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Tokyo’s Video Game Toys And Final Fantasy Jewellery, Of Course
6:00AM Stephen Totilo | The Tokyo Game Show hasn’t started here in Japan yet, so half of your Kotaku team has been left with time to visit toy stores. We found a horde of video game toys and at least one other curious thing. More »
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Mario, Kirby Get Gory With 8-Bit Fatalities
7:40AM Michael McWhertor | Mario may have racked up billions of kills during his decades-long career, sending Goombas, Koopas and Bloopers to their deaths. But Mario’s not considered violent. Steven Lefcourt’s “8-Bit Fatalities” series may change that assertion. More »Kirby Floats On By Over Alabama
10:40AM Stuart Houghton | With attendance almost as light as the wispy foam creations that were being wafted skywards, the Kirby Superstar Ultra events were a bit of a damp squib. Nevertheless, we cannot fail to be impressed that there exists a company who managed to get venture capital funding for a machine that makes foam logos (sure, they probably have the Marshmallow Fluff contract in the bag but still..) and so for that reason – and to satisfy the curiosity of the legions of Kirby fans who don’t live near any place called ‘Kirby’ – we present this video of the main event at Kirby Middle School, Birmingham, Alabama. More »
Nintendo’s Kirby Event – Word From The Field
1:40AM Mike Fahey | While Nintendo’s super secret Kirby event didn’t occur anywhere your Kotaku staff had easy access to, Kotakuites are legion, and one of said legion has the skinny. Dextr and his girlfriend, whom we hear is gloriously attractive, stopped in at the Kirby Park event in Pennsylvania and send word of pink bubbles and book covers. Hello, I just left the Kirby event in Kirby Park in PA. They had a small crew sending small kirbies into the sky made of pink soap bubbles and helium. There weren’t many people there yet. They were only promoting Kirby Superstar Ultra, but we (my girlfriend and i) got bookcovers/posters out of it. So no Kirby Wii announcement. Sadness. Along with the words come pictures of the event poster, along with the promise of more once he can interface his camera with a computer. He also notes that a rep told him the main event was in Alabama, which makes it the most interesting thing to happen in Alabama in over 50 years (*holds up Georgia resident make fun of Alabama permit*). UPDATE – Hit the jump for more galleries and reports, including one from the main event in Alabama! Kirby Event Gallery
More Creepy Game Characters
9:45PM Luke Plunkett | You can keep you “Real” Mario, “Real” Bowser and “Real” Sonic. Real Kirby is where it’s at. With “it” being creeping the hell out of us. More »
Kirby’s Back And Not As Pissed In Kirby Super Star Ultra’s Box Art
10:00AM Michael McWhertor | One might think that HAL Laboratory’s puffy pink protagonist Kirby has not a care in the world, that his disposition, due to his pinkness, would be beatific. Not so, according to virtually every video game box art appearance Kirby has made for the better part of the past decade. After Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, the spherical mascot went from tickled pink to pissed. The transformations from pleased as punch to enraged were most noticeable in Kirby’s journeys to America, going from happy go lucky to in a lather in games like Kirby Squeak Squad. Kirby Super Star Ultra changes all that, as Kirby’s gay old times are back, with nary a furrowed brow to be seen. If you’d like to fondly remember Kirby’s more bitter box art outings, hit the jump. More »
Gamecakes: Kirby Starring in Robotron: 2084
11:00AM Owen Good | I swear to God, that’s what this looks like. See, Kirby, that pinkish blob in the middle, vaguely phocomelic appendages, with smiling eyes … and what looks like three members of The Last Family around him. That’s a Kirby-Robotron mashup. More »
