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Nintendo’s Excuse For Why Mother 2 Isn’t On The Super Famicom Mini

When the Nintendo Classic Mini Super Famicom was announced for Japan earlier this year, there was one glaring omission: Mother 2 (Earthbound in the West). Nintendo recently explained to Famitsu why this is. Mother 2’s omission surprised many people! It was one of the titles that came up with Japanese developers said what games they…

Modded Borders Make The SNES Classic Even Prettier

The SNES Classic hacking scene isn’t all about adding more games to Nintendo’s latest retro console. It’s also about adding pretty custom borders to really make those extra games pop. The rapidly-developing SNES Classic hacking scene has already gotten to the point where owners of the system can add new stuff relatively easily. While the…

The Nintendo Classic Mini Super Famicom has sold 368,913 units in Japan during its first four days on sale. In comparison, the Classic Mini Famicom sold262,961 units in its first four days last year. 

Nintendo Just Registered A New Game Boy Trademark In Japan [Update]

Let’s review. Nintendo released a Classic Mini NES. It released a Classic Mini SNES. And now, a new Japanese trademark for for the Game Boy has been filed in Japan. Hrm… Update October 12-6:50am: An earlier version of this story stated that the filed trademark read “Classic Mini Game Boy.” That was incorrect. Ninten-Switch.com reports…

1994 Nintendo Documentary Gives Us A Look At Miyamoto’s Desk

In 1994, Jean-Jacques Beineix made a documentary called Otaku. It features a nine-minute tour of Nintendo’s offices, and it is wonderful to watch. The original recording is in French (and has circulated online for a while), but ComputerTales recently uploaded a version featuring machine translation into English, which while jarring still at least lets you…

In Stardew Valley, Ignorance Can Be Bliss

If you want to maximize your productivity in Stardew Valley, you’re going to have to read some tips on the Internet. Though maybe… don’t? Newly released on the Nintendo Switch, Eric Barone’s popular 2016 life-sim Stardew Valley is ostensibly about rejecting the soulless grind of the corporate world and embracing a simple life in the…

What The Future Of The Nintendo Switch Might Look Like

By just about any metric, the Nintendo Switch is off to a good start. But what might be down the line for Nintendo’s new flagship console? We talked it through on this week’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen Jason and I start off talking about a few games we’ve been playing including Cuphead, Danganronpa V3, Golf…

Nintendo World Champ Crowned After Beating Mario Odyssey Level Nobody Had Played Before

The Nintendo World Championships closed out in a finale reminescent of The Wizard. The two finalists, John Numbers and Thomas G., raced across three levels of the upcoming Super Mario Odyssey, working to beat unseen levels of the upcoming Nintendo Switch game. Thomas G. surged up through the “underground,” the loser’s bracket, after overcoming opponents…

Culdcept: Revolt Proves Once More How Great Monopoly And Magic Go Together

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, the Culdcept series is a unique combination of the property grabbing of Monopoly with the card-based monster battles of Magic: The Gathering. The latest installment, Culdcept: Revolt, is a very good reason to root around for your 3DS charger. My 3DS hasn’t gotten a lot of use since the…

SNES Classic Hacking Is Moving Rapidly

The Super Nintendo Classic has been out only a week and already there are videos circulating about how to add your own games. Like the NES Classic before it, this new retro device seems prime for emulation, and progress is moving very fast. There’s no way to officially add new Super Nintendo games to the…

It’s not just Stardew Valley release day for the Nintendo Switch. Another celebrated indie, the Metroid homage Axiom Verge, is also now out for Nintendo’s system. That makes two Metroidy games released on portable Nintendo machines in just a few weeks. Is this real life?

Nintendo Makes One Final Miiverse Community To Say Goodbye

Goodbye, Miiverse, you beautiful, mutant thing. If you’re a Nintendo fan, it’s hard not to get a little emotional about it. The Miiverse was a great expanse for small, lonely shouts into the abyss that is Nintendo’s communication infrastructure. Sometimes, we saw great, well-rendered gestures of love for dear Nintendo characters like Splatoon’s Callie. Other…

YouTubers Challenge Speedrunner To A Race Through Mario 64, Almost Win

Thanks to recent ROM hacks, players can enjoy Super Mario 64 online together. The multiplayer hack recently allowed a handful of YouTubers to race against a speedrunner. Super Mario 64 Online is a ROM hack by Kaze Emanuar, Melonspeedruns and Marshivolt. It allows up to 24 players to explore the game together. A group of…

Nintendo and comics publisher Dark Horse have partnered to make an official Arms graphic novel, slated for Fall, 2018.

The Super Famicom Classic Mini Goes On Sale In Japan 

Last month, pre-orders for the Super Famicom Mini drew long lines at cities across Japan. Today the console went on sale. Lines were much shorter, but there were sell outs. At first, however, the early morning lines seemed alarmingly short. Twitter userKaztsu, who often photographs launch lines, reported at around 7:30 that there were only…

Breath of the Wild‘s Biggest Design Secret: Lots Of Triangles

Running through the Hyrule of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you come across breathtaking sights one after the other: Massive fortresses, dizzyingly high towers, vast open plains. But according to the open-world game’s designers, the two most salient features of Hyrule were triangles and rectangles. The annual Computer Entertainment Developers Conference is…

SNES Classics Cost Less On Ebay Than NES Classics Did At Launch

The bad news is the chances of snagging a Super Nintendo Classic at retailsare pretty slim right now, and auction site eBay is probably your best bet if you want it ‘right now.’ The good news? The average price of a SNES Classic on eBay is only $164, $80 less than the NES Classic in…

Here’s A Close Look At The Other SNES Classic

While we’ve reviewed the North American SNES Classic already, let’s not forget that those of us living in Japan, Europe and Australasia have gotten a slightly different console So let’s take a look at it! The hardware is the same, of course, and most of the games are as well, but here we can see…

Nintendo Creators Program Will No Longer Let YouTubers Live-Stream

Nintendo has a longstanding poor reputation with the YouTube community, and the latest change to their Nintendo Creators Program may harm that relationship even more. The Nintendo Creators Program, which was launched in 2015, allows YouTubers to receive a portion of advertising proceeds from any videos containing Nintendo-copyrighted content. Prior to the establishment of this…

The SNES Classic Launch Seems To Be Going OK

One might expect, after the Great SNES Classic Pre-Order Debacle of 2017, that launch day would be a disaster. But it actually seems to have gone pretty well. You might not be able to just stroll into a store and snag one of the slick, limited-edition retro consoles, but it seems like people who put…