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The Biggest Selling Games And Hardware Last Month In Japan 

It’s April! March is over, but Famitsu has Japanese sales figures for the most successful games, hardware, and game companies of the past month. For the period of February 27 to March 26, here are the top five selling games in Japan: 5. 1-2-Switch (Switch) – 138,790 copies 4. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands (PS4)…

Legendaries Do Not Ruin Competitive Pokémon

Legendary Pokémon get a bum rap in competitive play. Many casual observers and players constantly ask why legendaries are allowed in the first place. Aren’t legendaries overpowered? Don’t legendaries make battles boring? I see sentiments like these expressed all the time on social media: These beliefs don’t represent the full spectrum of competitive Pokémon players…

Splatoon 2 Makes Sure That Almost Anybody Can Jump In And Play

Splatoon 2 is a great time. Fighting as a squid-kid is fun and the game takes steps to make sure many people can enjoy. From new players to those with disabilities, games can take actions to help everyone join in the action. We take a look how in this critical video. Transcript: I think that…

New Zelda: Breath of the Wild Patch Fixes Frame Rate Issues

Last night, Nintendo put out an update for Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and their patch notes are just about the most Nintendo thing ever: “Adjustments have been made to make for a more pleasant gaming experience.” In reality, they’ve made some huge frame rate improvements. Whereas in the past, walking through the Korok Forest…

Nintendo Switch Sales Nearly Double In Japan

Good news for Nintendo! Switch sales nearly doubled in Japan during the last sales week, when compared to the previous week’s. According to 4Gamer, via Media Create, Nintendo Switch came in top in the country’s hardware ranking for the week of March 20 to March 26. Here’s how the Japanese hardware sales chart look for…

Fire Emblem Heroes Spring Event Comes With Bunny Costumes

Fire Emblem Heroes is about to get a little more colorful. The Spring Festival tosses fan favorite heroes into bunny costumes and adds a new, lighthearted side story to battle through. But it’s mostly about those absurd outfits. The Spring Festival will run from March 30th to April 13th. The biggest draw from the event…

Kid Makes A Cardboard Nintendo Switch Because Mom Won’t Buy The Console

Gotta love the creativity of kids! Twitter user Ama-chan’s kid brother made this cardboard Nintendo Switch because their mother wouldn’t buy the real deal. According to Ama-chan, her little brother is in fifth grade and dreams of making video games in the future. If that doesn’t work out, he can always design hardware, cardboard or…

Breath Of The Wild Directors Reveal Their Favorite Shrines

The creators behind The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild talk about their favorite shrines, locations and characters in a follow-up to their making-of series. Nintendo has released a bonus video for theirthree part series about the development of Breath of the Wild where art director Satoru Takizawa talks about his favorite shrine, and…

Atlus Announces Shin Megami Tensei: Deep Strange Journey For Nintendo 3DS

The 2009 Nintendo DS game Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is getting a revamped version for the 3DS. According to 4Gamer, this is a “remake,” and Famitsu reports that it will have full-voice, new graphics, and around 350 new demons as well as a new character named “Alex.” You can watch the debut trailer below:…

Animal Crossing’s World Is A Trip

The way later Animal Crossing titles have scrolled make it appear to the player that the game world is round. Zoom the camera out past the confines of a DS/3DS/TV screen, though, and the world is not so much round as it is a giant, habitable roll of toilet paper. The gif above is taken…

Splatoon 2 Lobby ‘Easter Egg’ Lets You DJ While You Wait

If you’re playing one of the “global testfire” demos for Splatoon 2 this weekend, don’t forget to take a few moments and jam and create some tunes while on the match-making screen. As many people have discovered on Youtube, the game has an easter egg that lets players mess with the pitch of the lobby…

Splatoon 2‘s Snipers Are Pulling Off Incredible Shots

This weekend’s global testfire for Splatoon 2 is live, and players are already picking apart the new changes in the squid-shooter sequel. A new change to the Charger is letting snipers hold their charges while squid-swimming, leading to some spectacular highlight reels. Splatoon’s gameplay revolves around winning a turf war by inking the most territory…

Zelda And Nier Are Great Despite–And Because Of–Their Technical Shortcomings

Nier: Automata and Breath of the Wild are amazing games with occasional technical problems. How do they manage to side step these issues and incorporate them into their structure? Heather takes a look in this critical video. Head’s Up: This video contains minor spoilers for Nier: Automata. Transcript: My current video game poisons of choice…

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Is The Perfect Game For Non-Gamers

Breath of the Wild might be the hardest Zelda since the NES days, teaching players how to progress through its puzzles by killing them frequently and without remorse. Yet, paradoxically, it’s also one of the best games for people who don’t play a lot of video games. Last week, having spent the past month raving about…

Reminder! The Nintendo DSi Shop ends on March 31. In Japan, there’s a program to move unused DSi points to the Nintendo eShop or even convert them to a cash refund. The Japanese program starts April 3 and ends September 29. No word yet for Nintendo’s plans in the West.

The Sweet Taste Of Zelda Revenge

Well, would you look who it is. Remember me, motherfucker? I’m that kid you callously wasted back when I had three hearts, a pair of pants, and a stick for a weapon. Hey, check this out. Was that fun for you? It was fun for me. Now to grab these spare parts out of the…

Players Looking For Shiny Magikarp Are Getting Trolled By Pokémon Go

Right now, most people playing Pokémon Go are hunting for one thing: a golden shiny Magikarp. Oh, they’re finding shiny Magikarp alright. It’s just not turning out how they’d expect. Last year, Pokémon Go introduced Ditto, a shapeshifting creature who always appears as something else. You might capture a Sentret, for example, only for it…

Switch Controller Cosplays As GameCube Pad

Boss Fight Props, normally in the business of making cosplay gear, decided to take his Switch controller and dress it up like a GameCube pad. I would buy this, if only for the colour-coded buttons. I would buy multiples if it was the GameCube’s old “spice” colour scheme While the images look like renders, it’s…

Super Mario Run Is Now Available On Android

Better late than…never? Despite coming out on iOS in December, it’s taken until today for Android owners to get their hands on Mario’s side-scrolling mobile adventure. But hey, despite the long wait, it’s here now. The game’s pretty good, even if it does have some very weird ideas about how mobile users should pay for…

Nintendo Says JoyCon Wireless Issues Were Caused By ‘Manufacturing Variation’

If you, like me and several other Kotaku staff, have run into a consistent left Switch JoyCon signal issue, don’t worry: Nintendo says it’s not in fact a hardware problem, but a “manufacturing variation.” The company also says to contact them for a fix if you’re running into the problem. Here’s Nintendo of America’s full…