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Kotaku East
The Year’s Biggest-Selling Games And Hardware In Japan So Far
It’s July. We’re past the year’s halfway point, so now is a good time to take stock and see how things are doing in the Japanese game industry. Famitsu is reporting game and hardware sales data from December 26, 2016 to June 25, 2016. Here are the ten top-selling games for that period: 10. 1-2…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 5, 2017 -
How People Are Cooling Down The Nintendo Switch
If you’re hot this summer, you can bet the Nintendo Switch is, too. The hardware already gets heated and is bound to do more so as the temperature rises. Here’s how folks have been trying to cool down their Switches. Note: these are not recommendations! An Opolar laptop cooler has been shoved onto a Switch.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 4, 2017 -
Player Clips Through Wall In Breath Of The Wild DLC And Discovers Hidden Area
Included in the first Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC are the Master Trials, a sixty level challenge where players fight enemies in search of an upgrade for the Master Sword. That’s what Reddit user Sharkystheshotty was doing when they unexpectedly stumbled into an alternate, lo-res world. “Was on trial three on the Medium trials…
By Ethan Gach Published July 2, 2017 -
Here’s the trailer for Max Brass, the first DLC character coming to ARMS who we originally learned about thanks to Nintendo’s livestream during E3. The Roman Centurion-inspired will be free when the DLC finally arrives, although Nintendo hasn’t yet revealed when that will be.
By Ethan Gach Published July 1, 2017 -
EsportsThe Conflict Over Custom Loadouts In Arms Tournaments
Arms has been a surprise hit on the Switch, but the competitive-minded players who have latched onto it are having difficulty establishing a standard format for high-level Arms matches. Each fighters in Arms has three default choices for each of their arms. Helix has his Blorb, Ice Dragon and Guardian, while Min Min has Ramrams, Megawatts…
By Eric Van Allen Published July 1, 2017 -
Seriously, Nintendo: It’s Time For Mother 3
If you watched the June 19 episode of WWE Monday Night Raw, you surely noticed something interesting in the crowd: A wrestling fan in the front row holding a giant pink posterboard sign that read “Localize Mother 3.” This was not the first such sign that had been spotted at a WWE taping; Kotaku even…
By Chris Kohler Published June 30, 2017 -
Breath Of The Wild Characters Are Terrified Of The Tingle DLC Costume
Breath of the Wild added some awesome outfits with some new downloadable content but none are as terrifying as Tingle’s costume. The mere sight sends NPCs into a panic, allowing Link to terrorize towns up and down the Hyrule countryside. You can watch the mischief in the video above. It’s okay Tingle, some day the…
By Heather Alexandra Published June 30, 2017 -
How To Find Zelda: Breath Of The Wild‘s New DLC Items
Breath of the Wild’s first big downloadable content dropped last night and it is full of cool items to find. If you’re too important and busy to hunt them down yourself, don’t worry. This guide will help you look like the best dressed adventurer in all of Hyrule. When you load up the DLC, a disembodied…
By Heather Alexandra Published June 30, 2017 -
The Nintendo Switch vs 40 Hours Of International Flight
Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting the team in our New York office. The best part of that was the burgers and beers! The worst part was having to spend 40 hours on a plane going from Australia to the US and back. Or so I thought. Even a couple of years ago,…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 29, 2017 -
The Switch version of Namco Museum will include Pac-Man VS. Co-developed by Nintendo and Namco for GameCube in 2003, the 4-player game has three players as ghosts and one player, on a separate screen, as Pac-Man. Two Switch consoles will be required to play this version. Namco Museum is out July 28.
By Chris Kohler Published June 29, 2017 -
The Wii U Is Still Getting Virtual Console Games For Some Reason
While Nintendo fans across the globe wonder if the Switch will ever get some sort of Virtual Console, the Wii U continues to get an inexplicably steady stream of classic games. Why? Because Nintendo. Today’s entries are Bonk 3: Bonk’s Big Adventure and Devil’s Crush, two TurboGrafx-16 games that will undoubtedly be popular among all…
By Jason Schreier Published June 29, 2017 -
Mario Kart 8 Update Gives You Even Better Items When You’re Losing
Yesterday’s Mario Kart 8 Deluxe update fixes a lot of bugs for online matches, as well as making the game a bit more fair for players that are losing. While the jury’s out on whether or other racers in AI matches are cheating, losing against real life players in online matches is no less frustrating.…
By Gita Jackson Published June 29, 2017 -
Mario-Themed Monopoly Gamer Has Power-Ups And Boss Battles
Hasbro’s been pumping out branded versions of classic board game Monopoly for ages. With token-specific abilities, power-up dice and boss fights, Mario-themed Monopoly Gamer is something different. The heart of Monopoly remains intact in Monopoly Gamer, which hits stores in August. Players roll the dice to travel around the edge of the game board, buying…
By Mike Fahey Published June 28, 2017 -
Kotaku East
Super Mario Postage Stamps Coming To Japan
Today in Japan, the country’s postal service is releasingan official set of Super Mario stamps. This is not the first Mario stamp set to be released in Japan, as another one came out a few years back. As Famitsu notes, one set is 820 yen ($7.30) and most certainly will 1Up any letter. Kotaku East…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2017 -
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The Nintendo Switch has sold over a million consoles in Japan, Famitsu reports. According to its data, Nintendo has sold 1,016,473 Switch consoles between March 3 and June 25. It’s also sold 501,614 copies of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and 460,480 copies of The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild.
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2017 -
It’s Strange That Mother 2 Isn’t On The Super Famicom Classic
Japan is getting slightly different titles included with the Super Famicom Classic, such as Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem and Konami’s The Legend of the Mystical Ninja. There is one glaring omission. It is not getting Mother 2, which is included on the SNES Classic as Earthbound. Mother 2 was originally released in Japan…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 28, 2017 -
The Nintendo Switch Is Already A Great Way To Play Old Games
I spent my free time last weekend playing Cave Story, a good game that first came out in 2004. The reason I’ve been playing it is simple: It just came out on the Nintendo Switch. We’re a few months into the Switch’s lifespan, and in that time the console has received a slow, steady stream…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 27, 2017
