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Watch Us Play the New Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is the newest game in the long running series and the first on the Wii U. It has all the platforming you could want as well as returning characters Dixie Kong and Cranky Kong. Check out the video to see the game in action. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was…

Here’s an Officially Licensed Mario…Golf Bag

Mario golf. Get it? Well, if you have five hundred bucks, you can. According to NariNari, Japanese golf accessory company Enjoy Caddie Bag is releasing a Mario golf bag. Made of faux leather, the bag is covered in Mario—whether that’s small details like Super Star zippers or big details like the huge “M.” Here, have…

My Favorite Part of the New Donkey Kong is Bouncing Like Scrooge McDuck

This past weekend, I sat down and powered through the newest Donkey Kong title Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. And as I explored all the game has to offer, I found myself nearly giddy at Cranky Kong’s special ability: to bounce along on his cane like Scrooge McDuck in the NES classic DuckTales. I love…

‘Final Fantasy Has Arrived’

Via Steve Lin, a Nintendo employee newsletter from June of 1990. “Oddly enough, this first-of-its-kind blockbuster is called Final Fantasy, but you can bet that it won’t be the last.”

The Miraculous Progress of ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’

It has been nearly five days since Twitch Plays Pokemon, a stream that lets users collectively control a Pokémon game via chat commands, started broadcasting to the world. Since then, the stream has had over sixty thousand people watching and playing at once—as you might expect, it’s been a chaotic, awe-inspiring ride so far. And…

The Best Nintendo Stuff We Saw at Toy Fair

Every year, it seems like more and high-end merch from Nintendo lands on the shelves of Toy Fair. Once again, Kotaku hit the annual trade show in New York City and, this year, we might have seen some of the most beautiful sculpted versions of the company’s characters yet. Look at these figures of Link…

A Journey Through Bootleg Pokémon Games

JonTron has made a career out of playing terrible games so you don’t have to. Which is great, because how else were we going to sit through these awful, bootleg Pokémon titles and crack jokes? This is practically charity. Spanning several Nintendo consoles and handhelds, there have been quite a few awful cash-ins on the…

The Week in Games: There’s Money in the Banana Stand

Rayman Legends makes its way to Xbox One and PS4 this week, followed by Strider’s long-awaited return to the PlayStation and Xbox consoles, plus PC. But the week’s big gorilla arrives on Friday, with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Wii U. Tuesday, Feb. 18: Earth Defense Force 2025 (PS3, 360) NASCAR 14 (…

The dulcet, Brokaw-esque baritone of Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime) introduces you to Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, due to arrive sometime this year. In science fiction—whether video game or film—nothing says “mailed-in sequel” like a title with a colon followed by “Rise of the Something–Something.” [IGN] The game will launch on everything: PS4 and…

Make a Short Trailer Longer With a Very Detailed Look at Mario Kart 8

Yesterday GameXplain found eight minutes of stuff to discuss in the two-minute trailer introducing Punch-Out!!‘s Little Mac to Super Smash Bros. Today, they offer this fine-toothed combing of the Mario Kart 8 trailer, and after a whopping 26 minutes, there is nary a nit left to pick. GameXplain goes further than any reasonable person could…

Tale of the Tape: How Punch-Out!!‘s Pugilist Performs in Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros.‘ inclusion of the Slight White Hope—aka Little Mac of Punch-Out!!—raises several interesting questions, from how his natural brawling skills will help him in the game to how his short stature might hinder him. Here to answer it all is GameXplain, with a detailed breakdown of the latest trailer. Seriously, there’s a lot…

The Internet Reacts To Little Mac’s Smash Bros. Reveal

Did you wonder what caused all the changes in Sonic’s new design? Well there’s your answer right above. It has to be Little Mac, the newly announced character in Super Smash Bros. Wii U! Little Mac inspired a lot of fans, so here are some of the best reactions: He punched in, and hit Samus…

The Pokémon Company makes Mythical Pokémon Diancie official. Three days after the Serebii report, like clockwork, the latest pocket monster movie star is confirmed. They also confirm theonce-hiddenPokémon will be coming to Pokémon X and Y at a later date, but won’t tell us when or how because they’re mean like that.

Now that’s a video game tattoo done right. Dhalsim from Street Fighter, becoming one with its owner’s leg. Hopefully it looks just as cool from angles other than the one in the photo. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can…

Check Out This Great Donkey Kong Miiverse Art

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze came out in Japan yesterday and with it came an influx of awesome art over at the Donkey Kong Miiverse page. Look below for some of the best. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was released in Japan on February 13, 2014. It will be released in the United States and…

I’m Most Excited About A Nintendo Game Nobody Has Heard Of

I don’t mean that in a hipster sense. I mean it in a sense that this is a game Nintendo hasn’t marketed as strongly as perhaps it could have. At least to me This isn’t a Zelda game. Isn’t a Mario game. There’s no Yoshi, no Luigi, no Donkey Kong. Yet unless you’re from Japan…

The Specs Of A Nintendo Console That Never Was

A quick recap for those who may not know: the Sony PlayStation only came about because a dealbetween Sony and Nintendo to produce a CD-based console fell through. Nintendo then went ahead with plans to make their own CD drive, and stick it on the SNES. That ill-fated attachment never appeared on the market, but…

Here are two pieces from CG artist Gabriele Maiocoo, showing us what a badass, more grown up Link would look like. He didn’t skip leg day that’s for sure. Would fit nicely with these realistic enemies, which are also from The Legend of Zelda series. Link – Legend of Zelda by Gabriele Maiocco [Béhance] To…

Here’s A New Look At Bayonetta 2

The sequel to Bayonetta got a new trailer today. Still cool, still chaotic, still stylish. Check it out here. No word on a release date just yet, but Bayonetta 2 will be out on Wii U later this year.

X Still Looks Awesome

The next big Wii U RPG still has no release date—other than “2014”—but it continues to look great. Made by Monolith Soft, the studio behind 2012’s Xenoblade Chronicles, X is the big HD robot RPG the Wii U really needs.