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Nintendo’s New JRPG Miitopia Looks Nuts In A Good Way 

Last week, Nintendo’s new Mii-based role-playing game Miitopia was revealed. Today, we got a better look at what to expect. It looks wild and like a lot of fun. The best way to describe Miitopia is Tomodachi Life meets JRPGs. Nintendo revealed more details in its Miitopia Direct, which was different from other Nintendo Directs.…

Blaster Master Zero will release on the Nintendo 3DS eshop in Spring 2017 according to an announcement by Inti Creates. The company acquired the license to the original game from Sunsoft and has been working on remastering and expanding it, adding new levels, enemies, etc.

Nintendo Throws Some Shade With New Animal Crossing Update

The update for Animal Crossing: New Leaf has added a range of new Nintendo themed Fortune Cookie prizes, including a Wii U. While game consoles have been present as items in Animal Crossing since the 2001 Gamecube release, the wording on the fortune that nets you a Wii U is pointed, to say the least.…

The Terror Of Returning To Animal Crossing After Nearly A Year

Before the Welcome amiibo update dropped earlier this week, I hadn’t played Animal Crossing: New Leaf in seven months. I was nervous to go back in. Would my town be in shambles? Would everyone have left? In an act of kindness, Isabelle didn’t guilt me over abandoning my town, Dogma, when I returned. Instead, she…

Nintendo Brings Back The Power Line For A Weekend

In honor of next week’s Mini-NES (which is officially called the NES Classic but I’ll keep calling the Mini-NES ‘cause that’s a way better name), Nintendo is going full nostalgia, pulling out the big guns in hopes of blasting your brain with thoughts of the 80s and 90s. Get ready for the return of the…

Ah, to be living in simpler times. If only a Nintendo handheld was enough to distract us from 2016’s Hellscape of an election (this is from a 1992 issue of GQ Magazine). Via Vintage Computing & Gaming

Animal Crossing Players Are Accidentally Deleting Their Towns With The New Update [UPDATE]

Haven’t played Animal Crossing: New Leaf in and want to jump back in for the new update? You can now sell your town to Tom Nook and start over, money in tow. For some, this might present an attractive option, but many players are finding that Nook never shows up to negotiate, and their town…

The Dragon Quest VIII 3DS remake will be out in North America on January 20, Nintendo said today. It’ll have quick save, a “Speed Up” function in battles, and extra dungeons/quests that weren’t in the PS2 version. That means you’ve got two months to finish the 4,000-hour Dragon Quest VII

Pokémon Go Will Get Daily Quests Soon

Pokémon Go fans will soon be able to enjoy “daily bonuses” that reward you for playing the game on consecutive days. While there’s no specific ETA just yet, Niantic outlined how daily quests will work as follows: Trainers will soon be able to receive a bonus for certain daily activities, including catching a Pokémon or…

Nintendo’s Mysterious Miitopia Looks Like A Mii-Based RPG

For a little while now we’ve been curious about Nintendo’s mysterious Miitopia, mentioned in various financial reports but never actually revealed. This morning, the game emerged. It may not shock you to hear that it’s full of Miis. Alongside this morning’s Animal Crossing presentation, Nintendo announced plans for a Miitopia Direct in Japan on Saturday.…

Animal Crossing: New Leaf Update Adds Amiibo Support, Mini Games

If you’ve been collecting the many Animal Crossing amiibo figurines or cards released over the last year, good news: they’re more useful now. Using Amiibo, you can now invite more characters to your town, and some will come with special items as well. The Amiibo support goes beyond Animal Crossing specific toys, too: both Splatoon…

Nintendo Denies Wii U Production Is Ending This Week

Yesterday, Eurogamer reported that the production of Wii U consoles was ending this week. Today, Nintendo says this is “not true.” Eurogamer reported that multiple sources confirmed to the site that the final Wii U would roll off the production line this Friday. “Nintendo declined to comment when contacted about this article,” states Eurogamer’s original…

Nintendo will have a Direct on November 2 for Animal Crossing. Right after announcing this, Nintendo sent out a Japanese tweet explicitly stating that it won’t have info about the smartphone app or the Switch. Noted!

16 Years Later, Fans Find Secret Messages Hidden In Paper Mario

Sometimes, developers put stuff inside of a game that players are never supposed to see. Such was the case with the original Paper Mario, which apparently had a bunch of dialogue that was not discovered until very recently. As Paper Mario expert Stryder7x explains in the video below, if you go out of bounds using…

Japan is getting a white and yellow Nintendo 2DS. Priced at 11,980 yen (US$114), it will be out on December 15 and come bundled with New Super Mario Bros. 2. No word if a similar bundle will be released internationally. 

Over at Eurogamer, the reporter who broke details about the Nintendo Switch’s design says his sources have pegged the Switch’s touchscreen at 6.2 inches, displaying at 720p and, like most phones and tablets, supporting capacitive multi-touch. The 3DS and Wii U used stylus-oriented resistive touchscreens.   

Someone Hacked Missingno Into A Modern Pokémon Game

Missingno was never supposed to exist; it was a glitch monster that could appear in Red and Blue only under special circumstances. Despite being a mishap, even now, twenty years later, fans still love and remember Missingno. While Game Freak may never bring Missingno back, VGMoose went ahead and modded Missingno into Pokémon Omega Ruby…

Podcast: We’re Psyched For Nintendo Switch

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I tackle the biggest gaming question of the next five months: What happened to that dude’s dog in the Nintendo Switch commercial? We also theorize about the Switch more generally, answer some reader mail, and talk Civilization VI, Battlefield 1, Mafia 3, and the worrying learning capabilities of…

Nintendo Is Revealing “Major Details” About The Switch In January 

Next January in Japan, Nintendo will be showing off “major details” regarding the Switch. Don’t worry, the presentation will be streamed. However, there will beno more Switch announcements until this January 12th presentation, which will include the price, the launch date, and the games in development. A few days later, people in Tokyo will get…

Capcom announced a new Monster Hunter game. It’s called Monster Hunter XX (as in “double cross”) and has one rather messy looking logo. The game is for the 3DS and will be out March 18, 2017 in Japan. No word yet on an international release.