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Three Nintendo Icons Draw Kirby
Nearly 20 years ago, three household names in Nintendo gaming took a shot at drawing Kirby inside the official strategy guide for Kirby’s Adventure. Masahiro Sakurai, the game’s creator (and creator of the Super Smash Bros. series); Shigeru Miyamoto, who really needs no introduction, and Satoru Iwata, who doesn’t either, unless you don’t know who…
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The Wii U will Get the Best-Looking Version of Aliens: Colonial Marines, Says Gearbox
Nintendo has yet to release the official hardware specifications for the Wii U, and it’s something Gearbox’s Brian Burleson, senior producer on Aliens: Colonial Marines, won’t discuss directly. But, he said to Eurogamer, the Wii U will get the best-looking version of the game because it has “more modern tech.” “Just trust me on that…
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One of the Best Downloadable 3DS Games Gets a Little Better in This Week’s Nintendo Download
Last week it was a Mario Kart patch, this week it’s a version update, with new content added to WayForward Technologies’ Mighty Switch Force inching the 3DS eShop ever closer to iTunes territory. Mighty Switch Force is a puzzling platformer that relies on the tried-and-true switch mechanic, in which platforms and such phase in and…
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These Squishy Nintendo Controllers Were Meant for Hugging
Haven’t you always wanted to cozy up with an NES? Okay, well, maybe not so much. They do have a lot of sharp edges, and do you even know where that controller has been? I swear I saw the dog licking it yesterday, and then your little brother— Well. Over at her shop Felt Sew…
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Kotaku East
Growing Up on Mario and Sonic. Growing Up in China.
Doodling away at his desk, a skinny and unassuming young man, Li Feng, ponders how to draw a political cartoon regarding missile defense shields. Li, 32, is a graphic artist for a media company in Beijing and he attributes his choice of career to his upbringing, an upbringing in China, with video games. “When many…
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Image Suggests Wii U Controller Will Have True Analog Joysticks, Not Nubs
An image published to Twitter, and since taken down, by a QA tester for LEGO developer Traveler’s Tales, depicts a WIi U controller with traditional twin analog joysticks, not analog pads similar to the 3DS’, as had been shown in earlier images of the controller. Games Radar, which first reported the picture, notes that the…
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Starfox–Metroid Team-Up Rumored for Wii U
It reads like fan fiction and the rumor’s original reporter—who uncovered PlayStation All-Stars six months before it was announced—concedes that nothing about it is confirmed. But Retro Studios is said to be working on, or at least to have considered, Star Fox-Metroid Fusion Saga, a mashup of third-person action gameplay with aerial/space combat. Paul Gale…
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There’s a Mario Kart 7 Patch in This Week’s Nintendo Download
Thanks to advances in Nintendo downloadable content distribution, 3DS like Mario Kart 7 can now be patched to eliminate exploits. Awww man, I love exploits. But apparently Nintendon’t, so the “Wuhu Loop,” “Maka Wuhu,” and “Bowser Castle 1” maps have now been patched, and those patches are required for online play. Welcome to the future.…
By Mike Fahey
