Only two games head to relatively new downloadable rewards service this month.

Mario Party 2 and Art Academy: First Semester are now available to Club Nintendo members as downloadable rewards.

These two new download titles replace last month's rewards. Mario Party 2 can be downloaded to your Wii for 150 coins. Art Academy: First Semester can be downloaded to your Nintendo 3DS for 150 coins, as well.

North Americans knew they were getting the game, but didn't know exactly when until now.

Xenoblade Chronicles will be releasing in North America on April 6, according to the game's North American website.

Previously given a tentative April release date, North Americans can breathe a sigh of relief that the game's launch is finally almost here. As previously revealed, the game will be available only at Nintendo's online store and GameStop.

The service was originally promised for the end of 2011.

Hulu Plus is still unavailable for 3DS and Wii owners, but Nintendo has re-confirmed the release of the application in a recent video.

Although no details have surfaced about the application since its announcement, it was featured alongside Netflix during a video posted by Nintendo regarding the benefits of connecting to the eShop. Under the Hulu Plus logo, the words "coming soon" are visible.

Upcoming eShop RPG gets demo today in Japan.

Denpa Ningen no RPG marks the first eShop downloadable title to receive a demo on the Nintendo 3DS. While the Wii saw demos for downloadable titles, up to this point Nintendo has only released demos for retail titles on their 3DS online shop.

The title, which releases next week on February 8 in... Read more...

The hopeful March release will see release in April.

Dynasty Warriors VS. has been delayed in Japan, Famitsu recently confirmed.

Originally, the game was going to be released on March 15. Its new date will be April 26. The reason as to why Tecmo Koei has delayed the title remains unknown. Dynasty Warriors VS. was one of the first games to sport the Nintendo Network, which has since been confirmed as part of Nintendo's initiatives towards an improved online infrastructure.

Nintendo will be losing significantly more money than expected.

Nintendo predicts a net loss of 65 billion yen during the fiscal year ending in March 2012, according to their recent financial briefing.

Originally Nintendo had only anticipated a loss of 20 billion yen. However, in the first nine months of this fiscal year, Nintendo has already experienced a loss of 48.4 billion yen; this increase led to the drastic raising of their net losses.

The color swapping game for the 3DS will also see a release in Japan.

Shifting World, based on the flash game of the same name, will also see a release in Japan thanks to Arc System Works.

The game (which will be known in Japan as Shifting World: The Black and White Labyrinth) has players swapping colors in order to change what the character is standing on. The 3DS version will have new graphics as well as 3D puzzles.

Nintendo releases the sequel to the NES classic in Japan for the first time.

Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters is coming to the Japanese eShop on February 8. The Game Boy sequel to the NES classic was one of the few Nintendo published games to never see release in Japan; instead, it saw release in both North America and Europe in 1991 and 1992 respectively.

As it was never released in the Japan, the Japanese eShop release will feature English text, rather than Japanese. The game will cost 400 yen.

The Sega titles have been officially rated by the ESRB. 

Shinobi and Sonic Triple Trouble have been rated by the ESRB for release on 3DS as Sega Game Gear Virtual Console titles.

The release marks the first instance of Game Gear titles releasing for the service, a feature announced by Nintendo at the 2011 Game Developers Conference along with TurboGrafx... Read more...

The film will be localized with official names according to region.

The Ace Attorney movie will be released in other regions besides Japan, director Miike Takahashi confirmed in a Q&A session at the film's premiere in the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

The director explained that each region will be dubbed and subbed accordingly, meaning... Read more...

The microscopic shooting adventure will makes its Japanese debut in April.

Shin'en Multimedia's 3DS shooter Nano Assault has been given a Japanese release date.

Set to make its debut on April 19, 2012, Nano Assault is a shooter in which players must defeat dangerous viruses using a special ship called the Nanite. In addition to destroying the virus, players can also analyze them. Multiple weapons can be obtained and harnessed within 32 stages.

Players that have been successfully accepted may receive notices soon.

Square Enix has sent out notifications regarding their upcoming beta test for Dragon Quest X to potential players in Japan.

Those who have registered to participate in the beta may receive a message confirming their acceptance for the testing, and that the developers are still working on the final... Read more...

The downloadable RPG allows you to create parties by pointing the 3DS at people.

Genius Sonority, the development team behind the Pokemon Colosseum games, has announced a new RPG for the 3DS eShop called Denpa Ningen.

Denpa Ningen (which translates to Radio Wave People RPG), is a game in which the 3DS's augmented reality features are used to generate different RPG party members.... Read more...

Unfortunately, the game might be region locked.

The crossover game Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition will have DSi-enhanced features.

Pidgi.net recently discovered the product code of the title, which confirms that the final release of the game will feature DSi enhancement. The product code is TSA-TWL-VPYJ-JPN. Each set of letters represents a specific... Read more...

The musical Final Fantasy adventure gets a second demo before release.

Square Enix's Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy is getting a second downloadable demo on February 1.

The demo will contain two songs from the 3DS title: "The Man with the Machine Gun" from Final Fantasy VIII and "The Sunleth Waterscape," the field theme from Final Fantasy XIII. Tetsuya Nomura, director and designer of multiple Square Enix titles, confirmed the demo in several interviews.

The collaboration hopes to expand upon the communication features on Nintendo systems.

Japanese communications company NTT is working with Nintendo on developing speech recognition software, NHK recently reported.

NTT developed software for the DS that can convert voices into text. The hope is that it would help children with disabled students do better in school. 

Nintendo supplied the DS units. The teacher's voice is converted by NTT's software into words that will be displayed on the device's screen.

The highly successful toy-driven game is flying off the shelves.

Activision is having problems keeping Skylanders in stock, but are doing their best to keep up with demand, Activision VP of Marketing John Coyne told Kotaku.

Skylanders has become a massive holiday hit for Activision, with demand for starter kits and more figures going up since its release last... Read more...

February and March will be kind to Aussie gamers.

Nintendo Australia has announced that Tekken 3D Prime Edition will be available on February 23, 2012.

March will also see the release of two more games, the first being Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, which will be launching on March 8. The other is Kid Icarus: Uprising, which has no exact date as of yet.

Like January, three titles will be revived, two for Neo Geo.

February's Japanese Wii Virtual Console releases have been announced, and next month looks a lot like this month. Wii gamers in Japan can expect two more Neo Geo fighters and a Kunio-kun dodge ball game.

D4 seems intent in making their entire SNK line-up available on Virtual Console. Just this month,... Read more...

He plans to find a balance between flexibility and security.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata explained how Nintendo will use micro-transactions during a recent Q&A with investors at the recent financial briefing.

Iwata stated that Nintendo plans to keep an appropriate level of flexibility in its handling of micro-payments (transactions involving a very... Read more...