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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…
By Mike Fahey Published April 3, 2013 -
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 2, 2013 -
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…
By Jason Schreier Published April 2, 2013 -
Kotaku East
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2013 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 1, 2013 -
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 29, 2013 -
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…
By Gergo Vas Published March 29, 2013 -
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…
By András Neltz Published March 28, 2013 -
Kotaku EastHere, go ahead and watch the first thirty minutes of Game & Wario for the Wii U. Do it!
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2013 -
Kotaku East
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 28, 2013 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2013 -
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).…
By Tina Amini Published March 25, 2013 -
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,…
By András Neltz Published March 25, 2013 -
Tips & Guides
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published March 25, 2013 -
Super Metroid Screenshot, Remastered Into HD In Photoshop Looks Stunning
DeviantArt user Elemental79 did a crazy job converting a screenshot from the classic SNES game Super Metroid into HD using only Photoshop. He recorded the whole procedure in this speed up video to show us how much work something like this needs. He already did the same treatment with Doom, with similar, awesome results and…
By Gergo Vas Published March 25, 2013 -
Nintendo’s Efforts To Explain The Wii U Just Took A Turn For The Absurd
It’s no secret that Nintendo has had a major problem marketing the Wii U. Most non-gamers (and even some gamers) I speak with have no idea that it even exists. Even Jimmy Fallon couldn’t quite figure it out—and he was supposed to be showing it off that night. Now Nintendo has apparently ramped up its…
By Mike Rougeau Published March 24, 2013
