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Ten Moves You Should Never Teach Your Pokémon

Every Pokémon only has four move slots—and those slots are precious. You shouldn’t waste your slots with useless moves. Especially not these moves. TheJWittz teams up with competitive battler Shofu here to give you a top ten list of awful moves you should avoid at all costs. While you’ll have to watch the video to…

How To Share Miis In Tomodachi Life

Making Miis and watching them grow is the best part of Tomodachi Life. So why not share some of that joy with the rest of the world? What’s that you say…because doing so is unnecessarily confusing? Well, I’m here to help you out. Like some other recent Nintendo games, the newly minted 3DS sim game…

Kids Don’t Trust Luigi Anymore. Thanks Mario Kart 8

Was the notoriety worth it, Luigi? Now that the Luigi Death Stare meme has run its course, the Fine Bros. assess the damage those dirty looks have done. Somebody think of the children! Sure, Mario’s brother never really owned the spotlight, but at least he was beloved by children everywhere. Now Luigi doesn’t even have…

Praise… the Moon? I can see where mintyfreshmango‘s Zelda and Dark Souls crossover is going. The Moon from Majora’s Mask would actually fit right in as a boss and the warriors of sunlight would find themselves in a tight corner really quickly. Zelda and Dark Souls by mintyfreshmangos [DeviantART] Dayshot is an image-based feature that…

Ice Climber tribute by Gary Musgrave. (The NES box art featured a polar bear with red swimsuit and sunglasses): You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

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Tomodachi Life: The Kotaku Review

How do I describe Tomodachi Life? I’ll start with the name. “Tomodachi” (友達) is the Japanese word for “Friend,” so the title of Nintendo’s new 3DS sim game translates literally to “friend life.” That’s a bumbling phrase. But it helps illustrate why I’ve had such a hard time explaining the game’s appeal to friends and…

Link Looks a Lot More Vicious in Hyrule Warriors. Seriously.

In case you were wondering, when you put Legend of Zelda characters in a Dynasty Warriors-style set-up, everything gets a bit more ferocious. Maybe even uncomfortably so. Usually when you see Link fighting enemies in his many video game appearances, he comes across as determined and resolute. It never seems like he likes the violence.…

‘Primal Reversion’ Is Pokémon’s New Type of Evolution

Mega evolutions are so last year. Now Pokémon is set to introduce a new type of evolution in Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, and it looks like they’re of the prehistoric variety. We first heard about the new type of transformation earlier this month but now Nintendo has officially released information on what they’re calling…

What Nintendo’s Top Game Creators Think Of Minecraft

I’ve been beating this drum for a while: it makes no sense to me that Minecraft is on every game-playing platform you can think of other than Nintendo’s 3DS and Wii U. Finally, I was able to ask Nintendo’s top game designers about this. In Los Angeles last week, I was sitting across from Shigeru…

Shigeru Miyamoto Has A Question For All Of You

The man who made Mario and Zelda needs you to tell him something, Kotaku As I was concluding my interview with him at E3 last week, I asked if he had anything else he’d like Kotaku readers to know. Oh, he did. But he also wanted to know something that only you can answer. Here’s…

Lego Bowser

Too bad Lego doesn’t have the Nintendo license, because this fanmade Lego Bowser is terrific: Boswer is by Jordan Schwartz You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘We’ve Had Tough Times Before’

The Wii U has struggled since it was launched in late 2012. That might be bad news for Nintendo bean-counters but it might be good news for Nintendo fans, especially if this month’s big E3 show is anything to go by. Despite the gaming press and fans seeming to be agog over PlayStations and Xboxes,…

Clone Of Clone Of Clone Now On 3DS eShop

Today Nintendo announced that the 3DS eShop just got a new $2 game called 2048, by a developer named Cosmigo. Cosmigo’s 2048 is a copy of Gabriele Cirulli’s open-source 2048, which itself is a clone of a game called 1024, which is, of course, a clone of the stellar iOS game Threes Video games

Nintendo’s been quiet about when games from the Nintendo 64 might be coming to the Wii U Virtual Console. But there’s a new mention of “the future addition of titles from the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo 64 systems” on the webpage for the console’s eShop digital storefront. Hopefully, this means that titles from the…

The Man Was Fat Shamed. Then, He Was Game Boy Advance Shamed.

Twitter gives everyone a voice. Too bad some people use that voice to be mean to people they don’t know. Today in Japan, the following tweet appeared on 2ch, the country’s largest forum. The young woman who tweeted it, wrote, “I’m on the train now (lol). There’s a fatty taking up three seats by himself…

I Want to Look Forward to Final Fantasy Explorers

I have to admit, I was rather skeptical about Final Fantasy Explorers when I first heard the game’s description, but after hearing the game director’s initial pitch… I’m actually even more skeptical. Final Fantasy Explorers is described as an action RPG with mutli-player capabilities. Players band in parties of up to four characters and fight…

Mii Fighters Were Almost Part Of Smash Bros. Brawl

The addition of Miis as playable characters in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS opens up a realm of possibilities for players, but this is not the first time the series creator has toyed with the idea. “Incorporating Miis was explored in the previous game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but I…

What 1200 Pounds Of Nintendo Games Looks Like

This large cardboard box measures around 48″x 48″x 48″. It is full of Nintendo DS and 3DS games. Around 1200 pounds of them Redditor HxCurt, who works at an e-cycling plant, says most of them are Activision’s dreadful iCarly 2 on DS, which will never find a home, not at any price. Hence their arrival…

Guy Turns Nintendo 64 Into Hot Pink Barbie Corvette

Your boring old grey console is totally lame compared to this hot pink Barbie Corvette that craftsman Robin Graves turned into an actual working N64. I met Graves, who asked that we not use his real name, at E3 last week, where he told me about this project and promised to send over some photos.…