The company that gave the world Mario, Link, and Samus is the undisputed champ of the modern console war, with nearly 150 million Switches sold since 2017. But now, speculation is rampant about the company’s next console, rumored to launch in 2025.
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Selecting names ain’t easy—especially in Japan. Some Japanese parents consult with fortune tellers in hopes of picking a name that will bring their child good luck. One soothsayer has one. That name is Pikachu. Kotaku previously covered why Pikachu is a terrible name for Japanese children. Today, a fortune teller tells us why it’s a…
Look, I know if there was a list of the top 100 toughest bosses in video gaming, Minish Cap’s Vaati wouldn’t make the cut. There are NES games, or games that end in “Souls”, that are way harder than any handheld adventure Nintendo has ever conjured for Link. But for me, for some reason, I…
It’s Valentine’s Day, and so lots of video game companies are putting out goofy cards to celebrate. But what about Fire Emblem: Awakening, one of the most romantic games in recent memory? What would Fire Emblem Valentines look like? Cute, it turns out. The Nintendo 3DS Facebook Page has shared some fun Valentines based on…
It’s 4am. I’m lying down in bed, barely holding up my 3DS. By that point, I’ve been playing Fire Emblem: Awakening all night—long enough that I wouldn’t blame anyone for wondering if I’m sharp enough to keep pretending I’m still a competent tactician. But, I don’t care. The game has me wired; it’s that good.…
I’ve never, ever seen a Google Street View truck out in the wild. And now that I think about it, I don’t know that I want to. It’d be a little creepy, knowing that its magic penetrating cameras are sucking all the data out of my pores without my permission. But if you want to…
Two years ago, Nintendo was in trouble. The House of Mario had just released a brand new handheld system with impressive 3D graphics, but nobody seemed to care. Sales were sluggish and reception wasn’t great. So they did something drastic: just six months after releasing the 3DS, Nintendo slashed the system’s price from $250 to…
Nintendo has been so busy announcing sequels to every Mario sub-franchise that you can think of—new sidescrollers, new 3D platformers, new Golf, and Mario & Luigi—that you’d think they don’t have anything else. Well, other than Zeldas. Not quite. As they’ve quietly been doing, Nintendo is continuing to create and add to new franchises through…
Ain’t no dubstep here! The new trailer for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which will be out on 3DS June 9, is calm and relaxing, just like the popular game series.
This morning’s Nintendo Direct presentation was packed with announcements and trailers for new games on the 3DS and Wii U. You can watch all 37 minutes right here.
Nintendo is bringing Donkey Kong Country Returns to the 3DS. The remake is currently in development and will take advantage of the 3DS’ glasses-free 3D feature. It is slated for a summer release in Japan and North America. Known as Donkey Kong Returns in Japan, the game, the game was originally out on the Nintendo…
Animal Crossing: New Leaf will be out for 3DS on June 9, Nintendo said today.
Nintendo just announced a new installment in the Mario & Luigi role-playing game series, and it looks absolutely insane. The new game is set in Luigi’s dreams, and it lets you rub Luigi’s face on the bottom screen as you adventure with both plumbers on the top screen. This is the fourth entry in the…
New Nintendo Direct coming your way at 9am Eastern. Watch it live here, or check Kotaku for news as it happens.
As you’ve seen in our regular Miiverse Moments feature, Nintendo’s online community is a place where people don’t just chat, but doodle. Like their lives depended on it. I’ve seen some good sketches over the weeks turning up on various game pages, but nothing like this epic Zelda image, which spans four panels and has…
New Nintendo Direct coming tomorrow at 9am Eastern. This one’s all about upcoming 3DS and Wii U games, Nintendo says.
NeoGAF user jjgames has done the history of video games—or at least our ability to easily access some awkwardly amusing parts of it—a great favour. He’s bought six old VHS tapes from the 90s, each containing a Nintendo marketing or training video. They remind us of a time Nintendo was a lot warmer, a lot…
This Pokémon trainer art does resemble the male trainer in very real Pokémon X/Y screens. But it is not a real Japanese magazine scan. It looks like one, but it’s so fake. Here’s why. For example, here it gives “atarashishii” as the reading for the Japanese word for “new”, which is “atarashii” (新しい). This mistake…
I published an innocent little story yesterday about an N64 controller that provoked an unexpected response. You see, I hate the Nintendo 64 controller. All my friends hate it. Everyone I ever gamed on the console with hated it. I figured it was pretty safe to share that dislike. Others, on the internet, disagreed. Some…
We’ve talked plenty about how much we like the new 3DS strategy role-playing game Fire Emblem: Awakening here at Kotaku. Among other things, we like the romance, the permanent death and the even more permanent marriage. And all this despite the fact that no one in the game has feet But while I’ve talked a…
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