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Mario Kart 7: The Kotaku Review

There’s a spot on the couch where Mario Kart 7 sits, a well-worn seat where the pillows and cushions have been arranged just so. Over the years, a multitude of previous Mario Kart games have all occupied that spot, and so Mario Kart 7 knows just how to hold itself, just how to sit, just…

By Kirk Hamilton Published December 6, 2011

Fortune Street‘s Review Scores Are All Over the Board

Fans have been clamoring for the popular Japanese financial board game series Itadaki Street to make it to North America since the original was released back in 1991. Fortune Street for the Wii scratches that itch bloody. Featuring charming characters from the Mario and Dragon Quest series, Fortune Street seems like the perfect family party…

By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2011

The Resurgence of My Nintendo 3DS, According to the Only Stats that Matter

Nintendo would like you to think that the 3DS, once ballyhooed and then dismissed for a dud, is making a comeback. They’ll show you the numbers. Their numbers don’t matter. Mine do. And my 3DS numbers—the numbers that show how much time I used Nintendo’s newest handheld day-by-day, month-by-month, throughout 2011 since the system launched—tell…

By Stephen Totilo Published December 6, 2011

Nintendo’s Latest Cheerfully Teaches You Insider Trading

In real life, insider trading is as much a crime as jumping on someone’s head and flattening them to death. But in the Super Mario-themed Wii virtual board game Fortune Street, insider trading is both a valid tactic and a recommended strategy. The key to making it sound like so much fun is the music.…

By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011

Should You Buy Fortune Street? No.

If they’ve been making versions of the Nintendo Wii’s new board game for 20 years, if Nintendo themselves are publishing it—choosing to sell this to us this holiday season instead of other Japanese games still awaiting translation—then surely it must be good and worth buying? Stephen Totilo, who got really close to giving this eye-sore…

By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2011

Devs Explain How Animal Crossing 3DS Will Be the Best Animal Crossing Yet

Producer Katsuya Eguchi and a trio of developers from the Animal Crossing 3DS team spend ten minutes discussing how the latest iteration of the animal life sim will set itself apart from the rest. They had me at skirts and pants. While I love me some Animal Crossing, the game hasn’t changed very much since…

By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2011

On Second Thought, Club Nintendo’s Platinum Gift Doesn’t Look That Bad

Announced back in July, the pin set Club Nintendo is giving free to its platinum members this year was met with the usual round of griping and complaining. One of our readers just received his and, you know, it’s actually a pretty decent gift. For starters, the display box is pretty big, as reader Jon…

By Owen Good Published December 3, 2011

A Video Tour of the 16 New Tracks in Mario Kart 7

This week, we’ve taken a look at Mario Kart 7‘s online multiplayer and community pages, so for my last launch-week video, I wanted to take a quick tour through the 16 new tracks that Nintendo has created for the game. They run the gamut from simple racetracks to elaborate, multi-level roller-coasters, and a couple already…

By Kirk Hamilton Published December 2, 2011

Celebrate Xenoblade Chronicles‘ Impending North American Release With a Trailer

Are you ready to help Shulk and friends combat the mechanical Mechon using the power of the Monado blade? Perhaps this official trailer will help you prepare for the North American release of Xenoblade Chronicles this April. Or maybe the fact that you’ve already imported it (or worse) will help you prepare. Either way it’s…

By Mike Fahey Published December 2, 2011

Nintendo Changes its Tune, For Once

I have asked Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime about a video game called Mother 3 so many times that, in recent years, he would bring it up before I did. He’d laugh about the question. If we were doing an interview and there were other people in the room, he’d jokingly predict to them…

By Stephen Totilo Published December 2, 2011

Xenoblade Chronicles Coming to North America as a GameStop Exclusive Update

Despite heavy fan demand for Monolith Soft’s role-playing masterpiece, Nintendo of America still hasn’t revealed plans to bring Xenoblade Chronicles to North America. Who will step in and save U.S. role-players from missing out on what is arguable one of the best RPGs of this console generation? Would you believe GameStop? Update: Now available for…

By Mike Fahey Published December 2, 2011

It Might Soon be Cool to Jailbreak Your Consoles

It’s totally cool to “jailbreak” an iPhone to get around its DRM. Apple may not like that, but the courts say otherwise, so it has to abide. Video game consoles? Less cool. But that could soon change. The reason the iPhone is exempt is because a few years back the Electronic Frontier Foundation successfully lobbied…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 2, 2011

Man Mods Etch-A-Sketch to Work With Nintendo Controller

Have you ever wanted to control an Etch-A-Sketch with a Nintendo controller? Probably not, but it’s pretty awesome. Watching this video, I tried to imagine all the uses this device had, but most of them were drawing boxes. I’m sure somebody will come up with something better then that.

By Chris Carolan Published December 1, 2011

This Week’s Nintendo Download is So…Awww, Kitty!

Another week, another handful of games you may or may not give a damn about coming to Nintendo’s download ready devices, including Xmas Puzzle, a WiiWare game about…oh my god it’s so fluffy! Awww, look at him, all curled up in the holly. Are you dreaming of sugarplums, my little tiger-striped friend? I just want…

By Mike Fahey Published December 1, 2011

Can You Trust FedEX with Your Nerdy Shipments?

Do not trust FedEx with your deliveries. I had shipped out a NES coffee table to someone who bought one, and upon receiving it, they ignored the “This side up” stickers and delivered it on it’s side. They also had stacked a large and very heavy box on top of it, tweaking the table inside.…

Matt Borgelt Published December 1, 2011

This is the Worst Thing Nintendo Has Ever Done. Ever.

Nintendo has done some awesome things over the years, but it’s done some awful things too. But this, this is the worst. Nintendo of America has spent what’s probably a ton of money to get serious airtime in the video clip for a novelty Christmas single. A Justin Bieber Christmas single. To minimise civilian casualties,…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 1, 2011

Check Out Mario Kart 7‘s Cool Multiplayer Community Options

Yesterday, I took a look at Mario Kart 7‘s online multiplayer, which is functional and easier to use than any past Kart game. Today, I wanted to show another cool feature of the game’s multiplayer—the ability to make multiplayer communities. Each player can make up to eight separate communities, which can be customized a fair…

By Kirk Hamilton Published November 30, 2011

Three Guys, 18 Million Blocks, One Unbelievable Minecraft Video

It’s just two minutes and twenty-two seconds of black and white video. In it we see a play-through of classic 80s Game Boy title Super Mario Land. Pretty bland stuff, until you hear how it was created. The YouTube Minecraft Super Mario Land in Stop Motion video is the culmination of more than 500 hours…

By Brian Crecente Published November 30, 2011

This Game Demo Will Self-Destruct

Japanese gamers can soon download the Monster Hunter 3G demo to their Nintendo 3DS handhelds. Demos aren’t a new thing, and they give players a taste of the final product. Monster Hunter 3G does that, too. The taste, however, doesn’t last forever. The demo quest takes around twenty minutes to complete. According to the Capcom’s…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011

Call the Cops, Nintendo’s Reggie Drives Like a Maniac

Reggie Fils-Aime, everybody’s favorite pizza man turned game exec, is a terror on the road. The Nintendo of America president thinks it’s okay to drive like Mario Kart in real life. You know, burning rubber and throwing heat-seeking turtle shells. “I played the little game on the Mario Kart fan page and it said that…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 30, 2011