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A Plea To All Animal Crossing: New Leaf Players Out There

Hey. How’s it going? Are you having fun digging up fossils and being the mayor of your town? Yeah? I’m glad. Will you have a seat? No, calm down. This isn’t an intervention per se, but…listen, we need to talk. I’ve noticed something while playing New Leaf. At first, I thought I was just imagining…

Princess Rescue—that homebrew Atari 2600 homage to Super Mario Brothers—is now available through AtariAge as a $30 cartridge. An emulator ROM is on its way too.

Let’s Spend Some Hands-On Time With Pikmin 3

It’s been nine years since the release of the last Pikmin game. And while it’s still weeks away from a Western release, Pikmin 3 was released in Japan this past Saturday. But what exactly is Pikmin 3 like hands-on? You can count on Kotaku East to give you a sneak peek. Check out the video…

An American Idol Winner Played In A Fighting Game Tournament…

Just when you thought the stories coming out of fighting game tournament Evo were as interesting as they were going to get, along comes a tale for the reality TV/Street Fighter fans out there. Of which there must be at least one Turns out Taylor Hicks, who won American Idol a few years back, entered…

Another Mario Movie For The Call Of Duty Generation

The Mario Warfare series continues after a few months rest/preparation. It continues to be the best place to see Mushroom Kingdom characters fighting with barrels and assault rifles. If you haven’t caught an episode before, you can start catching up here Mario Warfare 3 [Beatdown]

Nintendo’s First Proper Console Was So 80s It Had A Cassette Deck

So, the Famicom turned 30 today. In honour of that, let’s look at one of the coolest accessories ever made for the console, one that sadly never made it out of Japan. In 1984, Nintendo released the Famicom Data Recorder, a tape deck peripheral for the console. Yes, cassette tape. The Data Recorder was a…

Zelda Fans, Drop What You’re Doing And Check Out This Art Collection

This. Is. Incredible Fan site History of Hyrule have done an amazing job tracking down all old art from The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past from all kinds of old magazines, manuals, products and publications, and have scanned and uploaded the images online. To say it’s a treasure trove of old Nintendo…

Happy 30th Birthday, Famicom

Your carefree 20s are over, Famicom. No more gallivanting. It’s time to settle down—find a nice wife, get a stable job, maybe put a down payment on a house. You’re 30 now. The Famicom—or Family Computer—first hit Japanese stores on July 15, 1983, and although it took a couple more years for it to make…

The Best Way To Catch Beetles In Animal Crossing: New Leaf

This might sound rash. I’m going to suggest you basically demolish your island. Say your goodbyes, because you’re about to go on a tree murder spree, you criminal. As Patricia already highlighted in her handy How To Make Mounds Of Bells And Then Roll Around In It article, the island is where you want to…

Even Bowser and Bullet Bill are peaceful in Pablo Pintachan‘s digital drawings of Mario, Link and Luigi. Well, Link looks a bit nutty and I’m not sure he’s up for to exploring Hyrule, but at least he’s calm. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…

Pokémon Modded to Skyrim for Some Reason

Just because you can do something, that doesn’t necessarily mean you should. That didn’t stop Steam user DJSuperGenius from adding Pocket Monsters to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The mod’s description might explain better. No, wait, strike that. Nothing can explain this. Pokémon? In Skyrim? Yes, you read that correctly. You now can Battle Pokemon,…

Smash Bros. Survives Ban, Becomes Biggest Fighting Stream In History

It’s a good thing Nintendodidn’t follow through with its reported attempts to ban streams of Smash Bros. Melee from this year’s Evo fighting game tournament. Because it just became, for the time being at least, the biggest fighting game stream of all time. At its peak during the game’s finals held earlier today, over 130,000…

Professor Sycamore Introduces Five New Pokemon And More For X And Y

Who are those five Pokemon? Let’s ask Professor Augustine Sycamore, the latest in a long line of tree-named Professors, making his debut in Pokemon X and Pokemon Y this October. Hit the jump for new gym leaders, Team Flare, and an all-new gameplay vid. He speaks for the trees, the good Professor Sycamore, the mentor…

Why Nintendo Fans Are Called “Pigs” (and Other Things) in Japan

Not everyone in Japan loves Nintendo. Some people hate Nintendo. Like, really, really hate Nintendo. And online, those folks have nicknames for Nintendo diehards. Online in Japan, mean nicknames aren’t unique to Nintendo fans! Previously, Kotaku covered the mocking monikers given to Sony and Xbox fans on Japanese gaming forums and in blog comment sections.…

Bow Before Your Japanese Boy Band Overlords!

Have you ever heard of Arashi? It’s a Japanese boy band that’s so popular, that a poster of the group is drawing crowds, cameras, and grovelling. You might not know Arashi, but perhaps you’ve seen Letters from Iwo Jima? One of the stars, Kazunari Ninomiya, is a member of Arashi. The group has also appeared…

3DS Update Adds Rabbit Who Sells You Stuff In the Most Nintendo Way [UPDATE]

A new 3DS update in America (the rest of North America, too?) is triggering a major overhaul to the system’s Mii StreetPass Plaza. And, in the process, Nintendo adds a rabbit to the system who wants to sell you stuff. The video above shows you this rabbit salesman (salesrabbit) in action. It’s quite a sight…

Does Animal Crossing ‘Promote Otaku Citizenship?’

That’s the question explored in this week’s PBS Idea Channel video. Now, I’ve been writing on the internet long enough to know that otaku is Internet Dynamite. Like “dubstep” and “roguelike,” it’s a word that you can’t even say without making hundreds of people break their keyboards typing apoplectic comments. That said, I thought this…

A trio of classics—Metroid, Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros 2—roll out in this week’s Nintendo Download. If you want newer stuff, there’s Shin Megami Tensei IV, too. Check out the full list of digitally available offerings here.

The horror never stops in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, surfacing in the most unexpected locations. Really glad Nintendo didn’t pick this face for its Smash Bros. character. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve…

EVO Co-Founder: Nintendo Wanted Smash Bros. Pulled From Tournament

Evo co-founder Joey Cuellar says Nintendo didn’t just want to stop Smash Bros. Melee being streamed from this year’s fighting game competition, they wanted to stop that part of the tournament taking place altogether. “They were not only trying to shut down the stream”, he told OneMoreGameTV, “they were trying to shut down the event,…