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The Nintendo Download: Let’s Get Ready To Pokémon Rumble

This week brings WiiWare demos of five popular titles, a new Art Style title for the DSi, and Pokémon’s answer to Gears of War Horde Mode, Pokémon Rumble. Demos, in my WiiWare? Preposterous! Yes, this week Nintendo is giving us a free taste of some of the more popular WiiWare titles, letting players who weren’t…

By Mike Fahey Published November 16, 2009

DSi Now Comes With Pre-Installed Software

Best Buy’s Black Friday catalogue has popped up online, and amidst the bargains is an interesting offer from Nintendo: a DSi console that comes with downloadable DSiWare pre-installed on the machine. There will be two bundles available, each with five games included on the system. One includes a white DSi with three Brain Age Express…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2009

Rumor: New DS Is Better Than The Zune

Having heard from “credible sources from within the mobile graphics industry”, Digital Foundry have done a little digging and come up with probable hardware guesstimates for Nintendo’s alleged next generation of handheld hardware. They reckon that, with the rumoured mahine due to launch late next year, it’s going to be powered by the second iteration…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 16, 2009

Odd And Odder Mario Sightings In New York

Yesterday, we gave you video of the makeshift Mario Museum Nintendo set up outside of its New York City store, commemorating the launch of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. But that video didn’t quite capture the wild sights nearby. Click each image to enlarge, captions on the right I shot this picture inside the Nintendo…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 15, 2009

So, Get New Super Mario Bros. Wii Yet?

Gotta say, I rather dig these Sunday launches for Nintendo titles. I’m sure preachers and the NFL don’t, but whatever. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is out today, and those who picked it up are probably itching to tell someone. So, tell us about it, and brag to your fellow commenters. Or feel free to…

By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009

Totilo, Talk-Show Star, Visits Fox News

This doesn’t qualify as shameless self-promotion because, well, it’s not about myself. Kotaku’s own Stephen Totilo went on Fox News‘ “Strategy Room” on Friday to discuss Modern Warfare 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and other hot topics. Totilo, who was earlier a guest on MSNBC, joined Seth Porges of Popular Mechanics and the NPD’s…

By Owen Good Published November 14, 2009

World Store Launches New Super Mario Bros. Wii This Afternoon

Friendly reminder to those in the vicinity of New York City – Nintendo’s World Store is throwing a launch party beginning in a couple hours (3 p.m. US Eastern time) for New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The shindig is more than just a line-up for an early purchase. Nintendo says it’ll deck out the store…

By Owen Good Published November 14, 2009

Mario Goes Round And Round In NASCAR Race

If our glowing review for Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. doesn’t convince you to buy a Wii, perhaps seeing Mario, Luigi and his Toad followers on a NASCAR chassis will! Nintendo and GameStop are co-sponsoring driver Denny Hamlin for this weekend’s Able Body Labor 200 at Phoenix International Raceway, forcing him to drive a New…

By Michael McWhertor Published November 13, 2009

Thank You Mario, But Our Princess Is In Another Game, Getting Kidnapped Again

New Super Mario Bros. Wii is released this weekend, continuing the proud tradition of Princess Peach getting her delicate bottom kidnapped by lizard creatures. Let’s explore her victimization record, shall we? Princess Peach gets kidnapped a lot. There are few women with more kidnappings under their belt than her royal mushroom highness, with only Daphne…

By Mike Fahey Published November 13, 2009

Reviews

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Review: Go Buy A Wii

It’s been two years since we’ve had an all-new Mario Bros. game. Two years of fans waiting for a title that will not only reintroduce them to a beloved character, but could reshape the way we play video games. That’s a lot for a single title, one with more than 20 years worth of games,…

