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The 3DS Might Be Making Japan Sick

While everyone was having a great time at Nintendo’s big 3DS showcase in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago, some people weren’t having the greatest time afterwards, with a Japanese magazine reporting widespread cases of discomfort after use. Weekly tabloid magazine Friday claims that, having interviewed a range of people during and after the event,…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2011

The Super Smash Bros. Mod That Looks Backward

Fans of Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. series of fighting games love to tinker, hacking new characters, stages and moves into the game. A soon-to-be-released demo for a Super Smash Bros. Brawl mod named “Project M” takes a different approach. The mod’s creators want to tweak Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii and model it…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 17, 2011

The Nintendo Download: Punching Animals And Toasting Sandwiches

This week’s Nintendo Download features a game called Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time, and a DSiWare game that lets you punch anthropomorphic animals in the face. What more could you people possibly want? It gets better! In Stickmen Studios’ Doc Clock for WiiWare, the titular doctor travels through time, building inventions out of…

By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2011

I Choose You, Mechanical Killing Machine Pikachu!

Would Pokémon even need trainers if they could be summoned in gigantic mechanical battle suits? By Alexey “Karanak” Pyatov”

By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2011

Vintage Gaming Collection Washed Away In Aussie Floods

Over the past week, large areas of Australia’s eastern seaboard have been ravaged by floods. Billions of dollars worth of damage has been done, and sitting quietly amidst that tally is this man’s retro gaming hardware collection. Aussie collector NFG’s house in Queensland was among those affected, flood waters getting into his home and destroying…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2011

3DS Games Go Black For Grown Ups

Nintendo kicked off a trend last year whereby “adult” games for the Wii — at least in Japan —- had not a white banner on the box, but a black one. Well, that goes for the new 3DS now, too. While it doesn’t change the fact the 3DS’ Japanese box art template is disappointingly plain,…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2011

A Most Appropriate Cross Promotion

Fresh produce purchased this morning by Kotaku reader Stephane L. Not redeemable for store credit at GameStop.

By Owen Good Published January 16, 2011

Belgian Postage Stamps Honor — New Super Mario Bros. Wii?

bpost, the postal service of Belgium, will put stamps featuring New Super Mario Bros. Wii on sale beginning Monday. Looks like it offers Mario with three different powerups, plus Yoshi. A sheet is €4,99. [via Polygonal Lawn, thanks Philip]

By Owen Good Published January 15, 2011

Single Green Koopa, Loves Long Drives On The Beach

King Koopa is either way ahead or dead last in this awesome Mario Kart piece brought to life by Aled Lewis. “The world through the eyes of a gamer.” Koopa Beach by Aled Lewis / fatheed (Flickr) (Behance) (Twitter) Via: gamefreaksnz Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over to Justin…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 14, 2011

Lovers’ Quarrel Ends With A Face Full Of Wii

An Oregon couple discovered an unexpected benefit of being a Wii gamer earlier this week: When your drunken girlfriend hurls the console in your face, it does less damage than an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. According to her boyfriend, 31-year-old Rebecca Varina Sloskowski was intoxicated on the evening of January 10, so he left…

By Mike Fahey Published January 14, 2011

What If Pokémon Featured Real Animals And Tons Of Profanity

The world of Pokémon is bright, colorful, and filled with joy and wonder, but what if we replaced those colorful pocket monsters with real animals, and the kind-spirited characters with foul-mouthed Brits? I think it would go something like this. Much of the ground covered by this short has been covered before. It is ridiculous…

By Mike Fahey Published January 14, 2011

Hollywood Blockbuster King Ready To Sign Death Note

The man responsible for Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout is going to bring his Hollywood sensibilities to one of Japan’s most popular and darkest manga. Death Note follows the story of Kira, who acquires a “death note”. Writing someone’s name in the notebook causes that person to meet an untimely end. The manga…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 14, 2011

Are The 3DS’ Launch Games Up To Snuff?

Next month, Nintendo is rolling out a brand new handheld, called the 3DS. New hardware means new games. But how do the 3DS’ games match up with the last time Nintendo released an entirely new portable? The line-up of 3DS games available in Japan when the Nintendo 3DS goes on sale on February 26 are:…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 14, 2011

Punch-Out!! Switcheroo Suspect Gets KO’d By The Law

Let’s say you have no money. What would you do? Get a job maybe, right? One individual in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan hatched a different plan. A 33-year-old employed man apparently offered retro games like Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! on online auction sites. But one winning bidder claims that instead of the actual retro game cartridge, pirated…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 14, 2011

Nintendo Sending The DS Off Not With A Whimper, But A Bark

Little Charo is a Japanese cartoon aimed at helping kids learn English. It’s also now a DS game being published by, of all companies, Nintendo. Wouldn’t it be amazing if this was the old handheld’s last big game? It probably won’t be, of course, not with Pokemon just out and the DS’ successor, the 3DS,…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 14, 2011

Watch The History Of Gaming Pass Before Your Eyes

What’s striking about this quick visual chronicle of the history of video games isn’t just how games have become more advanced but how much better our TVs have become. It’s also striking that the personal computer wasn’t part of the history of gaming, as recreated by the Munich-based quartet of game design students responsible for…

By Stephen Totilo Published January 13, 2011

A Video Game Pirate Trades Sails For Steam

Kotaku commenter Heyitsguy was once a video game pirate, downing PC games for free via the internet. Now he is not. He tells you why in today’s episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku. 2011 will be the year that I stop illegally downloading games. It began just a few years ago when I discovered torrents. I…

By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2011

Super Mario Mushrooms Served 120 Ways

Super Mario Bros. has mushrooms that change your size, grant you extra lives, and even poison you. That’s not enough fungus for deviant artist MyBurningEyes, so he came up with 120 new types of Mario mushrooms. You may have seen some of these creative Mario mushrooms before. Hell, you may have seen all of them…

By Mike Fahey Published January 13, 2011

One Day, The 3DS Might Just Record 3D Video

Ah, the future. No, teh future. Nintendo seems to be milling over new wonders for its upcoming 3D-glasses-free game handheld. In Nintendo’s regular Q&A with company boss Satoru Iwata, the honcho and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto were talking loosely about possible plans for the Nintendo 3DS. “In a future, improved version, I think it would…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2011

The Big List Of Japan’s 3DS Games

On February 26, the Nintendo 3DS will be released in Japan. If a 3DS game has a release date — or even release window — this is where you’ll find it. Winning Eleven 3DS Soccer – Feb. 26 Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition – Feb. 26 Samurai Warriors: Chronicle – Feb. 26 Tobidasu! Puzzle…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 13, 2011