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This 3DS Game Still Looks Bananas

Guild 01 is an upcoming 3DS game made by four different creators. It’s not really “one game” per se, but four games. The games include Kaiho Shojo, a shooting game from Goichi Suda. There’s also Rental Bukiya de Omasse—a game in which you are an arms dealer. Then there’s Air Porter, a airport baggage simulator.…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 11, 2012

What 375 Nintendo Game Paintings, One for Each Day of the Year, Look Like

I know, there’s only 365 days in a year. We’ll get to that discrepancy in a minute. Aussie artist Campbell Whyte set out last year on a mission. He wanted to paint a small image every day of the year, each one based on a NES game. While his original aim was to paint the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 11, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

Nintendo’s Terrifying Power Glove Indoctrination Video

Get a cup of tea, a biscuit or two and settle in for ten minutes worth of Nintendo Power Glove propaganda, courtesy of the official VHS cassette guide to the peripheral. It is something you really should watch. From the product placement to pseudo-religious tone throughout, it’s as perfect a summary of one of Nintendo’s…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 10, 2012

Unlikely Fan Fiction Crossover Battle: Link Encounters Resistance

Colorful. Bright. Cartoonish. These are all adjectives used to describe the light-hearted and airy adventures found in Insomniac’s Resistance series. What happens when Nintendo’s dark anti-hero Link comes on the scene? Glorious chaos. In the realm of video game crossover fan fiction there are plenty of pairings that make perfect sense. Mega Man and Street…

By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2012

Community Star Kicks Guy In Nuts For Nintendo

Proving that he doesn’t need Community to be meta as hell, actor Joel McHale dissects the anatomy of a viral video in this new commercial for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld gaming system. Really, who wouldn’t want Mario and Luigi on their writing team? Joel McHale Goes Viral for Nintendo [YouTube]

By Jason Schreier Published April 9, 2012

Rumor: The Wii U has $180 Worth of Parts, Won’t Be Sold Under $300

The closer we get to E3, when the Wii U seen there is expected to be the finished product, you can expect rumors on this machine to increase commensurately. Here’s another one. The Wii U’s parts will cost about $180, with roughly $50 of that going to the controller. That’s according to the unidentified sources…

By Owen Good Published April 8, 2012

Play Classic Mario Games With a Tennis Racquet in Mario Tennis Open

The coolest feature of the upcoming 3DS game Mario Tennis Open is the ability to play the original Super Mario Bros.… by hitting a tennis ball against a wall. That may sound strange, but it feels very natural once you see it in action. It’s easily the most interesting part of the game, which for…

By Kirk Hamilton Published April 5, 2012

Reviews

Xenoblade Chronicles: The Kotaku Review

Xenoblade Chronicles taught me an important lesson: Never trust the Internet. You see, for the past few months, everybody everywhere on the web has been hyping the hell out of Monolith Soft’s new Wii role-playing game, which publisher Nintendo will release in the United States this Friday (though it’s been out in Europe for almost…

By Jason Schreier Published April 5, 2012

This Week’s Nintendo Download is Every Bit as Exciting as Free Mass Effect 3 DLC

Just because we pre-empted this week’s Nintendo Download for some special Mass Effect 3 news doesn’t make it any less exciting and important. Does Mass Effect 3 have music from The Shins? Not unless it’s a very special episode of Mass Effect 3. Does it have an exclusive interview with Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector?…

By Mike Fahey Published April 5, 2012

If Nintendo Had Made Angry Birds. In the 1980s.

