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Forty Minutes Of Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Shown off during Nintendo’s Treehouse stream yesterday, here’s a solid chunk of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which looks great and is hopefully more up my alley than the first game. (I imagine the portability will help.) I’ll be talking to the developers of Xenoblade 2 tomorrow here at E3, so let me know what questions you…

Splatoon 2’s Competitive Scene Has A Strong Showing During E3

An invitational was hosted yesterday on Nintendo’s E3 stream for Splatoon 2, featuring four teams competing for a sweet silver squid trophy. Surprisingly, it was a strong showing for the game’s competitive aspirations. E3 has had no shortage of “esports” presentations, from Electronic Arts showing off Star Wars: Battlefront II with a commentated live match…

Super Mario Odyssey’s Outfits Are A Nice Throwback

Here’s something you might not have noticed watching Super Mario Odyssey’s new trailer: many of those outfits Mario is wearing are based on his appearance in old/obscure Nintendo games. Cute touch! If you’re wondering where they’re all from, clockwise from top-left they’re Picross 2 (1996), Mario x Qix (1990, Game Boy), Yoshi’s Cookie (1993) and…

E3 Day Three Podcast: Nintendo, Super Mario Odyssey

Jason and I continue our Kotaku Splitscreen E3 coverage with Nintendo’s morning announcements. Were two Metroid games enough to energize an otherwise low-key E3? Is Super Mario Odyssey as weird and ambitious as it looks? (The answer to both, basically, is yes.) Listen here: This is our third E3 episode—check out our day-one reactions to…

Come Watch Us Tour The Nintendo Booth At E3 [Update: Over]

The intrepid Tim Rogers, who you might know as our new video producer / creator of Long-Ass Kotaku posts, is down in LA right now, adventuring through E3. Come and ask him whatever you want about Nintendo!

Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga Remake Coming to 3DS

Nintendo’s not done announcing games yet at E3. On its Treehouse Live stream, it just unveiled Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions. The game will be out on October 6. The “Bowser’s Minions” part is a new storyline starring enemy characters. Nintendo describes it as: “Recruit characters to grow your own Minion army…

Watch Us Clear Two Strategic Battles In The New Mario + Rabbids Game 

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was one of the strangest announcements at E3 this year, and fearless Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo got a chance to play it for about 15 minutes. Based on what we’ve seen so far, this mash-up works surprisingly well! As some of you already know, this is a tactics game in…

I Played 30 Minutes Of Super Mario Odyssey And It Sure Is Impressive

Super Mario Odyssey is a wild, ambitious game. It’s got secrets, dinosaurs, and the type of flawless jumping you’d expect from a new main Mario made by the design wizards at Nintendo. It’s less Super Mario 3D World, more Super Mario 64. And it lets you throw around Mario’s hat, which I promise is more…

Nintendo Has A Second Metroid Too, Metroid: Samus Returns For 3DS [Update: Gameplay Details]

It’s a big day for Samus Aran. In addition to Metroid Prime 4 on Switch, Nintendo announced today a sidescrolling game for 3DS called Metroid: Samus Returns This is a “reimagination” of the Game Boy game Metroid II: Return of Samus, developed by MercurySteam, the studio behind the early 3DS game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.…

Everything Nintendo Announced At E3 2017

Nintendo made a bunch of hopes and dreams come true today at E3. After a seemingly endless wait, they finally announced Rocket League for Switch! Oh, also Metroid Prime. They announced a new Metroid Prime Nintendo has got these pre-recorded E3 videos down to a science at this point, and this year was their usual…

Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s Second DLC Is The Champions’ Ballad

Saddle up, Zelda fans, as later this year you’ll have even more reason to return to the fields of Hyrule. Announced during today’s Nintendo Spotlight, “The Champions Ballad” will feature Mipha, Urbosa, Daruk, and Revali. The added content will drop in Holiday 2017, and Nintendo says it will also release amiibo figurines for each Champion.…

Yoshi Switch Game Announced, Looks A Lot Like Paper Mario

Yoshi is a new game starring (you guessed it) Yoshi coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2018, featuring a handcrafted style that ditches the yarny feel of Yoshi’s Wooly World for something a little more flat. In a trailer revealed during Nintendo’s E3 Nintendo Direct, Yoshi collected coins and stomped on plenty of Shy Guys. It…

Nintendo Announces Metroid Prime 4 [Update: It’s Not Retro]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Metroid Prime 4 is happening. We know nothing about the game—Nintendo showed nothing but a logo during the company’s E3 presentation today—but it’s coming to Switch, even if we might not see it for a very long time. This is the fourth game in the beloved, critically acclaimed series, which…

Xenoblade 2 will officially release during the 2017 holiday season, despite rumors that it was delayed to 2018. The action RPG is sure to have plenty of blades and I’m sure some of them will be quite ‘xeno.’

A ‘Core’ Pokémon Game Is Coming To The Nintendo Switch (Eventually)

Many were disappointed about the 3DS exclusivity of Ultra Sun and Moon, but worry not, Pokémon fans. Your console hybrid will get some pocket monster goodness too! While there’s no footage to show off yet, or an exact release date, Nintendo announced that a Pokémon game will be making its way to the Switch. “Game…

Watch The E3 2017 Nintendo Spotlight Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

It’s time for the final press conference of E3 2017, and as always, it’s Nintendo, coming in with a 25-minute Nintendo Spotlight that’ll be full of news for Switch, including but not limited to Super Mario Odyssey You can watch the Nintendo Spotlight starting at 12pm Eastern right here. UPDATE: The Spotlight is over, but…

The Internet Is Coming Around On Mario + Rabbids

When a marketing presentation for Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle was leaked in May, the internet met it with mockery and bafflement. But now that people have finally seen the game in action at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, the internet has done a 180. Huh. Mario and Rabbids seemed like like a totally incongruous combination,…

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Is Finally Official

Following a surprise appearance by Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, a long-rumoured title is now official: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is coming to the Nintendo Switch. It’s being developed by a team in Paris, and is described as a “tactical adventure”. The story sees the Rabbids teleported into the Mushroom Kingdom,…

Skyrim Switch Has Amiibo Support, Lets You Dress Up As Link

The Nintendo Switch version of Skyrim will come with some special goodies and JoyCon-specific control schemes, as we can see in this new footage released by Bethesda tonight. Granted, PC players have been able to dress up as Link for ages, but hey! For the rest of us, this is pretty cool.

Whether You Have $40 or $450, There’s an HDMI NES For You

Got a pile of old NES carts? Want to play them on your HDMI television? Recently, a number of solutions for that have come onto the market—one for every budget. Here’s our take on three major HDMI NES players. You need some sort of solution, because the Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1985 was about…