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Weird Nintendo Swag Lets You Make Your Own Mario Moustache

Not that Nintendo needs to really sell the Wii U right now, since the first shipment is guaranteed to sell out on name alone, but they’re selling it anyway. Part of that sell is this random piece of retailer swag that…lets you…make your own Mario moustache? Shaped like a Wii U, you put the goop…

You Might Be Able To Buy Some Wii U Games Early

Days before I bought a launch-day GameCube, I bought a GameCube game. Super Monkeyball, if you’re curious. It’s not unusual to be able to buy new games for a new console before you can buy the console itself. The evidence is mounting that you’ll be able to do so next month with some Wii U…

Yes, You Will Have To Use Origin To Play EA Games On The Wii U

Since 2011, all of EA’s games released on PC have been tied to Origin. PC gamers who wanted to play Battlefield 3 or Mass Effect 3 logged in through the orange-hued Steam competitor, and now it seems that Wii U owners will do the same. As IGN reports, recent changes to the EA privacy policy…

You’ll Never Believe What Game Character This Volcano Erupted

When Kyoto resident Clifford Brown was in Kagoshima on vacation this spring, he noticed something familiar in the swirl of volcanic ash in the sky. He noticed Yoshi. On his Flickr page, Brown recently uploaded the photo and titled it, “Yoshi Volcano”, adding that it depicts a “Yoshi shaped eruption from Sakurajima”. Sakurajima or “Sakura…

Let’s Remember A More Colorful Nintendo

Graphic artist Jillain Kristen has a good perspective on Nintendo, exchanging the gray-scaled consoles with her colorful nostalgia of playing with them as a kid. The result is this series of prints, all delightfully colorful. She explains the inspiration to me in an email: I wanted to design out the consoles in really child-like and…

At Least One Person Is Already Waiting In Line For The Wii U

Isaiah-Triforce Johnson, who is actually named Isaiah-Triforce Johnson (I’ve seen his passport!), has made a name for himself as the first person to buy just about every piece of Nintendo hardware in recent history. He was the first to buy the Wii and the first to buy the 3DS. Now he wants to be first…

The Wii U’s First TV Commercial is Awful

Nintendo has its work cut out for it with the Wii U once the initial, and inevitable first wave of early adopters dies off. They say lightning never strikes twice, and given the original Wii’s success with the mainstream was white hot lightning, you’d be forgiven for thinking the company couldn’t possibly pull it off…

Modders Bring PlayStation’s All-Stars to Super Smash Bros. Brawl

From the moment the concept leaked around Thanksgiving last year, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has been slapped with labels like “PlayStation Smash Bros.” So, OK, fine, here you go. A bona fide Sony Smash Bros., courtesy of four Super Smash Bros. Brawl modders. The modders—ExorcistRain, Frusciante, KTH and Kingskull95—have delivered a Smash Bros. with all…

This Nintendo Bootlegger’s Middle Name Is Success. Really.

Justin Success Brooks—yes, success is his middle name—made about £600,000 selling cartridges and discs loaded with pirated Nintendo games from 2009 to 2011. He’s now headed for the slammer, or whatever they call it in the U.K., following a guilty plea last week. From the report, it sounds as though Brooks, 41, was selling his…

The 3DS’ Biggest Hits Can Be Pulled Straight from the Interwebs in This Week’s Nintendo Download

In the continuing saga of Nintendo getting a clue about how gamers want to get their experiences, the House of Mario is making Super Mario 3D Land, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 7 and Starfox 64 3D available from their eShop storefront. These downloadable versions will cost $39.99 each, just like…

3DS title Inazuma Eleven 1・2・3!! was pushed back in Japan to Nov. 29 from Nov. 15.

Yup, There’s Now Some Zelda and Mario in Your Scribblenauts

As your best guesses and Photoshop efforts had already worked out, the upcoming Scribblenauts Unlimited will feature cameos from some of Nintendo’s biggest stars, including Mario, Link, Zelda and Luigi. Weirdly, these characters will only be available in the Wii U version of the game, not the 3DS edition. And what’s more, you won’t be…

Report: Chinese Kids Were Used to Manufacture the Wii U [Update]

Excited for the upcoming November release of the Wii U? New reports out of China might curb that enthusiasm. These reports claim that some underage teens were used to assemble the Nintendo Wii U consoles. According to Chinese site Sina, Foxconn, the company hired by Nintendo to assemble the Wii U, confirms that it’s had…

The PhotoShop Horror of a Wii U Controller That Looks Like a SNES Pad

It would be great if Nintendo released one of their Wii U Pro pads in a SNES finish. Preferably, a Japan/PAL colour scheme. Until they do, though, it’s up to third party manufacturers to cater to that market. Like this…hideous…thing. It’s popped up on EB Games’ Australian portal without so much as a manufacturer listing,…

Can You Use the Wii U Gamepad on the Toilet?

In the latest Iwata Asks feature on Nintendo’s website, some of the key men involved in the design of the upcoming console’s quirky controller get talking about one of the most important elements of the pad: its range. Being a wireless controller, and one that you can use for more than just playing games on…

When Pokémon Walked the Earth, Like Dinosaurs

Growing up, I loved reading dinosaur books—you know, those books with colorful dinosaur illustrations that rattled off each creature’s vital statistics. Over on DeviantArt, artist RJ Palmer has done something similar, but with Pocket Monsters. And goodness, the results are spectacular. There have been lots of “realistic” Pocket Monster illustrations, but the 22 year-old art…

Wii Drops Price To $130

In advance of the Wii U’s November 18 launch, Nintendo is cutting the price of the current Wii console to $129.99. The console, which will be black, will be sold in a bundle with Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort (on one disc, interestingly enough), a Wii Remote Plus and Nunchuk. The bundle will start…

Bravely Default‘s Inevitable Sequel Will *Probably* Be on the 3DS

On Twitter, a Japanese gamer said she or he purchased a 3DS just to play Square Enix’s latest role-playing game Bravely Default—then asked the game’s official Twitter, if there were a sequel, would it also be a 3DS title? Here’s the reply: “Depending on the circumstances, I don’t think it would change. Because I think…

Youkai Watch, announced last year by Level-5, is headed to the Nintendo 3DS.

The Amazing Spider-Man Arrives on Wii U Next Spring, with All DLC Included

At New York Comic-Con, Beenox—the studio behind The Amazing Spider-Man video game adaptation, said the title would be coming to the Wii U in spring 2013. In addition to new Wii U GamePad functions, the game will sell with all of the downloadable content that has been released so far for the PlayStation 3 and…