The company that gave the world Mario, Link, and Samus is the undisputed champ of the modern console war, with nearly 150 million Switches sold since 2017. But now, speculation is rampant about the company’s next console, rumored to launch in 2025.
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Celebrities: They’re just like us! They have bad hair days. They hate waiting in line at the DMV. And just like us, they stand around looking uncomfortable when they play Wii U at conventions. Nintendo today sent over a bunch of celeb photos from the San Diego Comic Con last weekend, and some of them…
Mario is a man we’ve become well accustomed to, we’ve followed his escapades for decades now. But despite bringing us new experiences he seems to harp on the past an awful lot. The good news is, Mario, today is the first day of the rest of your life. Music: Danse Morialta Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Wish…
There’s a new Pokémon game. It’s called Pokémon X/Y and recently gameplay was showed off on Japanese television. Don’t worry; the game doesn’t appear to have ridiculously long load times. The above GIF is a fake! This is gameplay footage that has been given a long “Now Loading…” screen. As several Kotaku commenters have pointed…
Japan has a small, yet thriving indie game community. But does Nintendo want any part of it? Nintendo is trying to be more welcoming towards indie games than it has been in the past. At this year’s Game Developers Conference, Nintendo revealed Unity for Wii U and Nintendo Web Framework. These tools should make the…
Earthbound is officially out on the Wii U’s virtual console as of last Thursday, and now a whole new generation of gamers gets to experience Nintendo’s quirky role-playing game for the first time. Are you one of those gamers? Are you playing Earthbound for the first time? Post your thoughts, opinions, questions, etc. (Free tip:…
We’ve featured LEGO recreations of Nintendo hardware on Kotaku before, but I’ve never seen anything quite this authentic. Built by Flickr user weltall1028, this baby is the splitting image of a real Nintendo Entertainment System, right on down to the little man inside your console who tells the games where to go. More pics below:
Pikmin 3 is already out in Japan. It’s headed to the U.S. on August 4. The game is the same, but the Pikmin 3 commercials couldn’t be more different. Let’s have a look. Here is the Japanese commercial for Pikmin 3. In the ad, actress Juri Ueno watches a Red Pikmin carry a cherry. She…
For a good long while, I couldn’t get into Animal Crossing: New Leaf Oh, I got it, sure. I saw the appeal. I watched as almost every single person in my Twitter feed freaked right the hell out about the game, chronicling their every move, joking about crushing on Reese and trash-taking during the first…
Sure, the ending themes of the last two Pikmin games are fun little orchestral themes that you can hum along to; but the credits for Pikmin 3 take it one step further… [Credit Spoilers Incoming!] …By having a full choir of Pikmin singing along. It’s probably the cutest thing you’ll see all day. Check out…
Unlike, say, Android, Apple is pretty strict in how it polices its online store, outlawing any app that lets people play emulated (read: usually illegal copies of old games) titles on their iOS device. But it can do little to stop this one. Riley Testut has built a program called GBA4iOS, a Game Boy Advance…
Reddit user Juankestein has shared images of a “Game Boy” he built when he was 9. Which is a fancy name for something he made out of paper. It’s awesome. To mimic the scrolling effect of a 2D platformer, he’s made levels on long rolls of paper, which as crude as it sounds isn’t that…
Here’s the trailer for Attack of the Friday Monsters, a new game that came out for the 3DS eShop today. It looks kind of amazing—a visual novel set in a sleepy Japanese village where monsters attack once a week. I will certainly be checking this one out.
Earlier this week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visited an indoor mushroom farm and called for the country to become a world-class mushroom producer. A mushroom kingdom, if you will. “The mushroom cultivation grounds look very nice and I am pleased to see them,” said the Supreme Commander (via NKLW), who added that it was…
Hey. How’s it going? Are you having fun digging up fossils and being the mayor of your town? Yeah? I’m glad. Will you have a seat? No, calm down. This isn’t an intervention per se, but…listen, we need to talk. I’ve noticed something while playing New Leaf. At first, I thought I was just imagining…
Princess Rescue—that homebrew Atari 2600 homage to Super Mario Brothers—is now available through AtariAge as a $30 cartridge. An emulator ROM is on its way too.
It’s been nine years since the release of the last Pikmin game. And while it’s still weeks away from a Western release, Pikmin 3 was released in Japan this past Saturday. But what exactly is Pikmin 3 like hands-on? You can count on Kotaku East to give you a sneak peek. Check out the video…
Just when you thought the stories coming out of fighting game tournament Evo were as interesting as they were going to get, along comes a tale for the reality TV/Street Fighter fans out there. Of which there must be at least one Turns out Taylor Hicks, who won American Idol a few years back, entered…
The Mario Warfare series continues after a few months rest/preparation. It continues to be the best place to see Mushroom Kingdom characters fighting with barrels and assault rifles. If you haven’t caught an episode before, you can start catching up here Mario Warfare 3 [Beatdown]
So, the Famicom turned 30 today. In honour of that, let’s look at one of the coolest accessories ever made for the console, one that sadly never made it out of Japan. In 1984, Nintendo released the Famicom Data Recorder, a tape deck peripheral for the console. Yes, cassette tape. The Data Recorder was a…
This. Is. Incredible Fan site History of Hyrule have done an amazing job tracking down all old art from The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past from all kinds of old magazines, manuals, products and publications, and have scanned and uploaded the images online. To say it’s a treasure trove of old Nintendo…
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