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The Way Nintendo Used To Make Mario Levels

Did you know: old-school Mario games were drawn out on graph paper by designers like Shigeru Miyamoto? It’s pretty cool! During Nintendo’s E3 Digital Event, Miyamoto shared graphs and original design docs of older Super Mario games. It’s amazing. You can watch Nintendo explain the older design process here, around the :38 second mark. Or, if…

Level 5’s super popular ghost catching series, Yokai Watch, series is finally leaving Japan, and Nintendo said it’s arriving “holiday 2015.” If you don’t get what’s up with the Yokai Watch series, we ran an explainer not too long ago. Contact the author at [email protected]

Nintendo’s next Super Mario sports game will be Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, a holiday 2015 Wii U game that seems to use the ability to turn into a giant-size character as its main gameplay gimmick.

Paper Mario Meets Mario & Luigi in New 3DS RPG

Nintendo’s two Super Mario RPG series are mashing up in early 2016 in a game called Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam A new trailer from Nintendo showed a game that looks like it takes place in the world of Mario & Luigi games, with little sprite characters, one that has been visited by a flat…

Animal Crossing Board Game Is Coming To The Wii U

Nintendo is not bringing a proper Animal Crossing to their home console, but, rather, a virtual board game supporting up to four players. Each player uses an Amiibo. Think Mario Party, but with Animal Crossing characters. So, it’s way, way cuter. The game will be out this holiday season. A glimpse of the Amiibo coming:…

The 3DS decorating game Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer now has a September 25 release date, according to Nintendo. The game is expected to support Amiibos that are in the form of trading cards.

The epic Wii U role-playing game Xenoblade Chronicles X that has so far failed to thrill one of our guys in Japan, where it is already out, will make it to North America just before Christmas. It’ll be out on December 4.

Fire Emblem If will be called Fire Emblem Fates in the U.S. and will be out in 2016, according to today’s Nintendo E3 briefing. There will be two versions of the game, according to a Nintendo press release.

Metroid Prime Is Returning In The Weirdest of Ways

Following a more than five-year drought since the last Metroid game, Nintendo is bringing back their space adventure franchise with what looks to be a multiplayer-centric first-person game that, at least from its debut trailer, doesn’t feature much (or any?) of Samus Aran. The game is called Metroid Prime Federation Force. The trailer showed three…

Nintendo’s E3 Event Began With A Bizarre Puppet Show

Nintendo kicked off this year’s digital E3 event by transforming its most public faces into puppets, and then Star Fox characters. These guys. At least Iwata, Reggie and Miyamoto look like they’re having fun, and that’s what it’s all about at the end of the day.

Pretty much spoiled by a recent leak, there will be a 3DS version of last year’s Wii U action game Hyrule Warriors The port will include all of the DLC characters from the Wii U version along with new characters from The Wind Waker. Release date: first quarter 2016.

The Next Zelda Is A Three-Player Co-Op Adventure For 3DS

You wanted surprises from Nintendo at E3. Here’s one: The Legend of Zelda: Tri-Force Heroes, announced by Nintendo today at E3. It harkens back to Zelda co-op games like Four Swords Adventures, but this time for three players. The 3DS game is played from an overhead perspective like classic Zelda games and is slated for…

There Will Be Bowser And Donkey Kong Skylanders That Are Also Amiibos

There are no Digimon that are also Pokémon and no Thundercats that hang out with He-Man, but there will be two new Amiibos this year that also work as Skylanders. Nintendo and Activision showed off the hybrid figurines during Nintendo’s Digital Event today. The figures will be compatible with this year’s Skylanders SuperChargers game on…

Reiterating the company’s position from last month, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told Nintendo fans today that the gaming giant won’t be discussing its “new dedicated game platform, code name NX” until 2016. Notice they don’t specify whether it is a console or handheld.

Nintendo Officially Announces Star Fox Zero

Nintendo promised a new Star Fox was coming, and, yep, a new Star Fox game is coming. Star Fox Zero looks familiar to other Star Fox games we’ve played in the past, though obviously it’s the first time Star Fox has appeared in high-definition, thanks to the Wii U. The big change with Star Fox…

Watch Nintendo’s E3 Presentation Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

It’s time for the third and final day of E3 press conferences, starting off with a pre-recorded digital presentation from the House Of Amiibo. Nintendo’s presentation starts at 12pm ET. They will probably not announce Mother 3. Watch here:

Our Thoughts On Sony’s E3 Press Conference/Wandering An E3 Party

Sony’s press conference was, well…damn. The Kotaku team hit the Xbox Showcase after Sony’s presentation, and then we got dinner, and then we walked to a hotel bar and invaded that bar live on Periscope with some of you watching and interacting. Here’s the archive of those shenanigans. We had fun hanging out with you…

E3 2015: Nintendo Press Conference Liveblog 

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Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Has Sweet Carriage-jackings

Ubisoft showed a very pretty-looking trailer for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate yesterday at its E3 presentation, which is all well and good. But what about the actual gameplay? That looks nice, too! Feast your eyes upon this short but very sweet Syndicate gameplay walkthrough: I’m gonna be totally honest. I am not an Assassin’s Creed fanboy.…

The Bad Ass Pixels Of Eitr

Yes, yes, there have been plenty of games with pixels, but these…these are glorious. I’ve been following this Diablo-meets-Dark Souls mashup for a little while, wondering when they’d get around to talking about a release date, instead of teasing me with beautiful GIFs. Thanks to E3, the week that forces everyone’s hand for the glory…