Nintendo Announces Completely Bonkers New Game That Turns Your Photos Into Minigames
Nintendo has announced a new mobile game called Pictonico!, set to release on May 28. The game allows players to turn their photos into minigames featuring various silly challenges. It will be free to play, but additional content will require purchases.
- ▪Pictonico! will feature 80 different minigames based on players' portrait photographs.
- ▪The game includes various modes such as a series of stages, a score attack mode, and a fortune telling mode.
- ▪It is designed to appeal to users who enjoy applying filters to photos, but in a more surreal and interactive way.
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Nintendo Announces Completely Bonkers New Game That Turns Your Photos Into Minigames Pictonico! is due out at the end of May as a freemium mobile game MobileNintendoPictonico By John Walker Published May 19, 2026 | Comments (0) | 𝕏 Copied! The main logo for Pictonico! (exclamation theirs). © Nintendo / Kotaku Overnight Nintendo revealed a brand new mobile game called Pictonico!, which says it will take your photos and turn them into minigames. Looking like it falls somewhere between WarioWare and Project Rub, this completely doolally game wants you to take photos of yourself and friends, and then puts your face into ridiculous challenges, and it all looks pleasingly bonkers.
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