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Try As I Might, I Can’t Convince My Friends To Get The Wii U

Ever since the new season of Game of Thrones started, I’ve gathered with a group of friends each Sunday night to play video games for a few hours before the new episode airs. We sometimes call it pre-gaming Game of Thrones, because we’re huge dorks. This past Sunday was different, however. We began planning for…

One of the coolest things in Hyrule Warriors, the upcoming Zelda spin-off for the Wii U, will be definitely the new look of Impa, Princess Zelda’s bodyguard. While she typcally appeared as an old lady in most of the previous games, this new warrior design is just completely awesome. Dayshot is an image-based feature that…

Check Out the 109 New Final Fantasy Tracks in Theatrhythm: Curtain Call

While growing up, I, of course, knew the Mario and Sonic themes, but it wasn’t until I first played Final Fantasy VI that game music really started to affect me. To say I have a soft spot for the series’ music is an understatement—which is why I am ecstatic that Theatrhythm: Curtain Call has 109…

Ike Joins Super Smash Bros., Gets Compared to a Gorilla in Japan

Nintendo just announced that Ike from Fire Emblem is returning to Smash Bros. So, he’s not a new character to the series, but he now looks…different. And in Japan, some are mocking his pumped up appearance. On popular game sites like Hachima and My Game News Flash, there are commenters calling the muscular Ike a…

Zelda Spin-Off Doesn’t Have Dungeons, It’s Got Armies

Hyrule Warriors is Zelda meets hack-and-slash. It’s an idea just crazy enough to work. “With the Warriors series, we’ve had collaborations with Gundam, Fist of the North Star, and One Piece, but we also wanted to do something with Nintendo.” Hyrule Warriors producer, Hisashi Koinuma said in an interview with Weekly Famitsu. According to Koinuma,…

Cheer Yourself Up With These Depressed Video Game Heroes

Depressed Toad and Sonic from a series of illustrations available as prints by Christopher Hemsworth: You can buy these at Society 6 Via IG and Cory Doctorow You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Share Your Wii U Stories

About a year and a half ago, the Wii U was released unto the world. In the months since then, Nintendo’s extra-screened chunk of plastic has sat in our living rooms, letting us play Zelda and watch Netflix. How’s all that going? While most of us on staff at Kotaku have our own Wii Us…

Nintendo’s Dead Online Services Live! (For Now)

While Nintendo has officially killed off online functionality for the DS and Wii, the internet being the internet, people have found a way to keep it alive. Sort of. For now. Private servers and custom code are keeping DLC downloads and some multiplayer services alive, though it’s important to note that’s for a limited range…

Ten Things You Might Not Know About Nintendo

I knew that Robin Williams named his daughter for The Legend of Zelda, but I did not know that Mario has a 27-foot vertical. Live and learn, I guess. The latest gaming video from BuzzFeedPop lists a number of enjoyable facts about Nintendo games and consoles. (It’s possible there are more than ten, I wasn’t…

Famous Wii Vaporware Is Back From The Dead [Update]

Sadness is a fable so old that most of our original stories on the “game” no longer exist on the internet. One of the most notorious pieces of vapourware in video games history, it was at one point a posterchild for the hardcore’s hopes for the Wii. Now it wants to haunt the Wii U…

The Great Gawker Mario Kart 8 Tournament

If you’ve ever wanted to watch 24 Gawker Media employees scream at a game of Mario Kart, today is your lucky day. Earlier this month, we gathered a whole bunch of our colleagues, including writers from Gizmodo, Deadspin, and our other sister sites, for what can only be described as the greatest Mario Kart tournament…

Say Goodbye To Online Services On Your Wii And DS Games

Hope you’ve already gotten all your Dragon Quest IX treasure maps and downloaded all those daily Professor Layton puzzles. If not, now’s your last chance. At some point in the next 24 hours, Nintendo is turning off online functionality for Wii and DS games including Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and Pokémon. You’ll no longer…

Princess Peach Swings In Like A Wrecking Ball

Chomping Ball tee by Kenny Wheeler on sale at Threadless. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

What Nintendo Is Doing Right

The conventional wisdom is that Nintendo has screwed up. They’ve lost the plot. Dropped the ball. Somehow sunk their own battleship. But they’re actually doing a bunch of things right, too. Let’s not focus on the very real storm clouds, for once, and focus on four bright spots that might change how you think about…

LEGO Pokémon Rock Pretty Damn Hard

These aren’t official but by God they should be. This set of models are the work of Dan McCormack who seems to be trying to build them all with his rapidly expanding collection. They don’t look like casual builds either, with Paras consisting of around 400 parts and up for voting on the LEGO Ideas…

Honest Star Fox 64 Trailer Goes Straight For The Furry Jokes

Sometimes an anthropomorphic animal is just an anthropomorphic animal, Honest Game Trailers. Now if Fox McCloud too off his head at the end of Star Fox 64 to reveal a human wearing a suit, then that would be a furry. Even then the gross generalizations are a bit much. Not all furries are sexual deviants.…

Nintendo just invited us to two big evening Q&As during E3, one for Super Smash Bros. and the other for… “a new game for 3DS.” What could it be?

The Joy and Sadness of Playing Pokémon

Earlier this year in Japan, the Pokémon Dragon King Competition got underway. Kids duke it out with cards and consoles. There were smiles, tears, and Pocket Monsters. In the below video, you can see a short digest movie, which the Pokémon Company uploaded to YouTube this week. ポケモン竜王戦2014　ダイジェストムービー [PokemonCoJp via Siliconera] To contact the author…

PSA: Mario Kart 8 is the 10th 11th Mario Kart Just in case you were counting. In related news, Mario Kart 64 was not actually the 64th Mario Kart. Also: the new Mario Kart is pretty good UPDATE: A third arcade Mario Kart game has been released, making this month’s 8 actually the 11th game.…

What Pokémon In a Darker Future Would Look Like

Pokémon would look a lot darker in an alternate future, where not just Pokémon evolved but also bio- and nanotechnology. DeviantART artist Abel Vera imagined Mewtwo and Blastoise in a universe like that. Here’s a Mega Mewtwo X, a Mega Mewtwo Y, an armored, cyborg Mewtwo and a realistic Mega Blastoise: Dayshot is an image-based…