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Ode to Nintendo DS: The Little Handheld That Could

Ode to Nintendo DS: The Little Handheld That Could

  This November, the Nintendo DS will be completing seven years on the market. Few game systems have ever seen that kind of longevity- most of them are phased out around the five year mark, and the... Read More

REPORT: Gamecube Games to be Downloadable on Wii U Store

REPORT: Gamecube Games to be Downloadable on Wii U Store

The Gamecube may have been Nintendo's least successful console ever, as well as the wooden spoon holder of its generation, but in recent years, it has come to stand as a symbol for the Nintendo of o... Read More

Sony India On Wii U: ‘We will also do what it takes’ to be competitive

Sony India On Wii U: ‘We will also do what it takes’ to be competitive

I got an opportunity to speak with Atindriya Bose, country manager of PlayStation India on various topics ranging from the PS3 exclusive RA One, PS Vita, PSP, PS4 and India as an upcoming video g... Read More

Release date confirmed for Pokemon Rumble Blast

Release date confirmed for Pokemon Rumble Blast

The first Pokemon title for 3DS has been given an official US release date of October 24th. The press material describes the upcoming Pokemon Rumble Blast as "An action-packed Pokémon adventur... Read More

3DS EU eShop update July 18th

3DS EU eShop update July 18th

This week's EU update for the Nintendo DSi and 3DS eShop has landed. Here's the full list. 3D Classics Xevious - Nintendo 3DS, €3 99Bullets - Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DSi, €5 (500 Nintend... Read More

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D Review

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D Review

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="505"] Eat arrow[/caption] Upon starting up Resident Evil: The Mercenaries for the Nintendo 3Ds, I was excited to see a title that was filled with action and ... Read More

3DS video service launch confirmed for tomorrow

3DS video service launch confirmed for tomorrow

Nintendo have confirmed that the video app will launch for the 3DS in Europe tomorrow. Available from the 3DS eShop, the free app will allow you to download video clips in 2D and 3D, and the port... Read More

7 Things That Super Smash Bros. 4 Needs To Have

7 Things That Super Smash Bros. 4 Needs To Have

The Super Smash Bros. series has become a mainstay of Nintendo consoles at this point. More than a decade old, and with three highly acclaimed games, the series has come to be recognized as one of N... Read More

Top 15 Nintendo Franchises of All Time

Top 15 Nintendo Franchises of All Time

No other company in the gaming industry has as big a catalog of well respected and prestigious IPs as Nintendo. Over the last quarter of a century, they have built a massive stable of well recognize... Read More

Nintendo Downloads For US Gamers

Nintendo Downloads For US Gamers

Here's the list of downloadable games appearing on the WiiWare, DSiWare and eShop stores. Included amongst them is the1991 Laserdisc classic Dragon's Lair II for DSi! WiiWare: Just JAM - Pick up tha... Read More

Xenoblade EU release pre-poned

Xenoblade EU release pre-poned

Xenoblade, which was originally supposed to be released on the Wii in Europe this September, will not be releasing in August. The RPG's date has been shifted from September 2 to August 19. Nint... Read More

RUMOUR CONTROL: Nintendo Localizing Xenobloade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower in North America

RUMOUR CONTROL: Nintendo Localizing Xenobloade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower in North America

A few weeks ago, that the three new games they'd developed, Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower (which look awesome, by the way), will not be released in North America, because apparentl... Read More

Borderlands/Duke Nukem Dev: Wii U “A Really Cool Stop-Gap”

Borderlands/Duke Nukem Dev: Wii U “A Really Cool Stop-Gap”

Gearbox Software co-founder and Chief Creative officer Brian Martel referred to the Wii U, in a recent interview with IGN AU, as a "stop gap" between consoles, but assures us he still thinks it's fa... Read More

Nintendo Sued Over 3DS Tech

Nintendo Sued Over 3DS Tech

Spec-less 3D, the kind used on the 3DS screen, was patented by Tomita Technologies back in 2003. Tomita are now attempting to sue Nintendo over the alleged breach of copyright. According to the compla... Read More

Iwata Admits Wii U & 3DS Connection Has ‘Limitiations’

Iwata Admits Wii U & 3DS Connection Has ‘Limitiations’

Satoru Iwata was recently discussing the problems of Wii U and 3DS integration, apparently using the 3DS as a controller will involve sacrificing its Internet connection: "First, I would like to answe... Read More

Netflix on Wii U tablet “theoretically possible”- Reggie

Netflix on Wii U tablet “theoretically possible”- Reggie

During an interview with Forbes, when Reggie Files-Aime, Nintendo of America President, was asked if Netflix streaming can be done on the Wii U controller, he said it was "theoretically possible." ... Read More

Nintendo “creating an environment where software from other companies will become hits”

Nintendo “creating an environment where software from other companies will become hits”

Unlike the Wii, and the GCN, and the N64, Nintendo is actually looking to have strong third party support for the Wii U. "We think it very important to make several hits from the third-party softwa... Read More

Nintendo: We Will Not Make Games For the iPhone

Nintendo: We Will Not Make Games For the iPhone

If today's announcement of the impending release of a Pokemon app for the iPhone and Android had you all excited that you'd soon be able to play some more Nintendo games on your smartphones, well ... Read More

Pokemon Coming To Smartphones?

Pokemon Coming To Smartphones?

Despite Nintendo's famous misgivings about smartphones, it seems that a Pokemon app called Pokemon Iie Tap (roughly Pokemon: Say Tap?) will be foraging its way to iOS and Android. It seems to be a rhy... Read More

Bethesda will support Wii U if it’s powerful enough

Bethesda will support Wii U if it’s powerful enough

"Our motto has always been: We want to make our games available to the widest audience possible on whatever platforms that will support the game," Pete Hines,  Bethesda's VP of PR and marketing, ... Read More