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Here Are All of Today’s Nintendo Direct Announcements In One Video
In case you just missed Nintendo’s latest stream of Direct To You announcements, you can check out the full video here. The gist? There’s a little bit of Sonic. A little more of Sonic plus some Mario. Some old school Zelda, thanks to the Virtual Console. Luigi gets the spotlight. Japan gets another thing we…
By Tina Amini Published May 17, 2013 -
New Super Luigi U Gets A Full Retail Release August 25
Nintendo’s Luigi-centric remake of New Super Marios Bros. is hitting the Wii U in two varieties this summer. Owners of the original game can download New Super Luigi U for $19.99, while folks that may have say, traded in their original copy already, can purchase the game as a standalone product for $29.99 on August…
By Mike Fahey Published May 17, 2013 -
The Next Sonic Game Is A Nintendo Exclusive [UPDATE 2]
Sonic Lost World, the next Sonic game, will launch exclusively on the Wii U and 3DS, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said today in a Nintendo Direct video. It’s part of a new Nintendo-Sega partnership. UPDATE: A Sega press release indicates that this is a three-game deal: “Sonic the Hedgehog has proven incredibly successful on Nintendo…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 17, 2013 -
Four members of LulzSec, the group behind 2011’s hacker attacks against Sony and Nintendo, were sentenced at a London court yesterday. The youngest member received a suspended jail term of two years, while the other three were sentenced to prison time ranging from twenty-four to thirty-two months. [via GI.biz]
By András Neltz Published May 17, 2013 -
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The New Pokémon Trainer’s Legs Are Too Damn Long
This is the new male Pokémon trainer for the upcoming Pokémon X/Y. His legs are long—too long. Don’t believe me? Here is a comparison (via Twitter user Twillcoco) of Pokémon X/Y‘s male trainer and the male trainers from Pokémon Black & White and its sequel. The trainer’s legs do look kinda long in the game,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 17, 2013 -
Kotaku East
Tomodachi Life is One Odd Little Game
I spent this past week playing what is currently the best-selling game in the world: the Japan only 3DS game Tomodachi Collection: New Life After scouring the internet for Miis to populate the game, I spent my first three hours with the game in a state of nostalgic, yet amused, bafflement. My extra hours with…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published May 17, 2013 -
The Kids Of Today Seem To Be Struggling With Super Metroid
SNES classic Super Metroid went on sale for under a buck earlier this week, the combination of price and the game’s status obviously resulting in a massive influx of new players. Players that, thanks to the wonders of the Miiverse, appear to be…struggling with 1990s game design. There’s always the chance these guys are trolling/joking,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 16, 2013 -
This New 3DS eShop Game Sounds Pretty Fantastic
The Starship Damrey is a video game. It’s for 3DS. It’s out today. It’s called The Starship Damrey That’s about all we know about this new Level-5 product, and the creators want to keep it that way: the point, they say, is to keep us on our toes, like back in the NES days when…
By Jason Schreier Published May 16, 2013 -
Nintendo Forcing Ads On Some YouTube “Let’s Play” Videos
Nintendo of America has muscled in on the world of “let’s play” videos on YouTube, inserting commercials into user-made clips that are of “a certain length”. Seems that late last year the publisher registered with YouTube as a “partner”, registering their content with the video service’s database. While Nintendo claims (via Go Nintendo) that “most…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 15, 2013 -
No, Nintendo Didn’t Call Wind Waker‘s Tutorials ‘Annoying’
An article floating around the web yesterday claimed that Nintendo had sent them a press release calling Zelda: Wind Waker‘s tutorials “annoying” and sailing “a bit of a chore,” but the Zelda makers tell Kotaku that’s not true. Yesterday, the website Operation Rainfall—a blog originally formed as a fan campaign to petition that Nintendo bring…
By Jason Schreier Published May 15, 2013 -
Nintendo: Tom Nook Is ‘Misunderstood’
As I play an advance copy of the newest version of Nintendo’s beloved Animal Crossing games, I’ve again been pondering the nature of Tom Nook, a character who could teach Bowser and Mother Brain a thing or two about tormenting a Nintendo gamer. Tom Nook, if you don’t know, is one of the recurring characters…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 15, 2013 -
Kotaku East
Pokémon X/Y Sure Looks Like France
As with past Pokémon games, the latest one, Pokémon X/Y, takes its visual cue from real world geography. For example, in the last big Pokémon titles, Pokémon Black/White, the in-world map was apparently modeled after New York City. This time, the game appears to be modeled after France—though, as one Kotaku reader points out, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 15, 2013 -
We’re Getting Another Adventure Time Game, And Not Just On The 3DS
Oh, joy joy joy! WayForward and D3Publishers are teaming up with Adventure Time writer Pen Ward again for a second Adventure Time game, the companies announced today in a press release. That image here of Finn? That pretty much explains how I feel about this. (Minus the punchiness.) I quite enjoyed the first 3DS/DS Adventure…
By Tina Amini Published May 14, 2013 -
See Four New Pokémon in Action in the Newest Gameplay Trailer
Pokémon X and Pokémon Y got a new game trailer this morning, and shed more light on the game, including four new Pokémon, when it arrives in October for the 3DS. Say hello to Fletchling, Pancham, Helioptile and Gogoat. The game will take place in an entirely new region, named Kalos, whose central hub is…
By Owen Good Published May 14, 2013