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New Nintendo 2DS XL: The Kotaku Review

If you don’t care about 3D anymore—and even Nintendo’s interest in it seems to be fading—then the New Nintendo 2DS XL is the absolute best model in Nintendo’s line of portable gaming hardware. It’s a shame the company makes adding new devices such a burden. Nintendo’s nomenclature for handhelds has turned into alphabet soup, as…

Oh God This Waluigi Cosplay

This is how Mick Ignis went to Comic Con this year. I will not sleep easily tonight. He had some make-up help from Cig Nuetron, who was looking just as awful/amazing as Wario (while that’s Rannie Rodil as Mario & Luigi’s Princess Shroob):

Walmart Cancels SNES Classic Pre-Orders, Citing A ‘Glitch’

Oops! If you breathed a sigh of relief as you locked down your SNES Classic pre-order on Walmart.com Friday night, it’s time to start hyperventilating again, because the retailer has just canceled the orders en masse “Unfortunately, due to a technical glitch, the Super Nintendo Classic Edition was mistakenly made available last Friday evening ahead…

The New 3DS Pikmin Game Is A Bummer

Hey! Pikmin, you are a disappointing game. Kotaku features editor Chris Kohler and I recently discussed our disappointment in this week’s 3DS/2DS adventure that neither of us has been compelled to complete. He’s halfway, I’m earlier in and even with the help of Captain Olimar, we just can’t find the old Pikmin magic. Stephen Totilo:…

Splatoon 2 Had A Big First Week Of Sales In Japan 

In its first three days on sale, Splatoon 2 sold an estimated 670,955 copies at Japanese retail. Typically in Japan, new Pokémon games sell well over a million copies in their first few days out. For example, Sun and Moon sold 1,905,107 copies at retail. That’s at the extreme end of the spectrum, and generally…

Just As You Thought, Nintendo Is Doing Really Well

During the Wii U years, things didn’t always look so good. This time last year, Nintendo was losing more money than expected. But now, Nintendo has the Switch, and it’s doing just fine, thank you. According to Reuters, the 16.21 billion yen ($144.95 million) operating profit for the April to June period surpassed an 11.55…

How To Farm EXP Tickets In Splatoon 2 [Update]

Your first few levels in Splatoon 2 will fly by, but soon enough you’ll be slowly crawling toward your next rank and weapon unlock. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to speed things up. Update 7/26/2017: Looks like Nintendo patched the game so that greyed-out tickets no longer go into your inventory. The update won’t take…

Splatoon 2: The Kotaku Review

The first Splatoon gave us a new way to play multiplayer shooters, a genre that sometimes feels stale. Two years later, Splatoon 2 doesn’t revitalize shooters all over again but instead refines Nintendo’s unusual, brilliant take. Splatoon 2, out now for the Switch, is a third-person shooter in which you battle with ink, not bullets.…

This Is Why You Ink Your Spawn In Splatoon 2

The screenshot above shows the results of a Splatoon 2 match I played over the weekend. You’ll notice my team won by a tenth of a percent. If you look closely, you’ll also notice how the other team could’ve stopped us. In Splatoon 2’s standard “Turf War” matches, you don’t win by splatting a bunch of…

Hyper-Realistic Splatoon 2 Images Are Becoming A Thing

Splatoon 2‘s been out for a few days now, and players keen to post their images in-game are moving beyondhasty scribbles and into the realm of painstaking recreations of real-world people, places and things. One guy’s even created a program to do it automatically. Any image can be turned into a Splatoon 2 graphic, as…

A Brutal Recap Of The Very Bad Pokémon Go Fest

So Pokémon Go Fest was a disaster. If you were lucky enough to not be there, and want to catch up on just how awful the whole thing was, this video recap by bobvids will get you up to speed. Spoilers: there is a lot of booing.

Pokémon Go Fest Is Having A Rough Start [UPDATES]

Players at the first ever live Pokémon Go event do not seem happy this morning, judging from reports of long lines and connectivity issues trickling in from Chicago. For a day, Pokémon Go Fest promised to be a festival full of rare monsters, special raids, medals, and eggs. But as first reported by Game Informer, the game…

Splatoon 2 Splat & Chat Headset: The Kotaku Review

Just about any headset you can use with a phone or tablet can be used with Nintendo’s Switch app to chat with friends during rounds of Splatoon 2. You don’t have to pick up Hori’s official licensed headset, but there are a couple of reasons you might want to. First off, just look at the…

The Best Reason To Use The Switch App Is Shopping For Splatoon Gear

Chatting with your friends is great and all, but the Switch online app’s best Splatoon 2 feature is Annie’s SplatNet Gear Shop, featuring a rotating stock of exclusive items for the discerning squid kid. The SplatNet Gear Shop allows players to purchase exclusive timed items outside of Splatoon 2 proper. Unlike the in-game shops, which…

On Splatoon 2 Launch Day, Japan Lines Up For The Switch 

Hellish lines formed today all across Japan. Splatoon 2 launched, and stores got a fresh shipment of Switch consoles, including the Splatoon 2 hardware bundle No doubt there were people waiting to just get Splatoon 2 and its Amiibos, but with theway things are in Japan Switch-wise, many folks were certainly hoping to get the…

Rare NES Game Stadium Events Sells For Nearly $42,000

A sealed copy of the rare Nintendo Entertainment System game Stadium Events has sold for $41,977, the seller has confirmed to Kotaku While the owner had originally attempted to sell the game through an eBay auction earlier this month, the winning bidder did not pay, the seller said in an email. But after speaking with…

Quiz: How Will You Meet Shigeru Miyamoto?

Could there be anything worse than meeting Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Mario and Zelda, when you’re completely tanked? Probably not. But if you’re into video games, you’ve probably considered what it’d be like to meet the man himself. Find out how you’ll meet Miyamoto in this quiz.

The Switch’s Phone-Enabled Voice Chat Is As Ridiculous As Expected

The Nintendo Switch online app is live for Android and Apple devices. It offers some Splatoon 2 utilities that let players to keep track of their stats or buy special in-game items, which is pretty neat. It’s just not a very elegant solution for online voice chat between friends. In order to communicate with friends…

Four months after the console’s release, Nintendo has made the Switch app available on both iOS and Android. It’s intended to let you do things like use voice chat and invite friends, though for now all you can do is stare at a “server maintenance” sign.

Fan Creates Super Mario 64 Maker

Nintendo is happy enough with its own Super Mario Maker, but modder extraordinaire Kaze Emanuar figured, hey, we could probably do with a Super Mario 64 version as well. So he made one. Super Mario 64 Maker is a download for the PC that you can play via an emulator (like Project 64). You download…