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The Newest Pokémon Looks Startlingly Similar to An Old Favorite

Debuting earlier today on Japan’s “Pokémon Smash” TV show, the latest pocket monster revealed for Pokémon X and Y bears more than a little resemblance to one of the coolest creatures ever to be stuffed inside a tiny plastic ball. Mewtwo, Brute? For those of you who don’t remember Mewtwo, he was a complete and…

Toki Tori 2 hatches on the Wii U and the original Castlevania makes its big 3DS debut in this week’s Nintendo Download. Get your ghostly groove on with the full listright here.

It was only a few years ago that Hiroshi Yamauchi, the man who helmed Nintendo for over fifty years, was the richest man in Japan. Now, according to the latest Forbes rankings, he’s only the 13th richest. Hard times!

I Can’t Play the New Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Until You Pick My Pocket Monster Persona

I love roguelikes. I love Pokemon. I should have been playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity on my 3DS a week ago, but here I am, staring at the character select screen. Which damn Pokemon should I be? In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity the player becomes a Pokemon, taking on the form…

Mystery Solved: Why No One In Fire Emblem: Awakening Has Feet

Here at Kotaku, we like Fire Emblem: Awakening. But a while back, we had to ask: Why on earth doesn’t anyone in this game have any feet? Everything else about the characters’ design is perfectly normal. But they don’t have any feet. In a new developer interview posted by Nintendo, the localizers at 8-4 (who…

Oh Wow, Amazon Really Hates Nintendo Consoles

The conflict between Nintendo and Amazon just keeps getting stranger. For almost two years now, Amazon has not been selling Nintendo’s gaming hardware first hand. You can buy a 3DS or Wii U from the massive online retailer, but it will be sold through a third party. Amazon won’t sell Nintendo hardware themselves. And neither…

Nintendo Is Rolling Out a New AR App for Japan

Later this month, Nintendo will start selling pre-paid cards for downloadable 3DS games that come with AR cards for Issho ni Photo: Super Mario (“Photos Together with Super Mario”). It’s a new 3DS app that uses the AR cards to allow you to take snaps of and with the Mario characters. The first set, on…

Tiny Nintendo Consoles Made Out Of LEGO

Flickr user CK Tsang has, with great patience and attention to detail, rebuilt Nintendo’s first two serious home consoles – the Japanese Famicom and Western NES – into teeny tiny LEGO models. Where his designs shine is the detail. Rather than just create the boxes, he’s made tiny control pads, tiny cartridges that slide into…

The Wii U Won’t Be Getting Unreal Engine 4 [Update]

This week at the Game Developers Conference, Epic Games took their usual opportunity to show off the latest developments in their whiz-bang Unreal graphics technology. In addition to the shooty/demonic demos in futuristic/fantasy settings, one of the most touted features of the engine was that it can scale from next-gen consoles like the PlayStation 4…

Crazy Guy Builds Awesome Instrument To Rethink Super Mario

Meet Chris Novello, alias Paper Kettle, who shows in the video above how he can manipulate Super Mario on the NES with his glitch instruments. The smaller one is a USB device with arcade buttons called Illucia made by the man himself, and the other, multitouch thingy is a Soundplane The technical details on the…

Six Critics Clash Over Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity

Gates to Infinity is the latest entry in Nintendo’s roguelike/dungeon crawler franchise, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. It seems it’s… a bit of a mixed bag, honestly. There are quite a few points reviewers are disagreeing on. Some say Gates of Infinity, compared to prior games, has been dumbed down, while others think it merely has been…

At long last, rhythm-action game HarmoKnight will be showing up for download on the 3DS. There’s also a new update for the stereoscopic handheld. Check out all the coming week’s digital Nintendo offerings right here

Here, go ahead and watch the first thirty minutes of Game & Wario for the Wii U. Do it!

The Miiverse Is Way More Exciting Than This Presentation Room

The Wii U is a wonderful console. And its Miiverse is a hive of fun! But, according to a photo on Japanese site Game Watch Impress, Nintendo’s Miiverse presentation at the Game Developers Conference looked…sparse. Hey! There are lots of presentations at GDC. Not every one of them will be packed. Game Watch Impress did…

Best Buy Is Making This Man Destroy A Vintage NES Deluxe Set [Update: Nope! Saved!]

Reddit user ipoopinthesink, an employee at Best Buy, says he was handed a rather strange item to recycle as part of the retailer’s “Renew Blue” program, where people’s old electronic gear can be brought in and disposed of properly. It’s not a broken old TV set or outdated mobile phone. It’s a very fancy, very…

Shigeru Miyamoto tells ABC News that a Nintendo theme park is “not an impossibility”, but that the company’s hands are currently full.

See How The Wii U’s Menu Load Times Are Getting Faster

A system update due next month will dramatically speed up the time it takes to jump from a Wii U game back to the system menu. You can see just how big a difference it makes in the video above.

Ouya Tries To Dispel Fears That The Console’s Nintendo Emulators Will Promote Piracy

Yesterday on the unofficial Ouya console forums, forum administrator Ed Krassenstein announced that several emulators will officially be available on or near the launch (March 28) of the Android-based console. The additions of said emulators to the upcoming console have been in discussion since as early as July of last year (here, here and here).…

Six Reviewers Find Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon Eerily Charming

Mario is king, no doubt ‒ but not in this game. In Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Mario’s brother Luigi is the star. And while he might not have the strength and speed of Mario, he sure managed to convince these reviewers that he’s really got what it takes. The 3D aspect, the atmosphere, the puzzles,…

Tips For Playing Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon

The paranormal puzzle-fest Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon came out yesterday for the 3DS. Patricia gave the game a good review, and I’ve spent the past couple of weeks playing it as well. Now that it’s out in the wild, I thought I’d gather some tips for those who are just starting out. Here are some…