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The Weekly Download is Some of the Best News Nintendo’s Released All Week

LEGO Batman! Prince of Persia! The Last Blade! Curling! If Nintendo had announced this week’s downloadable titles during their E3 2012 press conferences, maybe we wouldn’t all be trudging around like sad puppies today. I mean check out that lineup! You’ve got the original platforming action hero, an SNK arcade classic, a sport that Canadians…

By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2012

Lego City Undercover Is Basically Grand Theft Auto With Cops. And Legos.

You can run around a very blocky open world in Lego City Undercover, an upcoming Wii U game with some cool new features. Don’t expect any blood or prostitutes here, but City Undercover really does feel a lot like a brickified Grand Theft Auto: you walk and drive around an open city, following missions and…

By Jason Schreier Published June 7, 2012

Let Gaming’s Greatest Creator Totally Sike You Out

During Nintendo’s E3 press conference in Los Angeles, Shigeru Miyamoto appeared on stage to act like a goofball, introduce Wii U launch title Pikmin 3, and to totally psyched everyone out.

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2012

Don’t Freak Out, But Nintendo Will be Reading (and Censoring, and Delaying) Your Wii U Comments

One of the more pleasant surprises from Nintendo’s E3 showings this week has been the fact that the Wii U will have a proper online community. If you think that means you’ll be able to write “TITS” and draw rude things all over the place, though, you’re wrong. You’re also probably 12, and should be…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2012

Luigi’s Mansion’s 3DS Trailer Scares…OK, Nobody

I still can’t believe they’re making another Luigi’s Mansion game. I mean, I see this trailer, and some part of me acknowledges it, but other parts just laugh and say “right, Luke, and next thing you know they’ll make another Pikmin game…”

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2012

Paper Mario: Sticker Star, or as we Call it, Take My Damn Money

Nintendo held four conferences this week. At least two of them should have been just about this game

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2012

Fire Emblem: Awakening Will be Coming to American 3DS Systems

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime just confimed with Kotaku that Fire Emblem: Awakening for the 3DS, already out in Japan, will be getting a US release. Good times. WHY DID NINTENDO GO FOUR E3 PRESS CONFERENCES WITHOUT SAYING THIS EARLIER?

By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2012

Um, Animal Crossing? Where Are You?

Hoping to play the upcoming 3DS Animal Crossing in English this year? Well…The game is getting a release in Japan later this fall, but many AC fans don’t understand Japanese. Today in Los Angeles, Nintendo ran through a list of its upcoming 3DS titles for later this year. Absent was Animal Crossing That doesn’t mean…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 6, 2012

Luigi’s Mansion on 3DS is Downloadable

Once again following in the footsteps of his brother, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon will join New Super Mario Bros. 2 and be available as a fully-downloadable 3DS game when it’s released.

By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2012

Here’s GameStop’s New Sega Saturn (Well, Wii U) Games List

After the big unveils earlier in the week during Nintendo’s E3 press conference, retailer GameStop now apparently has listings for a range of Wii U content. Awesomely, they’re tucked away not under “Wii U”, but under “Sega Saturn”. So if you want to be a smartass tomorrow, go into GameStop and ask to preorder a…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2012

Nintendo’s President Gives Minimum Wii U Price [CORRECTION: Very Old]

Perhaps the biggest surprise of this year’s E3 was the lack of concrete information from Nintendo regarding the Wii U’s release date and price. Still, it looks like we’ve got something out of the week, as Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told Bloomberg that the console will “likely be priced at more than 20,000 yen”.…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 6, 2012

Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime Joins The Ranks of the Undead

At yesterday’s Nintendo press conference, president of Nintendo America Reggie Fils-Aime revealed himself to be a rotting, stinking monstrosity. And then, he used the Wii’s augmented reality to make himself look like a zombie! [Rimshot] Above, you can see Reggie demonstrating the Wii U’s AR abilities tied to the Ubisoft Wii U exclusive ZombiU. (Which,…

By Kirk Hamilton Published June 6, 2012

Pikmin 3 Plays Well, But I’m Not Sure Which Controller is Best For It

I finally played a new Pikmin game yesterday, which I’ve been waiting to do for eight years. The game looks great, but the tiny sliver I played got me wondering what the best way to play the game will be. Pikmin 3, like the GameCube Pikmin games before it, is about playing as a tiny…

By Stephen Totilo Published June 6, 2012

Why the Wii U Literally Can’t Stand Up

Unlike a Wii, an Xbox 360 or a PlayStation 3, the Wii U console can’t stand up. You can’t prop the system up vertically without it falling over. Horizontal is the only option. The new Nintendo console must lie on its belly like a Nintendo Entertainment System or a really lazy house cat Why? “I…

By Stephen Totilo Published June 6, 2012

Experience the Magic of Childbirth with Wii Birth U

At launch, there are two fake games you are going to want to pick up: Watch Dogs on Wii U and Wii Birth U. Watch as dad experiences the magic of childbirth, all thanks to the Wii U and clever editing. E3 2012 – Nintendo Wii Birth U [YouTube Thanks, MtlAngelus!]

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 6, 2012

The New 3DS Castlevania Brings Back Metroidvania In Lovely 3D

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Mirror of Fate is likely to be a better game for being on Nintendo’s 3DS. It is, for the most part, a game that gets two important things right. It’s mostly a side-scroller, which means it’s the rare 3DS game to use the system’s glasses-free 3D to add visual depth through…

By Stephen Totilo Published June 6, 2012

Nintendo Proves There’s Nothing as Bananas as Holding…Bananas

Today, Nintendo created an internet meme. No, scratch that. Nintendo created several. My favorite? Nintendo president Satoru Iwata…holding bananas. At Nintendo’s press conference, a prerecorded clip showed the company boss holding…bananas in an effort to drop Donkey Kong hints. The internet, of course, was delighted, and happily produced meme photos and GIFs to appeal to…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 6, 2012

It’s Time for Pictures of People Looking Like Idiots Playing the Wii U

Lifestyle photography. The art of making models look like they’re actually using a product, and are either enjoying it or at least doing it properly. Some call it a lost art. I call it one impossible to master. But bless companies for trying, because were it not for that, then we wouldn’t have comic relief…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012

ZombiU Sprinkles Dead Island With A Liberal Dose of Dark Souls. In Other Words, It’s Rad

Well, color me surprised. When Ubisoft debuted ZombiU as a Wii U-exclusive (Update: maybe not exclusive forever) zombie game at their press conference yesterday, I wasn’t sold. The trailer was exceptionally slick, of course, but who can even tell when it comes to zombie games anymore, you know? As it turns out, ZombiU doesn’t just…

By Kirk Hamilton Published June 5, 2012

We’re Live at Nintendo’s Wii U Hardware Conference

Nintendo is talking about Wii U and we are here to listen. Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo and I are sitting in the audience at Nintendo’s Hardware Showcase, where they’re about to announce… well, we don’t really know. Nintendo’s Katsuya Eguchi will be here, and that’s about everything we’ve heard so far. Keep refreshing this post…

By Jason Schreier Published June 5, 2012