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Used Copies of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D Will be Forever Haunted by the Last Owner

Used Copies of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D might not be worth your money because Capcom made it impossible to for anyone to erase game save date from the game card. Capcom included a note in Resident Evil‘s game manual that reads: “Saved data on this software cannot be reset.” Translation: Everything is permanent. What…

By Sam Winstrom Published June 27, 2011

Nintendo, Americans Are Pissed Off You’re Not Giving Them RPGs

Xenoblade Chronicles is a Wii RPG that’s been out in Japan since 2010. It’ll be out in Europe in September. With no firm release date yet set for America, though, Yankee RPG fans have taken it upon themselves to convince Nintendo to take action. While last week there was a plan to write Nintendo a…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 27, 2011

Japan’s Nintendo Online Shop Carries the AWOL Bits You Need

Nintendo catches heat for being clueless about the internet. That’s not exactly fair, because Nintendo is doing cool stuff online—selling instruction booklets, for example. Joining Nintendo of America, Nintendo just launched its own online shop in Japan. While other game companies might try to sell you things you do not need, Nintendo is selling things…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 27, 2011

Some of Ocarina‘s Original Glitches Were Deliberately Kept in 3DS Version

In building the 3D remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the mandate for the developer Grezzo was to preserve fans’ memories of the original as much as possible. That meant, where possible, that bugs from the original Nintendo 64 game were intentionally left in. “As programmers, we wanted to get rid of…

By Owen Good Published June 26, 2011

Lulzsec Hackers Call It Quits

Whether planned retirement (or, more likely, hounded into disbanding), Lulzsec, the unlovable clowns behind hack operations against BioWare, Sony, Nintendo, EVE Online and Minecraft, ended its brief reign of semi-terror today with its final dump of stolen data, highlighted by 550,000 user names and passwords for the Battlefield Heroes beta of 2009. Another 50,000 users’…

By Owen Good Published June 26, 2011

How Badly Do You Want The Last Story, Pandora’s Tower and Xenoblade for Wii?

Bad enough to write Nintendo a letter? On actual paper? That’s what some passionate North American Nintendo fans have resorted to, pleading with paper and ink for Nintendo of America to bring more Wii games stateside, including The Last Story, Pandora’s Tower and Xenoblade Nintendo of America has not confirmed those games for release in…

By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2011

Realistic Gengar is the Pokémon of Your Nightmares

The dual-type Ghost/Poison Pokémon Gengar gets a super creepy redesign by artist Gavin Mackey. Just try going to sleep tonight… Related Rampages: Patrick Star | Raticate Gengar – Commission by Gavin Mackey / SoupAndButter Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin Page’s Rampaged Reality and get your fix.…

By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2011

Check Out this Sexy, Custom Resident Evil 3DS Case

This custom 3DS case came to Kotaku from Capcom along with an embargoed copy of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. While I’ve seen a few 3DS cases in stores, this is the first fitted case I’ve gotten my hands on and it’s pretty rad. In particular, I’m a fan of how subtle it is. There’s…

By Brian Crecente Published June 24, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

The Horror of Nintendo’s White Knuckle Scorin

In 1991, before the company realised it was a good idea to pay closer attention to the shit it was licensing its name and characters for, Nintendo gave its blessing for the release of a CD called White Knuckle Scorin While the name and the cover art give faint hope that this might be a…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 24, 2011

Suspected Lulz Hacker Told Mom He Was Gaming, Not Hacking

The teen linked by international law enforcement to anarchist hacking group LulzSec told family he was spending his days and nights locked in his room gaming, not hacking, the Mirror reports. Ryan Cleary, 19, was arrested earlier this week in connection with a string of attacks on websites around the world. The arrest was the…

By Brian Crecente Published June 23, 2011

Valve Likes What It Sees in Nintendo’s Wii U

Could Valve’s future games finally come to a Nintendo platform? Thanks to the Wii U, a system that appears at least as powerful as an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, it sounds like that’s a very real possibility. Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of the studio that makes Team Fortress, Half-Life, Portal and Left 4…

By Michael McWhertor Published June 22, 2011

How the Wii U One Ups Television

The master controller for Nintendo’s Wii U was born not of a desire to replace television, but to fix one of television’s very small problems. Those few second between when a person presses the power button on a remote control and when a television blinks to life prevents gaming consoles from becoming the sort of…

By Brian Crecente Published June 22, 2011

The Wii U Could Have Been a Handheld Console Instead

The main appeal of the Wii U, other than the promise of Mario and Zelda in HD, is its large controller with a fancy touch screen. That controller wasn’t ordained to be a controller from the start, though. “During the roundtable discussions there were such arguments about should we make it capable of being a…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2011

Mother Accused of Beating Son to Death After Wii Game Breaks TV

A 21-year old Bronx woman has been charged with murder and manslaughter after the death of her five year-old son, killed after he “broke the television while playing Nintendo Wii”. Kim Crawford stands accused of murdering Jamar Johnson after telling police she struck him on the chest and back “harder than I’ve ever hit him”…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

A Look at Decades of Nintendo Controller Innovation

The upcoming Wii U is hoping to change the way we think of controllers forever. Whether it does that or not is anybody’s guess, but if it does, it won’t be the first time Nintendo has pulled off that coup. While Nintendo’s franchises and consoles often get all the praise for the company’s success, let’s…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2011

Maybe 3D Isn’t Essential for the 3DS After All, Nintendo Hints

Nintendo has never required users of the Nintendo 3DS to play their games with the system’s glasses-free 3D visuals activated. But 3D has been the machine’s selling point, one baked into the machine’s name. There are signs, however, that game creators, Nintendo included, are discovering that the 3DS’ 3D isn’t always a useful technological perk…

By Stephen Totilo Published June 21, 2011

Do a Barrel Ro…ah, Forget it

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By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2011

The Wii U Won’t Blow Away Rivals

Nintendo showed an impressive Wii U tech demo at this year’s E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles. There have been rumors that the Wii U is more powerful than current gen hardware. But when pressed, third party developer Ubisoft struggled to explain how powerful the machine is. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto is more specific. At E3,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 21, 2011

Help Teach A Fellow How To Play The World Ends With You

Reader SecretMoblin has turned back the clock to 2008 in order to play The World Ends With You. And what better time to try this unconventional gem than what could easily be the twilight days of the DS’s lifespan? He’s got one problem: the combat’s driving him nuts. Think you could lend him a hand?…

By Drew Cohen Published June 21, 2011

Star Fox 3D Barrels Into Stores In Mid-September

Star Fox 3D, which is out in Japan next month, will be released in the West in September. It’ll be out on the 9th in Europe, while Americans will get their hands on it on September 11. [Eurogamer]

By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2011