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The 3DS Remake Of Dragon Quest VII Looks Pretty Solid So Far

While at Jump Festa 2013 this weekend, I had the chance to check out the 3DS remake of Dragon Quest VII. This is a remake of the seventh Dragon Quest game—which was originally released for the PlayStation back in 2000—seems to fit the console’s format very naturally. The graphical upgrade is very pretty and allows…

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Don’t Send Christmas Cards. Send Awesome Gamer Cards Instead.

OK, so maybe it’ll be too late for Christmas once you actually get your hands on these, but hey, you could always save them for next holiday season. The four cards, made by the talented Game & Graphics (I’ve actually got G&G shirt), don’t just look neat on their own, they also combine to form…

Don’t Look Now, But People Are Talking About Mother/Earthbound Remakes/Re-Releases

Nothing shows Nintendo hates you more than the fact only one of the three games in the Mother series has ever been officially released in North America (while poor PAL territories haven’t seen any of them.). So tread very carefully around this talk from series creator Shigesato Itoi, who has taken to Twitter to say…

Mario’s Evil Doppelganger and New Super Mario Bros 2 DLC Get Naughty on the Nintendo Download This Week

Is Wario really bad? Or is the zig-zagged ‘stached bounder just really, really focused on being a baller? Either way, in Wario Land 2, he’s taking on some fools who were crazy enough to steal from him. The 1999 classic game features all sorts of hilarious transformations amid a brightly colored gameworld full of unrevealed…

Man Dressed As Super Mario Arrested For Groping Woman In Times Square

As a general rule, you probably shouldn’t grope people without their permission. But if you’re going to grope people without their permission, you really shouldn’t do it while wearing a Super Mario costume. Damon Torres, a 34-year-old street performer who solicits money by wearing costumes and posing for pictures in New York City’s Times Square,…

Satoru Iwata recently apologized for long Wii U load times and updates and promised future improvement. Hooray!

The Wii U Isn’t Just A Large Scale DS In Function, It’s One In Spirit As Well

Nintendo’s Wii U is out, and say what you will about the innovative new controller or long loading times, it’s definitely making its mark on the gaming world. In a recent interview on Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun, Shigesato Itoi, creator of the Earthbound series, sat down with the president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, and executive…

What Happens When A SNES Controller Is Eaten By A Wii U Controller

A few months back, I gasped in horror at the sight of a third-party Wii U pad that, from the hideous photoshop promotional image, looked to be a sin against everything Nintendo held dear about controllers. Well, for the past week I’ve been using the thing. It’s called the Controller Pro U. Combining the functionality…

Nintendo’s TVii Finally Launches Tomorrow, but Lacks Some Features

After a monthlong delay, Nintendo’s TVii service for the Wii U arrives in North America tomorrow, but some features touted earlier this year still won’t be on board when the service launches. Notably, it won’t support Netflix or TiVo subscriptions, nor will it allow users to program or access content stored on DVRs. Netflix and…

Thieves Steal 7,000 Wii U Consoles In Daring Warehouse Heist

Look out, Danny Ocean, you’ve got some competition: Last night, in a daring warehouse heist near Seattle’s SeaTac airport, thieves made off with 7,000 Nintendo Wii U consoles. Yes, you read that right: Seven thousand As reported by ABC News, the heist occurred during last night’s storm. The thieves rolled into SeaTac’s Seattle Air Cargo…

The Dorkly Weekly: Pokemon Rusty’s First Big Gym Battle

The saga of Pokemon Rusty continues this week, as our hapless hero fights his first gym battle—about 30 levels too early. I’m not sure which line I am going to steal from this one. “Logic is the rarest candy of them all!” is pretty good, but I’m leaning towards “God Digglett!” For more sick and…

Those Cute Pikmin Were Going to Be Your Weapons

Man there’s nothing like the feeling of commanding a squadron of Pikmin, is there? Over the course of two games, Nintendo’s too-cute strategy franchise has given you armies of multicolored plant creatures to mess around with. The little guys are so helpful and adorable that it tends to feel really bad when some of them…

The Nintendo 64 Christmas Screams, Remixed For 2012

A modern, animated and slightly terrifying take on Nintendo’s most storied of Christmas tales. Not suitable for small children. NINTENDO SIXTY-FOUR [TerminalMontage, via Destructoid]

Don’t Talk Sh*t About Reggie’s Japanese. Just Don’t.

Reggie Fils-Aime is the Nintendo of America honcho. And while he works for a Japanese company, he’s no Japanese language wizard like in-house localizer Bill Trinen. He is, however, a vengeful, vengeful man. They don’t call that man the Regginator for nothing. The wrath of Reggie [DiskSystemChronicles@YouTube] Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet…

When Only 42 People Are Playing Madden on the Wii U, It’s Not a Sports Console

Around halftime of a game on an NFL Sunday is a good time to take the temperature of the Madden NFL crowd. It’s like the water department analysis that shows everyone flushing the john when the Super Bowl goes to the break. In this case, online gamers, many of whom have their consoles running and…

Why Resident Evil 4 Became a Nintendo Exclusive

Resident Evil 4 was released as a GameCube exclusive. And when Capcom ported the game to the PlayStation 2, Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami is quoted as saying he would “cut [his] own head off”. That infamous quote was probably a mistranslation. But there’s a reason why Mikami seemed so antagonistic towards Sony. What’s more,…

You Can Finally Get a Taste of Rayman Legends in This Week’s Nintendo Download

I really freakin’ loved Rayman Origins when it hit consoles last year. And I loved the Rayman Jungle Run mobile game that showed up on iOS and Android a few months ago. Remember that I raved about the music in those games, too? So, you can probably guess that I’m psyched for Rayman Legends on…

Two Similar Franchises Become Even More Similar With Simultaneously Announced “Charge” Weapons

Monster Hunter, the franchise that breathed life into the PSP, and arguably one of the biggest reasons that the 3DS outsells the DS in Japan. In the latest incarnation of the series, Monster Hunter 4 players will be able to wield not just one, but two new weapons with which to combat giant predators: The…

Japanese Textbook Gives Sega The Cold Shoulder

Sega. Founded in 1940, the company has come a long way from its origins as a jukebox and slot machine maintenance firm. Until the boom of the PlayStation console, Sega stood alongside Nintendo as one of the Big Two video game console manufacturers. Long after its retreat from the console market back in 2001, Sega…