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All of Japan’s Big Wii U Launch Details, Right Here

Tonight, for the first time, Nintendo will be divulging concrete information on its upcoming Wii U console for the Japanese market. Release dates, prices, specs, the works. While much of it will be of direct relevance only to the Japanese market, we should be able to divulge hints as to Western availability and pricing from…

The Wii U’s Hardcore Controller Gets a Price and a Date

Today, Nintendo also dated and priced the Wii U Pro Controller. It will be available at launch in Japan on December 8. It’s priced at ¥5040. The Wii U Pro Controller was first shown earlier this summer. It sill looks like a pad from one of Nintendo’s competitors. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though!…

New Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Headed to the 3DS

According to Japan’s Corocoro magazine, the latest Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Magna Gate and The Maze of Infinity will be out on the 3DS this winter in Japan. The Corocoro article calls the game “totally new” and “totally different” from Pokémon games up to now. Have a look at the game—and its 3D…

Why The Wii U Will Probably Cost ¥25,000

We won’t know the exact details of the Japanese Wii U launch until 4pm Tokyo time. That’s soon, but to pass the time until then, let’s speculate a little about the console’s price. While we could just guess wildly, plucking numbers out of thin air, let’s instead look at that mightiest of historical tools: precedence.…

You Can Watch Nintendo Announce The Wii U’s Release Date And Price Live Tomorrow Morning

Nintendo’s releasing a new console soon, in case you haven’t heard. And Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is having lots of important meetings with cartoon characters in order to commemorate the occasion. Tomorrow at 10am Eastern, Nintendo is holding an event in New York City to announce some big news about the console—including, presumably,…

Tomorrow, Nintendo is giving an online presentation about the Japanese Wii U release date and price.

Destroying Video Games and Controllers Can Look Mesmerizing

Gaming is great fun. But sometimes it can totally piss you off. And you just want to Hulk Smash—but you don’t. This animated gif is from Japanese anime Shinryaku! Ika Musume (aka Squid Girl), and it’s utterly fantastic. You can see what it looks like when a Super Nintendo cartridge is crushed and when a…

See A Bunch Of New Pokémon Black And White 2 Features In These Commercials

Here are a set of new commercials for Pokémon Black And White 2, the latest games in Nintendo’s popular monster-catching series. Seems like Nintendo is really playing up the new: understandable, considering they have the same names as the last two games, and considering they’re on a system that has been obsolete for almost two…

Farewell to the Wii, A Great Gaming System After All

I will not speak ill of the Nintendo Wii, even though others have done so for years. My Wii was a very good gaming console. A weird one, yes. It somehow managed to be popular while remaining niche. Its games were fun, but, often a bit ugly. Its best games came out in the middle…

The Greatest Pokémon Mystery: Where Is Ash’s Father?

If you’ve ever seen the Pocket Monsters anime series, you’ll wonder where the heck Ash’s father is. His mom, Delia Ketchum, pops up in the series. But dear old Dad? He’s nowhere to be seen. What’s more, from what I can remember, Ash’s father hasn’t really been referenced in the anime, save for a mention…

The Creator of Ikaruga Fires Out a New Game

As far as shooters go, they don’t get much more iconic than Ikaruga. The game’s director, Hiroshi Iuchi, is about to release a brand new shooter. It’s called Kokuga, and it’s for the 3DS. Have a look. Ikaruga Designer’s Nintendo 3DS Shoot-em-up Out This Month; Here’s A Trailer [Siliconera] Kotaku East is your slice of…

Go Ahead, Roll This 3DS Stylus All Over Your Face!

It’s not just a 3DS stylus. It’s a beauty roller. You can use it to play 3DS games and massage your mug, because nothing says video games like rolling things on your face. This face roller uses germanium, which apparently has semi-conductive properties and is known for its healing abilities. So, supposedly, if you use…

Nintendo Let Literally Anyone (With Money) Make Famicom Games

In 1984, Nintendo released Family BASIC, a programming suite for its Famicom (NES) console. Including a swish keyboard and data recording unit, it was designed to allow consumers to, with a little teaching, program their own basic games for the system. Including a few stock titles as templates, it was sadly never released outside Japan.…

What If The Internet Could Fit Inside a Game Boy?

Then it would look like this, and the world would be a much cooler place. gameboy-soft-fake [3liter, via Tiny Cartridge]

Metroid Returns (Sorta) in The Wii U’s Nintendo Land

There are still no full-fledged Metroid games on the horizon, but Nintendo’s top sci-fi series will at least be featured in one the main attractions of Wii U launch game Nintendo Land. The newest issue of Game Informer reveals that the collection of HD Nintendo-themed mini-games will include Metroid Blast, a fleshed out version of…

I Just Bought My First Wii Game in More Than a Year. Then Tragedy Struck.

I didn’t play The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. To a role-playing game player like myself, that seems particularly wrong, but I just didn’t feel like digging out all my Wii stuff and going through the motions. My Wii has been hooked up for years now, even managing to survive the theft of nearly everything…

Can You Identify All Of These Kirbys?

Only the biggest Nintendo fan could name all the Kirbys featured on the back cover of a special booklet that’s packed in with copies of Nintendo’s new Kirby’s Dream Collection for the Wii. The Collection comes out next week, but you can take the quiz now. Here are all the Kirbys: Try to name the…

This Game Looks Nothing Like Pokémon

Nope. Nothing like it at all. It’s totally different. No way could anyone call Little Masters a Pokémon rip-off. Just look at it. See? Totally different. Recently released on iOS, Little Masters is a game in which you caught monsters, train them, and have them fight. Know why they call the game “Little Masters”? Because…

Miyamoto’s Worst Game Idea Ever. Or Maybe The Best. Not Sure.

In 1989, Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto sat down with Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii for an interview. The two spoke about practically everything, from game design to their latest titles (like Link to the Past) to the future, but what I found most interesting was the pair’s ideas on making games about teaching. Both had…

Rapper Jean Grae’s great new song Kill Screen riffs off Donkey Kong and Steve Wiebe. Take a listen over at MTV.