By Brian Crecente Published November 13, 2009

BBC iPlayer Gets Its Own Wii Channel

The UK’s iPlayer TV and Radio on demand server for the Wii gets an upgrade next week, graduating from Wii Internet Channel feature to full-on BBC iPlayer Wii Channel. Starting at 12:01am on Wednesday, November 18th, Wii owners in the UK will be able to download the new BBC iPlayer Wii Channel, giving them instant…

By Mike Fahey Published November 13, 2009

What The Captains Of The Industry Said Today

Four ideas popped out to me while attending a series of presentations from top executives in the gaming industry today: Ideas about price, women, mid-cycle relaunches and which games matter most to the bottom line. The following all came from half-hour presentations to investors and press today at the BMO Capital Markets 17th Annual Digital…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 12, 2009

The Mystery Deepens In Possible Hotel Dusk Sequel

Japanese blog Sinobi reports that there are retail listings for a Hotel Dusk sequel for the Nintendo DS titled Last Window: Midnight Promise (Last Window: Mayonaka no Yakusoku). According to the blog, CING’s sequel is set in 1980s Los Angeles and will hit Japanese shelves January 14. A cursory search of Amazon Japan doesn’t turn…

By AJ Glasser Published November 12, 2009

You’d Better Watch This New Super Mario Bros. Wii Strategy Video

Because from what we’ve been hearing, New Super Mario Bros. Wii is no cake walk, especially in multiplayer games. Nintendo was nice enough to pass along some pre-release tips in video form, strategies that will definitely come in handy. While watching the creative use of Penguin Suit-spawned ice blocks and synchronized butt stomps, try not…

By Michael McWhertor Published November 12, 2009

PETA Releases New Super Chick Sisters

PETA returns to its Mario-parody Super Chick Sisters with the New Super Chick Sisters, switching gears from vilifying Kentucky Fried Chicken to vilifying McDonald’s. McDonald’s abuses chickens somehow, and it’s up to the New Super Chick Sisters to save Princess Pamela Anderson while learning about chicken abuse in this sequel to 2007’s Super Chick Sisters.…

By Mike Fahey Published November 12, 2009

The Mario Suits That Were, Are And Should Be

With New Super Mario Bros. Wii around the corner – a game that introduces yet more suits to Mario’s burgeoning wardrobe – we figured it was a good time to look back, and forward, at some of his sharper outfits. We’re not going to catalogue every suit he’s ever worn; that would be boooooorrrring. Instead,…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 12, 2009

Turn Your DSi Camera Into A Slightly Better Camera

The DSi’s camera is OK for quick snaps but, like the early days of mobile phone cameras, it’s quite limited in what it can do. Which leaves a gap in the market for clip-on accessories like Thrustmaster’s Studio Kit. It includes a range of add-ons to help bring the camera up to speed, like a…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 12, 2009

The Nintendo DSi LL In Pleasant Four Player Action

Nintendo’s new DSi model—dubbed the DSi LL in Japan, DSi XL elsewhere—is huge. How huge? Nintendo of Japan’s new DSi LL promo video helps to illustrate just how huge, offering an attractive Japanese family to show scale. There’s not much to this recently released Japanese language clip, but it does show the Nintendo DSi LL…

By Michael McWhertor Published November 11, 2009

Spain’s Plumbers Honor Mario For 28 Years Of Plumbing Accomplishments

Plumber and princess recovery specialist Mario has secured the year’s most coveted game award, a silver medal from ASEFOSAM, Spain’s professional plumbers association. How convenient, given this weekend’s release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. We’re not trying to accuse ASEFOSAM of glomming on to Mario’s highly anticipate Wii release, but to honor Mario for…

By Michael McWhertor Published November 11, 2009

Party at the Mushroom Kingdom, New York

Don’t forget: One of Nintendo’s biggest game launches this year will be turning the Nintendo World Store into Mushroom Kingdom this weekend. This Saturday, Nov. 14, Nintendo will be be bringing interactive gaming stations, costumed characters, trivia, prize giveaways and live tournaments to their New York store to celebrate the release of Wii must-have New…

By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2009