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The Nintendo Download: Nintendo’s First Downloads Of 2010
Nintendo ushers in the new year with seven new downloadable games for the Wii and DSi, including Final Fight 3, Hell’s Kitchen Vs., and five titles you’ve likely never heard of. Even Hell’s Kitchen Vs. for DSiWare (800 DSi Points) is a stretch, as I can’t imagine I am in the majority when it comes…
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Zelda Fan Movie Taken Down on Nintendo’s Request
Nintendo let the fan-made Legend of Zelda film “The Hero of Time,” stay up over the holidays, but its creators have now taken it down after the company asked for its removal. The Hero of Time (that’s one of its trailers above) had been shown at film festivals, and on Dec. 22, had been hosted…
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A Retro Gaming Room I Could Die In
I’ve seen many a lovely retro gaming room in my lifetime, but this one from Netherlands resident donkey*kong makes me want to lay my head down on his Famicom pillow and quietly pass away. It may be a little Nintendo-centric, but you have to admire the guy’s passion. Just about every major and many minor…
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Rumor: EA Sports’ New Title is a Wii Football Trainer
Earlier this month, EA Canada’s community manager tweeted that the company would announce a new sports title in January. Rumor now has it the game is an (American) football-based trainer with NFL branding. Destructoid, citing unnamed sources, says the game is “NFL Trainer” and will put players through football-inspired workouts and drills. There’s talk it…
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Which NES Classic is Truest to Fighting Style: Kung Fu, or Karate Champ?
A third-degree black belt in American Karate, with experience in five other martial arts, assessed the NES’ Kung Fu and Karate Champ to determine which 2D 8-bit game most accurately presents its eponymous fighting style. Multiplayergames got the real-life karate master, John, to look at the titles – both ports of Data East classics that…
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Tabloid’s Most Outrageous Claim Ever: Wii Boxing is “Dangerously Lifelike”
Hey, you know what makes a domestic violence arrest funny and lighthearted? Wii Boxing. At least according to one supermarket tabloid’s interpretation of what went down between Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller. This just in from the Weekly World News – a Tooth Fairy gazette that straight-faced writes about stuff like Bat Boy and alien…
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A Modest Proposal For Holiday YouTube Videos
Every year, I always end up seeing this home video on YouTube as everybody gets into the holiday spirit. I’m sick of it. I want to nominate another video clip in its stead. Now obviously, you’re not going to get the exact same reaction from another pair of fresh-faced youngsters opening up their first major…
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Here’s Nintendo’s Enviro-Friendly Game Case [Update]
The TIE Fighter-Wing looking “green” game cases have been out for Xbox 360 since most November releases. Go Nintendo has an image of what they’ll look like for Wii games, beginning with Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers. As you can see, it keeps the octagonal hexagonal circular hub-and-spoke design on the right side,…
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Reviews
Style Savvy Review: Dressing Miss Michael
Join Kotaku’s tallest, broadest, and hairiest regular contributor as I explore the world of retail fashion design with Nintendo’s Style Savvy for the Nintendo DS. Style Savvy is a game marketed at girls that’s all about fashion – putting together outfits, running your own boutique, and maybe even making waves on the runway scene. The…
By Mike Fahey