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Nintendo Admits They Screwed Up Amiibo, Promises To Do Better

It’s no big secret that Nintendo has totally bungled the way they handle Amiibos, their line of plastic figurines based on iconic characters like Mario and Peach. Today, Nintendo’s finally admitting there’s a problem—and they’re vowing to do better. Ever since Amiibo first launched last year, customers have run into supply shortages and intense scalping…

An Infuriating Way To Lose In Mario Kart 8

The finish line is just a few feet away. You can practically reach out and touch it—feel the sturdy grasp of victory in your own two hands. And then you collide with a giant, immovable piece of metal. Ouch. This clip by YouTuber redjarman was uploaded on Saturday. But I’m glad I only ended up…

Attack on Titan 3DS Drops on May 12th

Not only is there finally a release date for the upcoming 3DS Attack on Titan game, there’s a spiffy new trailer that looks at all the characters that will make an appearance. Naturally, it’s got heroes like Eren, Mikasa, and Armin all hunting terrifying titans in the quest for survival. The game will retail at…

Goofy Dad Recreates Smash Bros. Taunts, Nails It

Forget the “mom guesses the name of Smash Bros characters” memes. Smash Bros. dads are coming out of the woodwork, and they’re improving Smash Bros. in their own special ways, too. Nick Luciano somehow convinced his dad to do a bunch of the Smash Bros. taunts in real life, and the results are hilarious. He…

200CC Is So Fast It’s Starting To Break Mario Kart 8 Courses

The above image gives a marvelous view of Mario Kart 8 racetrack Music Park. It’s also a screenshot the player shouldn’t have been able to capture. Normally, busting outside of the normal confines of a level in Mario Kart 8 requires a) some sort of glitch or bug to be present and exploitable, or b)…

A Scrub’s First Time With Pokémon

When it comes to Pokémon, I am a scrub. My familiarity with the series amounts to little more than “I think Digimon has the better cartoon and monster designs,” and a few hours with Fire Red half a dozen years ago. But when I recently acquired a New 3DS XL, my first Nintendo handheld, I…

What Nintendo DS Games Look Like In High-Res

But Kotaku writer, I hear you ponder, the Nintendo DS was incapable of getting anywhere near a resolution you’d call “high”, how could this be? The answer: emulation. Via this /r/games thread, the latest beta version of the Drastic emulator for Android has a feature that lets users test out high-res rendering for 3D objects…

Mario Kart 8 Courses, Ranked

48: Excitebike Arena 47: Sweet Sweet Canyon 46: Electrodome 45: Dry Dry Desert 44: Wario Stadium 43: Donut Plains 3 42: Rainbow Road (SNES) 41: Bone-Dry Dunes 40: Ice Ice Outpost 39: Wario’s Gold Mine 38: Moo Moo Meadows 37: Royal Raceway 36: Wild Woods 35: Music Park 34: Animal Crossing 33: Water Park 32:…

Someone Made A Cool Browser Version of A Link To The Past‘s Map

It’s a live HTML5 version for browsers and everything from the classic SNES game’s overworld is there. Here’s the whole map, made by the folks at “Jadsdsengine” (via r/nintendo). It might take a few seconds to load. But after that you can zoom in to see every animation, NPC and enemy closely or zoom out…

Here’s a short Xenoblade Chronicles X clip that demonstrates how online group quests will work. People can form “Squads” and participate in special “Squad Quests” (the footage starts at the 0:45 mark in the video) to kill tougher monsters for better loot. Just like in MMOs. via Siliconera To contact the author of this post,…

Rodea‘s Multiplayer Is Kinda Like Sonic Adventure 2‘s Battle Races

While many consider the 3D Sonic games uniformly inferior to the 2D ones, many of my best Sonic memories come from Sonic Adventure 2—and not just the game’s single player. I can’t count the hours I spent doing racing battles with my friends—which is probably why I find the multiplayer of Rodea the Sky Soldier…

Custom Smash Bros. Moves Can Make Kirby A Total Nightmare

Kirby turns 23 today. Let’s celebrate the pink blob’s early twenties by looking back at the times he proved himself a worthy foe in Super Smash Bros. When I went looking around for legendary Kirby moments in preparation for his birthday, however, I ended up feeling a tad disappointed. Despite Kirby’s ubiquity in the casual-friendly,…

Nintendo Emulator Developer Passes Away

If you’ve played Wii or GameCube games on the PC, chances are it was because of the Dolphin emulator. Rachel Bryk, one of the emulator’s most active contributors, has passed away. Since the news hit, the community has been sharing memories and mourning. Dolphin is what’s allowed fans to see games like Super Mario Galaxy…

Mario Kart 8’s 200CC Mode Makes Fire Hopping Useless

Ever since Mario Kart 8’s second DLC pack arrived last week, fans and players have been deliberating on just how game-changing the new high-speed 200CC difficulty mode truly is. Apparently, it changes things up enough to render “fire hopping,” the game’s most controversial exploit, effectively inert. Fire hopping was first discovered shortly after Mario Kart…

Mario Kart 8’s New DLC Is Stuffed With Inside Jokes

Nobody does self-referential humor quite like Nintendo, that’s for sure. Mario Kart 8’s new DLC is no exception to this rule. Ever since the awesome new DLC came out last week, players have been collecting the best easter egg-type findings they’ve come across in whatever spare time they have between, say, trying not to die…

Want to watch a ton of new footage from the upcoming Wii U game Xenoblade Chronicles X? Check out this archive of Nintendo’s livestream this afternoon, which includes an eight-minute overview video and then an hour of Treehouse staff playing the game live. (The footage starts at 34:00.)

Mario Kart 8’s 200CC Mode Changes Everything

Ever since Nintendo made its surprise announcement that Mario Kart 8 was getting a new high-speed difficulty level, excited fans have had one question: what would it do to Mario Kart? Yes, 200CC speed certainly looked faster. But how much faster was it, exactly? [Insert your favorite Fast and Furious quote about driving really fucking…

Smash Bros. Creator on “Intolerable” DLC

Sometimes, downloadable content is okay. Other times, DLC is anything but. Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai explains the difference. In his latest Weekly Famitsu column, Sakurai discusses DLC and how he views it—not only in the recent Super Smash Bros., but in general. “Indeed, the phrase, ‘DLC business” is everywhere,” Sakurai wrote. “Having to pay…

Mario Kart 8 Is Now Officially The Cutest Mario Kart Ever

Mario Kart 8’s second batch of DLC finally came out today. Just like the first round that added Zelda and F-Zero stuff into the mix, this one looks pretty rad. Perhaps more importantly, it also looks ridiculously, disgustingly cute. What’s in the new DLC, exactly? 8 new tracks (divided into two cups), three new characters,…

Watch The World’s Best Pikachu Player Defeat Smash Bros. Gods

Wanna see a Pikachu in a party hat wreck some Fox McClouds? Of course you do. It’s not often that we see Pikachu make it super far in a top Smash Bros. competition—the character isn’t particularly high on the Melee tier list, and many of the players flock to more traditional characters like Fox and…