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New The Wonderful 101 Trailer Shows Off Giant Robots, Waterslides

Nestled in all the bombshells of this morning’s Nintendo Direct was a nice looking new trailer for Platinum Games’ strategy/action title The Wonderful 101—formerly Project P-100 This Pikmin meets Viewtiful Joe meets Kaiju game still looks fun, and the trailer highlights some of the GamePad integration, including sections of the game played exclusively on it…

Nintendo Is Remaking The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker For Wii U

You’ll be able to play The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker on your Wii U this fall. No, the Wii U isn’t suddenly getting backwards compatibility to support the GameCube. Nintendo’s remaking the game. Yep, Nintendo is remaking the cartoonish GameCube Zelda game and giving it the full Wii U treatment, complete with new graphics…

Surprise! Fire Emblem Meets Shin Megami Tensei In This New Nintendo Crossover

Holy crap! Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei are crossing over in this new Wii U game, announced at the Nintendo Direct today. We don’t have any details on the surprising crossover: all we know is that it’s a collaboration between Atlus and Nintendo’s developer Intelligent Systems. You might recognize Atlus’s Shin Megami Tensei as…

The People Behind Kirby’s Epic Yarn Are Making A New Yoshi Game

Just look at that adorable twine Yoshi. This new Yoshi game, made by the folks who made Kirby’s Epic Yarn was announced for Wii U this morning. We really enjoyed Kirby’s Epic Yarn, a Wii game starring a knitted version of the obese pink furball that came out back in 2010. We don’t have many…

According to Nintendo, it won’t be until E3 that we get new Smash Bros. info.

New Wii U Mario And Mario Kart Games Will Be Revealed At E3

Nintendo today promised that new 3D Mario and Mario Kart games are coming to Wii U. That shouldn’t surprise you: Mario and Mario Kart are staples of any Nintendo hardware platform. But the new 3D Mario is coming from Nintendo’s A-Team, the developers responsible for classics like Galaxy and Super Mario 3D Land for 3DS,…

The Wii U’s Miiverse Comes To Smartphones This Spring

Smartphones will be able to access the Miiverse—the Wii U’s social network—sometime this spring, Nintendo announced this morning, with a dedicated app for smart devices to follow sometime later. In short, it sounds Miiverse will have a mobile-optimized website soon. Miiverse is the hub where Wii U players connect with others, sharing comments, thoughts, images…

The Wii U Is Getting Its Own Virtual Console This Spring

This spring, the Wii U will get its own version of the Virtual Console—you’ll be able to purchase and download Nintendo and Super Nintendo games to play on the Wii U and separately on your GamePad. We already knew that a Virtual Console was coming to Wii U, but Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata announced further…

Nintendo Says The Wii U’s Load Times Will Get Faster This Spring

In this morning’s Nintendo Direct broadcast, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that the company is aware of complaints of long load times. Iwata said that two system updates—one in spring and the other in summer—will improve load times and add new features to the system.

Looks like there’ll be a Nintendo Direct tomorrow with new Wii U games—9am Eastern Time.

Sick Of His Lego Wii, He Upgraded To A Lego Wii U

YouTuber Kooberz has a ridiculous collection of Legos, and he uses it to keep us entertained. This time, he’s upgraded his Lego Wii to a Lego Wii U, complete with GamePad—which he actually built as a shell for his iPad! How cool is that? Also, Donkey Kong Country music makes this video eternally rewatchable.

Here’s The Official Commercial For Fire Emblem: Awakening

It’s really, really intense. EVERY DECISION COUNTS. THIS IS LIFE. THIS IS DEATH. FIRE EMBLEM: AWAKENING I’ve been playing a bit of Nintendo’s strategy-RPG, which comes out for 3DS on February 4, and yeah, it’s intense, especially if you play with perma-death on. Look forward to more impressions (and a full review) closer to February.

Finding Porn While Searching for Pokémon X? Maybe You’re Doing It Wrong.

The new Pokémon games are titled Pokémon X and Pokémon Y. Have you ever searched either of those games on Google? If you are stumbling upon pornography, it might not be Pokémon, it could be you. Kotaku has been getting tips that point out entering “Pokemon X Videos” on Google turns up X-rated porn. Forums,…

One of the Most Impressive Nintendo Collections in Japan

By day, Tokyo resident Isao Yamazaki is a website developer. By night, he’s at home, perusing one of the most amazing Nintendo collections you can find in Japan or anywhere else. Yamazaki fell in love with Nintendo early on. “I started collecting Nintendo items 30 years ago, in 1982,” he told website Before Mario. “My…

The Music In Fire Emblem: Awakening Is So. Hot.

I’ve been playing the upcoming 3DS game Fire Emblem: Awakening for the last week, and wanted to share some of the game’s music. We won’t be posting a full review for a little while still, but I can already say that the soundtrack, most of which you can already listen to on YouTube, is something…

Beautiful Video Game World Maps

World maps in video games are usually pretty great. We love world maps! You can use them to track the results of your progression through some grand adventure as new locations become accesible and your control over the world grows. A well-crafted world map in any game is always a sign of high quality. Plus,…

Rumor: Monster Hunter 4 Is Headed to the PS Vita [Update]

Oh boy. If this is true (big if!), the PS Vita could be poised for, ahem, a monster comeback. According to Japanese game magazine Game Lab, Nintendo 3DS exclusive Monster Hunter 4 was delayed to summer for a reason other than “improving quality”. That reason is apparently that the game is also being developed for…

Nintendo Spring Line-Up Brings Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon to 3DS on March 24

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon comes to the 3DS on March 24, one highlight among several release dates Nintendo announced for its spring lineup this morning. Additionally, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity arrives in North America on the same date. (It released in Japan in November.) Other dates given in the lineup have LEGO City…

The Wii U Stumbles in Japan (But Don’t Count Nintendo Out)

If Japan is anything to go by, the Wii U hasn’t proven to be the smash hit Nintendo hoped it would be. Granted, hardware launches are tough. The 3DS had a difficult time getting off the ground. Now, it’s doing gangbusters. In Japan, the Wii U, however, is having a hard time lately. To put…

A Wii U Commercial Was Pulled Because A Single Person Complained

In Britain, the Advertising Standards Authority operates under a fairly simple rule. If even a single person complains about a commercial, they take a look at it, and if they agree, they can pull the ad from the airwaves. Which is exactly what happened recently with a Wii U commercial. You may have actually seen…