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Here’s a Sex Doll Reviewing Game Hardware

Before you go all what is this I don’t even, yes, you are looking at sex doll that reviews video game hardware. From handhelds like the 3DS XL to racing wheels, this pleasure aid reviews them all. The doll’s name appears to be “Doll”, and she has a huge collection of all the latest gaming…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 13, 2012

Kotaku East

The Queen of Pokémon Will Gross You Out. Again.

Like clockwork, every summer in Japan, you can hear cicada, or “semi” (セミ), throughout the country. That buzzing cry is something that people instantly associate with the season. And like clockwork, idol Shoko Nakagawa is back this August with more stomach-churning cicada photos. Yay? See Nakagawa, who is Japan’s queen of Pokémon, collects cicada skins—and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 13, 2012

I Think I Unlocked Nintendo’s Worst Achievement

I earned this commendation yesterday after playing the Nintendo 3DS’ built-in role-playing game, Find Mii. Let’s unpack this a bit, shall we? Nintendo, which isn’t big on Xbox-like Achievements, does have an Achievement-like system built into the 3DS. The 3DS’ achievements primarily reward users for networking their system to others’. You get commendations when your…

By Stephen Totilo Published August 10, 2012

Pesky Manufacturing Issues Could Make the Wii U a Little Late in Europe

Why has Nintendo been so reluctant to announce a release date (let alone price) for the Wii U? Sources close to UK video game website CVG suggest the company is still not sure it can make enough of the consoles in time to ensure a November release in both North America and Europe. It’s hard…

By Mike Fahey Published August 10, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

You Can’t Really Sell a Console Showing Humans Trapped in a Glass Box

I get it. The GameCube was a cube. So you can show stuff happening inside a cube. It’s an advertising brief that writes itself. But for every awesome shot in this old Nintendo commercial – like samurai doing battle, or the world’s only Tie Interceptor living in captivity – there’s something silly. Unnecessary. A little…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

What is This Weirdly Sexual Mario Image I Don’t Even Um OK

The live-action Mario movie is like a giant scab on your knee. It’s gross, and an eyesore, yet for whatever reason many of us just can’t resist picking at it. Most of the time that invokes painful memories, but not today. Today it’ll provoke some different, much stranger emotions. Witness Golden’s Super Mario Bros. The…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 10, 2012

Skyward Sword‘s Golden Nunchuk Comes to North America

Late last year Nintendo made a gold Nunchuk, matching the golden Wii remote for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, available for Club Nintendo members in Japan. The company’s now decided that North American members can pick up one, too. You’ll need a balance of 900 coins in Club Nintendo’s rewards program to claim it.…

By Owen Good Published August 9, 2012

Ain’t Nothing Special About This Week’s Nintendo Download But the Real Bout

Sometimes Nintendo’s weekly downloadable content offerings grant me a broad selection of game-infused paints with which to decorate the canvas of this post. And then there’s weeks like these that don’t even give me enough to keep a painting metaphor going. I could try to get excited about Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, if you’d…

By Mike Fahey Published August 9, 2012

Kotaku East

Over 10 Billion Coins Have Been Collected In New Super Mario Bros 2…

New Super Mario Bros 2, the latest game in the Mario Brothers franchise was released in Japan on July 28th and already players are chugging away, gathering coins, coins, and more coins. One of the side objectives/achievements of the game is to collect a million coins, and it looks like hundreds of people have already…

By Toshi Nakamura Published August 9, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

Nintendo Once Made a Vacuum Cleaner

As you know, Nintendo hasn’t always made video games. Before the dawn of the home entertainment era, the company made everything from love testers to fake LEGO to shooting galleries. Did you know, though, that amidst all that fun stuff, Nintendo also made a vacuum cleaner? This is it. The Nintendo Chiritorie. Released in 1979…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 9, 2012

Nintendo Says They’ve Finalized Wii U Box Art Designs. They Probably Look Like This.

The leak of Wii U box art for a few Ubisoft titles got people wondering if the images seen online were real. Then Ubisoft confirmed the leaked box art was in fact legit. Now Nintendo is chiming in. Here’s what Nintendo sent Kotaku when we asked about the legitimacy of the designs: Nintendo has finalized…

By Evan Narcisse Published August 8, 2012

You Think You Can Handle Samus’ Power Suit? Her Zero Suit? Ha!

Samus Aran is iconic. So are the Metroid heroine’s outfits. Yes, outfits—plural. Unlike many characters, who have a single set of trademark threads, Samus has two: her Power Suit (or its upgrades) and her Zero Suit. Some fans did not like the advent of Zero Suit Samus, saying it not only sexualized a strong female…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 8, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

Thank Your God The SNES Didn’t Actually Look This Hideous

The North American Super Nintendo looked…OK. The Japanese and PAL version looked hot. Oh, how things could have turned out differently, had early concept art become reality. These two early designs for the SNES, drawn at a time when they were still calling the machine the “Nintendo Entertainment System 2”, were hideous. Where the final…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 8, 2012

What a Real Mario Brother Would Look Like

Mario has a giant cap for a reason: so Nintendo didn’t need to animate his hair or eyebrows. That was back in the 1980s, though; if Mario was being designed now – or, heaven’s forbid, being redesigned – there’s every chance he’d look a little more realistic. Maybe not this realitic, though, which would be…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 7, 2012

Kotaku East

Don’t Be Surprised if Tales Characters Appear in Smash Bros.

So Namco Bandai is making the new Smash Bros. games. Know what that means, don’t you? There’s a really good chance Namco characters will pop up in Smash Bros Tales director and producer Yoshito Higuchi tells The Official Nintendo Magazine that he would totally be happy if Tales characters appeared in Smash Bros. Of course…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 7, 2012

Amazon Leaks Wii U Box Art Designs? [Update]

Given the fact these may well be placeholder images, don’t read too much into them, but just in case they’re the real deal, what do you think of the splash? And the colour scheme? The yellow is a bit weird, but the “swoosh” design is something we’ve seen from Nintendo plenty of times before, from…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2012

Gimped Madden on Wii U Doesn’t Speak Well of EA’s Relationship with Nintendo

Madden NFL was literally on stage with the Wii U, the day the console was formally revealed to the world. The unspoken message: No more cartoony, casual American football or minigame bullshit, this is a sports title you can actually take seriously on a Nintendo console. This happened more than a year ago, at E3…

By Owen Good Published August 4, 2012

Nintendo Bristles at Rumors That Seattle’s Baseball Team is For Sale

True or not, a baseball team owned by an aging Japanese magnate, two weeks after trading away a Japanese national hero, is an easy target for rumors that it’s up for sale. Add to that the fact Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo in its ascent to video game dominance, is 84 years old, has never…

By Owen Good Published August 4, 2012

Andrew Lloyd Webber Is Making A Game And It Will Undoubtedly Embarrass You

Being caught belting out the entirety of Phantom of the Opera in your living room can be pretty embarrassing. (In my defense, I was nine and I could, in fact, hit those notes. Mostly.) This fall, you can at least try to recapture some of your dignity (you won’t succeed, but you can try) by…

By Kate Cox Published August 3, 2012

Kotaku East

Square Enix’s New Game with Cars. Transforming Robot Cars.

Always nice to see game makers step outside their comfort zone, and bit by bit, Square Enix has been doing just that. The Tokyo-based game maker, best known for Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, is working on a new car game called Gyrozetter. A new transforming robot car game. It’s Unreal Engine powered, there’s an…

By Brian Ashcraft Published August 3, 2012