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Whoops! Fixed. But I’m sure you could have filled in the blank and gotten it right. Read more

It’s super smart, yeah. All Dad wants is to take a nap! Read more

Great comment, thank you! I just realized that “$30 per case” is unclear, and I’ve changed it to “$30 per set.” The price is for the set of 10 cases. Read more

Oh, that reminded me of a line I forgot to add, and have now added: It’ll have two-player local co-op play, as well as a 4-player online-only mode.   Read more

Just to clarify, the source of the news was a Kotaku reporter (me!) onsite at a Nintendo event where the announcement was made verbally to a room full of people. Since then, we have added the link where you can read more about the project. Read more

Thanks for this! I hadn’t played the game myself (well, besides loading it up in an emulator for a second), so I appreciate this in-depth hands-on report. Read more

Miyamoto was actually the first person inducted into the AIAS Hall Of Fame, which is the award that they give out to those who are primarily known for game design. So he got his turn in 1998 :) Read more

That’s a different building - it’s the later one that’s still standing, that I referenced at the end of the piece. (Also, I once walked right in the front door of that building back in 2002.) Read more

Fixed it, thank you! Read more

Also, what the hell is a trip of a long friendship? Again, though, Peach was probably scribbling this onto the wall of her cell with a pointy rock she found. Read more

When Nintendo does stuff like this in-house, it... usually doesn’t go the extra mile. Thank goodness this was done by the masters at Hamster instead! Read more

Good note! Read more

I think Joy-Con enabled casual sports would be a good idea, but it wouldn’t be a port of the Wii games - I’d fully expect it to be a brand new game that uses the Joy-Cons’ full range of motion control and rumble. Read more

The specific issue with Captain Toad is that so many of the levels were designed with you having to use the microphone and touchscreen on GamePad. That’s some major redesigning that would have to get done, which I think pretty much disqualifies this version from being straight ported.

As far as Mirage Sessions goes,… Read more

Haha. Um. I don’t think they needed to poll anyone, if you get my drift. Read more

Regarding the idea, expressed in many comments below, that Switch is not portable enough:

It’s true, as far as it goes - the Switch is not a 100% perfect substitute for 3DS, because it is larger and not especially suited to being carried in one’s pants pockets. If this is an issue for you, then yes, the Switch is not a… Read more

Virtual Console games are not safe! That said, most of them are available through other platforms by this point and likely will be in the future as well, whereas the future of a great deal of this WiiWare is quite up in the air. Also, if we bogged this down with Virtual Console praise there would have been less room… Read more

Correct. You can buy all of the outfits with coins, no Amiibo necessary. Read more

I did this exact thing last night! Took me forever but I was so happy when I finally did it... Read more