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Kotaku reader Riccardo whipped up this HD version of Mother's opening credits. It, like the game itself, is fantastic. If anything should get you excited about an HD Nintendo gaming system, it's this. More »
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In Dec. 2011, a report surface claiming that Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto said he was retiring. Nintendo quickly commented, saying the report was a "misunderstanding" and "absolutely not true." See, Shigeru Miyamoto is apparently always saying he's going to retire. More »
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Nintendo talisman Shigeru Miyamoto is a busy man! Not only does he help in an overseer's role on many of Nintendo's biggest games, but he's also revealed he's working on something new. Really new. More »
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The Legend of Zelda is one the most successful video game franchises to ever come from Japan. It's been mostly made by Nintendo studios in Kyoto, with some added efforts by Capcom, which is based in Osaka. More »
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While it looks like Deadmau5 may have trolled everyone waiting for a PlayStation Vita with his whole lost-not-lost prank concerning Sony's upcoming handheld, we think we can believe him that he's gotten a hell of a new gaming tattoo. (There are videos.) More »
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Time was, there was a rumor that Shigeru Miyamoto didn't even own a cell phone. That may've been true once but the creator of Mario does carry one now. Based on the description in the Wall Street Journal article mentioned earlier today, it could look very much like the one pictured above. Miyamoto talked about the topic of smartphone and tablet gaming—which Nintendo asserts it's not interested in—and his remarks reveal some weird cognitive dissonance about how he sees the handheld market: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5866613&view=rss&microfeed=true Yesterday, Nintendo denied Shigeru Miyamoto's "retirement". Today, Miyamoto denied it, while Wired.com stated that the interview was translated by a Nintendo employee and stands by its story. [WSJ, G4] More »
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This four-star send-up by The Game Station is clever any day of the week, and especially timely given whatever the hell it was that just took place in the past 24 hours. More »
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The internet was rocked. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda, reportedly said he was stepping down. Nobody seemed prepared for this. It was so sudden. So surprising. The end of an era. More »
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Late last night, a Wired.com report stated that Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda, had said he was "retiring". More »
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Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto may not be leaving Nintendo or the games industry entirely, but the news that he's soon to step down to a less prominent role on smaller games and with young developers has still sent a bit of a shock through the industry. More »
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The man behind Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda says he plans to retire from his current position at Nintendo so he can spend time working on smaller projects and with younger developers or on his own, Wired reported tonight. More »
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The man in charge of the Zelda series at Nintendo says he's ready to make big changes in the series. He's not guaranteeing them, but in an interview in the new issue of Game Informer magazine, Eiji Aonuma says the time for big changes may finally have come. More »
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Mario's debut on the 3DS was, appropriately, called Super Mario 3D Land. And never in the series 19-year history has the game had a numbered sequel (well, technically there's Mario Kart 64, but it was not the 64th game in the series.) So why is the franchise's 3DS version, due out in North America next week, called Mario Kart 7 and not, say, Mario Kart 3D? More »
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You are working on a new Super Mario Bros. game. You have a new idea for a Mario power-up, something that could be as delightful as the original fire flower or the invincibility star for Mario to headbutt out of a block and temporarily try on. More »
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Well not that creepy (kidding! sorta!). YouTube user WyldStallynsGames really likes Shigeru Miyamoto. He likes him so much that he wrote a ballad for him. No, he wrote a power ballad. More »
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Nintendo's pre-Tokyo Game Show press conference was in Japanese. Now, weeks later, Nintendo of America has subtitled the bit in which Shigeru Miyamoto talks up The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. More »
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While the number three will always hold a special place in the Triforce-powered Legend of Zelda series, Link's next adventure embraces a much larger lucky number to describe the sheer scope and size of the biggest Wii game yet. More »
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Well, there was a fox temple Star Fox developer Dylan Cuthbert told Kotaku about. But that's not all. The game was also inspired by British television. More »
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For its cover of this week's edition (on newsstands today) the Portland Mercury commissioned this painting, an homage to Edward Hopper's Nighthawks with Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto and three characters he introduced to America 30 years ago this week. More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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Nintendo showed an impressive Wii U tech demo at this year's E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles. More »
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During the game's development, Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto had this crazy idea: How about a Zelda game where players cannot see Link? More »
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Launching in a white case five years ago, the Wii has seen a special edition release in red, and currently is available in black. Its successor, Wii U, goes back to white. Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto says the design choice is so people won't think the console is kid's stuff. More »
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During the same Nintendo developer roundtable where we were given a Tanooki suit history lesson, Nintendo godfather Shigeru Miyamoto discussed the new control scheme for Star Fox 64: 3D, and how the they may have provided the solution for a long-standing source of stress for him. More »
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At E3, Totilo liveblogged a Nintendo developer Q&A which showed a Zelda-inspired level for the upcoming Super Mario 3DS. Pictures and video weren't allowed, but a snipped of video just went up to Nintendo's official E3 site, giving a glimpse of what Super Mario 3DS has in mind. More »
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Nintendo's new home console Wii U has a controller with a large touch screen. In the gaming world, it's unusual—unique, even. But not in Japanese karaoke. More »
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"Iwata Asks" is a regular feature on Nintendo's official site in which Nintendo president Satoru Iwata asks questions about hardware and games his company makes. This time, Iwata asks Mario creator about the Wii U. More »
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Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda, is winding up development on Wii games, the Nintendo legend revealed today. More »
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Nintendo kicked off it's E3 2011 press conference with a musical celebration of The Legend of Zelda, kicking off with a live orchestra and finishing things off with a selection of highly recognizeable themes requested by Shigeru Miyamoto himself. More »
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We know why Mario has a mustache. We know why his uniform is blue and red. These were the most distinctive features Nintendo could render on the character sprite due to the limitations of the Z80 processor, the venerable workhorse of the arcade. And it's the same reason Mario's proportions are a little on the chubby side, too. More »
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Clothing changes, sunglasses and a wide variety of locales. But what makes this video isn't the rap or the beat, but just how earnest and irony-free the whole thing seems. More »
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Underwater action game Steel Diver was originally going to be a Nintendo DS game, but it's since surfaced on the 3DS. More »
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Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto has been making games for decades now, with classics like Mario and Zelda on his resume, yet even if he says otherwise, he can't make games forever. So what does the man want to do when he hangs up his boots? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5798357&view=rss&microfeed=true Get ready for more Wii-Makes 3DS remakes as downloadable games for the eShop. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto says one can expect more games remade on the 3DS, like perhaps maybe, SNES game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past? He doesn't confirm it, but does sound keen. [via Edge] More »
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I'm ready to talk Wii 2. You're ready. But Shigeru Miyamoto? So not ready. More »
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The first real Mario game for Nintendo's new 3DS will indeed be out this year, according to creator Shigeru Miyamoto. And it looks like we'll get our hands on the game simple known as Super Mario at E3 in June. But wait... there's more! More »
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When the Nintendo 3DS was first unveiled, we were shown a bunch of trailers from games that barely even existed yet. And even then, saw nothing of a new Mario game. So it'd be sweet if it actually came out this year. More »
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