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Watch Me Try Splatoon’s New Stuff, Live [Done!]

The big August update is here! Hell, Splatfest is (almost) here! Let’s experience it together, shall we? I’ll be livestreaming some matches of Splatoon for your viewing pleasure starting around 5:35 PST. If you’ll join me on Twitch, I’d love to chat about pretty much anything—be it Splatoon, other games, or life in general. And…

The Children of Fire Emblem Fates

As I’ve already talked about at length, breeding the characters in your army is a big part of Fire Emblem Fates. But which parents create which children, you may wonder. To answer that, let’s first look at the ground rules of breeding in Fire Emblem Fates. It is the father—not the mother—that determines which child…

“My personal favourite change is Fox getting his jab weakened because I have zero experience in that matchup. But now I’m not scared of getting jabbed at 50 and dying.” Red Bull interviewed Smash Bros. pros about the new patch, and they make some good points about what the character buffs mean for the game.

Splatoon’s Best New Weapon Is Literally Just A Bucket

Yesterday, Splatoon got its big August update. With it came oft-requested features, like private matches and the ability to squad up. It also included a new weapon that is as amazing as it is completely, and utterly, ridiculous. Introducing: the bucket. Yes, just a bucket. Splatoon’s hottest new gear is about as humble as it…

A History Of Bad Nintendo Phone Ideas

What is it with Nintendo and phones? There are a ton companies out there making really nice phones, but no matter the number (and how many of them, *cough*, can already play Nintendo games), folks are always dreaming up ideas for Nintendo to go and make a phone of their own. I have no idea…

The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, Nintendo’s co-op dungeon crawler, designed to be played by a party of three got a release date. It is coming out on October 23rd for the 3DS.

Skylanders Is Getting Online Multiplayer

Activision revealed today that they’re adding online multiplayer to Skylanders: Superchargers. The game’s getting online land, sea and air races for up to four players, along with an online co-op story mode. Skylanders never had any sort of online multiplayer and fans have been really clamoring for it for a while now. So it’s good…

Mighty No. 9 Confirms Rumors of Delay

Since late July, there have been rumors circulating of an impending release date change for the Mega Man-like Mighty No. 9. Today, developer Comcept has confirmed a delay in an update sent out to the game’s Kickstarter backers. The update, which cites “bugs and issues [with] a direct effect on [the] enjoyment of the game”…

$1,000 Bounty Offered For Mario 64 Glitch

Mario fan and glitch hunter extraordinaire Pannenkoek2012 has a contract for you, Witcher: if you can recreate and record a weird hiccup he recently saw on Twitch, he’ll give you $1000. Streamer DOTA_TeaBag caught the glitch, seemingly by accident, in a video taken during a run of Super Mario 64’s Tick Tock Clock stage. As…

The Xbox One Just Made a Mockery Out Of Nintendo’s Virtual Console

Thanks to the release of Rare Replay today, Xbox One owners will now be able to play seven Nintendo 64 classics on Microsoft’s console. Nintendo’s current console, the Wii U, only sells people the chance to play six. While there is an asterisk to this—Wii U owners can buy and play 15 more N64 games…

Adventures in Fire Emblem Breeding

In Fire Emblem Fates, like in the other games in the series, the characters you control are able to fall in love and even have children. But while many players create intricate breeding plans of who will marry who, I tried something different: I let them fall in love naturally. There are actually three different…

Rare Replay: The Kotaku Review

Rare games meant a lot to the people who played them, so a collection of 30 of (most) of their best works should mean a lot to children of the Spectrum ZX, the Nintendo 64 and even the Xbox 360 eras. Combined, they’re part of a new collection on the Xbox One that is one…

Gamecube Controller Responds To Smash Bros. Moves With Shiny Colors

Garrett Greenwood built something that would have been every Smash Bros. fan’s dream during the Gamecube era: A controller that reacts to button presses with various flashy animations. So for example when you press Down and B at the same time, the character will blink blue as well as the controller. Likewise when you press…

Fans Don’t Think Smash Bros.’ New Tournament Modes Are Good Enough

Super Smash Bros. got a big update today, adding something that fans of Nintendo’s colorful mash-up fighting game have been eagerly awaiting: an online tournament mode. Once they started to get their hands on the update, though, many weren’t thrilled to see what had become of it. The new tournament modes all players from all…

The New Smash Bros. Patch Buffs A Bunch Of Characters

Nintendo put out its version 1.1.0 update for the 3DS and Wii U Super Smash Bros. games today. Along with adding new stages, costumes for Mii players, and nifty-sounding features like tournament modes and YouTube replays, the patch came with a ton of balance tweaks. Specifically, a ton of buffs. In true Nintendo fashion, it…

Speedrunner (Almost) Beats Zelda Without A Sword

Did you know that you can beat the original Legend of Zelda without using a sword? No, you did not know that, because it’s not true. But you can beat almost all of it—up until the very last battle. During this week’s Summer Games Done Quick speedrunning marathon, runner jkoper showed off how a careful…

Terraria will arrive on 3DS and Wii U early next year. The news was confirmed by 505 Games in a post on the Terraria Community Forums, where Deanzor, a representative working on the Nintendo versions, answered several questions—head over here for the nitty-gritty details.

Rare Planned a Perfect Dark Spinoff

Rare’s creative director, Gregg Mayles, has been going through the company’s dusty drawers pulling out old design documents to share on Twitter. So far a lot of his reveals have been focused on the Banjo Kazooie games but last night he confirmed that Rare had planned a spinoff to Perfect Dark. It looks like it…

The Monster Hunter-esque Final Fantasy Explorers hits North American 3DSes early next year, on January 26. In case you need a refresher on exactly what the game is about, there’s a debut trailer above, and you can find our impressions of the Japanese version here

Here’s What You Get When a 3DS Eats a Game & Watch

There’s something almost serendipitous about this… Coming from game peripheral and novelty goods creator Columbus Circle, this is a New Nintendo 3DS faceplate so appropriate I’m surprised Nintendo didn’t think to make it first. Called “Retro Plate & Watch,” the custom faceplate features a built in digital device similar to Nintendo’s original Game & Watch…