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LIVE At Nintendo’s E3 2011 Mystery Developer Q&A

As Nintendo is wont to do at E3, the company is holding a post-press conference question and answer session with Nintendo brass and developers. While these Q&A panels typically reveal all-new details, this one is shrouded in even more mystery. Nintendo will surely talk about the new Wii U, new Wii U games and who’s…

Kid Icarus: Uprising Looks at the Size of that Squadron

It’s been a long time since the world’s seen a brand new Kid Icarus game, but this year, Kid Icarus: Uprising is going to change that. Developed by Project Sora, Kid Icarus: Uprising is sorry to keep you waiting.

Wii U Discs Will Be 25GB In Size

In a wide-ranging interview with Kotaku regarding the new Wii U console, one of Nintendo’s chief game designers, Katsuya Eguchi, confirmed that the system’s proprietary disc format will hold 25 Gigabytes of data. That squares with our own reporting from before E3 and puts Nintendo in a good place to run games that fill up…

Nintendo Looking into Games that Support Two Wii U Controllers

Nintendo’s Wii U controller is such an extraordinary device that we’ve been hearing some skepticism from readers that the company would expect gamers to have more than one of them. After all, the thing looks expensive. It’s got a screen, and a mic, and a camera, and lots of buttons. Is Nintendo going to expect…

8 Minutes of Our Hands-On Video Shows What It’s Like to Play Wii U

Stephen Totilo takes you on a whirlwind tour of Nintendo’s latest play for the living room, the touchscreen-and-motion-control Wii U. (But you’d watch 8 minutes of Totilo just to take a swim in those dreamy blue eyes, wouldn’t you?)

Super Mario 3D Gameplay Walkthrough

At E3, Kotaku gets an up close look at Super Mario 3D, the 3DS Mario title out sometime this year.

Professor Layton’s Fourth Game is Coming to America

Professor Layton and the Last Specter, a DS game out in Japan since 2009, is finally coming to the West, Nintendo revealed during its E3 press conference earlier this morning. It’s coming to the US this Fall.

Nintendo Wii U Hands On: An Entirely Different Way to See Things

It looks like the product of a fevered fanboy wetdream. A 6.2-inch touchscreen, surrounded by dual analog sticks and oodles of buttons. Like the portable hardcore gamers wish Nintendo made. But it’s the most incredible controller ever. I’m completely immersed in my own tiny world with the Wii U controller, staring into the screen, moving…

Now You Can Download the E3 2011 Legend of Zelda Medley

Want a copy of the stirring Zelda tribute performed earlier today at Nintendo’s E3 2011 presser for your very own? Music masters FireGS and ZREO have remastered the medley and put it online for your downloading pleasure. Rejoice!

Resident Evil: Revelations is a Frightening, Delightful Experience

This is Resident Evil as I remember it: Eerie, tense, long moments of exploration punctuated by brief, startling encounters. Resident Evil: Revelations, due out next year on Nintendoʼs 3DS, is a brand new title with roots firmly planted in the early days of Resident Evil, back when the game was unequivocally about surviving the horrors…

Paper Mario Is As 2D As The 3DS Could Possibly Be

Paper Mario, you have been a delight on every Nintendo system you have ever appeared on. Don’t go changing that with the 3DS version! Not that there’s any reason to doubt the series, given what’s on show in the above E3 trailer.

You Are the Hero In Super Mario Bros. Mii

If this looks familiar, that’s because Super Mario Bros. Mii is basically Super Mario Bros. Wii. Only for the Wii U, and instead of controlling lesser Mushroom Kingdom stars, your Mii can pull on some overalls and get to work. Remember, although Nintendo is releasing media for this and has playable demos, it remains just…

Smile, it’s Animal Crossing 3DS’ E3 Trailer

I swore I was done with Animal Crossing. That too many same-same games and too many wasted days meant I was finished with the franchise. But this just looks so…charming

What’s Under the Wii U’s Hood? IBM Spills a Few Chips

While Nintendo normally doesn’t like to talk numbers when touting a new system’s capabilities, the companies providing those capabilities have no such qualms. Like IBM, who today issued a press release boasting some of the Wii U’s hardware specifications, including the fact the microprocessor serving as “the heart” of the console is a custom 45nm…

Mario Kart 3DS Adds Miis, Flying and…Oh yeah, 3D

If you thought for a second that Nintendo wasn’t going to bring Mario Kart to 3DS, than I guess today is your lucky day. For most of us however, the game’s biggest surprise is the addition of flying and undersea racing. Nintendo has also added Mii support and the standard array of 3DS features; Spot…

Animal Crossing 3DS is a Link to the Past

Are you ready for a radical departure from the Animal Crossing formula for the game’s foray on the Nintendo 3DS? That’s just not going to happen, but here’s a guy dressed as Link. Animal Crossing; Animal Crossing never changes. Those were the words famously spoken by actor Ron Pearlman in my head the last time…

Mario Kart 3DS

Lets Go Hands-On and Take a Closer Look at the Wii U

Here are a bunch more photos of Nintendo’s new platform taken from every angle. If you’re more interested in the tech specs, you should check those out here

Seven Different Ways to Play the Wii U

Combining the Wii U’s innovative new controller, the console itself, the stylus, and Wii remote and nunchuk controlers, here are seven different ways you’ll be playing with the Wii U come 2012.

This is Surely the First of Many Wii U Super Mario Bros. Games

This is New Super Mario Bros. running on the Wii U. As with all of the Wii U software being shown at E3 in Los Angeles this week, it’s Only A Prototype. Surely, though, the people at Nintendo will make some sort of Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii U. And maybe, as in…