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Watch As I Attempt to Draw Pokémon

I may be the single worst artist on the face of the planet. So let’s see if Pokémon can teach me to draw in Pokémon Art Academy Pokémon Art Academy was released in Japan for the Nintendo 3DS on June 19, 2014. It will be released in Europe on July 4, 2014; Australia and New…

Ash From Pokémon Has The Body Of A Greek God

Seems like running around the Kanto Region paid off or Ash simply knows the secret of the perfect six-pack. I hope he’s not on some special Pokémon diet. This is the figurine in question that goes into Pokémon territory where no trainer has been before. via TheRandomInMyHead [Tumblr] To contact the author of this post,…

Nintendo’s Student-made Wii U Games are Full of Imagination

The Nintendo Games Seminar is an annual program where teams of college students are given weekly classes on game development from Nintendo. Over the course of eight months, the groups design and build their own game. And now, last year’s four games are available for free on the Japanese Wii U’s eShop. The first game…

Super Mario Bros. Beaten In Under Five Minutes, A New World Record

You’ve gotta watch this impressive Super Mario Bros. playthrough by speedrunner “Blubbler.” Blubbler beats the game in a bewildering 4:57.69. Previously, the world record for an “any percentage” completion run was held by andrewg, according to the SMB Leaderboards Wiki. The time? 4:58:09. A second can make all the difference in a speedrun! Here, the…

​A Great Reminder of Why We Need to Keep Classic Games Alive

Almost everything we love about modern video game owes a huge debt to Another World. So, it’s a boon that people playing on the Xbox Ones and PS4s of today can experience what made this proto-indie adventure a classic. Elegant world-building. Storytelling quirks unique to the medium. Beautifully naturalistic animation. Proper use of cinematic influences.…

The Weirdest Things My Miis Are Saying To Me

One thing people have always loved about The Sims is its quirky made-up language. It’s become so popular since the series debuted that fans now affectionately refer to it as “Simlish.” It doesn’t make much sense, but half the fun comes from deciphering what sims are trying to tell you by the tone of their…

Shovel Knight: The Kotaku Review

Shovel Knight is a video game about a knight who carries a shovel. It’s an NES game released 25 years too late. It’s the type of platformer that a whole lot of people have been craving for a very long time. There is no way to talk about Shovel Knight without talking about the games…

The Moon from Majora’s Mask looks 100% crazier in Hyrule Warriors, just like all the characters that have been revealed so far. We’ve already seen Link, Impa and Queen Zelda (she’s a queen now!) in action in Hyrule Warriors and fresh screenshots introduce two more playable characters. Here’s Agitha, the bug collector girl from Twilight…

The Best Pokémon 3DS Drawings Aren’t the Most Accurate

Nintendo 3DS game Pokémon Art Academy aims to teach players how to draw Pocket Monsters the right way. But what if you don’t want to learn to draw the right way? What if you just want to screw around? You can do that, too. As Kotaku previously covered, the game gives player tips on how…

What Nintendo’s E3 Would Have Been Like In Tomodachi Life

Last week in my review, I described Tomodachi Life as “a bizarre, alternate universe where everybody had giant heads and spoke in ghostly robotic warbles.” If that’s not weird enough as it is (and it’s already pretty weird), imagine a veritable chorus of Nintendo developers chirping and prancing about in Mii form to hawk their…

Flyer for Nintendo’s 1984 arcade games Vs. Golf and Vs. Pinball, which featured Mario. See the game details below: Via AFM You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Zelda’s Quite The Warrior Princess In Hyrule Warriors

Yesterday we got to see Impa in action. Today, it’s Princess Zelda’s turn to show off her ass-kicking ability in the upcoming Zelda hack & slash game, Hyrule Warriors In one minute, we get to see the Hylian princess take on a small army using quick, acrobatic swordfighting and devastating magic alike. Really, lose the…

Listen up, composers and music lovers: Following last year’s KORG M01D, Detune will be bringing the new KORG DSN-12 synthesizer to the Nintendo 3DS eShop in September. Check out the official website for some specifications, and give the trailer a watch above to see the new 3D oscilloscope in action.

These Sand Sculptures Will Haunt Your Dreams

Professional sculptor Guy-Olivier Deveau’s latest intricate sand sculpture is a tribute to H.R. Giger. See it in its full nightmarish glory below, as well as more of Deveau’s work, including his tributes to NES classics and Warcraft. Inseminate (H.R. Giger tribute). I Am 8bit. Phasing. Fantasy Castle (inspired by Warcraft Blood Elves’ architecture). Trapped Ifrit.…

Reminder: You Can Totally Dodge The Blue Shell In Mario Kart

Heck, thanks to the new video editor in Mario Kart 8, you can even dodge blue shells with extreme style now. See this epic moment captured by Thomas Puttick? That could be you. He’s using the good ‘ol “boost right before the blue shell hits you” trick, which has been available in a number of…

A Link Between Worlds Brought To Life As Chalk Art Animation

Here’s Awe Me and their latest chalk animation, featuring Link and his special ability from The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds While the animation was inspired by the 3DS game, and I know we agreed that we wouldn’t speak about the CD-i Zelda games, the animation just reminds me of those. (But in…

Persona Q is a Mixture of Old School Gameplay and Fanboy Joy

I love Persona 3 and Persona 4. They are easily among my favorite JRPGs. So a game that mixes together the characters of both games in an all new adventure seems right up my alley—which it is for the most part. But when it comes down to it, Persona Q lives or dies based on…

A Diary of My First Day at Pokémon Art Academy

Dear Diary, after Mom kicked me out of the house because of my radical views on the role of Pokémon in our society, I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. Everything in our world seems to rely on Pokémon slave labor—from construction work to farming! Heck, even photography seems to…

Nintendo’s President Had Surgery To Remove A “Bile Duct Growth”

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata wasn’t able to attend this year’s E3 due to health problems. They were kept vague at the time, but we now know what the concern was, and it sounds bit more serious than first thought. Initial word from the company said he was skipping the trade show due to the advice…

Miyamoto Ponders Nintendo Making Games That Run On Handheld And Console

Could you imagine Nintendo making games that play on both their console and their handheld? Nintendo’s top game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, can. He told me he sees that as a challenge but also an “area of opportunity.” We talked about this kind of thing during the tail end of our very fruitful conversation at E3…