In Real Life

The Year’s Biggest News In One Short Video Game

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Oil in the Gulf. A cat thrown in a garbage bin. Chilean miners rescued. Prince William engaged. Top Gear driver unmasked. This is a very British view of the 10 biggest news stories of the year, turned into video games.


April 8, 2010
In Real Life

Bold Advice From One Nintendo Creator To Another

Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi’s philosophy on what it takes to make a game to Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto, who went on to design Wrecking Crew for the NES and, most recently WarioWare: D.I.Y. for the Nintendo DS.


April 6, 2010
News

Watch World Of Goo Co-Creator Make His WarioWare Microgame

WarioWare: D.I.Y. lets budding young game designers with short attention spans make their own video games. Sure they may last less than 10 seconds, but that’s enough for some. How does professional video game maker Ron Carmel do?


March 30, 2010
News

The Nintendo Download: See, It’s A Metronome, But With Donkey Kong

Kotaku was prepared to mock the release of a metronome for the DSi today, surely not the best thing in this week’s offering of DS and Wii downloads. But then we saw the picture for it.


March 24, 2010
News

WarioWare: D.I.Y.’s Monster Manual

If you plan on picking up WarioWare: D.I.Y. next week – with or without a shiny new Nintendo DSi XL to go along with it – get ready to do some heavy reading, thanks to the game’s bulky instruction booklet.


March 23, 2010
News

Smash Bros, Metroid, Scribblenauts Creators Making Free WarioWare Microgames

Nintendo’s upcoming WarioWare: D.I.Y., the first that lets players create their own playable microgames, is tapping a handful of all-star developers to create free downloadable content, including the makers of games like Super Smash Bros Brawl, Metroid and Scribblenauts.


January 30, 2010

WarioWare D.I.Y. Has Made Me A User Generated Content Convert

Game programming may come to the masses in the most micro of forms with Nintendo’s upcoming do-it-yourself mini-game collection WarioWare D.I.Y., one of a handful of new titles we got to go hands-on with this week.


June 4, 2009

WarioWare Do-It-Your Art

Game art? These aren’t traditional screens, because WarioWare D.I.Y. isn’t your typical game.


June 3, 2009
News

Mario Vs. Donkey Kong, Flipnote Studios Coming To DSiWare

Nintendo’s DSiWare downloadable service is about to get a new Mario game, as Nintendo has announced Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! for the Nintendo DSi. And it’s coming next Monday.