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Splatoon 2 Coming To The Nintendo Switch

The freshest shooter of the last few years will be making a splash on the Switch, Nintendo announced today. Expect new weapons, new hair styles, and more importantly, new threads for your squid kid. Excellent. Here’s the trailer: The first Splatoon debuted on the Wii U, and it featured a unique combat system: instead of…

Arms Is A Weird New Boxing Game For The Switch

This is Arms, a new multiplayer fighting game for the Nintendo Switch that sees users taking advantage of the console’s break-apart controllers to punch each other in the face with giant stringy arms. Because combatants can jump and sling their fists, it’s a lot more complicated than a regular boxing title; it looks more like…

Nintendo Switch Gets A Mini-Game Compilation Called 1-2 Switch

One of the Switch’s launch titles will be a party game that makes heavy use of the detachable Joy Cons and face-to-face interaction. It’s a pretty Nintendo idea. During tonight’s demo, we saw people racing to do shoot-outs, sword fighting, air guitar, tennis, dancing, among other things. Here’s the trailer: 1-2 Switch will be available…

The Nintendo Switch Will Cost $300, Charging For Online Play

Nintendo just announced the final release date and price for the Switch. The company’s new home console/handheld hybrid will cost $300 and will be released on March 3 in the US. It will also be region free! Online play will be free for everyone until the Fall, after which Nintendo will begin charging for the…

Watch The Big Nintendo Switch Event Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

UPDATE (1am): And we’re done. Here’s a look at everything we now know about the Nintendo Switch Tonight, Nintendo is expected to release details on the price, release date, and launch lineup for the Switch. Let’s watch, shall we? The big event starts at 11pm Eastern, and you’ll be able to tune in right here:…

OK, Bear With Me: What If Mario And Wario Are The Same Guy?

In Nintendo’s recently released mobile game Super Mario Run, the famous plumber leaps his way through a couple dozen levels on his way to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser. Been there, done that. Yet perhaps there is a second, darker reading of this game? Maybe there’s an interpretation that shakes the accepted Mario lore to…

It’s Reckoning Day For Nintendo Switch Rumor Reporters

On October 20, 2016, Nintendo revealed their next big console, the Switch. To some fans the announcement was no doubt a surprise. But to those of us who have kept a close eye on gaming websites over the past year, it was simply confirmation of rumors that were all already out there. Tonight, Nintendo will…

Nice Butt Pun, Nintendo

Right now, I’m playing Miitopia. It’s cute, fun, and silly. The game also has one pun I can totally get behind. The above enemy character is called “Shiritori” (シリトリ) and appears in the middle of the game. That’s right, it’s a bird (a turkey?) with a butt face. In Mittopia, an evil baddies keeps taking…

The Wii U Was Great, Just Not For Me

Just because the Wii U was an afterthought for me, though, doesn’t mean it went ignored by the rest of my household.

Majora’s Mask Kicks Off First 4 Figures’ Life-Size Replica Line

Collectible statue makers First 4 Figures are branching off into the gaming replica business, starting with a stunning 25-inch replica of The Legend of Zelda’s Majora’s Mask, complete with conveniently removable horns. First 4 Figures has been doing Zelda statues for ages, so it makes sense Nintendo’s RPG series be the focus of the company’s…

Hidden Message Found In The Famicom Mini

Most game hardware is inevitably modded . That means if there are secret messages in the code, people will probably find them. While user Bakueikozo was modding the Famicom Mini, the following was apparently found in the console’s coding: This is the hanafuda captain speaking. Launching emulation in 3…2…1. Many efforts, tears and countless hours have…

Japan’s new Super Mario Happy Meal toys look awesome. They went on sale last Friday. Please come to the West. UPDATE: Oh hey, looks like they go on sale in the UK this week!

The Nintendo Switch’s Logo Is Not Symmetrical, And Arrrrgghhh

Games artist David Hellman pointed this out on Twitter over the weekend. I will never unsee it, and I’m not sure how I’m going to reconcile this over the years to come. As someone who craves order in my product and logo design I was already uneasy about the two dots not being symmetrical, but…

People Have Started Hacking Nintendo’s NES Classic And Adding More Games To It

It was only a matter of time before people found a way to hack Nintendo’s NES Classic, and that time has come. Earlier this week, modders trading tips on a Russian forum discovered a way to add ROMs to add extra games to the system that was previously limited to only thirty A modder going…

Super Mario Adventure: The Kotaku Review

This is a Mario game, but it’s not a Mario video game. It’s a ball puzzle/game/thing I got for my kid for Christmas, and we haven’t been able to stop playing it since. We spotted it on Amazon trawling for Mario merch (kid is nuts for Nintendo stuff), and figured that because the box was…

Pokémon Based On Inanimate Objects, Ranked

Some people will tell you that the worst Pokémon designs are the ones based on real-world items, rather than animals. Those people are wrong. Actually, some of the best creatures in the pocket monster roster are ones based on inanimate objects. The thing about inanimate object Pokémon is, you can tell Game Freak actually has…

Damn, Look At These Super Nintendo Sneakers

Just as there must be balance in life, so too must there be balance in sneaker concept posts on Kotaku.com, a website that is occasionally about video games. We have had Adidas designs recently, so now we must share these very nice Jordans. They’re the work of custom sneaker specialists Freaker Sneaks (via Nicekicks), and…

The Man Who Worked On The Original Game Boy Explains Why Nintendo Created The DS

Satoru Okada, who was General Manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering before he retired in 2012, said in a recent interview with Retro Gamer Magazine that no one on the handheld team liked the idea of the DS when it was first proposed. If some folks had gotten their way, Nintendo would have produced a…

One Father’s Issue With Peach Getting Kidnapped In Super Mario Run

Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s first mobile game, follows the standard Mario formula: Princess Peach gets kidnapped right away, and it’s up to Mario to save her. It’s for this reason that Chris Suellentrop doesn’t want his daughter to play it, as he wrote in an Op-Ed for The New York Times, saying, “the game is…

Pirates Leak Pokémon Prism After Nintendo Shuts It Down

Pokémon Prism is a fan-made ROM hack for Pokémon Crystal. Over the course of eight years, creator Koolboyman and his team crafted a new Pokémon experience, which they hoped to release this Christmas. Nintendo hit them with a cease and desistfour days before release. Thanks to a group of pirates, the project still made it…