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Pokémon’s Pallet Town Theme Played Perfectly On The Game’s Note Mats

That’s how you do it. A perfect execution of Pallet Town’s theme by Kemos Tay, using the note mats in Pokémon ORAS‘s Secret Base, with the bass line being played on the bottom screen and the main melody on top. You can even hear the furious mashing of the D-Pad. Pokemon OR/AS Secret Base –…

Five Smash Bros. Basics That You Should Master

So you want to be a Smash Bros. expert. Great! But becoming a better player isn’t just a matter of fast reflexes. It’s also a matter of knowing what to do. You know what they say about knowledge and power, right? Earlier this month we covered Super Smash Academy‘s first “basics” video, which covered things…

New Pokémon Hacked, So You Can Play As The Bad Guy

Pokémon hackers have been busy lately. Not only have they spilled the beans on unreleased legendaries in the last few months, they’ve also figured out how to tinker with Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire—and the results are hilarious. Here’s one hack, uploaded by Huntereb and created by @Reisyukaku, that involves replacing the main character’s model…

Hands on With the New Ace Attorney Demo

Capcom had a playable demo of the latest Ace Attorney game, The Great Ace Attorney: The Adventures of Ryunosuke Naruhodou at this year’s Jump Festa that highlighted the games new addition to the series, the “collaborative deduction” system. The demo was relatively short, taking place on a boat to England where the protagonist and his…

Now This Is How You Banana Snipe Someone In Mario Kart

Plenty of people claim to be expert banana snipers in Mario Kart 8. Few can actually show for it. Imagine my surprise, then, when I saw someone boasting online about “banana sniping like a boss,” and they actually were. The pro banana sniper in question is Reddit user martinaee, who posted a flex-worthy video on…

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…