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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…

Smash Bros. Creator Talks of Satoru Iwata’s Funeral

July 16th and 17th were the wake and funeral of former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. There’s no way Kirby and Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai was not going to attend. In his column in Weekly Famitsu, Sakurai, who had previously offered his perspective on what sort of man Iwata had been, recalled his experience at…

Miiverse Revamp Available Now

Nintendo changed its gaming social network Miiverse today, adding some new features, cleaning up some others. Check out the new features, as screencapped from a staff Wii U. The Play Journal seems cool, and I like the idea of sections of Miiverse that are just for drawing. And hooray for the upgrade to the 30-post…

Smash Bros. In First Person Would Look Weird

YouTubers SoKrispyMedia show us why Smash Bros. with a VR headset in first person view would be problematic and hard to play. We don’t have to worry about Nintendo making a game like this in the near future, but that doesn’t make this real-life VR concept less funny. It’s an awesomely edited video with Link,…

Smash Bros. is getting two familiar-looking Mii Fighter costumes—the left one’s based on Chrom from Fire Emblem: Awakening, and the one on the right is based on Donkey Kong big bad King K. Rool. They (and the Smash Hoodie in the middle) will be available as Premium DLC for both the 3DS and Wii U…

New Nintendo patent images appear to show more of the company’s upcoming Quality of Life project, which Kotaku previously introduced. The patent images show a smartphone cradle able to project on the ceiling, sleep monitoring interface, mood-detecting voice recognition, and Balance Board connectivity.

These Are the First Nintendo NX Games [Update]

We don’t know much about the Nintendo NX. Nintendo has called it a “dedicated game platform” that, perhaps, aims tosurprise players. Today, we do know two of the games headed for it. Update: August 4 – 4:00am Square Enix issued a comment to Kotaku regarding the NX release, attempting to clear up confusion as a…

Dragon Quest XI Announced for PS4, 3DS and Nintendo NX [Update]

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Dragon Quest X is headed to the PlayStation 4, the 3DS, and Nintendo’s upcoming console, the NX. Update: August 4 – 4:00am Square Enix issued a comment to Kotaku regarding the NX release, noting a discrepancy between the event announcement and the press release—head over here to see their statement…

In Brazil, Sega won the video game console wars of the 1990s. An article at Atlas Obscura delves into the Brazilian video game market, a weird place, one where a new PS4 costs three times as much as it does elsewhere. Contact the author at [email protected]

Never Stop Rapping Over Nintendo Soundtracks, Drake

The past few days have been hugely important for the Drake fans among us. They’ve been even more hugely important for the Nintendo game-loving Drake fans among us. The weekend was a major event for the latter group because, as Kill Screen editor Clayton Purdom notedthis morning, it’s the second time this year that the…

Devil’s Third Bears the Scars of a Troubled Development

As a critic, I endeavour to approach each game I play with an open mind. It’s almost impossible, however, not to have some preconceptions when a game arrives for review. Knowledge of the developer, familiarity with the circumstances of its development and experience within its chosen genre are just three of the factors that come…