Kotaku: Revolution

Final Fantasy XIII-2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and More Coming to New York Comic-Con This Year

Evan Narcisse — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EDT

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Comics aren't the centerpiece of comic-cons anymore. For better or worse, the nerd gatherings that bear that nomenclature feature all sorts of pop culture, but I guess "culture-con" doesn't roll off the tongue quite so appealingly. More »

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Curls Up With A Good Book

Mike Fahey — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:20:00 EDT

Fans looking to delve deeper into the cyberpunk dystopia of the Deus Ex series need look no further than Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect, a novel coming next year from Del Rey and tie-in author supreme James Swallow. More »

Nintendo's Lovable Code Names For Consoles

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 11 May 2010 04:00:00 EDT

The 3DS isn't the first Nintendo console to enter the public consciousness with a name that's never actually used. Plenty of other machines have also been revealed with names never destined for a retail shelf. More »

Michael Buffer Gives A Wii To The Best "Rumbler"

Jim Reilly — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:40:00 EST

Atari held tryouts at their Ready 2 Rumble Revolution booth to see who could pull off best "Let's Get Ready To Rumble!" impression. What better judge to have than the man himself. More »

Good Old Games Run Through With Broken Swords

Mike Fahey — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:00:00 EST

Classic gaming website Good Old Games takes the last few moments of 2008 to bolster their adventure game line up with two more titles from Revolution Software's Broken Sword series. More »

Wii Thought Wii Sounded "Gimmicky" and "Cutesy"

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:00:00 EDT

Meet the man called "Wii". Wii Yatani is a graphic designer and the son of Japanese parents. Did his mother and father name him after the Nintendo Wii? No way! He's 26-year-old. The name "Wii" certainly isn't common in Japan, and the kanji characters used in his name mean "universe" and "will power". And picking the "Wii" English spelling, however, was just "creativity" on his mother's part, says Yatani. What did Wii Yatani think when Nintendo dubbed its new console the Wii instead of the Revolution? More »

Why Not Revolution, Miyamoto?

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:20:22 EST

In a recently published interview with Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto, the Mario creator talks about all things Shiggy. From his aversion to violent video games to establishing Nintendo as a unique company with products like the DS and Wii, you'll find all sorts of interesting Miyamoto-isms throughout the Q&A. More »

Iwata Interviews The Wii Engineers

kotaku.com — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:40:43 EDT

Over at Game|Life, Chris Kohler has a rather hasty but somewhat interesting summary of a Nintendo.jp feature on the design philosophy and evolution of the Wii. More »

It's Been 4 Months. Do We Still Care About "Wii"?

egauger — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:20:00 EDT

The Nintendo Revolution. More »

We Love The Wii, But The Name Still Sucks

brownlee — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:00:23 EDT

I tend to dislike words that end with a squealing double e phoneme: I will take pains, for example, to avoid words like 'penny' or 'scrunchee', instead referring to them as 'one cent pieces' and 'that elastic sphincter trailer park tramps put in their hair', respectively. So it's surprising to me now that I can say 'Nintendo Wii' without finding myself giving an inadvertent, full body squirm. More »

The Road to Wii: Someone Else's Definitive List

Brian Crecente — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:00:11 EDT

Game site Nintendo Revolution put together an excellent list of all of the upcoming gaming summits, conventions, expos and gatherings leading up to the release of the Wii. The site then explains Nintendo's involvement in each and the chances of them dropping some Wii bombs at that particular event. More »

Rumor: Primesense Promises VR PS3

brownlee — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:40:15 EDT

Evil Avatar spotted a rumor as juicy as it is implausible about an upcoming PS3 peripheral designed by Primesense: More »

Drunken French Blogger Confirms Wii Release Late October/Early November

brownlee — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:00:15 EDT

Stop me if you've heard this one: A video games journalist and a Nintendo executive walk into a pub. The Nintendo executive slaps a poodle onto the bar, exposes himself, then blurts out the release date for the Wii. More »

Another Name Change for the Wii?

egauger — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:40:36 EDT

I was absolutely convinced that the Wii switch was a publicity stunt, and that at E3, Nintendo was going to tell us we got punk'd. How could they possibly think this was anything but ridiculous, nonsensical, offputting? I was genuinely surprised when there was no such announcement at E3. More »

How The Wii Uses 3D Graphics

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:22:01 EDT

This clip's a few month's old and really short, but explains everything. Brian Ashcraft More »

