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Japan’s Club Nintendo Now Offering Official Polo Shirts

Does Japan’s Club Nintendo get the best stuff? Yes, yes it does. Take this wide selection of Club Nintendo shirts available for 550 Club Nintendo points. There are different monograms available, like a Fire Flower or a Triforce. You can select your size and even the color of the polo shirt. There are eight different…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 3, 2012

If Nintendo Made Children’s Books…

…they wouldn’t just be awesome, they’d be this awesome. They’re the work of artist Caldwell Tanner, and it’s making me incredibly upset that these aren’t real books that can be bought and read to children who will grow up thinking the wrong story is so damn right Video Game Childrens Books [LOLDWELL, via Super Punch]

By Luke Plunkett Published April 3, 2012

We’re Not Buying New Fast-Spreading Wii U Launch Date Rumor [UPDATE]

You might have read rumors swirling around the Internet today that suggest the Wii U will be out on November 18. Multiple gaming websites, such as GameSpot and Eurogamer, have reported on the rumor, which originated at the website Wii U Daily. Wii U Daily says it obtained an e-mail from a Japanese retailer that…

By Jason Schreier Published April 2, 2012

Google Announces Google Maps — for the Nintendo Entertainment System [Update]

The undisputed Internet-age leader in April Fool’s hoaxes gets a one-day head start on its latest gag—a brilliant announcement video for “Google Maps 8-Bit,” a port of the popular, well, map service to the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon. The best part? It’s an homage to Dragon Quest Not only is the video a first rate production—including…

By Owen Good Published March 31, 2012

The Most Compelling Image I Could Find to Represent This Week’s Nintendo Download

REMIX! This week sees the release of only two new games across Nintendo’s three platforms, signaling a time of change for the Weekly Nintendo download. Oh don’t worry, it’s not going away or anything. It’s just expanding to include whatever new videos the 3DS is getting in any given week, along with demos released for…

By Mike Fahey Published March 29, 2012

Pedophile Caught Thanks to Girl’s Nintendo Camera

A girl in the United Kingdom put away a man who molested her thanks to the camera on her Nintendo DSi, using it to surreptiously capture his assault and force a confession. John Fisher, 46, did admit to the abuse after his accuser (unnamed) snapped a picture of his hand groping her. Fisher’s going to…

By Owen Good Published March 28, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

Nintendo’s Shameless 1970’s Advertising

Before Nintendo made home console titles and hardware, the company made, among other things, arcade games. Behold, then, the might and majesty of Nintendo’s advertising, circa the late 1970s. In which the company releases clones of other people’s games (in this case Space Invaders), and is damn proud of it to boot! Flyers out of…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2012

The Nintendo 3DS Is Now One Year Old. And It Doesn’t Suck.

Happy birthday, 3DS! It’s been a rollercoaster of a year for Nintendo’s glasses-free 3D gaming handheld, which was first released on March 27, 2011. In the 366 days since it first hit America’s grubby hands, the 3DS has been the subject of both admiration and derision, both high highs and low lows. And although at…

By Jason Schreier Published March 27, 2012

Kotaku East

Why It Took Me A Year To Buy a 3DS

When the 3DS was announced in March 2010, I knew it was only a matter of time before I bought one. It wasn’t the wonder of 3D or even the games Nintendo was sure to release that gave me this moment of clairvoyance. It was the simple fact that eventually, I buy every system. The…

By Richard Eisenbeis Published March 27, 2012

Nearly-Nude Men are Selling Nintendo 3DS Games

If our gripping gameplay footage of the title from last year’s Gamescom wasn’t enough, here’s an advertisement for the upcoming Farming Simulator 2012 for the Nintendo 3DS. Not that I looked that closely at the pic, but it does creep me out a little that his red underpants seem to be Photoshopped on. UPDATE –…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012

Wii U “On Par” With 360, PS3 (So Far) Says Darksiders Developer

While Nintendo has yet to release the full specs for its upcoming Wii U, you can guess by its launch lineup that its capabilities are probably in line with the Xbox 360 and PS3, something Vigil Games are now backing up. “So far the [Wii U] hardware’s been on par with what we have with…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012

CultureTotal Recall

Donkey Kong was NOT ON SEGA, OK?

Part of me wishes they still made video game commercials like this. Less sanitised cinematics, more FUCK YOU COMPETING COMPANY. It’s childish and brash, sure, but also a lot more fun.

By Luke Plunkett Published March 27, 2012

50 Things About Assassin’s Creed III That You Should Know

You can assassinate a bear in Assassin’s Creed III. You can run around the battle of Bunker Hill, flanking the British to surprise them in their camp. You can go to the frontier and relax in a tree. You can help found a nation. You will be able to do so many excellent things in…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 26, 2012

This Person Went Kid Icarus Scratching Insane

Kid Icarus: Uprising is a stylus controlled 3DS game. Unless you are press down as hard as you possibly can while using the stylus, your 3DS should be fine! Nintendo builds its products to be tough; it builds them to last. Some players, however, get way into their stylus play. Check out this screen guard…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 26, 2012

GameStop Gives the GameCube the Sweetest Rejection Note Ever

The GameCube is “officially collectible,” says GameStop, in a notice that, come April 2, it will no longer accept trade-ins on any GameCube consoles, games or accessories. It’s at the bottom of the retailer’s trade-in page. That doesn’t mean your local store will stop selling its GameCube consoles, games or accessories, of course. GameStop will…

By Owen Good Published March 25, 2012

Unchained Blades Coming to 3DS—as a Downloadable Title?

XSEED yesterday teased a new game release, which turns out to be Unchained Blades, the western title for the dungeon crawler UnchainBlades ReXX. Nintendo Power, in its latest edition, also reports that this game will be a digital download, one of the first full-size titles to be made available that way on the 3DS. We’ve…

By Owen Good Published March 25, 2012

3DS Epic Mickey Confirmed by Nintendo Power‘s Cover

Still unofficially announced, Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion is a cover subject of the April edition of Nintendo Power, which arrived in some readers’ mailboxes today. The article lists Dreamrift, developer of Monster Tale as the studio behind the 3DS Epic Mickey. It will arrive sometime in the fall, probably concurrent with Epic Mickey:…

By Owen Good Published March 24, 2012

Kid Icarus Uprising‘s Awesome Menus Require 11 Minutes of Your Attention. Trust Me.

Kid Icarus: Uprising as a game? Very good. Kid Icarus: Uprising as a thing to put on a stand? Eh… Kid Icarus: Uprising as a game with amazing menus? Wonderful menus and silly menus and clever menus? Amazing. Enjoy the video.

By Stephen Totilo Published March 23, 2012

Reviews

Kid Icarus: Uprising: The Kotaku Review

How much to we value weirdness? How much weight do we place on eccentricity? There are so many video games that are essentially retreads of the same old tired space; it can feel so nice to see a game that, even while following the same basic formulas as its brethren, does so with enthusiastic weirdness.…

By Kirk Hamilton Published March 23, 2012

They’re Making an Adventure Time Game for Nintendo 3DS? Hooray!

Pendleton Ward, creator of Adventure Time, tweeted earlier tonight that his computer crashed while he was making an animated GIF to announce an Adventure Time 3DS game. Wait, what? From his Twitter: “Dang.. Compy crashed while I was drawin a gif of this 3DS wavin it’s arms around announcin the Adventure Time 3DS game.” This…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2012