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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker’s DLC Is A Delightful Mix Of Old And New

This week’s paid “Special Episode” downloadable content for Captain Toad’s Treasure Tracker has five lovely new courses, but the coolest part of the DLC is the way it recycles older levels with fresh goals and game types. Available now for$5.99 on the Nintendo eShop, Captain Toad’s Special Episode DLC adds a new adventure book to…

Shigeru Miyamoto Is Now Nintendo’s Dad

Former Kotaku UK boss Keza MacDonald got to interview Nintendo’s Shinya Takahashi and Hisashi Nogami over at The Guardian, and while the entire thing is a joy to read, there’s one part in particular—about what it’s like working with the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto in 2019—that I thought stood out. Because he’s now serving as a…

Damn, Yoshi’s Crafted World Looks Gorgeous

I’ve been playing Yoshi’s Crafted World for Switch in advance of its March 29 release, and the thing that’s sticking with me the most is how just plain beautiful it looks. I know we all enjoy playing our Switches in handheld mode, but you should consider docking that sucker for the duration of your Crafted…

Fake Smash Balls And Bees Might Be The Worst Custom Smash Bros. Mode

On Saturday night I invited some friends over to play Smash Bros., and I’m sorry. I’m not great at Smash, but I think it’s a fun party game. When you get people of varying skill levels together it turns into a raucous, chaotic experience you can’t get anywhere else. I was also hoping that my…

Unknown NES Game, Lost For 30 Years, Has Now Been Digitized And Finished

When UWC—a NES game that had been hidden from the world for 30 years—was uncovered last week, one of the first orders of business was getting the game off a cartridge and into the digital realm so that it could be properly preserved. The new owner of the game, Stephan Reese, aka Archon 1981, said…

Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Looks Weirdly Gritty Without Cel-Shading

Two years after its release, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild remains a near-perfect game. It’s also still easy on the eyes, thanks to a cartoony style that’ll stand the test of time for years, if not decades to come. So what happens when you strip away that candy-colored exterior? It looks pretty grim,…

Mario Games Have Amazing First Levels

Ceave Gaming has done some amazing things in Mario games, like beating New Super Luigi. U without collecting or touching a single gold coin. But in his latest video, Ceave dives into the overall history of Mario. He looks back at the first levels in every 2D Mario game to figure out what makes this…

Trying To Solo Overcooked Perfectly Was A Mistake

Here’s what I knew about Overcooked when I started playing it for the first time yesterday: It’s primarily meant to be a multiplayer game, it can be stressful as hell, and solo play requires controlling two quirky little chefs plucked straight out of a claymation exposé on failed health inspections. All this to say: I…

Unknown NES Game Found After 30 Years

When we talk about obscure or “lost” games, we normally need to have known about them in the first place to know they were missing. It’s not often we see a case like this, where a collector buying a cartridge off a former Nintendo employee is the first time anyone has ever heard of a…

The Internet Reacts To Nintendo Labo: VR Kit

Nintendo just announced the new VR Kit for Nintendo Labo. It’s a virtual reality set with cardboard. The internet, of course, reacted. Nintendo Labo is coming up on its one-year anniversary. The first sets were released on April 20, 2018 in North America. Unlike the earlier kits, the VR one includes goggles, which are a…

Nintendo Announces Labo VR Kit For Switch

Coming out of absolutely nowhere, Nintendo just announced a new virtual reality set for the Nintendo Switch, which will make use of the platform’s Labo cardboard-building concept. The full pack’s name is the “Nintendo Labo: VR Kit”, and will come in two versions: a full set ($80) that includes software, goggles and five cardboard designs…

Nintendo Is Reportedly Toning Down Micro-Transactions In Its Mobile Games

Developers behind some of the free-to-play mobile games Nintendo has published in recent years say the company has told them not to be too aggressive with the microtransactions that these games tend to rely on to make money, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Where individual studios Nintendo partners with are looking…

Kid Icarus and StarTropics will join the Nintendo Switch Online collection on March 13 The Japanese collection is getting Kid Icarus, Konami’s early fighting game Yie Ar Kung Fu, and the first Fire Emblem

Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Works Too Damn Hard

This is Masahiro Sakurai. He makes Smash Bros. games. At this point in his career, he could probably take things pretty easy. He does not. “My office hours are up to me. So long as I complete the new Smash Bros., I could show up only once a week, or only at night, or even…

24-Player Mario Kart Is A Bloodbath

I’ve always wondered why Mario Kart races—in recent years, anyway—have been capped at 12 racers when the hardware could surely handle more. Looking at this madness, it’s probably to preserve everyone’s sanity. After messing around with Mario Kart Wii for a long time, MrBean35000vr has managed to get a modified version of the game running…

Mexican Newspaper Prints Graphic Of The New Pokémon Games: Sword, Shield, And Gun

One of the funniest reactions to last week’s reveal of Pokémon Sword and Shield for the Nintendo Switch was Twitter user@Sir5000’s joking addition of Pokémon Gun to the lineup. The mock logo is so convincing, Mexican newspaper La Voz de Michoacán ran with it. On February 27 the La Voz de Michoacán websiteran a story…

Pokémon Fans In Japan Polled Over Which New Starter They’ll Choose

The starters for Pokémon Sword And Shield are Grookey, Scorbunny and Sobble. They’re all cute. Which one will you pick? Japanese website Inside Games asked its readers just that. Here is how the results breakdown via Livedoor News. Grookey – 18.8 percent (141 votes) Scorbunny – 34.4 percent (258 votes) Sobble – 46.3 percent (348…

Pokémon Fans Really Hope Scorbunny Doesn’t Evolve Into A Fighting Type

Scorbunny, one of the starter Pokémon for the newly announced Pokémon Sword and Shield, is a sweet lil bunny, and I love him. He’s also the source of some concern among Pokémon fans. So far there have been eight different generations of Pokémon games in the main series, leading to eight different sets of starter…

It’s The Perfect Time To Return To Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

Recently, a friend of mine started playing Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the first time. This has had an interesting side effect: Any time I try to play anything else, I just wish I were playing Breath of the Wild. My ironclad resolve to continue making my way through games I hadn’t…

The Next Pokémon Might Be Set In The UK, And Scottish Twitter Is Thrilled [Correction]

The prospect of the new Pokémon game being possibly set in the UK has amused some fans, and I’m laughing along with them. In order to understand these jokes, you’re first going to have to explain the concept of Scottish Twitter. Regional Twitters have regional dialects. A community of Twitter users based in Pittsburgh might…