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The Week in Games: Raider of a Lost Month

We’re about to climb out of the customary two-month hibernation video games enter every December. An updated Tomb Raider releases for the newest consoles on Tuesday, along with Broken Age for everyone. There’s much more on the horizon. Jan. 28: Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z (360, PS3, PS Vita) Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (Xbox…

Monster Hunter 4G will be released in the west as Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Save data from Monster Hunter 4 will be transferrable to the new game. It will release in Japan this fall and in the west in 2015.

Luigi’s Mansion recreated in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. By Rae Broom of StreetPass Princeton. Her town’s Dream Address is 7300-3355-9805.

That ugly looking Nintendo World Championships cartridge for sale on eBay has been bid up to more than $99,000 over the past two days. The auction closes in two hours.

New trailer: Yoshi’s New Island. The game launches March 14 on the 3DS.

The Water Temple Doesn’t Seem Difficult In These Ocarina of Time Maps

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the favorite of many, and a classic like this deserves maps with similar qualities. Peardian, a veteran user of VGMaps, decided to map the whole game in an amazing-looking isometric view. According to VGMaps, he had to render the maps twice, both from top and side view,…

The One Feature All Modern JRPGs Should Have

There is perhaps no feature more reviled in gaming than the one this column is named after: gamers, as a general rule, hate random encounters. Take Stephen Totilo, for example. The other day I was showing Kotaku‘s fearless leader a little bit of Bravely Default, the upcoming 3DS game that is best described as “what…

GameStop Wii U Pre-Order Cancellation An Error, Game Still Coming

[UPDATE 2, 2:58PM:] Good news, everyone! GameStop Italy and our U.S.-based source have both said that this was all a glitch in the system and that Watch Dogs is—or will soon be—available for pre-order for Wii U again in Italy and the U.S. Apologies for making everyone nervous about this and for not getting that…

The Most Popular App On iTunes Is An Impossible, Ad-Riddled Mess

Flappy Bird is a game in which players tap the screen to make the titular Nintendo sprite conversion navigate a series of familiar pipe obstacles. It’s sloppy, frustratingly difficult and covered with in-game ads. It’s also the most popular free app download on iTunes. What gives? That’s the question being asked by Joseph Bernstein, who…

Artist Liza van Kempen did a great job showing us what the characters in a Japanese-themed The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker would look like, by changing the atmosphere and everyone’s outfit, yet keeping the original art style of the game. The larger, original image has a few more characters on it, as you can…

​People Are Getting High On An Actual Drug Called “Nintendo”

That headline isn’t a euphemism—people are actually getting high on an actual drug called “Nintendo.” A potent club drug bearing the name and logo of the famed Japanese video game company has been spotted by drug watchdogs in Belgium. It sounds like it’ll get you high as fuck, too. The drug contains a large dose…

You Power Up Characters with Kisses in This JRPG

Please stop releasing games on portable consoles that I end up being too embarrassed to take out of the house. This is Exstetra, a JRPG for the Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita that was released late last year. The game had managed to get under my radar, but I picked it up at the store…

Smash Bros. Creator Loves Lightning Returns‘ Battle System

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the third and final(?) chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII saga, came out in Japan last November, and what do you know, it’s pretty good. At least Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai thinks so. I think at this point, saying Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is the best installment of…

Learning English Made All Gooey-Cute

For many in Japan, learning English is hard. Good thing Nanami is here to help. Who the hell is Nanami? Nanami is the star of upcoming 3DS download title Let’s Study with Nanami! English Daily Conversation. Voice actress Nao Toyama brings Nanami, and this is not the first Nanami English game. This time around, students…

Jimmy Fallon Makes Fun Of Nintendo’s Money Troubles

Jimmy Fallon can’t pass up a good zinger, and on last night’s Late Night, he let into Nintendo for their recent money problems. Check it out in the video above. Clip via Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Instagram Ruins Pokémon Snap

Back in the days of the original Pokémon Snap, there were no filters to toy with. But if there was a modern Pokémon Snap game? Chances are, it would have a few Instagram-y options for all the Pokémon pictures we take, like in this video by The Warp Zone I’d be okay with that, personally.…

Tracking Down The Odd Rumors About Nintendo’s Next Console

Here at Kotaku, we love insider info. We like getting information both from random tipsters and our own sources. And because of those people—to whom we grant anonymity in our reporting—we’re able to tell you storiesyou might not otherwise know about, and give you all the details about games like Titanfalland Alien: Isolation before they’re…

​Kids Talking About Which Game Console Is the Best Is Hilarious

Adults talking about which video game machine is better can be annoying and downright stupid. Grade-schoolers doing it, though, is adorable. This video from YouTuber Game Dave rounds up letters from a bunch of kids stating the reasons they believe a PlayStation, Xbox or Wii console is superior to its competitors. They get some of…

New Gameplay Changes Will Make Super Smash Bros Wii U A Lot Harder

One of the well-known techniques of Smash Bros, “edge-hogging,” will be revamped for Super Smash Bros Wii U, as a recently released screenshot and comment from Masahiro Sakurai shows. Edge-hogging, or edge-grabbing is one of the more advanced (and funny) techniques in Smash Bros where you hold onto a ledge so that the other player,…

How You Know You’re Old: Super Smash Bros. Is 15 Today

There are, probably, very few people who have a living memory of Mario kneecapping Yoshi in this advertisement and who are not old enough to vote. It’s the famous spot for Super Smash Bros., which 15 years ago today released as a Japan-only novelty and exploded into one of Nintendo’s best-loved series. Super Smash Bros.…