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Yoshi: Behind The Dinosaur

A faithful companion. A star in the making. Adoration, rejection, and finally, a triumphant return. This is Yoshi’s story… the real story. The year: 1990. With the release of the SNES, the limitations of the NES no longer forced Mario to be mountless. In stepped Yoshi, an inexperienced green dinosaur with a passion for licking…

Lisa Foiles Published May 5, 2010

There’ll Be No Barrel Rolls For This Star Fox

As seen on Threadless

By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2010

The Best Nintendo Games That Never Were

Is it that time of year already? Time flies when you’re waiting for the latest instalment of Famicase (fake-Famicom-cartridges-as-art), an annual treat hosted by Japanese game store Meteor. Here are the pick of 2010’s crop. The deal with Famicase is that artists come up with a cartridge for a game that doesn’t exist. That’s basically…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2010

Leveling The Playing Field

Handicaps are not a very hot topic in the gaming industry. We hear a lot about single player games/campaigns. Though reviewers typically don’t have enough time to sufficiently cover multiplayer games such modes and features get decent mention. Still, hardly anyone talks about well designed handicap features in multiplayer games. This is completely understandable. When…

Richard Terrell Published May 4, 2010

This Man Can’t Really Sing

But he has an awesome beard. And a big heart. And the song is touching. Depressing as hell, but touching. I’ll see all of you on Rainbow Road. Morning music videos: “Rainbow Road”, the most off-key Mario Kart tribute ever/a> [I Heart Chaos]

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 4, 2010

Aussie Politician Wants Government To Buy Wii For Sick Man

A state minister from Victoria, Australia has been publicly rebuked after personally campaigning – in parliament – for one of his constituents to be given a Wii. Gordon Rich-Phillips, a member of the Liberal Party and Victoria’s Assistant Opposition Treasurer, got up in parliament and asked that Victoria’s WorkCover Authority (ie the worker’s comp guys)…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2010

Netflix Used By “Almost” One Million Wii Owners

Proving that owners of Nintendo’s current home console are perfectly happy with “Wii Definition” visuals, it’s been disclosed today that “almost” one million Wii users have “participated” in the Wii’s Netflix streaming service since its launch last month. That figure comes directly from Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime, and while “participated” is a vague,…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2010

Reviews

Picross 3D Review: Block The Monkey

The follow-up to the incredibly addictive puzzle game Picross DS, Picross 3D moves the picture finding gameplay into the next dimension, a game of block breaking and brain teasing that’s also one of the best Nintendo DS games of the year. Instead of presenting the player with a blank canvas and numbered clues with which…

By Michael McWhertor Published May 3, 2010

The Best Kotaku Reader Created Mini-Game Ever

Game design doesn’t have to be a multi-million, multi-year ordeal. Just ask the people who made games for our WarioWare D.I.Y. Warioware contest. We gave you a week to design and submit your own mini games for a chance to win some pretty amazing prizes. The grand prize winner receives a Nintendo DSi XL system,…

By Brian Crecente Published May 3, 2010

Black Wii Will Cost $200, Include Both Wii Sports Games

The black Wii console, which we already knew was coming, has today been officially revealed by Nintendo of America. It’ll still be $200, and include not one game, but two. Along with the Wii console, controller and nunchuk, the new Wii pack will include a Wii MotionPlus accessory and a copy both of Wii Sports…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 3, 2010

The Nintendo Transformers

In the 80’s, Bandai tormented the world with the “Gobots“, their take on the “transforming robot” craze that never captured the imagination like Transformers did. Maybe they would have had better luck pimping these transformable NES cartridges instead. Released in the 80’s by the Japanese toy company, these “Kasetto Sentai” (Cartridge Corps) figures were small…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 3, 2010

How To Fight Glare

As seen on a sunny day in Tokyo by AltJapan

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 3, 2010

Roger Ebert Uses His Powers For Good

Film critic Roger Ebert sometimes uses his powers for evil. But this time he is not. In an editorial in Newsweek, Ebert explains why he hates 3D. Ebert being Ebert, his argument is directed at films, but with the PS3 getting 3D and Nintendo rolling out its own 3D portable game device, the Nintendo 3DS,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 30, 2010

Nintendo’s First 3D Technology Shot A Spaceship At Mario’s Face

When Nintendo first revealed the 3DS handheld, many people pointed out it wasn’t the company’s first foray into 3D. But while the Virtual Boy did indeed precede the 3DS, it wasn’t Nintendo’s first piece of 3D technology either. That honour goes to the Famicom 3D, an accessory released only for the Famicom system in Japan,…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 30, 2010

The Muppet That Ate Your DS (And Your Soul)

Oh God, it’s so terrifying Meet the Padded Puppet Pouch! It’s a…padded puppet pouch for the DS, that pulls two jobs as both a puppet and a pouch for your DS. Just like the name says! It’s by CTA Digital, and while we’ve chuckled at most of the company’s previous efforts in the gaming peripheral…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 29, 2010

GameStop: It Is Not Cool To Take Pictures And Send Them To Internet Sites

While you were probably happy seeing proof of the imminent arrival of the black Wii on American shores, retailer GameStop is less so, sending a lengthy email to its stores earlier today in the wake of the console’s “leak“. In a delicious irony, reader thecenturyslayer now passes along the following piece of internal correspondence, which…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 29, 2010

Who Needs the Carpool Lane When You Have Red Shells?

Mario’s moved to SoCal and upgraded his wheels. BMW with vanity plate spied on the 405 in L.A., as seen on The Tanooki.

By Owen Good Published April 28, 2010

One More Reason To Be Jealous of Japan’s Club Nintendo

The Japanese version of Club Nintendo is getting a new batch of Things We Want But Can’t Have—at least not yet—with a quartet of new Nintendo-themed bamboo fans. Yes, we’re now coveting Mario fans. The latest batch of prizes offered at Nintendo’s customer rewards program include two Super Mario Bros. fans and two Animal Crossing…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 28, 2010

Firm: Sony Brand Less Valuable than Microsoft, Cigarettes, Beer, Toothpaste

Millward Brown Optimor, a “global brand strategy” analyst firm, just stepped into a heaping pile of fanboy doodoo with its latest rankings of the 100 most valuable brands in the world, pegging Sony at 94th. Nintendo is 32nd, Microsoft fourth. That’s behind Marlboro (at No. 7) Budweiser (No. 38) and Colgate (No. 47). Considering that…

By Owen Good Published April 28, 2010

Black Wii Bundle Shows Up In GameStop Marketing

GameStop stores’ monthly poster shipment includes this lovely advertisement for the rumored black Nintendo Wii, bundled with Wii Sports, Wii MotionPlus, and Wii Sports Resort. An anonymous GameStop employee sent us an image of the new poster, which arrived in a monthly shipment with instructions to hold until May 4, five days before earlier rumors…

By Mike Fahey Published April 28, 2010