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New Super Mario Bros. 2 Will be Nintendo’s First Proper Downloadable Game

The freshly-announced New Super Mario Bros. 2, for the 3DS, sees Nintendo entering the digital download age for real, as the game will be available as either a packaged product at retail or as a downloadable title (which is saved to an SD card). Other titles will follow. Strangely, the downloadable option will also be…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012

Nintendo Won’t be Revealing the Wii U’s Price at E3

Nintendo’s currently holding an investor’s meeting to discuss its recent financial results, and among all the grim financial talk there’s some news. Like the fact that, despite launching worldwide in 2012, Nintendo won’t be telling us how much the system costs at E3.[Twitter]

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2012

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Nintendo Reveals Its Plan for Success

Last year? Man, last year sucked. Nintendo bled loads of cash. Sure, the Nintendo 3DS was neato, but the rollout was rocky. And the Wii? That just gathered dust in anticipation for the upcoming Wii U. But Nintendo is already saying this year is going be fine, that we should not panic. Nintendo is coming…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 26, 2012

Nintendo Just Posted Its First Annual Loss

Today, Nintendo announced its first annual operating loss in its history as a public company. Sluggish Wii sales and a strong Japanese yen hurt Nintendo—not to mention a rocky rollout for the Nintendo 3DS. The game maker chalked up a US$455.9 million operating loss for the 2011 financial year. “What went wrong was that sales…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 26, 2012

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Foxconn Workers Use Suicide Threats as Bargaining Tool. Again.

In China, workers’ rights kind of suck! So when the folks who make your game consoles and electronics want to protest, they take to the roof and threaten to kill themselves. Lovely. Earlier this month in Shenzhen, while the world was watching how their iPads really got made, a group of approximately twenty Foxconn laborers…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2012

Nintendo, Let This Sexy Man Give You His Money

Andrew Eisen, the Nintendo fan with the golden voice, has more games he’d like Nintendo of America to bring over from Japan. To help his cause, he’s channelling the spirit of the Old Spice guy. And channelling it well Sure, the likelihood of Pandora’s Tower or Project Zero ever making it to American Wiis are…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2012

Well Now Nintendo Is Just Being Mean [UPDATE]

See this photo? It’s a lovely display from the Mother series, captured by Kotaku friend Matt Hawkins at the Nintendo World Store in New York City. Isn’t this fantastic? Look at the adorable sprites. The cartridges. The CDs. It’s really lovely. Which would all be well and good, except Nintendo of America has spent the…

By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2012

Each Level of Super Mario Bros. Condensed Into a Single Screen

You must play Super Mario Summary, a platformer that designer Johan Peitz created during the latest Ludum Dare game dev challenge. It’s a surprisingly fun recreation of Super Mario Bros. in which every level is summarized by a single screen. And you can play it at work. Which I just did. For the past 30…

By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2012

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Lewd 3DS Game Gets Official Tissues

Senran Kagura, that large chested ninja 3DS game, is getting a sequel. That sequel is getting official tissues for an upcoming promotional event. Talk about knowing your audience. Talk about knowing your game. 3DS「閃乱カグラ Burst -紅蓮の少女達-」が8月30日に発売。「ニコニコ超会議」では，マーベラスAQLブース内に特設コーナーも [4Gamer]

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 24, 2012

Winning Mario Party 9 by Doing Absolutely Nothing

How hard is it to win Mario Party 9 against computer opponents? If you set the AI difficulty to easy, you don’t even need to touch the controller. This video might be a month and a half old, but I’ve been watching it and laughing all morning, so I’d say that’s worth something. YouTube user…

By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2012

Nintendo’s President, Steven Spielberg, and the Dead Eyes of a Serial Killer

In a transcript for a never-before-seen installment of Iwata Asks unearthed by Nintendo Gamer, the president of Nintendo explains to legendary director Steven Spielberg why it would not be acceptable to put Mario in the fridge. Here at Kotaku we’ve become big fans of Nintendo Gamer‘s Iwata Asks parody series, riffing on Nintendo’s own interview…

By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2012

Marvel at China’s Ballsy Rip-Offs

The way that licensed products are remixed and reworked in China is endlessly fascinating. Thanks to lax laws (laws that are increasingly less lax), Chinese businesses can get away with things they never could in other countries. Increasingly, more and more Chinese are turning their noses up at knock-offs, demanding the real deal. Still, I…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 23, 2012

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“Something” Will Happen to The World Ends with You

Remember The World Ends with You? In a recent interview with Tetsuya Nomura, the he said this about the game: “Now, I still can’t say anything… But, something, perhaps there will be something.” Hope it’s not a social game! [FF-Union]

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 23, 2012

Pokémon Black & White 2: Gameplay Trailer 2

Just over a week since we last got a good look at the game/s, Nintendo has released a second proper trailer for the upcoming Pokémon Black & White 2 Both games will be out in Japan on June 23, and in the US and Europe sometime in the Fall.

By Luke Plunkett Published April 22, 2012

3DS Owners Getting Two AR Apps for Pokémon Black 2 & White 2

More news from last night’s Nintendo Direct announcement event: While Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 are DS games, playable via the 3DS’ backwards compatibility, there will be some apps released (in Japan, as of now) to enhance the 3DS experience. • Pokémon AR Searcher (pictured) is an AR shooting game Pokémon caught in this…

By Owen Good Published April 21, 2012

Kirby Anthology Coming This Year for Wii, Says Nintendo

Not much more than a brief tease; as part of today’s “Nintendo Direct” news event in Japan, the company said “a special Wii disc featuring all your favorite Kirby games,” will be released this year, the character’s 20th anniversary.

By Owen Good Published April 21, 2012

Animal Crossing 3DS Arrives This Fall in Japan

Inexplicably thin on details for a game announced two years ago in Los Angeles, Animal Crossing‘s 3DS version will release this fall in Japan, Nintendo said in tonight’s “Nintendo Direct” news event. That’s a gallery of new screenshots above. Here’s it’s video from E3 2011.

By Owen Good Published April 21, 2012

3DS Firmware Update Next Week Adds Folders, Maybe Patches

Nintendo 3DS systems in North America will be able to get a firmware update on April 25 that will allow system owners to organize games and apps saved into the system in folders. It will also support software patches.

By Stephen Totilo Published April 21, 2012

Earthbound, The Trippiest Game In RPG History

Today seems like the perfect day to reminisce about Earthbound, a Japanese role-playing game that is best described as a 16-bit electronic acid trip. Earthbound, which Nintendo originally unleashed upon the United States in June of 1995, is in many ways a traditional turn-based JRPG. It draws much of its inspiration from the original Dragon…

By Jason Schreier Published April 20, 2012

You’ve Got Final Fantasy XIII in my Fire Emblem!

In the above Fire Emblem: Kakusei image, there’s a character named “Lightning”. In Final Fantasy XIII, there’s a character named “Lightning”. Hey, wait a second… This seems to be a player’s My Unit creation—and one that really, really looks like Final Fantasy‘s Lightning. Lightning appearing in Fire Emblem would make more sense than, say, Mass…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 20, 2012