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The First Fully Downloadable New Mario Game Dominates the Weekly Nintendo Download
With Sunday seeing the debut of New Super Mario Bros. 2, the first Nintendo-published title launched simultaneously at retail and in digital form, a game would have to be some sort of crazy chicken pirate to try and muscle in on this week’s Nintendo Download. So yeah, Mario and two games named Crazy Chicken: Pirate…
By Mike Fahey Published August 16, 2012 -
Nintendo Criticized For Not Doing Enough To Keep ‘Conflict Minerals’ Out Of Their Products
Many of the materials used to make electronic devices are helping fuel ongoing bloody wars in the Congo—and a new report accuses Nintendo of not doing enough to ensure that their game machines aren’t part of that deadly conflict. The Enough Project, a watchdog group that monitors “genocide and crimes against humanity,” published a report…
By Jason Schreier Published August 16, 2012 -
This Kiddy Smack Talk Song Will Make Your Day
UK comedian Adam Buxton (one half of Adam and Joe) recently uploaded this song to YouTube. As Kotaku reader Sam pointed out, it was for a section called Song Wars in which both Adam and Joe have to make a song on a theme and listeners vote on the winner. This is the result. Dubstep…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 16, 2012 -
CultureTotal Recall
Let’s All Read The Very First Issue of Nintendo Power
Designer Eoin Stanley, who we featured a little while ago on Total Recall, doesn’t just archive beautiful old Nintendo logos. He’s also got on ice something more informative; namely, the entirety of the very first issue of Nintendo Power. It’s not his – it appears to have belonged to a young Mr. Jeremy Salsman –…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 16, 2012 -
Geeky Cross-Stitch Is the Perfect Melding of Retro Game Art with Retro Crafting
Cross-stitch is the perfect medium for 8-bit and 16-bit fan art. Have you ever seen one of the patterns crafters use? They look like pixel art! They’re little grids of color, showing which block goes where, in what shades, to add up to a visible whole. And the craft itself is pretty retro, invoking images…
By Kate Cox Published August 14, 2012 -
The Team That Made GoldenEye Was All For Adding That Famous Multiplayer Last Minute—They Just Didn’t Tell Their Bosses
Fellow gamers who came of age in the late 1990s may remember that any time four or more of their friends got together in one place, a round of GoldenEye was almost certain to break out. From 1997 through at least 1999, it seemed to be almost everywhere. Even players (like yours truly) who didn’t…
By Kate Cox Published August 14, 2012 -
The Better Name for ‘Girlfriend Mode’ Is Probably ‘Co-Star Mode’
One of this morning’s Internet dramas involved Randy Pitchford, head of Borderlands development studio Gearbox Software, complaining about the website MCV‘s condemnation of a reference to a “girlfriend mode” for Borderlands 2. The “girlfriend mode” is not an official mode in the game, nor does it appear to be an official name, but it was…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 13, 2012 -
Nintendo’s Portable Lineup Dates Paper Mario, Moves Luigi to 2013
With the release of the new 3DS XL just a week away, Nintendo releases its massive list of 3DS, DSi and eShop game releases, solidifying a November release for the next installment of Paper Mario, giving Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon a 2013 move-in date, and dropping a few surprises for Nintendo’s portable power players. While…
By Mike Fahey Published August 13, 2012 -
Kotaku East
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 RecallYou 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
