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Finally, The 3DS Gets Its MUCH Better Pictochat

In case you missed it during all of your holiday revelries, Swapnote hit the e-Shop last week for free. It’s sort of like Pictochat for the 3DS but it also supports 3D sketches, the ability to send to friends online and attach real images to your messages. It’s pretty great.

By Brian Crecente Published December 27, 2011

Kid Icarus: Uprising Will Have Online Multiplayer, Five 3DS Titles Getting Free Demos

Four big 3DS titles, including Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D and Resident Evil: Revelations, are getting free downloadable demos in Japan, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said last night. No word on the timing for when the free demos will be hitting 3DS in other regions. Iwata also talked a bit more about the upcoming…

By Brian Crecente Published December 27, 2011

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Hope everybody had a wonderful holiday weekend! So, some of you must of gotten some games for Christmas. So lets hear it, who made out like a bandit and who got hit by the Christmas Whammy (Boxing Day too!). Until tomorrow, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Many thanks to TheDon23 for today’s TAYpic! We could use more…

By Chris Carolan Published December 27, 2011

Is Sword & Sworcery EP Kotaku‘s Game of the Year?

I played a ton of games in 2011. More, probably, than any other year of my life. So when it came time to choose the best from among them, I spent a lot of time thinking back, sifting through the triumphs and the frustrations, the unexpected joys and the unfortunate disappointments. Arkham City and Portal…

By Kirk Hamilton Published December 27, 2011

Dragonvale Captured My Heart and My Wallet in 2011

I never should have downloaded a free iOS game about breeding cute and colorful dragons; it was a tremendously bad idea on my part. Normally I’d have avoided such things. I blame Crecente for dropping a link to the game into our inter-office chat room with only the word “cute” as a descriptor. You can’t…

By Mike Fahey Published December 27, 2011

Japan Gets a Store Specializing in…the Xbox 360 (Huh?)

Microsoft’s lack of Xbox success in Japan is notorious. Microsoft only sells between two and three thousand Xbox 360s a week in Japan. The system doesn’t exactly scream retail hit in Japan. That hasn’t stopped one shop in Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture from creating a store with one thing in mind: the Xbox 360. Japanese blogger…

By Brian Ashcraft Published December 27, 2011

The New York Times Offers Two Round-Ups, But Doesn’t Name a Game of the Year (Yet)

The end of 2011 brings with it an implicit deadline for those inescapable year-end wrap-ups. Yet, the Paper of Record doesn’t really pony up a traditional countdown-to-the-best list. Instead, New York Times video game critic Seth Schiesel has written two pieces that catalog the games that caught his fancy in 2011. The first article runs…

By Evan Narcisse Published December 27, 2011

There’s a Long Wait For Halo 14

Age Shall Weary Them | Wonder if Master Chief will be dual-wielding walking sticks by then. By Lobzov Nikolay Some Awesome Magazine Covers From the 1970s In September 1975, the first issue of tech magazine Byte hit newsstands in America. While it would be mildly influential for at least the first decade of its existence,…