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Super Smash Bros Limited Edition 3DS

The limited edition Super Smash Bros Brawl 3DS XL listed in the Nintendo UK store for October 3 You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Meta Knight Returns, Looks as Menacing as Ever in Super Smash Bros. 4

Menacing or cuddly, depending on how you look at him. Kirby’s nemesis and the first on Brawl’s pro-gaming tier list, Meta Knight will be appearing for the second time in Smash Bros. He’s going to behave a bit differently according to series creator Masahiro Sakurai, who wrote: Meta Knight’s Up Special Move, Shuttle Loop, changed…

Karaoke Bar With Super Mario Bros And Twin Peaks-Themed Rooms

The Highball, which is next to the Alamo Drafthouse’s South Lamar Theater in Austin, has several new karaoke rooms, including rooms based on Twin Peaks, Super Mario, Jem, a haunted mansion, and more: Sideshow Freaks: Haunted Mansion: Truly Outrageous: The Fifth Dimension: Super Mario: The Black Lodge: The Inferno: The rooms were designed by Zack…

Mega Slowbro Leaks, Is The Best Mega Pokémon

According to Pokémon news website Serebii, earlier today the official Korean Pokémon website uploaded pictures of two surprising mega Pokémon: Mega Slowbro, and Mega Audino (pictured above). While the images are no longer on the Korean website, the internet was quick to save the pictures—and have taken to social media to poke fun at mega…

A Twisted Store In Hyrule

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Hey Nintendo, Make The Next Zelda Game Look Like This

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With A Change Of Tone, Pokemon Becomes A Horror Movie

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Wait, The GameCube’s Pikmin Could Run In Windows?

Huh. In today’s installment of “things I wish I’d known in 2001” comes this page on The Cutting Room Floor, via Brandon Boyer, which both outlines the fact the original Pikmin on GameCube could run on a PC, and shows you howto do it. Turns out there’s a Windows executable file on the wee disc,…

A Shiny Surprise Arrives With Pokémon Alpha Sapphire And Omega Ruby

Along with a trio of new Mega Pokémon, Horde Battles and some sexy new Pikachu cosplay, The Pokémon Company today announced a special distribution to coincide with the November 21 launch of Pokémon Alpha Sapphire And Omega Ruby — Shiny Beldum holding a Mega Stone. Through the power of evolution, Shiny Beldum will eventually evolve…

Bayonetta 2 Is Looking Good, Adds Surfing

Familiarity is underrated in video games. Sometimes, I don’t want anything new or crazy. Sometimes, I just want to play Bayonetta again since the original game was already awesome. Thankfully, it looks like that’s what Bayonetta 2 is shaping up to be…plus some added surfing levels, which are always are a good thing, in my…

Just What the 3DS Needs: A Large Joystick

Now, there’s nothing wrong with your 3DS XL getting a joystick. Heck, more portable consoles should have them. As Inside Games reports, this is the Cyber Arcade Stick from Japanese peripheral maker Cyber Gadget. It’s for the 3DS XL! And with Super Smash Bros. for 3DS soon coming out on… the 3DS, this might be…

The Super Mario 64 Coin That Took 18 Years To Collect

In 2002, someone on GameFaqs discovered something curious: there was a coin in Super Mario 64 on a course called Tiny-Huge Island. Not just any coin, though. This coin was different from all the other 191 coins on the level, because unlike the other coins, you couldn’t actually collect it. The coin on Tiny-Huge island…

Streak about to be broken? Nintendo has released a new handheld—or iteration of an existing handheld—in North America in each of the past five years. Nothing announced for this fall, which means 2014 might break the streak. Unless… anyone want a 2DS XL to be announced by December? A 3D XL Lite? Game Boy 2?…

Nintendo Finally Brings 1986 Video Game To America

It’s taken more than 25 years but a NES game made by Nintendo itself will finally be coming out in North America. You may have seen or heard homages to The Mysterious Murasame Castle in Nintendo games but the real deal comes to the 3DS this week. Get ready, but this sucker looks hard. Originally…

Aladdin And Princess Jasmine Are Coming To Disney Infinity

Seeing how the movie came out 22 years ago, Aladdin isn’t exactly “a whole new world” at this point. Disney Infinity certainly took its sweet time bringing the nineties-era classic back in video game form, though. Today, Disney finally revealed its plans to bring Aladdin and Princess Jasmine to the Disney Infinity Toybox 2.0. Don’t…

Why Are Nintendo Characters in This Chinese Smartphone Promo? [Update]

Many game developers are rushing towards mobile phones as a place to release their games. Nintendo, however, has preferred to stick close to its own gaming hardware. Which is why it’s so odd that Nintendo characters appeared at this mobile phone booth at the recent China Joy gaming expo. China Mobile, China’s largest telecommunications carrier,…

There’s a Good Reason Why This Game Is Japan’s Current Best-Seller

Yokai Watch 2 (妖怪ウォッチ２), the sequel to the exceedingly popular Yokai Watch, has been selling like gangbusters in Japan. And for good reason. Not only is the TV anime going strong and related toys disappearing off of store shelves faster than they can stock them, but the game itself is a whole lot of fun.…

Your Rival in Keiji Inafune’s Next Game is Basically Mega Man

In Azure Striker Gunvolt, you play the role of the electricity manipulating Gunvolt. If you thought that with Keiji Inafune as producer, Gunvolt would be just another enemy power-stealing Mega Man clone, worry not – That’s your rival character. Produced by Keiji Inafune and developed by Inti Creates, Azure Striker Gunvolt is an upcoming 2D…

If you want to see what marketing regret looks like, scroll down this Twitter thread, as folks respond to Nintendo’s question to “tell us what you love about” Princess Peach.

4344739’s channel modded a 3DS so they could use a Gamecube controller on it. Woah. Suddenly, portable Smash Bros actually sounds enticing! (Via Tiny Cartridge)