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UncategorizedTingle’s Coming to Blow Up Hyrule Warriors on February 5
A new Majora’s Mask-themed DLC pack for Hyrule Warriors will be arriving in a few weeks, giving the beat-em-up its most unlikely combatant yet. That’s right, Tingle. Zelda’s weirdest rupee-lover is here to kick butt. Just revealed during today’s Nintendo Direct, Tingle will be battling hordes of enemies with a giant bag of money as…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 14, 2015 - Uncategorized
New Wave Of Amiibo Coming Soon
Nintendo offered up some news about its newly-minted Amiibo toy line during its Nintendo Direct stream this morning, including a few new models they said are coming this Spring. Pac-Man! The next round of Super Smash Bros.-centric Amiibo (there are 11 in total) are coming out in February. But we already knew about those. The…
By Yannick LeJacq Published January 14, 2015 -
UncategorizedWii Games Will Finally Be Downloadable On Wii U
It’s been possible to play Wii games on your Wii U since forever, but Nintendo’s finally making Wii games downloadable through the eShop. This new feature kicks off with one of the company’s best platformers, Super Mario Galaxy 2. It’s available today. Other games are coming very soon, too. Punch-Out!! is scheduled for January 22,…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 14, 2015 -
UncategorizedNintendo’s got a new free-to-play downloadable 3DS Pokémon puzzle game (with microtransaction support, it sounds like) coming this February. It’s called Pokémon Shuffle and might remind you of Pokémon Trozei. It was announced in this morning’s Nintendo Direct by Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata. Here’s some footage from the Direct, capped by Gamexplain….
By Stephen Totilo Published January 14, 2015 -
UncategorizedNew Fire Emblem Announced For 3DS
The team behind Fire Emblem Awakening is making a new game for 3DS, Nintendo just announced. Though this game will be developed by Intelligent Systems, Nintendo says it’ll play differently than the last one, including challenges “the likes of which have never be seen in the series up until now.” No word on a name…
By Jason Schreier Published January 14, 2015 -
UncategorizedWatch Today’s Nintendo Direct Right Here [UPDATE]
Ready for a new Nintendo Direct? We’re expecting to officially hear the U.S. release date for the New 3DS, along with a whole bunch of other news from the folks behind the 3DS and Wii U. This one’s gonna be a whopping 46 minutes, so we’re expecting a lot of info on Nintendo’s plans for…
By Jason Schreier Published January 14, 2015 - Uncategorized
The Hardest Boss Fight Ever
They should have brought a couple dozen more people. Titled “Level UP,” this rather beautiful piece of art was drawn by DeviantArt’s deadslug, where it even became a Daily Deviation (ie. it was featured on the site’s front page). There’s a few more of deadslug’s creations below—to see the rest, head over here for his…
By András Neltz Published January 14, 2015 - Kotaku East
Can You Tell What’s Chocolate? The Eagerly Awaited Sequel
Maybe this man is biting a shoe. Or maybe, he’s biting a shoe made of chocolate. That’s right, your favorite sweet tooth quiz is back. Surely you remember last year how Japanese TV show Ultraman Dash had its celebrity panel try to discern what items were real and what were sweets? This January, Ultraman Dash…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 14, 2015 - Kotaku East
The PS4’s China Launch Might Have Been Delayed due to Region Locking
Like the Xbox One months before it, Sony’s PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita have been delayed in China until further notice. The reasoning behind the delay? Sony needs to resubmit its business plans to the Chinese government. Sony announced last week that the PS4 and PS Vita would not make its scheduled Chinese launch date…
By Eric Jou Published January 14, 2015 -
UncategorizedMan Stuffs PS4 and Xbox One into a Single Laptop
Modder Eddie Zarick took one PlayStation 4 and one Xbox One and put them into one laptop. Because, why not, really. Previously, Kotaku has featured Zarick’s work, such as the custom-made PS4 laptops he created. This latest project, however, was specifically requested by one of Zarick’s customers. It took about a month to complete. According…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 14, 2015 -
Kotaku EastFour-Year-Old Kid Pulls Off a Killer Bruce Lee
You might like Bruce Lee. You might love him. But can you do this? Maybe you can! But could you when you were still in preschool? I know I couldn’t. What’s cool is that the kid isn’t only doing a solid job of matching Lee’s moves from flicks like Game of Death, but the tyke…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 14, 2015 - Kotaku East
Shooting Incident Outside Sega Exec’s House
Hajime Satomi, the CEO of Sega Sammy, is one of Japan’s richest individuals. And early this morning, there was a frightening gun incident at his house. Thankfully, the Sega exec and his family were not at home. Satomi founded pachinko machine maker Sammy Corporation, which bought Sega in 2004. He is now the director of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 14, 2015 - Culture
I Wish Monster Hunter Was This Cute
Choi Keun Hoon is a concept artist who works at Korean games studio Netmarble. Those dragons, you just want to hug ’em. You can see more of Choi’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2015 - Uncategorized
Total War: WARHAMMER Accidentally Announced
People have been expecting this for over two years now, but Creative Assembly and Sega have finally gone and announced a Total War: WARHAMMER game. In about the most anticlimactic way possible. The studio has put together an art book, covering the history of the Total War series, and it wasn’t due to ship to…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2015 - CultureTotal Recall
In 1997, Lucasarts Tried To Copy Diablo
People gave Lucasarts a lot of crap towards the end, mostly for being a company interested in nothing but licensed garbage. For the most part that was totally fair criticism. But there was once a time when Lucasarts wasn’t just brave, it was a little weird about it. That era was the late 90s, a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2015 -
The BestsThe Best Handheld Zelda Game
Ask people to name their favourite Zelda games and they’ll invariably start with console titles. Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Wind Waker, Breath of the Wild. The handheld Zelda games, most of which are excellent, are often left off the list. From the old Oracle games through to Link Between Worlds,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 13, 2015
