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Seven Things You Might Not Know About the Nintendo 64

You’ve seen the famous Christmas video. You know how important Super Mario 64 is to the design history of video games. But there are a few other nuggets of information about the Nintendo 64 that you may not know. Let’s learn, shall we? In the latest stop-motion retrospective from VSauce3, the beloved Nintendo console in…

Pokémon’s Ridiculous Timeline, Explained In A Single Image

Thanks to shenanigans involving alternate dimensions in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Pokémon’s timeline has officially become bonkers. But, there is a way to make sense of it. Basically, there are three different Pokémon dimensions, all of which house their own Pokémon games. In one dimension, you’ve got all the original Game Boy games,…

The Evolution Of Nintendo’s Control Pads, Illustrated

While changes to the Xbox and PlayStation pads have been relatively minorover the years (though that doesn’t mean changes haven’t been interesting), Nintendo’s controllers have been to hell and back over the last 30 years. As this hypnotic gif illustrates. While the gif above is at a fixed speed, you can adjust things to suit…

The Pokémon Players Who Want To Save Christmas

Pokémon players around the world are coming together in the name of holidays next week. The plan? To brighten up the day of any kid that is playing Pokémon for the first time, after receiving any of the new games as Christmas presents. First, some context. New Pokémon games, like X & Y or Omega…

Nintendo is Working on New Console Ideas, Says Miyamoto

In an interview with Associated Press (via Gamespot), Nintendo executive and creative visionary Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that divisions within Nintendo are hard at work on new console ideas – but that the Wii U is still very much the focus. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK “We’re focused on providing a robust line-up of…

Why Pokémon Players Are Obsessed With Blissey Secret Bases

In two words: experience points. Heaps and heaps of experience points. As you might already know, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire include something called “secret bases.” Think of them like treehouses. Hidden throughout the game are nooks and crannies that players can move into and decorate, Animal Crossing style. While the game gives you…

Nintendo Warns Parents About Kids Spending Their Money

Parents, do you know what video games your kids are playing? Do you know what they’re buying? Please pay more attention. For Nintendo. It happened with the iPhone, costing Apple millions of dollars to pay back people whose kids went overboard with in-app purchases on their parents’ iPhones. Now, Nintendo is asking that parents and…

Players Are Trying To Clean Up Pokémon’s Hacked Trading System

Right now, the GTS—Pokémon‘s online system, which allows players around the world to trade monsters with each other—is a mess. Normally, newer Pokémon games don’t let you name your Pokémon anything offensive. To wit, a friend tried naming a Pokémon she recently caught “Grassy,” but the system is so strict, that it wouldn’t allow it.…

How To Do Smash Bros. Wii U’s Version of Wavedashing

While the new Smash games don’t have the famous technique from Melee that players called wavedashing, they do have something called “perfect pivoting”—and it’s similar/useful enough that you’ll want to learn how to do it if you’re playing seriously. My Smash Corner explains how to do the technique in this video, and why it’s worth…

20 of the Best Falcon Punches In Smash Bros.

Nailing a good Falcon Punch is probably one of the most satisfying things to do in Smash Bros. And while you don’t see them all the time in competitive play, the Falcon Punches that serious players land can be very bombastic. Here’s a compilation of a bunch of great Falcon Punches by GRsmash. You might…

LEGO Pokémon Center Has All The Goodies A Trainer Needs

Builder Savath_Bunny shared superb-looking Pokémon center on LEGO Ideas and filled it with the main characters, Pokémon starters and all the gadgets you can find in the games. It’s a relatively compact and reasonable build, so I could totally see an official box set similar to this sitting on the shelves of stores (and the…

Co-op Titan Hunting Is Surprisingly Fun

Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind was released in Japan just over a year ago. When I looked at it, the biggest problem was that the majority of the game was designed for local co-op—and I lacked three friends interested in playing it. Luckily, in this year’s updated release, the co-op is now…

I Don’t Understand Amiibos

A couple of weeks ago Nintendo sent me an Amiibo to check out. Here’s where that Amiibo is right now: roughly a couple of feet from the child seat in my car. Before that it was lodged in my two year old’s mouth, being chewed upon, drooled on, thrown at the patio glass door with…

25 years ago, Hollywood tried to make the Nintendo Power Glove look cool. Today’s the 25th anniversary of The Wizard, the movie that was essentially a big commercial for Nintendo where Super Mario Bros. 3 was revealed to the world.

She Hears A Nintendo Theme Once, Then Makes Beautiful Music

Sonya Belousova is one of today’s most accomplished young composers and pianists. Watch her demonstrate her skill by listening to a series of Nintendo themes — most for the first time ever — and then coming up with gorgeous arrangements on the spot. I can pick out a tune on just about any instrument you…

Is This a New Wii U GamePad? I Honestly Don’t Know. 

Recently, a Mario Kart 8 commercial popped up on Nintendo’s officialYouTube channel. It features what could be a new Wii U GamePad. “Could be” because Nintendo blurred it out. That’s not the only odd thing about the ad. The commercial is on the YouTube Channel for Nintendo Co., Ltd. (you know, Nintendo of Japan), but…

No Humans Are Allowed In This Smash Bros. Tournament

If you’re not careful, an Amiibo can become a monster in Smash Bros. Thankfully, this doesn’t have to be terrifying for us humans—instead, the intense skill of Amiibos can be turned into a spectator sport. That’s where The Amiibo Fighting Championship comes in. As the name suggests, it’s an Amiibo-only tournament, where only Nintendo toys…

Source: GameStop Says Nintendo Has ‘Discontinued’ Three Amiibos

Since Saturday, we’ve been wondering if Nintendo really did cancel production on three of its new Skylanders-style Amiibo figures. Now, following a pair of vague statements from Nintendo, we’ve seen a more definitive answer. A GameStop source has shown us an internal message from the gaming retail giant that was sent to regional stores earlier…

Beautifully Redrawn Animal Crossing Scene

Strange, yet lovely Animal Crossing art from a Japenese Pixiv user, who transformed a screenshot of 3DS game into something really special. Here’s the original screenshot from Animal Crossing compared to the fan-remake. Love the details, looks like a point-and-click adventure or one of those hidden object games. I wonder what the Villager would look…

Adventures in Tragic Amiibo Packaging

Nintendo fans are used to a level of quality. A seal of approval, if you will. In the past, “Nintendo” has meant durable hardware and well-made video games. Nintendo means “polished” and “good presentation.” Nobody, it seems, has told this to Amiibos. Forget the differences between what we were promised and what we got. Just…