The new handheld will support the DSi charger.

Nintendo has updated their Japanese Nintendo 3DS hardware page with more new details regarding their upcoming handheld. Andriasang.com has posted a translation of those details. Among them are the following:

The Nintendo 3DS will be compatible with the DSi and DSi LL charger. The DSi used a different charger than the DS Lite, which used a different charger from the original Nintendo DS.

The 3DS remake of the Wii's Unlimited Cruise titles feature more than just 3D graphics.

The first new details about Namco Bandai's Nintendo 3DS compilation/remake of Wii's One Piece: Unlimited Cruise 1 and 2 have been revealed, in latest issue of Weekly Shounen Jump. Announced in December, Unlimited Cruise SP will contain two new characters: Boa Hancock and Emporio Ivankov.

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Like their Wii counterparts, mature-rated 3DS games in Japan will have black packaging.

Last year, Japanese gamers might have been surprised to see Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles packaged in a sexy black box, but there is a reason for it: all Wii games rated CERO C (basically Teen) and higher had to have black packaging to make them stand out.

As it turns out, Nintendo is... Read more...

WiiWare has a new Bit.Trip demo and time-traveling sandwiches, while DSiWare has animal boxing, a match-three puzzle game, and a tower defense game.

This week's Nintendo downloads features two WiiWare games, a WiiWare demo, and four DSiWare games. The titles have no discernable theme, but they include time travel, wars, aliens, boxing animals, and tractors.  

Up first for WiiWare is Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time, which came... Read more...

A British TV celebrity hints at the possibility.

A Twitter conversation between British television celebrity Jonathan Ross and a follower may have inadvertantly leaked the announcement of a new Metroid game for the Nintendo 3DS, to be revealed during Wednesday's press event for the system.

Ross announced that he would be part of the European press... Read more...

The producer of the series hints at the possibility.

Capcom's Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto recently made some comments to Gemaga magazine regarding the series' prospects in 2011. Most interesting was an indication that the franchise might be heading to Nintendo's new 3DS handheld.In the interview, which appeared in the December 27 issue of... Read more...

Regular DLC is unaffected.

The latest announcement for Rock Band DLC and Rock Band Network tracks includes the news that this week's Rock Band Network Wii releases will be the last. Harmonix cites the smaller online install base, limited demand, and significant amount of production work required for conversion and processing as reasons for no longer publishing the Network tracks for Wii. The regular weekly DLC will continue as usual.

Excelsior! The Activision-owned studio is in charge of making Spider-Man games going forward.

Beenox, the studio responsible for 2010's Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions on Wii, is the lead developer for all upcoming Spidey-related games, Activision announced today. The company, which is a wholly owned Activision subsidiary, previously worked on Guitar Hero: Smash Hits and the Wii version... Read more...

Japanese 3DS owners will get to play Steel Diver, Super Monkey Ball, Splinter Cell, and 13 more in March.

March looks to be a busy month for 3DS games in Japan as 16 titles are slated to come out, according to Nintendo's updated release schedule.  

The lone Nintendo title is Steel Diver, which is set for a March 17 release. Sega will publish Super Monkey Ball 3D, Ubisoft will release Rabbids: Time Travel and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D, and EA will release The Sims 3 and Gardens (called Tsukurou Ponta no Gardens 3D in Japan).  

Also, the return of the dreaded friend code.

Super Street Fighter IV 3D is proving to be a robust game with a majority of the features found in other versions of the game, according to Famitsu (via andriasang.com).

The Internet Versus mode, which features lag-free multiplayer according to the developers, allows you to play quick, custom, or... Read more...

Word has it that Nintendo's new console will be restricted by region.

A NeoGAF user has posted text from an email newsletter released by Nintendo Japan's support team supposedly confirming the system will have region-locking. The newsletter states that games released for the device in Japan will only be playable on devices from that region.

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The latest Pokémon title is now its biggest seller.

Pokémon Black and White has crossed the five million unit mark in Japan, making it the fastest DS game to reach the milestone, according to Famitsu (via Andriasang).

The game, which launched in September 2010, sold just shy of the mark last year. It took a little more than a week of 2011 for Pokémon Black and White to cross the five million unit threshold. The exact number of units sold is 5,036,724.

The President of Nintendo will keynote March's Game Developers Conference for the fourth time.

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president, will keynote the 2011 Game Developers Conference on March 2.

His presentation, entitled "Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future," will focus on how developers can use the successes of the past to help them with future game development. The number in the title stems from the fact this will be the 25th GDC.

The mini-site looks to be a placeholder until the preview events later this month.

Nintendo recently launched a web page for the Nintendo 3DS on their European sites.

The page only contains a picture of the 3DS and the words "See It. 2011", giving no further details. It is likely that the page will be updated following the 3DS Preview Events on January 19.

In 2004, Nintendo introduced the first DS with slogans such as "See It. Touch It. Play It." and "Touching is Good".

Ubisoft Just Dance and Nintendo sports titles make the all formats top ten. 

The UK Interactive Entertainment Association has posted the bestseller charts for games in 2010. In the all format charts, Call of Duty: Black Ops comes in first. Another multi-format title, Fifa 11 is in second place. Wii titles in the list are Just Dance at three, Wii Fit Plus at five, Just Dance 2 at six, and Wii Sports Resort at eight. The Wii titles were all published by Ubisoft or Nintendo.

Five games were previously revealed at Level-5 Vision, also Inazuma Eleven 4 was confirmed. Check out our translation.

At Nintendo World 2011, Akihiro Hino, President CEO of Level-5 gave a presentation on upcoming Nintendo 3DS titles from the company. Five previously announced titles were shown as well as a new Inazuma Eleven game for 3DS. 

Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle was the focus of the talk.... Read more...

Couldn't make it to Tokyo? Watch our footage of the event and it'll be like you were there.

Join our Japan correspondent, James Charlton, as he takes a tour of the showfloor, plus live Nintendo music!

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Virtual Console receives two Capcom arcade hits, while the Ware services get everything from block breaking, pet care, and 2D jelly driving.  

This week in Nintendo Downloads brings us seven new games: two for WiiWare, three for DSiWare, and two for Virtual Console. In addition, there is a new WiiWare demo.

The first WiiWare title is JellyCar 2 from Disney, which is a sequel to the popular iPhone/iPod Touch game. In this game, players... Read more...

Update: Now with five more video descriptions.

Every non-playable 3DS game seen at the show, right here in one place. Oh, and Zelda.

Aside from the 15 playable demos available at Nintendo World 2011, there was a whole bunch set aside at a special viewing wall. Here, event goers could peek through a small window to watch a short in-game movie displayed in 3D on a Nintendo 3DS unit.

The Rabbids are back, this time in 3D. 

Appearing on the list of Nintendo 3DS games to be released in Spring 2011, Rabbids: Time Travel is a 2D platformer starring the Rabbids.

The game will have the same theme as the Wii game, Raving Rabbids Travel in Time, but completely different gameplay. The Wii title is a mini-game collection.