Seamless movement and massive adventure

After three and a half years of questions, we finally have a name for the new Legend of Zelda title: Breath of the Wild.

The trailer video showed Link cutting down trees, climbing mountains and using spears, bows and axes in a open world, as well as combat and environmental puzzles. A voiceover was included as well as a male Link.

Get ready to run, slash and slay Norse beasts

Nintendo's Damon Baker appeared on a segment of Geoff Keighley's Youtube Live @ E3 to help make some indie game announcement.

The old and the new will be down to dance.

Just Dance will be making another return engagement on Nintendo systems this fall.

The rhythm title will debut this fall for Wii U and "all video game consoles", with a separate NX version launching next year. No new features were shown during the presentation, but the musical performance at Ubi's press conference was set to "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen.

The game makers are interested in using the console's special features too.

Developer ConcernedApe has announced that their indie farm simulator Stardew Valley is coming to consoles in Q4 2016, including the Wii U.

The developer also expressed interest in the "possibility of utilizing special console features like the Wii U’s second screen."

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An absolutely insane twin-stick shooter that's all about time.

The eShop is about to pick up a major programming challenge.

4 Corner Games announced first details of their new title tonight on Nintendo World Report's live stream for E3 - Monochrono, a shaded twin stick shooter. The game will feature ten second levels with the option to slow time by one-third to plan shots and evade large quantities of enemy fire, while the player's ship moves at normal speed the whole time.

CoroCoro and various national championships bring the news

Two separate sources have confirmed newcomers and long-rumored additions to Pokémon Sun and Moon.

The first group of information came from CoroCoro Magazine, confirming two new Pokémon. The magazine revealed Nekkoara, a Normal-typed Pokémon who looks like a koala and has the ability "Sure Sleeper"... Read more...

This is your chance to win free amiibo, or WiiU or 3DS games, just for tuning in!

Nintendo World Report's Home Team will be live-streaming and live-chatting our way through E3, but while you're following all our breaking Nintendo coverage, why not win some prizes too?

Read on to find our schedule of giveaways, the assorted amiibo, Wii U or 3DS game prizes, and discover just how easy it will be to enter to win!

It's a lighter year for Nintendo, but we're still keeping busy...and chiming in on the other major E3 news.

DAY 1 IS LIVE NOW! CHECK IT OUT!

We've alluded to it in spots the past month, but we're going to try to do something goofy for E3 this year with our staff that's staying home. While our intrepid travelers will be heading off to LA to play Zelda and check out the 10ish other games on Wii U/3DS from third parties, our home team will mostly be twiddling our thumbs. OR WILL THEY.

Emphasis on "panic".

Although Nintendo did cross a milestone with hardware, May was a historically weak month overall for the company in US stores.

Nintendo announced with the sales results that the 3DS family of systems (including 2DS, which had a price drop this month) had crossed 60 million units sold. However,... Read more...

Not shipping a new big box this year

In lieu of shipping a new game this year, LEGO Dimensions will instead stick to adding new franchises, including some Nintendo fan favorites.

WB Games has announced the next wave of play sets will launch on September 27 and work with existing copies of LEGO Dimensions:

You will be sucked.

The biggest release of the week in all territories is Kirby: Planet Robobo(bobobobobobobo...)t hitting 3DS at midnight local tonight. Neal reviewed the game a couple of weeks ago, practically an eternity in review terms, and we're all waiting to hop in the power armor and blast some fools.

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Further things to waste time and money next week.

Nintendo has announced a sale and some new mobile promotions for next week.

There will be a big E3 eShop sale beginning at 2 p.m. Eastern time (11 a.m. Pacific) on Tuesday featuring "some of its (the eShop's) most popular games". My Nintendo members will also receive additional rewards for buying the sale games, but the nature of the rewards hasn't been announced.

The friendly farm wars continue on the 3DS

XSEED's E3 lineup has rounded out with an anticipated localization announcement.

The newest Story of Seasons/Bokujō Monogatari title, known roughly in Japan as "Good Friends of Three Towns" was announced for a North American release today as Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns. Releasing next year, the new farm simulation will set your farm in the middle of three towns and set you to exploring them to grow your farm.

Here's hoping North America RSVPs in time.

The 5th anniversary eShop sale that recently began in Japan will be moving to the old PAL regions, but with a slight twist.

Beginning with this week's eShop updates in Europe and Australia, a large number of 3DS and Wii U titles will be on sale - unlike Japan, where the offer is only for 3DS games.

Refining the googly eye engine requires time.

Playtonic Games will need a few more months of prep time before Yooka-Laylee emerges.

The company announced today that the N64-inspired platformer would release in Q1 2017 (January - March) instead of the promised October 2016, citing a desire to add some more polish time to the schedule.

The announcement was accompanied by the release of the game's E3 trailer, which you can see below:

A big day for physical releases of digital titles.

XSEED will be handling distribution titles for an upcoming eShop title as well as the disc version of a Kickstarter success.

The company announced today that they would be the distributors for the physical release of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero. The Wii U game will come with a 20-track soundtrack CD, and will retail as the "Risky Beats Collection" for $29.99 US.

They promise the nine-player running will come across, apparently.

A new Amazon listing suggests that one of the most loved Wii U indie exclusives is about to grab the 3DS trophy.

The listing, which was found today has the game releasing for $29.99 ($23.99 with Amazon Prime) on September 6. Nighthawk Interactive, who published the PS4 physical version of The Talos Principle, is listed as the publisher.

So much for all Zelda, all the time.

Nintendo's E3 plans will include a lot of Zelda, but a lot of other things as well..

The first sign came when the Japanese Twitter account for Pokémon sent a message today confirming both Pokémon Sun and Moon as well as Pokémon Go, would have a presence at Treehouse Live.

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The long dark tea time of the soul.

While Europe has a very light week, North America has a couple of interesting titles on the eShop this week. The big one is previous PlayStation Plus instant game collection member Kick and Fennick crossing over to the other platforms, bringing some more fun platforming action to the eShop. If you're... Read more...

Pretty close to a trademarked name

The Pokémon Company has released a new video naming the version legendaries and some of the characters in Pokémon Sun/Moon.

Sun's mascot will be Solgaleo, a Steel/Psychic type. Its Full Metal Body ability blocks stat changes, and its trademark move is Sunsteel Strike. Moon will be helmed by Lunala,... Read more...