    = {{unbulleted list|Phil Theobald|Justin Cheng|Chris Hoffman}}
| category        = [[Video games]]
| frequency       = 6x annually; monthly beginning January 1991
| format          = Magazine
| circulation     = 475,000 (2012)<ref name=forbes/>
| firstdate       = July/{{Start date and age|1988|08}} <!-- {{Start date|year|month|day}} -->
| finaldate       = {{End date|2012|12|11}}
| finalnumber     = 285
| company         = {{unbulleted list|[[Nintendo of America]] (1988–2007)|[[Future US]] (2007–2012)}}
| country         = [[United States]], [[Canada]]
| based           = [[San Francisco, California]], U.S.
| language        = [[American English|English]]
| website         = {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319013838/http://nintendopower.com/|date=March 19, 2015|title=www.nintendopower.com}}
| issn            = 1041-9551
| oclc            = 760783416
}}

'''''Nintendo Power''''' was a [[video game]] news and strategy [[magazine]] from [[Nintendo of America]], first published in July/August 1988 as Nintendo's official print magazine for North America. The magazine's publication was initially done monthly by Nintendo of America, then independently, and in December 2007 contracted to [[Future US]], the American subsidiary of British publisher [[Future plc]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Nintendo and Future US Team To Publish Nintendo Power magazine|url=http://www.futureus.com/2007/09/19/nintendo-and-future-us-team-to-publish-nintendo-power-magazine/|publisher=Future US|access-date=17 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102071200/http://www.futureus.com/2007/09/19/nintendo-and-future-us-team-to-publish-nintendo-power-magazine/|archive-date=2 November 2013|date=19 September 2007}}</ref> Its 24-year production run is one of the longest of all video game magazines in the United States and Canada.

On August 21, 2012, Nintendo announced that it would not be renewing its licensing agreement with Future Publishing, and that ''Nintendo Power'' would cease publication in December.<ref name="forbes">{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/08/23/nintendo-power-magazine-will-cease-publication-this-december-according-to-nintendo/|title=Nintendo Power Magazine Will Cease Publication This December According To Nintendo|last1=Kain|first1=Erik|date=23 August 2012|work=[[Forbes]]|access-date=17 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/21/nintendo-power-coming-to-an-end|title=''Nintendo Power'' coming to an end|last=Mallory|first=Jordan|date=August 21, 2012|publisher=[[Joystiq]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114075832/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/21/nintendo-power-coming-to-an-end|archive-date=January 14, 2014|access-date=January 12, 2020}}</ref> The final issue, volume 285, was released on December 11, 2012.<ref>{{cite news|author1=John Gaines|title=Where Have All the Magazines Gone?|url=http://www.librarypoint.org/where_have_all_the_magazines_gone|access-date=March 14, 2016|work=Library Point|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011145110/http://www.librarypoint.org/where_have_all_the_magazines_gone|archive-date=October 11, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On December 20, 2017, a [[podcast]] version of ''Nintendo Power'' was launched, which ran until 2023.  It was hosted by Chris Slate, the former Editor-in-Chief of the  magazine.  The podcast is on hiatus as of 2025.