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Hollywood + Pokémon = … Pokéwood?

The homepage for the upcoming Pokémon game for the DS, Black and White 2 has been updated with some news and new features of the game, including movie making. The starter pokémon is the same as its previous version; Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott. But instead of Professor Juniper greeting you in the beginning, it will…

By Toshitaka Tachibana Published May 15, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

The Creator of Mario and Zelda Reveals his Secrets (in 1999)

In 1999, Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto gave a keynote address at the Game Developers Conference. An address you can watch here in its entirety. Remember, this isn’t the quasi-executive, Wii Music Shigeru Miyamoto we know today. This is the designer at perhaps the height of his powers, with games like Super Mario 64 still fresh…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 14, 2012

Pikmin 2 Makes Its North American Wii Debut June 10

Nintendo’s Selects line of $19.99 Wii titles expands by two next month, when Mario Power Tennis joins the long-awaited North American release of New Play Control Pikmin 2 in retailers “games too inexpensive to be in the case” sections. One of the best alien plant-based real-time strategy games ever created, Pikmin 2 originally hit the…

By Mike Fahey Published May 14, 2012

Kotaku East

Welcome to Your Retro Gaming Dreams

Super Potato. I’ve been to the Akihabara branch a whole blot—I’ve been to the Osaka branches of this gaming retail chain even more. I’ve seen tons of Super Potato photos. I’ve taken tons more. Yet, I’ve always liked the photos Danny Choo of Culture Japan takes (they’re usually quite nice), and this batch of Super…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 14, 2012

Is This Year the Last Hurrah for the Games Expo as We Know It?

I had lunch with a friend and colleague on Thursday, a guy who has been to every E3—and before that he was going to the Consumer Electronics Show when it was the gaming industry’s big expo. Absent some miracle hardware reveal, he thinks we could see the quietest and most depressing E3 ever this year.…

By Owen Good Published May 12, 2012

I Can’t Stop Looking At This Twisted Take On Super Smash Bros.

Witness Reddit user BansheeIndian’s take on Nintendo’s brawler Super Smash Bros. It’s terrifying. And awesome. Full image below (click to expand): A Smash Bros. Drawing I just finished [Reddit]

By Jason Schreier Published May 11, 2012

Metroid‘s Samus Aran Weighs In on Mother Brain’s Ban on Gay Marriage

Remember how it blew your mind when you found out that the character you’d been jumping and shooting with in the first Metroid was a woman? Well, it turns out she was hiding a lot more than long, flowing locks under that Varia Suit armor. In a revelation that destroys 73% of the fan-fiction written…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 11, 2012

Kotaku East

Nintendo Ending Its 3D Television Service for the 3DS

Last summer, Nintendo’s 3D television service “Itsu no Ma ni Terebi” launched in Japan. It featured short two-minute 3D clips that were free and exclusive to the 3DS. Today, Nintendo announced that the service is ending in Japan on June 20. The 3DS, however, will continue intermitted distribution of 3D videos for 3DS owners—a good…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 11, 2012

Nintendo Is Killing Off the Aqua Blue 3DS

Do you own an Aqua Blue Nintendo? You might own a bit of history. Nintendo Japan’s website reveals that the color will soon no longer be in production. On the Nintendo site, it clearly states: “Scheduled to end production shortly” (近日生産終了予定). No reason was given yet, but online in Japan, people are speculating that it…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 11, 2012

Avengers: Battle for Earth Video Game Assembling on Xbox 360 and Wii U This Fall

Marvel’s just announced that their premiere superhero team will be hitting game consoles later this year, confirming recent rumors about such a game’s existence. Designed for use with Xbox 360’s Kinect camera and Wii U’s gestural inputs, Avengers: Battle for Earth will be a motion control game developed by the Ubisoft Quebec studio. Marvel says…

By Evan Narcisse Published May 10, 2012

Monster World IV Makes Its North American Debut in Today’s Nintendo Download

The Wii Virtual Console springs back to life this week with two classic games from the fine folks at Sega, including one that never even made it stateside. Time for some old school action role-playing! Wonder Boy in Monster Land and Monster World IV hit the Wii Virtual Console today, giving owners of the console…

By Mike Fahey Published May 10, 2012

I Hope This Doesn’t Rule Out a Big Boy Transformers Prime Game

While the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 get what’s shaping up to be a pretty spectacular Fall of Cybertron, Nintendo Wii, 3DS and DS players get this. Now I am not saying this isn’t an excellent Transformers Prime game. I’ve not played it, so for all I know it could be spectacular. It just looks…

By Mike Fahey Published May 10, 2012

The Nintendo DSi Drops to $99 May 20

One of the best values in gaming gets even better on May 20, when Nintendo drops the price of the DSi to $99.99, with its larger sibling the DSi XL at $129.99. That’s a $50 drop over current retail, with the $149.99 DSi’s price effectively slashed by 33 percent. What a wonderful price point for…

By Mike Fahey Published May 10, 2012

Kotaku East

Don’t Hold Your Breath for a Kid Icarus: Uprising Sequel

Because, you’ll pass out. While you might be keen to play another Kid Icarus: Uprising, game designer Masahiro Sakurai isn’t keen to make one. “If by ‘lasting universe’ you mean to ask if there’s a sequel, the answer is no,” Sakurai flatly told IGN. “We pushed a lot into the game in order to let…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 10, 2012

Kotaku East

The Freakiest 3DS Game Box of 2012

It’s only May. I know. But I sincerely doubt 2012 will produce freakier 3DS box art than what this Kobito Dukan game unleashed. As odd as this is, I quite like it. Ditto for Kobito Dukan, which kicks sand in the face of stereotypical Japanese cuteness—in a delightfully freaky way. Read more about Kobito Dukan…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 10, 2012

If Only They’d Actually Released an All-White NES

I’ve got a basic rule when it comes to consumer electronics: the white the better. The white PS3, the original Xbox in its rare white, the DSi in glossy white, the new white 360, they all look great That’s just my tastes, though. Artist and advertising man Andrew Miller has a different reason for emphasising…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 9, 2012

The First Official Adventure Time Video Game Talks Trash This Fall

Pendleton Ward’s quirky cartoon sensation Adventure Time makes its video game debut this fall in Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?! for the DS and 3DS. I’m so, so happy. Created by the 2D masters at Wayforward Technologies with story support by Mr. Ward himself Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d…

By Mike Fahey Published May 8, 2012

Over 30,000 Dominoes Were Harmed in the Making of this Nintendo Tribute Video

Watching a master creation of dominoes fall to their death is both exhilarating and anxiety-inducing for me. On the one hand, this is what they were made for. All that hard work and meticulous arrangement was put in for this moment. On the other hand, what about all that hard work! And look at the…

By Tina Amini Published May 8, 2012

Kotaku East

Capsule Toys are Cool. This is Not.

We have Gree and DeNA, two huge social gaming companies, to thank for the massive growth in Japan’s social gaming industry. But their business models use a method called “complete gacha”; it is currently being called unfair, and it may be regulated by the Japan’s Consumer Affair Agency. With the chance of not just the…

By Toshitaka Tachibana Published May 8, 2012

Um, You Can’t Build an MMO For the 3DS’ Browser, Can You?

Asked straight up most people’s response would be “no, stupid”, especially since it doesn’t have java or flash. Where you or I would see that as an impediment, however, the folks behind Project Triniate see it as a challenge. While crude, it appears they’ve got the basics up and running, and while you may never…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 8, 2012