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The Up All Night Stream Plays Kirby and the Rainbow Curse [All Done]

Back on the Wii, you saw everyone’s favorite pink blob turned into a ball of yarn. So now join me in his new Wii U adventure where he is a ball of clay. Update: The stream is now over but you can watch it in its entirety below. Watch live video from BiggestinJapan on Twitch…

It Looks Like Katy Perry Wore A Wiimote Strap To The Super Bowl

Behold: singer Katy Perry, the only person on earth who actually listens to Nintendo when they tell you to wear the Wiimote strap. In case you’re not watching the 49th Super Bowl—Seahawks vs. Patriots—you just missed Perry flying in the air on a shooting star after dancing with a bunch of singing sharks. Uh. You…

We’ve updated our post about Nintendo’s new YouTube plan: Pewdiepie has weighed in on the issue, and he does not sound happy about it. Read what he has to say here.

PSA: Remember To Download The Free Rare Pokémon Available Now

Are you playing Pokémon Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire right now? Good news. Game Freak is giving out a few rare Pokémon that you’ll want to pick up. All you have to do is go into the game, and select ‘Mystery Gift’ from the main menu, and put in a couple of codes. The code…

Final Fantasy Explorers Is Crystal Chronicles Meets Monster Hunter

It’s time to team up and go hunt some of Final Fantasy‘s most iconic creatures. Good – Iconic Monsters There’s not a lot of plot to Final Fantasy Explorers. You make a character, come to the one town on a remote island, and receive quests from its inhabitants. The island itself is a macrocosm of…

I Totally Did Not Realise That Amiibos Were This Popular

Wandering around New York earlier this week, I found myself in the vicinity of the Nintendo World Store. I thought I’d pop in and have a look. I did not expect to encounter over 300 people queuing around the block. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK They were waiting for a chance at getting…

Nintendo’s YouTube Plan Is Already Being Panned By YouTubers [Update]

Nintendo launched a new affiliate program yesterday for YouTubers that, on paper sounds like a good thing. It’s a way to let YouTubers make money off their Nintendo-related videos on YouTube, after all. But if you look at the finer details, things don’t look so great. Called the “Nintendo Creator’s Program,” the scheme lets people…

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U just got a new update that makes 15 more stages available in 8-player form. As is often the case when Nintendo updates stuff, other, bigger changes might have just snuck their way into Smash as well. If you see anything interesting, let us know! Full stage list below. The…

Smash Bros. Could be its Creator’s Last Game

The potential cost of a great game. In his semi-weekly column in Weekly Famitsu, Smash Bros. series creator Masahiro Sakurai addressed fan letters. One such letter focused on the toll developing the latest games has taken on him Wrote the fan, “Hello, Mr. Sakurai. It sounds like development of Smash Bros. was really, really hard.…

Nintendo’s Kick-Ass 1966 Board Game

Before they made video games, Nintendo made loads of other sweet stuff. One of the sweetest was this Ultraman board game, which has art that looks as awesome today as it did in 1966. As you can see in the gallery on Before Mario, the game — released using the old “Nintendo Game” logo —…

The Most Infamous Pokémon Bootleg

There’s Pokémon Crystal, the third game in the second generation of Pokémon games. And then there’s Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal, the bootleg version of the game with mistranslations. There’s a difference. Pokémon diehards have probably heard of Vietnamese Crystal, but for those of you that haven’t, it’s worth checking out. According to Bulbanews, back in the…

12 Reasons to Play The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 

This Winter will bring the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask where Link must save the world over a three day cycle that loops in a terrifying fashion, each cycle bringing life in the hopes of changing a doomed, stagnant world. It’s a pattern of death and rebirth, where the Dawn of the…

Smash Bros. Characters Turned Into Gorgeous Pixel Art

We’ve seen how amazing Daniel “Abysswolf” Oliver is at demaking characters from any video game into colorful sprites. His latest project, to draw every Smash Bros. character in the style of classic 2D fighters, is a big one. It’s an ongoing project, so be sure to check his Tumblr for more, but it’s already hard…

Man Plays Super Mario World with His Nose

And pretty well, mind you. But he does play Super Mario World by using his nose to blow into a musical instrument. NicoNico user Wakou does this by using a program called Audio Pad, which allows him to control Mario with sound (which is why he doesn’t talk during the video, because any noise impacts…

Nintendo Still Profitable, Has Sold 50 Million 3DS Consoles to Date

Nintendo’s financial results for the October-December 2014 quarter are in, and they’re showing numbers reminiscent of the the ones we saw last time, which is good. The company reports an operating income of 31.8 billion yen (~$270 million) for this quarter, which puts their running total for the financial year at an operating profit of…

Final Fantasy Explorers‘ Bosses Make for Great GIFs

Final Fantasy Explorers is a game all about venturing out into the world and slaying monsters—including the summonable creatures that have appeared in numerous games from across the franchise. To make these battles especially epic, the summons have pre-fight cutscenes—each of which looks just as cool in gif form. Shiva Ifrit Ramuh Cúchulainn Diablos Fenrir…

Resisting the Urge to Buy Amiibo Has Taught Me a Lot About Myself

My name is Keza MacDonald and I have a debilitating addiction to buying pointless plastic items. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Things got really bad when I moved to Japan in 2008 and discovered a whole new world of tiny things; robots, miniature food, and of course, video game merchandise. I have two…

Smash Bros. Players Turned The Falcon Punch Into A Great Mini Game

The rules of “Falcon Potato” are simple. You get two Mario players, and one Captain Falcon player. You turn up the launch rate, and you go timers-only. Once in the match, you slow down time, start a Falcon Punch, and try your best to cape the punch, back and forth, until someone gets hit. Creative…

The Original Legend of Zelda Beaten In 30 Minutes, A New World Record

Watch in awe as someone demolishes old-school Legend of Zelda on the NES as fast as possible. According to How Long To Beat, a typical Zelda run takes about ten hours to beat. This speedrun by Darkwing_Duck_sda, though? 30 minutes and 29 seconds. The next Zelda record, according to Zelda Speedruns, is also held by…

It Takes Nine Minutes To Break Down The Amazing Super Mario Timeline

There are a lot of Mario games out there. Though most of these games aren’t particularly story heavy, some people have still set out to try to place these games in chronological order in an effort to make a single Mario timeline. Here’s the latest crack. If you include every single Mario game you can…