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Watch This Excellent Speedrunner Power Through Zelda: Link’s Awakening

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is one of the best—maybe even the best Zelda game, so it’s a treat to watch speedrunner ZorlaxSeven blaze through it all in just under an hour and a half. Performed earlier this week at SGDQ, this Link’s Awakening run is really fun to watch thanks to some great…

Here Are Pokémon GO’s Microtransactions

The full, final version of Pokémon GO was released in Australia and New Zealand today. And while the game itself is free, loads of stuff inside it most certainly is not. You start the game with a decent number of Pokéballs and some Incense (to attract Pokémon). You can get more through play (I got…

The Paper Mario Game Not Everyone Wants

The developer was cheerful. The game she had me play was fun. But the title Nintendo producer Risa Tabata was demonstrating last month at E3, Paper Mario Color Splash, has turned out to be the third major video game sequel set for release later this year that has already been walloped with pre-release backlash. August…

Nintendo’s Shareholder Q&A Is Always Good For A Laugh

Every year, Nintendo holds a meeting where investors can ask the company’s top executives whatever they’d like. And every year, the questions are pretty much priceless. In 2014, for example, one shareholder asked why Nintendo keeps talking about gaming. “I do not understand video games,” he lamented. In 2013 someone complained about the cafeteria. It’s…

Is There A 3DS Charger In The House?

Eeveespiritt’s Summer Games Done Quick speedrun of New Super Mario Bros. 2 had almost reached the final boss, when everything went black. I was watching the run with my wife on Sunday evening, having convinced her the bi-annualweek-long charity speedrunning marathon was much better than not watching a new Game of Thrones episode. Eeveespiritt proved…

Metroid Prime Looks Great In VR

The release of v5.0 of the Dolphin emulator has one very cool trick: it now has proper support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Below is JoshDub (thanks, RPS) playing through the game everyone is going to jump to first: Metroid Prime, which is perfect for the platform given its visor-like HUD. It’s not…

Nintendo Wants Unreal Engine And Online Game Experience for App Development Jobs

Nintendo already released its first smartphone app Miitomo earlier this year. Now, apparently, it’s hiring more folks for future ones. According to Game Watch Impress, the listings are for both the company’s Kyoto headquarters and its Tokyo office. They might give an insight as to what Nintendo is up to. These listings come as last…

All The Racy Stuff Changed For Tokyo Mirage Sessions’ Western Release

From bathing suit to Punky Brewster cosplay in one cross-Atlantic trip. Some of the changes made to Japan’s Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem to make it North America’s Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE are quite odd. Having been busy not caring too much about worrying over things like fanservice, I’ve managed to avoid discussions of…

GameCube Emulation Is Now A Lot Better

For the first time in three years, the famous Dolphin emulator—which lets users play GameCube games on their PC—has had a proper big update. It’s now at v5.0, and a ton of changes and updates have been made. Some are specific fixes for games with quirks, while others are general improvements across the board. They’re…

Seven Changes Nintendo Could Make To Splatoon Instead Of Killing Splatfest

Splatoon’s Splatfest, its eight-player inky turf war, is ending on July 24th, Nintendo announced yesterday. And it’s the ultimate battle: Callie vs. Marie, Splatoon’s two spunky mascots. Inklings are riled up over #waifuwars, as it’s being called, and already picking sides — or bemoaning Splatfest’s end: But fans across the globe are wondering: Now that…

The Squid Sisters from Splatoon are the latest costume cameos for Super Mario Maker. Perfect for the underwater levels!

According to Nintendo.co.jp, there won’t be any new package retail Wii U games released in July or August in Japan. There are a few download-only and Virtual Console titles, but no big new releases. This could change, but there you go.

20 Years Later, Few Nintendo Games Have Lived Up To Super Mario RPG

Squirreled away in a secret room within Monstro Town, a cliffside hamlet in Super Mario RPG, there’s a purple-skinned warrior named Culex. You can go the whole game without ever meeting this man; finding him requires you to backtrack to an earlier town, purchase a pricey set of fireworks, and trade it to an NPC…

Splatoon’s Final Splatfest Is Already Tearing Everyone Apart

Splatoon’s last big event asks one impossible, divisive question: are you Team Marie or Team Callie? It will be a waifu war for the ages. They did warn us… Now we have one month to prepare, because THE FINAL SPLATFEST goes live on Friday, July 22. As detailed by the official Splatoon blog, this one…

The Things We Discovered While Playing Pokémon Go 

Exploration has always been at the heart of the Pokémon series. A young person strikes out on a monster-collecting adventure, learning about the world around them along the way. My brief time with Pokémon Go felt like that, albeit on a slightly smaller scale. I may not be a young person anymore, but I still…

Those Goofy Leaked Pokémon Are Real

Overnight, footage of some silly-looking characters from the upcoming Pokémon: Sun and Moon leaked online. No way they could be real. Turns out, they were. Clips of each new Pocket Monster appeared on YouTube sporting what looked like Russian game board ratings. Considering how there are always fakes and seeing how these designs looked questionable,…

You Gotta See China’s Super Smash Bros. Rip-Off

It’s really quite something else. Slated for mobile, Pocket All-Stars Smash Bros. might sound like Smash Bros. How it plays, though, is totally different. Forget the recent Splatoon clone, this one is even more brazen. Under the game’s Chinese title, it reads “Smash Bros.” (スマッシュブラザーズ) in Japanese. Smash Bros., it’s not. As pointed out by…

Chinese Splatoon Rip-Off Sure Looks Like Splatoon

Something about this Chinese mobile game looks… similar… to another game I like. I can’t quite place it, though. It might be its cast of spritely kids with neon hair that resembles tentacles. But, on second thought, maybe that’s just a really popular and unoriginal thing in video games. It could be the game mechanic…

Report: Nintendo Is Researching VR

From the sound of it, add Nintendo to the list of companies that are interested in VR. Japanese Twitter user NStyles was at today’s Nintendo shareholders meeting in Kyoto and live-tweeted what was apparently said. Keep in mind that Nintendo has yet to release an official transcript, so Kotaku hasn’t yet been able to confirm.…

The Shadow Link Collection Takes The Legend Of Zelda To A Dark Place

Spencer’s and Nintendo have teamed up to plunge The Legend of Zelda series into darkness. The first official Shadow Link action figure leads an army of red and black merchandise to the mall retailer’s shelves next month, with a brief stop-off at the increasingly crowded Toy Time desk. Originally published 6/23/2016 I found it hard…