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Who’s Honoring Miyamoto Now?
BAFTA! That’s the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to the rest of you not on an acronym basis with the academy. And they’re giving the creator of Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. fellowship props. The BAFTA’s fellowship award is “the highest accolade the Academy can bestow on an individual for their creative…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 24, 2010 -
Mario Galaxy 2 & Metroid Coming “Mid Year”
All week long, Nintendo will be holding media conferences around the world, outlining some of the company’s plans for 2010. The first of these went down in Australia today, and Kotaku Australia was there. The biggest news coming out of the event was that Nintendo’s two biggest “core” releases of the year – Super Mario…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 23, 2010 -
Batman: The Brave and The Bold Coming to DS, Wii, Not Soaps
Coming this fall, Batman: The Brave and the Bold is based on the animated television series and will include co-op play and the ability to link the DS and Wii versions of the title. Playable characters in the game include Batman, Robin, Green Lantern, Blue Beetle and Aquaman and Warner Bros. says there will be…
By Brian Crecente Published February 23, 2010 -
Reviews
Endless Ocean: Blue World Review: The Wii Game You’re Wrong About
There’s an optical illusion that sometimes appears to be an ugly hag, sometimes a beautiful lady. There’s a Rorschach blot that looks like a butterfly and a couple making love. This is the Wii equivalent. The people who run Nintendo might want me to describe Endless Ocean: Blue World to you as the Wii’s second…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 22, 2010 -
The Nintendo Download: Brought To You By The Letter F
Family Go-Kart Racing, Flipper, Faceez, and Flight Control welcome you to this week’s downloadable celebration of the letter F. We’re not sure how Nintendo’s Aura-Aura Climber for DSiWare, Gevo Entertainmnet’s Wii MotionPlus-enabled GhostSlayer, and Big John Games’ Mouse House made the cut this week. Perhaps the lack of any virtual console titles whatsoever made Nintendo…
By Mike Fahey Published February 22, 2010 -
Hands-On, Sword Out With Red Steel 2
Whether Ubisoft likes it or not, for many Red Steel 2 will define the potential of Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus. While the sword and gun action title isn’t the first game to use Wii’s improved motion-sensing add-on, the franchise is inexorably connected to the Wii. The original Red Steel launched in 2006 alongside the Wii. While…
By Brian Crecente Published February 22, 2010 -
Box of Cereal Old Enough to Drink Legally and Vote Sold for $200
We’ve dealt with factory sealed Nintendo rarities two decades old this past week, but at least their contents wouldn’t throw you into gastric distress. A 22-year-old unopened “Nintendo Cereal System” box just sold for $207.50, or $103.75 per cereal. The Cereal System attracted 22 bids, with the winner going $2.50 over the top in the…
By Owen Good Published February 21, 2010 -
Patent Filing Hints at DS Vibration Feedback Through Stylus
Rumors of a new DS make this kind of news a little juicier: Nintendo at the end of last month filed an addendum to a 2005 patent that describes a vibration feedback system, this time coming through the stylus. There’s a lot of “vibrating said vibrator in a vibration pattern”-type speak in the filing, spotted…
By Owen Good Published February 20, 2010 -
Reviews
Link ‘N Launch Micro-Review: How About ‘Pikmin Rockets’ Or ‘Better Than Bioshock Hacking’?
The latest Nintendo-published downloadable game for the DS may be one of the worst-named Nintendo games of all time. It’s also another proof that top Nintendo-affiliated developers could school a lot of iPhone game creators. Link ‘N Launch is a DSiWare game from Intelligent Systems, the development studio behind such Nintendo-published greats as Advance Wars,…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 20, 2010 -
Mario, Built From The Corpses Of Broken Skateboards
What can one build from the shattered frames of well used skateboards? If you’re the artist Haroshi, you can build some lovely looking Mario sculptures and skateboarding themed mosaics, not to mention some strong desire to own these works. Japanese artist Haroshi has transformed the snapped, cracked and worn out skate deck into something more…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 18, 2010 -
Mario & Sonic Winter Games Sells Six Million
If you folks really want Sega to stop making fluffy Sonic games that don’t revolve around simply running fast, it would help if you didn’t buy six million copies of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. Just sayin’. We can’t blame this all on the Mario fans, and we can’t blame it all…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2010 -
Nintendo Goes To Court Again, This Time Over DS Piracy
Nintendo has won its second legal victory of the month in Australia, with a seller of R4 flash cartridges in the country ordered to pay the Japanese company over AUD$500,000 in fines. Local tech distributors RSJ. IT Solutions, which had been selling the cartridges – which allow for the use of both legally-acquired homebrew and…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2010 -
A New Eternal Darkness Trademark? What’s That About?
Silicon Knights’ psychological horror game Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem was one of the bright spots in the GameCube library, so Nintendo’s new refiling of the Eternal Darkness trademark warrants at least a modicum of excitement. Or does it? Nintendo of America re-upped the trademark earlier this week, after canceling the previous mark in December, leaving…
By Michael McWhertor Published February 16, 2010 -
PoP: The Forgotten Sands Taps The Wii’s “Full Graphical Capabilities”
Ubisoft has revealed new details about the Wii version of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, a game with its own storyline that promises a “smooth, clear and impressive graphical experience on Wii.” Shipping on May 18th along with its Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 cohorts, the Wii version of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten…
By Mike Fahey Published February 16, 2010 -
Excitebike’s Exciting (And Expensive) T-Shirt Collection
Long-time Kotaku Tower darlings King of Games are hitting 2010 running, announcing a new line of shirts based on classic NES title Excitebike, along with sneak peeks at an upcoming Zelda range. These two Excitebike shirts go on sale this Saturday, one short-sleeved, one a 3/4-sleeved retro football shirt. They’re ¥6000 & ¥7140 respectively (USD$66…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 16, 2010 -
Four Minutes of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing on the DS
Let’s not forget this game is also coming to the DS – or, well, it’s already come to the platform, as someone apparently got a copy before next week’s release and posted more than four minutes of gameplay to YouTube. You can see Sonic in action against a field including, Tails, Amy, Amigo and Robo…
By Owen Good Published February 15, 2010 -
The Nintendo Download: And Justice For Some
Our new gallery format for The Nintendo Download highlights the fact that, other than big releases like Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All, DSiWare and WiiWare titles aren’t getting nearly as much exposure as they should. Just look at the lineup we have here. DSiWare Spotto! from Nintendo? Nothing to see here. I had…
By Mike Fahey Published February 15, 2010