Tournament players breathe a sigh of relief.

Masahiro Sakurai has revealed that Tripping will not be returning to Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS.

Jason Schreier from Kotaku held an interview with Sakurai this morning, and asked if the controversial tripping mechanic introduced in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which would randomly make characters... Read more...

Kamiya wants The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2 to be something that anyone can pick up, even if they aren't as good as he is at videogames.

NWR recently had the opportunity to sit down with Hideki Kamiya, director for Wonderful 101 and supervisor on Bayonetta 2, and one of the topics explored was how the game creator felt about difficulty levels in action games.

"I have sort of a certain vision for how difficulty should be in games," Kamiya told us, going on to say that he grew up in the 80's "where there was a lot of technique, a lot of skill, required to beat games."

The NOA President seems comfortable with having the least restrictive used game policy, and doesn't see Nintendo stopping physical sales of games any time soon.

Reggie Fils-Aime told Polygon in a recent interview that the best way to deal with issues concerning the used games market is simply to "ensure their games are so good that people don't want to trade them in." He cites the "super strong" replayability of Nintendo games as the reason that the company remains much less impacted by the used games market than games that "are annualized candidly," or "games that are maybe undifferentiated."

McDonalds can now be called "StreetPass Clown Establishment."

3DS Wifi Access points located around North America and Europe will soon be used as relay stations for StreetPass.

Announced during Nintendo's E3 Analyst Briefing, an update for the 3DS is coming that will bring new a framework to the system. The framework will enable StreetPasses by... Read more...

Get ready for a Game Gear injection for your 3DS!

There's been a lot of positive buzz around Nintendo's stance towards indie games, and this week they're backing up that statement with several awesome indies titles on both of their major systems. Unfortunately the Wii U eShop is left forgotten, but Nintendo makes up for it with a heaping helping of Game Gear titles for your 3DS.

Takashi Tezuka gives a brief status update for the game including comments on difficulty.

Nintendo's Takashi Tezuka has briefly spoken about the status of the Wii U Yoshi game, Yarn Yoshi, in a recent interview.

His explanation of why the game was absent this week was that it is not in a state that Nintendo feels is ready to be shown. He also touched upon why Good-Feel was chosen as... Read more...

n-Space returns to make the 3DS version of Skylanders.

Players will no longer be limited to having just two active playable characters in Skylanders on 3DS in Skylanders: Swap Force.

The new title, developed by n-Space, lets players load up characters so they can bring basically their entire collection on the go. With the new Swap Force characters being able to be mixed together, it seemed to be nearly mandatory to do this switch.

It may look like a Super Mario Galaxy Game, but it plays like a Sonic game.

An interview with Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka, revealed many details on the development and components of the  upcoming Blue Blur game.

Development of Sonic Lost World started before the team knew about the Wii U. They decided to make it a Nintendo exclusive because of... Read more...

Despite the console's slow start, the major third-party publisher looks to make money on the Wii U as the platform "finds its audience."

Despite earlier reports that they would be slowing down their Wii U support, Ubisoft Senior VP of Sales and Marketing Tony Key reiterated his company's support of the console in a recent interview with Gamasutra. "We continue to believe that the Wii U will find its audience," he stated,  "We're confident that the Wii U is a good place for us to do business, and we can make money there."

...but it's still coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation in September.

Young Justice: Legacy, the brawler based on the Young Justice TV series, is now set for a "TBD" release date on Wii U, Wii, and 3DS, which translates to, as a Little Orbit representative told us, likely 2014, definitely not 2013. It was originally set for a September release, which is still when the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game will come out.

Two full adventures comprise this latest game in the series.

Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millenium Girl is out on Nintendo 3DS this fall in North America, launching simultaneously at retail and on the eShop.

This game, the fifth entry in Atlus' handheld RPG series, contains two complete adventures. The primary story mode explores the origins of the Yggdrasil... Read more...

Not really a hole in one.

Mario Golf: World Tour has been delayed until 2014.

The delay was revealed in a chart during Nintendo's E3 Analyst Briefing. The game was originally scheduled for this year but has been pushed back for unspecified reasons. 

In the same briefing, it was noted that internal development teams... Read more...

Pikmin 3 is meant to make players want to play again.

A 3DS and GBA Pikmin game were both made and scrapped according to an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto.

Miyamoto says it wasn't until the Wii U version that he felt better about the projects, stating that the GBA and 3DS projects "were versions that I wasn't really happy with until we came to this version on the Wii U and I finally felt like I was able to create the Pikmin game that I wanted to create."

I guess that means no more motion controlled Rabbid games?

Ubisoft stated during their investor meeting that it has "reduced plans" for the Wii U following the weak launch, according to tweets from David Gibson covering the meeting at E3. Ubisoft also stated that they expect Nintendo to introduce price cuts for the console given how sales are panning out and how weak the yen is.

Broke gamers, this one is for you!

Nintendo is looking to release a free-to-play game within the fiscal year, as stated in Tweets from David Gibson during a recent analyst meeting. Nintendo stated that the game wouldn't be set in the Pokémon or Mario universes, since those franchises were already established. The fiscal year they refer to ends March 2014.

Things are looking great for the little 3D handheld.

David Gibson, a research analyst, tweeted during a Nintendo analyst briefing that Animal Crossing: New Leaf has boosted US 3DS sales by four times versus the prior week, and has set a new digital sales record in the eShop.

In related 3DS news, a Nintentendo analyst briefing stated that the market share of the system in the UK has grown to 19% in between January and March, to 23% in April, and to 26% in May.

Peach gets no respect I tell ya, until now.

Koichi Hayashida, the director of Super Mario 3D World, revealed to Polygon that Princess Peach was not originally planned to be a part of the game.

Hayashida acknowledged the fact that Peach has not been playable in main line Mario games since the American version of Super... Read more...

Now you can share Miiverse posts on Twitter and Facebook.

The browser based version of Miiverse has added more social networking functions.

Users can now share Miiverse posts directly through Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Tumblr. This feature has not been added to the Wii U version of Miiverse, and there has been no word on whether or not it would be added.

Gotta translate these names!

A recent unofficial translation of CoroCoro, a Japanese magazine, more details on the upcoming Pokémon X and Y were revealed.

Three new chracters have been confirmed to be in the game. First is Sansa, who had appeared in one of the earlier trailers for the game following the player into a forest. The second character, Pansy, had originally appeared in the Pokémon anime. The third is a gym leader, Viola who uses bug-type Pokémon.

CORRECTION: A joke about what Luigi looks like in the new Cat Suit got a lot of people reminiscing about the classic Mario power-up. 

Correction:

In the original story below, we reported that the Frog Suit was making a return to Super Mario 3D World on the Wii U. While the Nintendo developers did mention the Frog Suit when presenting the game, it was only as part of a joke. The presenters were pointing out how Luigi looked like in the new Cat Suit (all green), how it reminded them of the Frog Suit, and how it would be funny if that was also part of the game.