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Nintendo Is Releasing a “Totally New” 3DS Mario Sidescroller

In the last few months, Nintendo put out a couple of Mario games—namely, Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7. But Nintendo isn’t finished. There’s another Mario title on the horizon; it wasn’t publically known until today. At a recent analyst meeting, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata explained that Nintendo is working on many titles…

How the Wii U Could Change the Way You Shop. Forever.

The Nintendo Network is the Kyoto-based game maker’s upcoming service that envisions digital game distribution and, most likely, downloadable content. Nintendo is outfitting the Wii U controller with tech that could radically change the way gamers shop. “A big feature regarding the Wii U’s controller is that we decided to embed it with NFC functionality,”…

Blizzard Selling World of Warcraft Server Blades, for a Good Cause

More than 350 retired server blades—the physical manifestations of World of Warcraft‘s virtual realms—are being auctioned off by Blizzard, which will donate the proceeds to the renowned St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Having taken the servers offline, Blizzard is giving them an honorable discharge and offering their parts to collectors and/or those whose characters may…

Gaming Icons Become Corporate Sell-Outs

Dueling Analogs see what it’d be like if some of gaming’s greatest stars had their own corporations. Character Branding [Dueling Analogs]

Meeting My Daughter For The First Time (In The Sims)

Republished from Kotaku Australia “I’m not sure if I want to have children. “Maybe we won’t have enough money for a new house, or that extension you were talking about. What if I want a TV? “Didn’t you want to buy all that furniture?” My wife and I are playing The Sims – The Sims…

Death to Betty Draper!

Hello friendly Kotaku readers, and welcome to Thursday’s open thread. I hope you’ve been having a good week! It’s been a fun one here at Kotaku, and nice to see so many people in the gaming world making humorous typos. Here, gathered for your reading enjoyment, are some things from the internet. This Fox News/They…

Nintendo Network Announced; Digital Distribution of Games Envisioned

Hinted at in the boxshot of a 3DS game last week, the Nintendo Network was formally announced by the Japanese games maker today in a meeting with investors. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says the service will offer features different from the Wi-Fi Connection supporting its current Wii and DS hardware, and is seen as a…

8-Bit Muse Cover? Sword & Sworcery Tribute? You Decide.

Despite what you may think after watching this trailer, this is not actually an ad for an upcoming iPad game. No, it’s a student project by Jherin Miller, who has brought this trailer for a fictitious game alive via Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. Fans of Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP may be disappointed to…

The Other Brothers Aren’t Called Mario, But They Still Look Pretty Great

The Other Brothers is an upcoming game, aimed initially at the iPhone, that’s “a pixelated family fun adventure” featuring stuff like “running, jumping, collecting, racing against the clock…” All of which sounds familiar, but the developers – which include the talents of artist Bjorn Hurri, who we’ve featured on Kotaku previously – promise there’s a…

Got an Indie Game Idea You Want to Pitch? Get on the Bus

If your typical San Francisco convention-goer is cruising for anything when he’s in town, he’s probably up in the Tenderloin scouting hookers. Not Fork Parker. The CEO spokesmascot for Devolver Digital (publishers of Serious Sam) will be trawling SoMa outside the Moscone Center in that there bus, listening to new pitches for the next great…

Resident Evil Revelations Joins Our List of the Best Games on 3DS

Capcom’s latest in the Resident Evil franchise makes the cut as Kotaku‘s first update to our list of the best games on Nintendo 3DS. To see why, check out our review

Three (Okay, Four) Ways Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Will Differ From Ghost Recon Online

The bulk of my time with Ubisoft’s upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was spent with single-player, but near the end of the session, I had a chance to talk adversarial multiplayer with the game’s developers. The burning question I had was: Now that Future Soldier is coming to PC, how will it be different from…

Capcom Apologizes to Victims of Resident Evil‘s Misspelled Box Art

Yes, yes, Capcom is aware of the typographical error on the spine of Resident Evil: Revelaitons Revelations and has vowed to fix the packaging of a Nintendo-platform game for the second time in four years. Here’s a statement from Capcom USA to Kotaku: “It has come to our attention that there was a misspelling on…

Check Out The Witcher 2‘s Kickass New Opening Cinematic

At yesterday’s for the upcoming Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (my thoughts here), the folks at CD Projekt also showed us a brand-new intro cinematic that they had created for the game. It is… pretty damned sweet. It shows Letho, the gravely-voiced kingslaying Witcher antagonist from the game, using some…

I’ve Got a ‘Revelaiton’ For You, Buddy

D’oh! | Looks like Capcom’s copy-editing department was too busy enjoying their excellent game to catch this typo. (Image via Bitmob’s Dan Hsu.) Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Puts You in the Brain of a Highly Trained Military Killer There has been a longstanding tradition of military fantasy in video games-you’re a part of an elite…

A Puzzling Resurgence in Popularity for NBA 2K11

At first blush it doesn’t seem to stand out: NBA 2K11 cracked the top 20 of most played titles on the Xbox 360 for the week of Jan. 16. But when you peel it back, that’s actually quite astonishing, to see an old version of a sports video game resurface more than 15 months after…

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Puts You in the Brain of a Highly Trained Military Killer

There has been a longstanding tradition of military fantasy in video games—you’re a part of an elite team who have been honed into lethal killing machines by years of intense training. The rules of engagement are clear—we’re the good guys, they’re the bad guys, and we’re going to operate as a well-choreographed unit to take…

Play The Villain in Dead Island‘s Ryder White DLC

Check out the trailer for Dead Island‘s first significant piece of DLC, which is due out on February 1st. Gamers will take on the role of Ryder White, the antagonist from the original experience, who dramatically crash-lands on the island. Emphasizing Ryder White’s conflict between executing military orders and finding his wife, the trailer promises…

Come Talk About the Epic of GLaDOS, Portal 2, at Kotaku Game Club

Welcome everyone to week 3 of the Kotaku Game Club‘s look back at Portal 2. In our third meeting we’ll be talking about the game’s story and characters. Gameplay aside, the world of Portal 2 plays such a large role in making Portal 2 a rich experience, and I’m sure you all have something to…

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