New Purloined Zelda: Twilight Princess Screens

brownlee — Tue, 30 May 2006 14:40:25 EDT

The British Gaming Blog has posted some new screenshots from Twilight Princess to get gamers up in a lather. From the Game Reactor logo clearly watermarked across the lower-left corner of each shot, we assume these were brazenly stolen from another source in the most time honored tradition of gaming news cut-and-paste monkeys. On the other hand, trying to find the original source to link only found us stuck in a morass of um and ablauts. FLORIAN ECKHARDT More »

The Irrelevancy of Game Mags Continues

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 29 May 2006 12:20:46 EDT

Wishful thinking or print game journalism's shortcomings? The June issue of Game Informer still refers to the Nintendo Wii as the "Revolution." This is from a monthly glossy that claims to be "The World's #1 Computer & Video Game Magazine." Ehem. Surely, the mag's nimble publishing wheels move fast enough to change stuff like this. The Wii has been named for what, over a month? That's like a year in blog dating. Brian Ashcraft More »

Skull & Crossmotes Wii Shirt

brownlee — Wed, 24 May 2006 11:40:27 EDT

With the Revolution name dead and buried, Nintendo fans no longer have that electrifying image of a Soviet-themed fist clutching a controller and lifted defiantly into the sky to rally behind. Comparatively, the Wii brand name has no strong imagery associated with it. The new name is a small child's euphemism for the movement of his bladder, not particularly conducive to tasteful illustration. More »

Nintendo Wii - $249?

brownlee — Fri, 12 May 2006 12:12:59 EDT

Blame our ability to synthesize comped E3 alcohol into oxygen, thus allowing us to remain submerged in a vat of vodka for most of the past three days, but we somehow missed this interesting piece of gossip. According to 4 Color Rebellion, the latest issue of EGM has posted this information on the Wii's price at launch, as well as some other details involving the price of virtual console games and Twilight Princess details: More »

Seen At E306: Mysterious Leopard Print Man Plays Wii

brownlee — Fri, 12 May 2006 09:40:48 EDT

Kotaku reader Daniel K. sent us in this mysterious photograph of a flamboyant man dressed entirely in gaudy leopard print duds hanging out with Koji Kondo at E3. Do you recognize him? Who is he? One of our on-site editors probably knows, but they are all sucking their thumbs whilst embryonically nuzzled in a booth babe's tequila-filled womb right now. More »

E306: Wii WiFi To Use Those Stupid @$#!ing Friend Codes

brownlee — Fri, 12 May 2006 07:20:07 EDT

We hope you love entering long strings of arbitrary characters into your Wii when you want to multiplayer because Nintendo has no plans to drop the more obnoxious element of the DS's otherwise excellent WiFi service when they port it over to their new console. From an IGN interview with Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development's general manager, Takahashi Tezuka: More »

Rare Confirms Diddy Kong Racing Involvement

brownlee — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:40:36 EDT

Rare has confirmed on their official website that they will be officially involved with bringing Diddy Kong Racing to the DS. More »

Super Mario Bros. Galaxy Probably Not Wii Launch Title

brownlee — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:40:01 EDT

While Nintendo stressed that Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime 3 would be launch titles for the Wii, many were curious when Super Mario Bros. Galaxy would be out. It's not quite a Nintendo console launch without a day one appearance by everyone's favorite drugged-out, gnomish Italian stereotype, after all. More »

First Shots of Wii Virtual Console

brownlee — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:40:47 EDT

Wiigamer has posted some unfortunately small but never the less illuminating images of the Wii's virtual console for downloading and playing classic Nintendo games. Showing screens for Super Mario Brothes, Super Mario World, Bonk's Adventure, Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario 64. Layout looks very clean and informative, giving a shot of the game's original box, as well as an underlay of the original system the game was released on. A simple button press appears to bring up a diagram of the Wii classic controller shell, illustrating which buttons do which in the emulated Wii version of the game. Very clean and smart — Nintendo's done a good job making this accessible, it seems. More »

Miyamoto Talks About The Future of Gaming

brownlee — Wed, 10 May 2006 16:40:50 EDT

Don't you hate it when assholes like Kotaku's own Brian Ashcraft fold their hands in front of their sternum, bob their heads up and down and start talking about Iwata-san and Miyamoto-san? Listen, you fucking nerd... this is the You! Ess! Ay! It's' Mister Miyamoto' to you. 'SIR. ' More »

Aural Controller Feedback: Wii Remote Has Built-In Speaker

brownlee — Wed, 10 May 2006 11:40:57 EDT

Gamespot has posted their hands-on look at the Wii controller. We thought we'd take the opportunity while linking them to point out a little addition to the Wii remote that seems to be getting lost in the shuffle — the fact that the Wii remote now includes a built-in speaker. More »

