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Game creator Masahiro Sakurai has been in the game (so to speak) for a long time now. He's currently working on Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. But how long will he continue developing games?Read more...

Hey Squall, did you hear? Your game's on Steam now.Read more...

Domo-kun is originally a mascot for Japanese public broadcast company NHK. In the stop-motion anime he appears in, Domo-kun doesn't quite look like a turd. This upcoming figurine? Total turd.Read more...

Remember that in February, Nintendo declared the "Year of Luigi." Unless they were retroactively declaring January to be a Month of Luigi, too, this proclamation should extend into 2014—and Reggie Fils-Aime, the Nintendo of America president, said today it does.Read more...

Canadian actor Danny Wells, best known among gamers as the man who played Luigi on the late-80s TV show The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, has died at age 72.Read more...

What you see above is just one of the many amazing creations the community of Below Kryll, a free metroidvania platformer, has come up with—and you might be surprised to learn that behind all the pixel art, there is a quite addictive game.Read more...

Aww. While you can find a variety of posts on Miiverse, finding one like this one in Super Mario 3D World—which was posted this weekend by Tiny Cartridge—makes you wish it's just a post where it is someone pulling your leg and not actually a kid throwing out a cry for help.Read more...

For ages, Kotaku's Luke Plunkett has taunted me with pictures of Hot Toys figures, the most spectacular sixth-scale, highly-articulated, true-to-life (where applicable) toys available. Now I've gotten my hands on one — the Iron Man Mark XXI Midas Armor sold by Sideshow Collectibles, and I may have been better off without. Read more...

Behold, the recently-released Paper Sorcerer, a Kickstarted indie RPG with a look all its own.Read more...

"What do I need a PlayStation 4 camera for?" That's a question I asked myself several dozen times in the days following the launch of the PS4. This is the answer. Read more...

A 25 year-old man has been arrested in Japan for allegedly threatening the lives of two Nintendo executives. Apparently, those weren't his only threats.Read more...

On October 31, Nintendo suddenly announced it was ending its SwapNote service for the 3DS. Nintendo said SwapNote had been "actively misused" to transmit "offensive material" among system users, including minors. Now we know how offensive and unsettling some of that material was.Read more...

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang—the 2012 documentary about the game, its creator and its impact on video gaming culture—is now free to watch in its entirety thanks to YouTube. You can watch it all here—but you'll need an hour and 45 minutes to do so.Read more...

#mmo MapleStory, the South Korean sidescrolling MMO (above), allows players to get hitched if they so choose. Sadly, many of the unions are not parted by death but divorce—20,344 out of 26,982, to be precise. More »

Nintendo just turned off one of the online features of the 3DS, seemingly forever, deactivating the online support for its note-sharing SwapNote service on systems worldwide. The company did this, effective 10pm ET today, after saying SwapNote was "actively misused" to transmit "offensive material" among system users, including minors.Read more...

NeoGAF user Khrno says he spotted this beast at the British department store Peter Jones. It's simultaneously wonderful and horrifying.Read more...

The upcoming Wii U platformer Super Mario 3D World, like many other Nintendo games, won't have online multiplayer. If you want to play with other people, you'll have to do it in the same room.Read more...

The Wii U Won't Be Getting Assassin's Creed IV DLC. Yesterday, Ubisoft detailed the downloadable add-ons coming Assassin's Creed IV, among which is a cool-sounding standalone adventure that casts the player as an escaped slave. Unfortunately for Nintendo fans, today Ubisoft confirmed to Kotaku that the Wii U version of the game won't get that add-on, or any other AC IV DLC. (H/T Gamereactor)Read more...

The Gameological Society had a simple idea: take the creatures, beasts and people from Scribblenauts and pit them against each other. See which thing, real or fictional, could kick the most ass.Read more...

Megan Young enjoys Assassin's Creed, Fable, and especially Pokémon—her favorite is Blastoise (a "basic Pokémon with a lot of strength and spunk.") Last night she was crowned Miss World 2013. If we're ever in a beauty pageant with aliens from other galaxies, folks, this is the woman we want representing humankind.Read more...

Last night on our favorite CNN-wannabe HLN, Dr. Drew had a bunch of people on his show to talk about the Navy Yard Shooter. This, of course, eventually devolved into a shouting match about violent video games.Read more...

Nobody working on video games can ever argue against the amount of influence and inspiration that Shigeru Miyamoto has had on the medium. From the creation of early blockbusters like Donkey Kong to trailblazing three-dimensional design ideas in Super Mario 64, his many accomplishments have helped steer game-makers for decades. But one executive at Electronic Arts says Miyamoto Is "falling down on the job" and that there’s more to be learned from the touchscreen legacy left behind by iconic Apple leader Steve Jobs.Read more...

My greatest hope for the coming next-gen consoles is that they will surprise us. I hope that we haven't guessed all the ways the Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U will use their new hardware to make us play games slightly differently. And what do you know, just today, the people making Thief described a use for the PS4 controller that hadn't even crossed my mind.Read more...

This is SNESoIP, an open-source project put together by a German Michael Fitzmayer that lets you play original SNES games, using original SNES hardware, over the internet.Read more...

I really dig fan-made mashups and animations where there's a little easter egg or a hidden reference to catch every second—like the Statue of Liberty holding a golden NES Zelda cartridge in YouTuber James Farr's retro mashup animation above.Read more...

Review scores: they're not just arbitrary and meaningless, they're toxic to discussion, too.Read more...

“Please write that I laughed,” Zelda bossman Eiji Aonuma told IGN during a recent interview when asked whether Nintendo plans to remake The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.Read more...

You know those coin-operated kiddie rides. They're usually somewhat cute, right? Not these. They're the stuff of nightmares.Read more...