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Nintendo’s new president Shuntaro Furukawa certainly wants the Switch to succeed, but according to Nikkei, he is aiming at a smartphone game to generate over $900 million in sales. “In what I can see now,” he said, “the thing I want to make the big are smartphone games.” Update May 2 – 9:00pm: An earlier…

A Nintendo Labo Powered Wheelchair

Now that Nintendo Labo is out, people are doing cool things with it. Using the motorcycle Joy-Con to control a wheelchair has to be among the coolest of them. This was created by Japanese researcher and inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji. Since Yoshifuji was in high school, he has developed new technology for electric wheelchairs, and this…

Donkey Kong Game Disappears From eShop Ahead Of Switch Re-Release

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was first released on the Wii U in 2014, and has previously available as a digital download on Nintendo’s eShop. Now that the game has been re-released on the Switch, though, it’s been noticed that the cheaper digital version of the game is no longer available. There are reports of…

Another Tourist Crashes Real-Life (And Totally Unofficial) Mario Kart In Tokyo

Last night in Tokyo, a 30-something-year-old tourist from Singapore made a wrong turn, driving a rental MariCar (the go-kart company that Nintendo is suing for copyright infringement) up on the sidewalk and crashing it into a restaurant sign. This is not a first. Previously, Kotaku reported that another tourist crashed a MariCar into a police…

Super Mario Odyssey, Six Months Later

Super Mario Odyssey came out last October and continues to delight players. Datamined secrets, awesome glitches, and a fancy balloon hunting mode have kept players exploring the game’s vibrant world long after other games have come and gone. There’s been plenty of ups and downs to Super Mario Odyssey including broken scoreboards, awesome speedruns, and…

I Love Nintendo Labo’s Extra Little Cardboard Bits

I really like interacting with the Nintendo Labo. I like popping, snapping, folding, and even just looking at each little piece. It’s gotten to the point that I’m having a hard time throwing any of it away. Labo is a fascinating new Nintendo product that combines the Switch handheld system with a collection of cardboard-crafting…

Everything We Know About Nintendo’s Next President

Nintendo’s next president likes Golf Story, lived in Germany for 11 years, and has a famous dad. Last week, as it reported its (stellar) results for the previous fiscal year, Nintendo announced that its current president Tatsumi Kimishima, who assumed office in 2015 following the death of Satoru Iwata, would step down and be replaced…

Speedrunner Beats Super Metroid With Horrifying Vaseline-Covered Controller

Sometimes, it just isn’t enough to speedrun a game. Sometimes, you need to get your hands dirty. One speedrunner took those words to heart this weekend, completing a Super Metroid speedrun with their hands and controller covered in vaseline. V0lrat is a speedrunner who plays multiple games like A Link to the Past, Claymates, and…

The Switch’s eShop Is A Mess

Every week, a ton of games come out for the Nintendo Switch. While it’s great to have so many options to choose from, sorting through these titles on the digital storefront really sucks. It’s hard to find what you want, or what you should be interested in. Discoverability is a tough issue that seemingly nobody…

Nintendo’s E3 2018 Schedule

Earlier this week, Kotaku announced the E3 2018 press conference schedule. At that time, Nintendo had yet to reveal its plans. Now it has. As in previous years, Nintendo is doing a video presentation, which can be watched live at e3.Nintendo.com. It will begin on June 12 at 9 am PT. There will be other…

Revealed earlier today, here is the first trailer for Dragalia Lost, the all-new RPG Nintendo is developing with Cygames. Well, what do you think?

Nintendo Releasing All-New RPG For Phones

Nintendo just announced that it’s working with Cygames on an all-new RPG for mobile devices. The game is called Dragalia Lost It’ll be released this Summer, first in Asia then in North America and Europe. It’s described as an “all-new original action RPG application”, which Cygames desgined and which Nintendo “has been co-developing and will…

Some Numbers That Illustrate Nintendo Switch’s Massive Success

Nintendo today reported its earnings for the 2017 fiscal year, which means a whole bunch of interesting new sales numbers to look at. They’re all impressive, and they all show the massive appeal of Nintendo Switch. Here are a few numbers that, taken together, make for some good perspective on just how successful Nintendo’s latest…

Nintendo expects its annual operating profit to increase by 26.7 percent to the equivalent of $2.06 billion. This would be the highest its been in nine years for the company.

Nintendo Is Getting A New President

Today Nintendo announced that current company president Tatsumi Kimishima is going to step down. In his place, 46-year-old Shuntaro Furukawa will take his place. Nikkei reports that Kimishima will remain at Nintendo in an advisory role. Furukawa joined Nintendo in 1994. He has been Outside Director of the Pokémon Company since 2012 and has been…

How Nintendo Labo Reflects Japanese Culture 

It’s a Saturday afternoon in Osaka. My two youngest sons are sitting at the kitchen table, pulling out sheets of cardboard to make Nintendo Labo. The older of the two, who is eight, is looking at the instructions, making sure he’s got the folds just right. This all feels familiar. Nintendo Labo is universal. It…

Switch Hackers Say Nintendo Can’t Patch Their New Jailbreak

This week, two hacking groups have independently released methods that allow a user to jailbreak the Switch, which one group is already using to run a ported version of Linux on Nintendo’s device. The worse news for Nintendo—the hackers say the exploit is due to a bug in the system’s processor chip, meaning that Nintendo…

The Smash Masters League Is The Latest And Greatest Attempt At Organizing Competitive Smash

In a dominating performance, Nairoby “Nairo” Quezada’s Zero Suit Samus had Leonardo “MkLeo” Perez’s Bayonetta on the edge, knocking him down to just one stock. Shortly after, Quezada finished the job by sending Perez flying immediately after respawning; he won the gold at the Battle for Vegas and now both he and Perez lead the…

Cats Vs. Nintendo Labo

Cats love boxes! They love cardboard. But do they love Nintendo Labo? As these Twitter users and YouTubers are showing, interesting things happen when you introduce cats to Nintendo Labo. Note: making Nintendo Labo with your cat might be difficult! Really difficult. And your feline friend might not like the RC Car. At all. Though…

Splatoon Inkling Open Game Comes Down To 0.1 Percent

Here’s another friendly reminder to please ink your spawn Today is the open qualifiers for the Splatoon 2 Inkling Open, and teams all around North America are competing to earn a spot at the top and a shot at the world championship. Competition is fierce, and nowhere was this clearer than in a bout between…