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How The Names Of Starfox Came To Be

How The Names Of Starfox Came To Be

If there is ever a computer game category added to Trivial Pursuit, Nintendo's Iwata Asks will be a goldmine to the poor soul lumped with the question writing. In the latest addition to the series, th... Read More

Here is what Satoru Iwata’s letter to 3DS owners looks like

Here is what Satoru Iwata’s letter to 3DS owners looks like

Completely translated letter from President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata.

BioWare: We need to ‘spend more time’ with the Wii U

BioWare: We need to ‘spend more time’ with the Wii U

BioWare, in an interview with NowGamer, said that they are very interested in Nintendo's new upcoming home console, the Wii U, but they need to 'spend more time' with it. "It's an interesting syste... Read More

Two More 3DS Ambassador Games Announced

Two More 3DS Ambassador Games Announced

The 3DS Ambassadors program should be familiar to anybody who has been following news of Nintendo's unprecedented massive price slash for its latest handheld, the Nintendo 3DS. As part of a strategy... Read More

3DS price drop should result in “explosive sales in the year-end sales season”- Iwata

3DS price drop should result in “explosive sales in the year-end sales season”- Iwata

Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, says the firm is expecting the massive $80 price cut for their new handheld to result in a huge sales spike and they expect it will show in the end-of-year sales... Read More

3DS Tops Japan Charts

3DS Tops Japan Charts

The 3DS, which has been topping the Japanese hardware charts for two weeks, has topped the charts again, with the PSP also maintaining its second place. It's a surprise, really, to see the 3DS still... Read More

Paid DLC coming to the 3DS and Wii U

Paid DLC coming to the 3DS and Wii U

This was revealed at a Q&A session at Nintendo's Tokyo earnings briefing.

Pokemon Black/White Lifetime Sales Over 12 Million, Mario Kart Wii Over 28 Million

Pokemon Black/White Lifetime Sales Over 12 Million, Mario Kart Wii Over 28 Million

Amidst all the bad news for Nintendo lately, here's a lone bright spot- along with Ocarina of Time 3D, which was reported to have sold in excess of a million units worldwide yesterday, two more Nint... Read More

3DS: Iwata chops off his own salary, takes responsibility for price cut

3DS: Iwata chops off his own salary, takes responsibility for price cut

During a meeting with shareholders in Tokyo, Satoru Iwata, Worldwide Nintendo President, took responsibility for the recent 3DS $80 price cut and also announced that he will be bringing down his sa... Read More

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 release date confirmed

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 release date confirmed

Nintendo have announced the UK and European release dat for Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2. If you played the original, you'll know that you're in for a treat when the game releases on October 7t... Read More

Nintendo Selling 3DS Hardware at a Loss

Nintendo Selling 3DS Hardware at a Loss

Today's massive 3DS price cut that makes the hardware cheaper than the DSi XL at retail will allegedly cost Nintendo heavily, as Bloomberg Japan reports that for every 3DS unit that Nintendo sells, ... Read More

Nintendo fears ‘loss of fan trust’ over 3DS price cut

Nintendo fears ‘loss of fan trust’ over 3DS price cut

Nintendo have recently made a surprise price cut to the 3DS, but fear there may be negative ramifications from this. "Never in Nintendo's history have we dropped a system's trade price so signifi... Read More

Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 Get Release Dates

Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 Get Release Dates

Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 have not only seen a change in their names from Super Mario 3D and Mario Kart 3D respectively, they have also been given official release dates by Nintendo. Sup... Read More

Nintendo 3DS Sees Massive Price Cut; Now Retails for $169.99

Nintendo 3DS Sees Massive Price Cut; Now Retails for $169.99

And with that, Nintendo gets the upper hand in the price wars again. The 3DS, which retailed at $249.99 currently, will get a massive $80 price cut starting August 12, taking its new price down t... Read More

EA: Wii U Can Do Anything Xbox 360 and PS3 Can

EA: Wii U Can Do Anything Xbox 360 and PS3 Can

Third parties seem to be in love with the Wii U. So far, developers like Irrational, Activision, Ubisoft, Bethesda, DICE, Crytek, Epic and Junction Point have all sung praises for the hardware. No... Read More

Ubisoft: Wii U Controller is an ‘Improvement’

Ubisoft: Wii U Controller is an ‘Improvement’

The standout feature of Nintendo's upcoming Wii U home console is undoubtedly its tablet controller, with that gorgeous screen and the 'throw in everything and the kitchen sink too' mentality. The... Read More

Epic Games president- We are “very interested in Wii U”

Epic Games president- We are “very interested in Wii U”

A handful of Epic Games executives, like Mark Rein and Cliffy B, have already expressed their interest in Nintendo's upcoming new home console, the Wii U. Now Mike Capps, president of Epic Games, ha... Read More

Amazon Suspends 3DS Sales in the US, Resumes Them Again

Amazon Suspends 3DS Sales in the US, Resumes Them Again

In what threatened to be the most damaging development to the beleaguered 3DS's prospects in the market, online retailer Amazon, the largest online retailer in the world, stopped selling the c... Read More

Tales of the Abyss: Lovely Gameplay Screens Will Leave You Wanting For More

Tales of the Abyss: Lovely Gameplay Screens Will Leave You Wanting For More

Namco Bandai have released a ton of gameplay screens for Tales of the Abyss. The game is due on the 3DS and is expected to be released on 10th November 2011. [gallery link="file" columns="3"]Read More

Skyward Sword will have upgradable items

Skyward Sword will have upgradable items

The many whimsical, innovative items in Link's arsenal are some of the most lovable things one can come across in a Zelda game. Nintendo has now announced that these very items will now be upgradabl... Read More