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In this, the year of Luigi: critic Cameron Kunzelman wants to settle the question of what comes after the Year of Luigi via a Nintendofied version of the Mayan calendar. Fun thing is, there are 4 different ways to interpret this calendar.

A New Mario Statue Line Begins With The Perfect Plumber Outfit

First 4 Figures and Nintendo are launching a new series of Mario statues, and what better version of of the iconic Italian than the one that’s already halfway there? Gotta love the old Tanooki suit. This is my Mario. Whenever I think of the good old days of gaming, I recall sitting in front of…

The Best Part of Wind Waker HD Isn’t The Beautiful Visuals

Sure, Wind Waker HD is gorgeous—absurdly so! But if the Twitter account Linkstagram is any indication, the best part of playing Wind Waker HD actually is having the ability to take ridiculous and silly selfies (aka self-portraits). The visuals help in that regard though, sure…but the pictures don’t have to be of anything particularly amazing,…

Adam West Never Looked This Tough In His Batman Costume

We’ve known since June that PlayStation 3 owners will get the “exclusive” opportunity to play the next Dark Knight game, Batman: Arkham Origins, with a Batman wearing either his Knightfall-era costume or the old 1960s TV costume. Today, you can see those costumes in the game, in motion. Imagine if Adam West lifted weights! You…

Seventeen Years of Pokemon in a Single Image

Has it been seventeen years? The time has just flown by. Here’s how the in-game maps have evolved. The above image was uploaded by Japanese Twitter user @Ugusyan and has been retweeted over ten thousand times. ポケモン17年の歴史 [Twitter] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku…

These Japanese Wii U Bundles Are a Good Deal

Nintendo is releasing a Wii U Family Premium set. And hey, it looks like a bargain. The 32GB Wii U comes packed with New Super Mario Bros. U, Wii Party U, a Wii Remote Plus, a thirty day pass for Wii Karaoke U, and a Sensor Bar. The bundle is available in white or black,…

Hope You Like Playing F-Zero Until Your Eyeballs Puke

GameCube games can run on a PC. The Oculus Rift works for the PC. What comes next? White knuckles and sick bags. While the framerate stutters a bit on this particular footage, the fact it’s working should give hope – or fear – to F-Zero fans the world over. If we can’t get a new…

Sonic The Hedgehog’s Latest Enemies Are An Odd Bunch

Dr. Eggman’s great and all, but he’s just not deadly enough for Sonic: Lost World, so we end up with these guys — the Deadly Six. One of them is a sullen teen. Sounds pretty deadly to me.

Nintendo Is Shockingly Honest About a Recycled Sequel

This is … remarkable. Well, that’s my view of it anyway. Nintendo published a news release this morning that described FIFA 14 on the 3DS in just about the worst terms you can apply to a new sports video game. “FIFA 14 Legacy Edition delivers unmatched authenticity that reflects the current football season with updated…

You Can Play Your Original SNES Online, Don’t You Know

This is SNESoIP, an open-source project put together by a pair of Germans that lets you play original SNES games, using original SNES hardware, over the internet. You could technically do this back in the day using stuff like XBAND, but it was terrible. This, despite it’s been in development for only a few weeks,…

The Legend of Zelda’s abysmal CD-i adaptation from 20 years ago—Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon—were KGB’d out of Hyrule Historia, the series’ canonical volume. MTV Multiplayer asked series director Eiji Aonuma why, and got a rare comment from Nintendo about one of the worst games of all time.

The New Theatrhythm is More of the Same

Undoubtedly one of the best features of the Final Fantasy series is its amazing soundtrack—hence the creation of last year’s music game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy. Of course, even with over 70 songs in the game, that was just the tip of the iceberg: hence the creation of its upcoming sequel, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call…

Let’s Analyze This Week’s Weirdest Nintendo News In a Positive Way

Two days ago, Nintendo revealed how two of their biggest Wii franchises, Wii Fit U and Wii Sports, would be returning on Wii U. They are both arriving on the Wii U in very unusual ways. And there’s one very telling catch. Let’s go glass half-full on this one, shall we? Wii Sports is coming…

Game industry figures share their thoughts on Hiroshi Yamauchi: We’ve collected statements from ex-Nintendo marketing boss Perrin Kaplan, EA’s Peter Moore, and designer Giles Goddard. Yamauchi, the former president of Nintendo who turned the company into what it is today, passed away yesterday.

Little Details Make This Ninja Turtles/Mario Mashup Great

I really dig fan-made mashups and animations where there’s a little easter egg or a hidden reference to catch every second—like the Statue of Liberty holding a golden NES Zelda cartridge in YouTuber James Farr‘s retro mashup animation above. Following the plot of the classic SNES beat ’em up Turtles in Time, Farr threw in…

Nintendo President: We Will Carry On The Spirit Of Hiroshi Yamauchi

Current Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has delivered a brief statement following the death of his predecessor, Hiroshi Yamauchi. The statement, sent over to Kotaku by a Nintendo representative: The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honoring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has taught us…

This week’s Nintendo Download is brought to you by reanimated Zelda and hot samurai lovin’. The HD remake of Wind Waker drops tomorrow, next Tuesday brings Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure, and today we’ve got Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi. Idea Factory’s samurai adventure visual romance novel for the 3DS. Can the week get…

Longtime Nintendo President Dies Aged 85

Hiroshi Yamauchi, a longtime president of Nintendo (1949-2002) and the predecessor to current boss Satoru Iwata, has passed away today at the age of 85, Nikkei reports Formerly the richest man in Japan, Yamauchi also owned Seattle’s Major League Baseball team, the Mariners (though he famously never attended a game). A champion of the efforts…

Link Almost Had Laser Eyes In Wind Waker

Did you know that the Hero of Time Winds almost shot laser beams out of his eyes? For real. It’s true. When making The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker for the GameCube, Team Nintendo had to figure out a way to use the iconic hero’s newly-cartoony eyes, and one possibility came up quickly: laser beams.…

The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD: The Kotaku Review

If you’ve ever had the misfortune of drinking with me and bringing up the subject of video games, you’ll have suffered through me telling you how Wind Waker isn’t just my favourite Zelda game of all time, it’s my favourite game of all time. Note I say my favourite, and not the best. For one,…