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Guy Performs Free Jazz To Competitive Smash Bros.

Here’s Caleb, doing a stunning drum performance. And it’s not just random drumming. All the different hits are in sync with all the Smash Bros. moves. You can hear light cymbal hits for Fox’s short hop lasers, for example. He basically replaced all the game’s sounds with drum hits, and it works perfectly, giving the…

New maps from Fire Emblem Fates’s second map pack will start to release on May 5, Nintendo announced today. Map Pack 2 will contain 6 maps in total, with the entire package costing $8. Check out our review of the game here, if you haven’t yet.

Nintendo will “greatly reduce the amount of Wii U systems produced and shipped” during the financial year ending March 2017, company president Tatsumi Kimishima recently said. “Taking into consideration demand for the new NX hardware and overall demand forecasts,” he added, “we plan to ship 800,000 units.”

The Making (And Legacy) Of Super Mario Bros. 3

SMB3’s entire development team consisted of just eleven people: Miyamoto and Tezuka as directors and designers, four additional designers, four programmers, and Koji Kondo as composer. During SMB3’s two years of development, Miyamoto’s days at the office had no definite start or end time, and he often stayed up working late into the night. This…

Nintendo Is Offloading The Seattle Mariners [Update]

In 1992, Nintendo’s then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi went out and bought a majority stake in the Seattle Mariners baseball team. It was one of the most 90s things Nintendo ever did, but today, that era comes to an end. The Mariners announced today that Nintendo are looking to sell most of their 55% stake in the…

Game Critic Uses Brilliant Workaround For YouTube’s Copyright Bullshit 

Thank god for Jim Sterling, a game critic whose recent YouTube antics forced YouTube’s copyright system to eat itself alive. Here’s how he did it. As you may already know, YouTube has something called “Content ID,” which is a system that theoretically allows users to identify and manage their videos. Basically, once a video is…

Zelda Delay Signals Another Slow Year For Nintendo Fans

Longtime Nintendo fans may remember the brutal last years of Wii, in 2010 and 2011, when third-party support had dried up and just about all Nintendo put out was Skyward Sword and Fortune Street. After today’s news, it seems like 2016 might be even worse. This morning, Nintendo announced that the next big Zelda game…

Nintendo Will ‘Focus’ On Zelda At E3, No NX

Nintendo’s next console won’t be at E3, nor will most of their games. The company announced today that the upcoming Zelda will be “the focus of Nintendo’s presence at E3″ and that nothing else will be playable on the show floor. Here’s the full statement from Nintendo of America’s PR. You’ll note that it leaves…

The Nintendo NX Will Be Out March 2017 Worldwide

Nintendo just announced that the Nintendo NX will be out in March 2017. That release window is global. Via a financial release, Nintendo states, “For our dedicated video game platform business, Nintendo is currently developing a gaming platform codenamed ‘NX’ with a brand-new concept. NX will be launched in March 2017 globally.” In a tweet,…

Nintendo announced that their first mobile app, Miitomo, has crossed the 10 million unique user threshold. They’re commemorating the milestone by running a ten-day “Celebrating 10 Million Users!” promotion between April 29 and May 8, the details of which are currently unknown.

Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem Are Getting Mobile Apps [Update]

Today, Nintendo announced that it’s releasing Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem apps for mobile devices. Update, 4:50am EST: A previous version of this story stated that the release date for these apps was unknown. That was incorrect. They will be out this fall. Here’s what Nintendo said about the apps in a financial report released…

Star Fox Fan Animation Is A Love Letter To Classic Cartoons

The official Star Fox anime isn’t the only animated short that came out recently. Animator and voice actor Matthew Gafford and his team of enthusiasts spent more than six years establishing their fan project, set in the Star Fox universe, called A Fox in Space. The first, 13-minute long episode is now completed, and it’s…

Goombas and Roombas. LEGO builder Cecilie Fritzvold (via The Brothers Brick) created this micro scale Super Mario Bros. play session, complete with a robot vacuum cleaner to handle chores while the player is otherwise occupied.

Players Have Modded Goku Into Smash Bros. Wii U

We ALL KNOW that Goku got robbed in that bullshit Smash Bros. poll from last year. But that’s OK. Modders have made everything right again. What you’re looking at above is a mod for Smash Bros 4, as showcased by Super Mega Buster 123 Win64 Gigabyte. The mod was created by KevintheH, and it replaces…

Nintendo Characters As Football Players

A pretty great concept. SyBro imagined an American football game with Super Mario characters and made some 3D renders for it. Too bad it’s just fan-art. The Mushroom Kingdom and arcade-y gameplay (NFL Blitz style!) could indeed spice up a football game, and both the sideline and the character selection screen look awesome. To contact…

Watch The Official Star Fox Anime

It’s short, coming in at around 13 minutes, but remember: this is a team effort between Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell), WIT Studios (Attack on Titan) and Shigeru Miyamoto. And it’s pretty damn cool.

Star Fox Guard: The Kotaku Review

It’s barely related to the Star Fox series and has mostly been ignored in the year of hype leading to the release of its big brother Star Fox Zero, but the new oddball Star Fox Guard tower defense game from Nintendo and Platinum is well worth your attention. I might be biased, though. I think…

Some A+ Metroid Cosplay

I’ve seen some good Samus cosplay in my time, but rarely have I ever seen someone actually nail the scale and dimensions of her power suit like Elearia has here. Those shoulders! The ribbing underneath! The light-up visor! Bravo.

Still Dreaming Of An Ocarina Of Time Remake

Look, it’s fine to remake Zelda games for the 3DS, but in 2016 when people hear the word “remake”, they want a remake. So the next time we get an Ocarina of Time re-release from Nintendo, hopefully it looks something like this. We’ve seen plenty of CryZENx’s Unreal Engine work here on Kotaku before, and…

Nintendo is streaming a Star Fox anime short on April 20. Titled Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins, it’s a collaboration between Production I.G of the Ghost in the Shell anime fame, WIT Studios of the Attack on Titan anime fame and Shigeru Miyamoto of Shigeru Miyamoto fame. Trailer below: