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Report: Nintendo Planning To Announce New Mario Games And Remasters To Celebrate Series’ 35-Year Anniversary

Nintendo is reportedly planning to release remasters of most of the games in the Super Mario. Bros. series and announce new ones to mark the plumber’s 35th anniversary. That news comes from a report by the British gaming website Video Games Chronicle, which says the remasters are to be revealed alongside new information about the…

Some Players Are Adding Sexy Stuff To Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is not a sexy game. But that hasn’t stopped the drawings of dicks and breasts, sexy custom outfits and more. All this is inevitable, I know! Note: This article has NSFW content that some readers might find objectionable. As Kotaku previously posted investigative report, if people can create dicks in a…

The Punch-Out Speedrunning Community Spent Five Years Trying To Beat One Player And All His Records

Back in the early 90s and early 2000s, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out for the NES was a popular early speedrunning game. But eventually, players moved on. However, one player went back to some old Punch-Out fansites in 2010 and discovered that every world record at the time had been set by one player, Matt Turk. Nobody had…

Super Mario Bros. 3‘s Angry Sun Gave Me Anxiety

I’ve been playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on my Nintendo Switch lately. It’s been reminding me how the Angry Sun, an enemy that appears in the fifth level of the game’s Desert Land, provoked terror in me when I was young. Its implementation is a lesson in narrative level design and accomplishing less with more.…

I’m Driving Myself Crazy Trying To Name My Animal Crossing Island

It is important, in these trying times, to take it easy on yourself. That self-critical voice constantly berating you in your head? Turn it down to a whisper. Unfortunately, I am a gigantic dummy incapable of following my own advice. Case in point: I’ve spent the better part of three days (and counting) trying to…

How Cory In The House DS Went From Bad, Forgotten Game To Hilarious Meme

A glass box, no bigger than the size of the Tesseract, stands atop two marble-colored obelisks. Inside the glass box is a copy of Cory in the House, the DS adaptation of the Disney Channel sitcom that lasted for two seasons between 2007 and 2008. Behind it is a regal poster for the namesake show.…

Good Job! Turns Office Nepotism Into Something More Fun

I haven’t been into the office in weeks. If your job can be done from home, and your employer isn’t a heartless monster, you probably haven’t either. Good Job!’s workplace carnage is a perfect substitute. I only wish every office was this much fun. Developed by Dutch game studio Paladin and published by Nintendo, Good…

Ultimate Alliance 3’s Fantastic Four DLC Is An Epic Epilogue

The first two installments of downloadable content for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 added new multiplayer game modes and challenges. Fantastic Four: Shadow of Doom, the third and final bit of paid DLC, adds a playable epilogue to the game’s story starring Doctor Doom and his four best pals. After two helpings of relatively narrative-free additional…

BioShock, Borderlands, And XCOM Are Coming To Switch

A bunch of 2K games are coming to Switch on May 29 including XCOM 2, Borderlands 2, and BioShock Infinite The news is part of the surprise Nintendo Direct Mini that dropped earlier today confirming a number of ports that had previously been rumored. Here’s the full list of 2K games headed to the Nintendo…

Surprise Nintendo Direct Includes Updates On Xenoblade, Smash, Animal Crossing

Nintendo quietly dropped a surprise mini Direct on us this morning, announcing several games and updates coming to the Switch in the next few months, including Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, the BioShock collection, and Burnout Paradise Remastered along with updates for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Ring Fit Adventure and more. Fans…

Nintendo released an update earlier today that patched out Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ item duplication glitch that was discovered over the weekend. Not that anyone ever used it. Because that would be cheating. And no one would ever cheat in an Animal Crossing game.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, People Are Decorating Excellent Rooms

Not only are people crafting wonderful outfits in the latest Animal Crossing, but they are also decorating interesting and wonderful rooms. Of course, room decoration isn’t new to the Animal Crossing games. But the release of New Horizons has sparked players’ creativity, resulting in an array of living spaces. Let’s take a look! In case…

I’m So Happy There’s A Wheelchair In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

There is a wheelchair in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It’s nothing fancy. It doesn’t roll. The power wheelchair I use in real-life would crush it like a monster truck. But it is there, in the game, and it makes me very happy. I’ve been paralyzed from the chest down for two years. Half of my…

In its first three days on sale in Japan, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 1,880,626 package copies at retail. This is the biggest debut for any Switch game in Japan to date. During that same week, a whopping 392,576 Switch units (including Switch Lite) were also sold in Japan. 

Nintendo Donates 9,500 Facemasks To Local Responders

With a global shortage of protective facemasks endangering those on the front line in the fight against covid-19, Nintendo has looked in its back room and found 9,500 N95 particulate respirator masks, which are being donated to responders near the company’s American operations. In a “thank you” post on the city site for North Bend,…

It Sucks Being Player 2 In Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is all about working together and building a sense of community, but if you’re not the primary player account on the game, it’s a lot harder to participate. New Horizons lets you make one island per Switch, and up to eight players can live on it together. But only one of…

Bow Before The Beauty Of My Custom-Painted Joy-Cons

In my never-ending quest to make my consoles and controllers look uniquely pretty, I turn to Colorware, the company that’s been painting game hardware for two decades. They do custom color Joy-Cons for $150 and special limited edition designs for $200, which look and feel amazing. There’s nothing wrong with spending $70 on a pair…

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Has An Infinite Item Trick [Update: It’s Been Fixed]

Have you been spending all weekend meticulously weeding, picking fruit, and chopping wood to make money in Animal Crossing: New Horizons the way Tom Nook intended? If so, then you are a right and honorable villager. Unlike those people who have found a new glitch that lets you earn hundreds of thousands of bells in…

How Dare You, Animal Crossing: New Horizons

As Kotaku’s resident arachnophobe, I find Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ handling of tarantulas, vis-a-vis forcing me to handle a tarantula, completely unacceptable. I do not do well with spiders. People tell me that I am a very large person and spiders are very small, but that just means more of them can fit on my…

Play Animal Crossing: New Horizons In Japanese, Get A Dreaded Compliment

Anyone who speaks Japanese and has spent time in the country has heard it: nihongo ga ojouzu (“Your Japanese is good”). Even Animal Crossing isn’t safe from this inevitable and dreaded compliment. That’s exactly what happens in Animal Crossing: New Horizons if you play the game in Japanese. Below is a screenshot from a North…