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Tears Of The Kingdom Will Be Nintendo’s First $70 Game

Illustration: Nintendo While The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom is one of the most hotly-anticipated video game sequels of all time, that’s not the only reason it’s notable this week. It is also, sadly, the first Nintendo game to hit the $70 threshold. While physical copies of the game have previously been available

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Splatoon 3 Gets Surprise Expansion Bringing Back Inkopolis

Screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku Splatoon 3‘s Expansion Pass is out now on Switch, with two waves of DLC due out later this year. The first brings back Splatoon 1‘s Inkopolis while the second looks like a new mini-adventure titled “Side Order.” Announced during Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct, Wave 1 will arrive sometime this spring. In addition

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Twitter Breaks Right Before Nintendo Direct, Chaos Ensues

I break-a da Twitter before da Nintendo show!Image: NBC Universal / Kotaku Update: 2/8/2023 5:58 p.m. ET: Twitter appears to be working normally again. Moments before the February 8 Nintendo Direct kicked off at 5 p.m ET, Twitter broke—no one could send tweets. At the time of writing, it is still broken. Every user, no

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Tears Of The Kingdom Trailer Is Our Best Look Yet

Screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku After years of waiting, Nintendo finally pulled back the curtain a little more on what fans can expect from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. A snazzy new gameplay trailer revealed a ton, including a world that’s more than just a reskin of the one from Breath of the Wild.

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Octopath Traveler 2 Has A Free Demo On Switch Now

A free demo, you say?Screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku During today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, the company briefly talked about Square Enix’s upcoming turn-based RPG Octopath Traveler 2, which launches on February 24 for Nintendo Switch, PC, and PlayStation consoles. Nintendo also revealed that a free demo will be available later today. The best part, though,

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Game Boy, Color & Advance Games Coming To The Nintendo Switch

Image: Nintendo Nintendo just announced as part of its latest Direct that a range of Game Boy games will be coming to the Switch’s online service. They’ll include Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games, but there’s a catch for the latter. The company spent most of the announcement covering original Game

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Nintendo Releasing Switch Game Delayed After Ukraine Invasion

Image: Nintendo Nintendo is finally releasing Advance Wars: 1+2: Re-Boot Camp after shelving the Switch remakes for an entire year in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. News of this came during today’s Nintendo Direct, where the company reintroduced the strategy game remake collection with a new trailer and new release date. The Switch

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Nintendo Direct Reveals Metroid Prime Trilogy Coming To Switch

She’s back, babyScreenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku During today’s 40-minute Nintendo direct, Nintendo finally announced that, at long-last, a high-definition Metroid Prime remaster is coming to Switch later today. The new Metroid Prime Remaster won’t just be bringing the games to the Switch, it’ll also give players greater control of the game’s camera and movement with

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God Of War Made Axe Throwing Look Easy, But It’s Not

Screenshot: Sony / Kotaku Like most rational people, I feel skittish around sharp objects that could cause grievous harm to life and limb. Unfortunately for me, I spend a lot of time with people who are much braver than I. One of my friends recently dragged me to an axe throwing bar, and I found

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