Swedish artist Giorgio Cantù has imagined what it would like if Nintendo had come up with the idea for Angry Birds and, instead of releasing it on a phone in the 21st century, had released it on a Game & Watch device in the 1980s. It looks way easier, even with the series’ revolutionary new…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 5, 2012

Sonic‘s Co-Creator Joins Nintendo

Well this is a line-crossing worth taking note of. Gamasutra reports that Hirokazu Yasuhara, co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, has taken a job at Nintendo. Because it’s never the wrong time for a Ghostbusters quote: Dogs and cats! Living together! Mass hysteria! Yasuhara has joined Nintendo’s Software Technology devision, an American-based second-party developer that has…

By Kirk Hamilton Published April 4, 2012

Nobody Knows How Powerful The Wii U Actually Is

Gamers and game developers have spent much of the past year arguing and speculating over Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U console. Will it be more powerful than other gaming devices? Less powerful? Just as powerful? Will it have HD graphics? Online connectivity? Arms? Will it do your taxes? The truth is that nobody seems to know…

By Jason Schreier Published April 4, 2012

Pokémon Conquest Brings Hit Japanese Game To America… For the DS

America is getting a Pokémon strategy game this June. It’s called Pokémon Conquest, a name-change from Pokémon + Nobunaga’s Ambition, which is what it’s been called in Japan. It’s not made by Nintendo. It’s made by Tecmo Koei. Our guy in Japan has played it and declared it… “a decent foray into the strategy RPG…

By Stephen Totilo Published April 4, 2012

Kotaku East

So Who Was Making Crap Up: Nintendo or a Japanese Newspaper?

Last month, an article appeared in Japanese newspaper Nikkei. In it, Nikkei stated that Nintendo was targeting Asia. Moreover, the paper gave a specific example of this tactic—namely that Nintendo was launching the 3DS in South Korea on April 28. Nintendo aggressively refuted the article, releasing a statement that the article “isn’t anything our company…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 4, 2012

Kotaku East

Where There’s Hardware in China, There’s This Lady

Xia Xiaowei is one of China’s most famous “tech models”. Whenever big hardware is released, the 20-something year-old Xia Xiaowei, who goes by Vivihoney in English, is there to pose with it. Chinese tech models like Vivihoney pretty much exclusively pose with hardware, combining glossy gadget pics with pin-up photos. Vivihoney is actually signed with…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 4, 2012

Kotaku East

Japan’s Club Nintendo Now Offering Official Polo Shirts

Does Japan’s Club Nintendo get the best stuff? Yes, yes it does. Take this wide selection of Club Nintendo shirts available for 550 Club Nintendo points. There are different monograms available, like a Fire Flower or a Triforce. You can select your size and even the color of the polo shirt. There are eight different…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 3, 2012

If Nintendo Made Children’s Books…

…they wouldn’t just be awesome, they’d be this awesome. They’re the work of artist Caldwell Tanner, and it’s making me incredibly upset that these aren’t real books that can be bought and read to children who will grow up thinking the wrong story is so damn right Video Game Childrens Books [LOLDWELL, via Super Punch]

By Luke Plunkett Published April 3, 2012

We’re Not Buying New Fast-Spreading Wii U Launch Date Rumor [UPDATE]

You might have read rumors swirling around the Internet today that suggest the Wii U will be out on November 18. Multiple gaming websites, such as GameSpot and Eurogamer, have reported on the rumor, which originated at the website Wii U Daily. Wii U Daily says it obtained an e-mail from a Japanese retailer that…

By Jason Schreier Published April 2, 2012

Google Announces Google Maps — for the Nintendo Entertainment System [Update]

The undisputed Internet-age leader in April Fool’s hoaxes gets a one-day head start on its latest gag—a brilliant announcement video for “Google Maps 8-Bit,” a port of the popular, well, map service to the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon. The best part? It’s an homage to Dragon Quest Not only is the video a first rate production—including…

By Owen Good Published March 31, 2012

The Most Compelling Image I Could Find to Represent This Week’s Nintendo Download

REMIX! This week sees the release of only two new games across Nintendo’s three platforms, signaling a time of change for the Weekly Nintendo download. Oh don’t worry, it’s not going away or anything. It’s just expanding to include whatever new videos the 3DS is getting in any given week, along with demos released for…

By Mike Fahey Published March 29, 2012