Resident Evil Announced for Wii

brownlee — Wed, 10 May 2006 09:40:49 EDT

Okay, now we're talking. Capcom has announced that Biohazard/Resident Evil is coming to the Wii. More »

Nintendo's E3 Wii Footage 2

brownlee — Tue, 09 May 2006 17:43:09 EDT

In case you missed the Nintendo E3 Press Conference Live Stream, here's part two of the Wii footage showed by Nintendo. More »

Nintendo's E3 Wii Footage 1

brownlee — Tue, 09 May 2006 17:42:27 EDT

Thanks to You Tube for chugging on this for the last two hours! More »

E306: Nintendo Wii Games

brownlee — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:56:04 EDT

Just in case you're not watching the Nintendo E3 Press Conference live through the video stream, or reading our video coverage, here's some of the Nintendo games announced for the Wii: More »

Sonic Goes Wii

brownlee — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:40:05 EDT

Not only is Sonic zooming in a spiky blur (although touting a bazooka and driving a humvee, we grant you) to a 360 and/or PS3 near you, but Sega has also announced the eponymous punk hedgehog's debut Wii game, Sonic Wild Fire. More »

Nintendo E3 Press Conference Live Video Stream

brownlee — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:30:42 EDT

Not to one-up (jesus) our own Nintendo press conference live blogging coverage, but 1UP has posted up a link to their video stream of the Nintendo E3 2006 Press Conference! React to the exciting Wii news even as Joel's fingers tremulously and drunkenly fumble on his precious iBook's keys! It should be live...NOW. More »

Stay Tuned: Kotaku's Nintendo E306 Coverage In The Shake of a Lamb's Tail

brownlee — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:06:28 EDT

Just a reminder that in a little less than a half hour, we'll be starting our live blogging coverage of the Nintendo E3 2006 Press Conference. Joel will be issuing forth the breaking news on a minute to minute basis deep within the subaqueous depths of a journalist-comped martini glass. More »

First E3 Nintendo Booth Pic

brownlee — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:40:53 EDT

Thanks to Kotakuite Paul G. for forwarding this first pic of the Nintendo E3 Booth, originally posted on WiiGamer. Of course, it's not the swank of their booth that's going to attract gamers to Nintendo this E3, it's the thought of having a live-action swordfight at the demo booth by swishing the Wii's controller around while a crowd of onlookers scream your name, then victoriously collapsing into the arms of a cooing booth babe. More »

Nintendo Wii: Are You With Me?

brownlee — Mon, 08 May 2006 11:20:13 EDT

Thanks to Kotakuite David R. for sending along the link to this great fan-made Wii video. Despite the fruity name of the console, stuff like this still makes adrenaline start geysering out of our ears. More »

Homemade Wii Controller Plays Bomberman

brownlee — Fri, 05 May 2006 18:40:13 EDT

The home brew community really is amazing. Macguyver-like, they can dig out every part necessary from the gigantic pile of electronic junk in the corner of their bedroom to create a console modification for every occasion. For proof, check out this wacky Japanese guy's homemade Wii controller. He doesn't have a Wii to test it on, so instead, he hooks it up to his NES, plugs in a cart and goes wild with tilt-sensor Bomberman. More »

Wii Trademark Found

brownlee — Fri, 05 May 2006 15:40:12 EDT

Bad news for those of us who were hoping that the lack of a Wii trademark indicated a Nintendo marketing conspiracy to change the name back to the Revolution come E3. The trademark database has been updated and, sigh, Wii is there. More »

Wii Poll, A Week Later

Brian Crecente — Fri, 05 May 2006 09:52:30 EDT

It's been a little over a week since NIntendo stunned gamers with their Wii announcment. We ran a poll on the day of the naming to see what people thought of it and the end results showed that a majority were still in shock or violently disliked it. More »

The Luigi Code

brownlee — Thu, 04 May 2006 15:40:58 EDT

There's two types of gamers: those who read Nintendo Rufus' recent blog update to the Nintendo web site and thought his arbitrary capitalization protocol and bad spelling belied exactly the same variety of Nintendo-brand dyslexic idiocy that resulted in the Revolution being renamed the Wii, and those who saw in it an exciting cryptological puzzle about Nintendo's upcoming Wii-related E3 announcements. More »

Even Game Devs Hate Wii

brownlee — Wed, 03 May 2006 15:40:22 EDT

At a certain point, we're just going to have to accept it and get on with our lives, but we're still aghast at Wii. The Revolution changing its name to Wii is like George Gordon Byron denouncing Lord Byron as his slave name, changing his name to "Tinkerbell"... then misspelling it. More »