Nintendo

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Also Wonders Why The Avengers Need An Archer

“There is always the risk that you will run out of arrows. There is never a risk that The Incredible Hulk will run out of Hulk.” Hawkeye from the Avengers suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous Nintendo president in the latest instalment of Nintendo Gamer‘s lost Iwata Asks files.


April 24, 2012
Nintendo

Winning Mario Party 9 By Doing Absolutely Nothing

How hard is it to win Mario Party 9 against computer opponents? If you set the AI difficulty to easy, you don’t even need to touch the controller.


Nintendo

Nintendo’s President, Stephen Spielberg, And The Dead Eyes Of A Serial Killer

In a transcript for a never-before-seen instalment of Iwata Asks unearthed by Nintendo Gamer, the president of Nintendo explains to legendary director Steven Spielberg why it would not be acceptable to put Mario in the fridge.


March 13, 2012
In Real Life

Great Moments In Gaming Humour, Liquidious Fleshbag

The companion characters in Mass Effect are living, breathing, loving characters with unique personalities and motivations. They are also pretty boring. They could learn a lot from HK-47, the assassin droid from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.


March 6, 2012
In Real Life

The Dorkly Weekly: An Ode To Mortal Kombat’s Crappiest Character

Let’s see who we’ve got representing Earthrealm in the Mortal Kombat tournament, in which the fate of the entire planet hangs in the balance. We’ve got a god, that’s always good. A cybernetic special forces commado; sure, I’ll take that. A mall cop? Pass.


March 2, 2012
In Real Life

Think You’ve Got Problems? What About The Pokémon Trainers?

World hunger? War? Global warming? Nonsense! Too long has the beleaguered Pokémon trainers of the world suffered quietly under their own first world problems. With one video, Kotaku reader csanders984 has become the voice of millions.


February 21, 2012
In Real Life

Great Moments In Gaming Humour: He’s Good In The Dark

Dialogue-heavy Japanese role-playing games don’t often make the journey westward with their wit intact. Tri-Ace’s challenging role-playing shooter Resonance of Fate proves itself one of the rare exceptions, nailing both the text and the timing of this hilariously steamy scene.


January 30, 2012
In Real Life

This Reenactment Won’t Win Any Awards, But Neither Did Street Fighter

Bravo to 1Up for getting Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono, producer of the Street Fighter series, to reenact this gem from M. Bison’s hilariously awful dialogue in 1994′s Street Fighter: The Movie. He dropped by their offices last week to talk Street Fighter X Tekken.


September 30, 2011
In Real Life

This Is The Best/Worst Gears of War Recreation You Have Ever Seen

Kotaku AU

I have no idea why I’m posting this. Really. It could be lack of sleep, and the sheer giddy delirious nature of my jetlag, but I just found this video, which features a man doing the worst judo rolls ever, shooting at what is clearly his own hand, strangely hilarious. And I have no real idea why.


September 15, 2011
In Real Life

Confronting The Eternal Question: Why Don’t Video Game Heroes Pee?

Note that I said “confronting”. I can’t say “answering” because that presumes there is a good reason for the absence of urinal faculties in Ryu, Mega Man and Princess Peach. And when we get to the end of this video by Gameboyardee, we are left with even more questions.