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It’s Nintendo Direct time—you can watch tonight’s big Nintendo presser on their websitestarting at 6pm Eastern, or just keep refreshing Kotaku for all the news as it happens. Please understand.

Tomorrow, April 1, there’ll be a Nintendo Direct at 6 pm Eastern time, containing updates about the company’s upcoming Wii U and 3DS titles, followed by a short Nintendo Treehouse special on one of its spring 2015 releases. Ignore the date, Nintendo says this one’s no joke!

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Nintendo Mobile: The Winners!

Nintendo is officially making mobile games. While we wait to see what fruit the company’s partnership with DeNA will bear, our readers imagine exciting new ways to play and pay for Nintendo games on their phones and tablets. Maybe it won’t be all that bad? I was expecting last week’s‘Shop Contest to bear dozens of…

From the talented JonasDrawsStuff (whose Rocket Raccoon is my desktop wallpaper) by way of Reddit comes Star Fox in the style of classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Someone go back in time and make this happen.

Reminder: Nintendo Is Always Delaying Major Zelda Games

Today, Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma announced that the upcoming Legend of Zelda game for the Wii U is not going to be coming out this year. That’s a bummer, but not an unprecedented one: Lots of console Zelda games have been delayed. Ocarina of Time was eventually released in November of 1998. (Via IGN) Wind Waker…

Plastic Boxes To Keep Your Amiibos Safe. Because, Amiibos.

Were Amiibos ever truly designed as gameplay additions? You have to wonder. Surely Nintendo knew what would really happen: that hordes of video game nerds in their 20s and 30s would descend upon them like a horde of cashed-up locusts, buy all the good ones them keep them locked away forever. Which explains why this…

What We Want From The New Nintendo NX Console

I was away on holiday in Japan when Nintendo said its first words about its new console, code-named the NX. Actually, I was climbing a mountain. But in the week since, I’ve had plenty of time for serious and not-so-serious conversations about what it might be and what it might do. This post originally appeared…

Super Mario 64, Exploding Into Pure Chaos

Madness. This playthrough of Super Mario 64 is pure madness; a game imploding into itself. That’s what makes it so great. Watch as the ever-hilarious videogamedunkey plays through a number of different versions of Super Mario 64, including the “chaos” edition, which we’ve covered before—it randomizes elements of the game, making it difficult to understand…

Jigglypuff’s Famous Rest Attack Put To The Test

One of the key things that makes Jigglypuff an absolute terror in the Smash Bros. ring is her “rest” move. If you’ve ever gone against the Puff, you know what I’m talking about: it’s when she falls asleep and then beats you into a pulp. But just how powerful is it, exactly? Numbers to the…

People Aren’t Waiting Around For Nintendo To Make A Female Link

Nintendo may or may not ever give us a woman version of Link from Legend of Zelda, but where there’s a will, there’s a way. Or a game jam. In recent times, there’s been speculation that the next Legend of Zelda‘s Link will be a lady, not to mention an honest-to-goodness lady Link sighting in…

What To Expect From Nintendo’s New Hardware? A Surprise, Probably. 

We really don’t know much about Nintendo’s new hardware. It’s codenamed NX. It’s from Nintendo. And…well…That’s about it, really. However, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently offered what could be vague hints. Or not. In an interview with Nikkei, Iwata briefly mentioned the hardware, saying he wouldn’t go into particulars about the NX. “However, if you…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Nintendo Mobile

Nintendo is making mobile games. There will be Nintendo games on our phones and tablets. Wow. While the news is exciting, it’s hard to push aside our worst free-to-play gaming fears. So let’s embrace them. How bad can a mobile Nintendo get? I’ve been paying attention to the comments section all week, and I know…

Fossil Fighters: Frontier‘s Australian Character Seems Legit 

That’s pretty much Australia, right? Sure, it’s a little light on what we Americans know to be traditional Aussie flavor, but having been to Outback Steakhouse where I partook of a Bloomin’ Onion and seen all of Crocodile Dundee one and bits of two, I’d say Red Entertainment and Spike Chunsoft nailed it. I guess…

Affordable Space Adventures: The Basics

What is it? Why, it’s a Wii U game that uses what’s special about the Wii U to its advantage. We don’t get enough of those. Could you be more descriptive? Affordable Space Adventures is 2D game about flying a spaceship through enemy-filled environments—really pretty enemy-filled environments! How is that using the Wii U to…

Custom Zelda GameCube Is A Mini Treasure Chest

With Hylian numbers showing joystick ports and with an amazing painting of Link on top, artist Vadu Amka‘s repainted custom The Wind Waker GameCube really looks like some ancient device found at a remote dig site. It was completed in 3 months and the artist even managed to put a Hylian shield on the controller…

Someone Actually Beat The Ridiculous Mario 64 ‘Chaos Edition’

I cannot begin to fathom the exact reasons for Mario 64: Chaos Edition‘s creation. All I know is that it is patently, unpredictably nutso, and it’s not meant to be beaten. So of course, somebody beat it. Chaos Edition is a Mario 64 mod you can install using an emulated PC version of the trailblazing…

Why Does Link Cry In Majora’s Mask? It’s…Pretty Dark

OK, so every time Link puts on a mask in Majora’s Mask, he makes a kinda screaming sound. If you ever wondered why—maybe he’s just really excited!—well, a Nintendo employee has an answer. Chatting with fans on Miiverse, a Nintendo rep/developer posing as the Happy Mask Shop guy from Majora’s Mask says (via @mnemosynekurai) “It’s…

Nintendo will be making mobile games in the future, but we don’t know much about their plans yet. TIME spoke with Satoru Iwata, Reggie Files-Aime, and Shigeru Miyamoto for a tiny bit of insight into their plans. Here are a couple of interesting quotes, but I’d recommend reading the whole piece! On whether Nintendo will…

Dreamcast Theme For Nintendo 3DS Reopens Old Wounds

Look, I know, Sega and Nintendo have been working together for years. Doesn’t matter. There’s something about this that still blows my mind. It’s a theme for a Nintendo system, copying the dashboard of a Sega system! A little piece of the Dreamcast, living inside a Nintendo handheld! It even has the disc spinning noise!…

Haha, You Can Preorder A Nintendo NX

But please, whatever you do, don’t. You don’t even know what it is. (from EB Games Australia)