Final Fantasy, Cooking Mama and more this week!

This week on the Download, things heat up as the weather cools down! At least in some areas, anyway - it’s still well over 100 degrees in California. Oh well! In terms of releases this week, Cooking Mama is back in town, Legend of the River King 2 and Wild Guns are out on VC, and there’s even... Read more...

Five packs will hit over the next few months bringing new characters, weapons, stages, and adventure maps.

Five DLC packs are coming to Hyrule Warriors in the coming months, adding new characters, weapons, stages, and much more.

The first pack, which is free, comes to Japan on September 30 and North America and Europe on October 16. It includes the three Hyrule Warriors villains (Cia, Volga, and Wizzro)... Read more...

As part of a bonus for Final Fantasy Explorers, Japanese players can check out the first Final Fantasy in stereoscopic 3D.

The original Final Fantasy game is coming to 3DS in an enhanced form alongside the December release of Final Fantasy Explorers in Japan.

Retail copies of Explorers will include a download code for this retro bonus, which will be sold on the eShop a month after the release. The version of Final... Read more...

Players are receiving temporary bans but Nintendo's on it.

Peach players have discovered a glitch in the online "For Glory" mode in the Japanese Super Smash Bros. 3DS that has resulted in temporary bans being issued.

The princess's Down-B attack is suspected to be the source, causing the game's online mode to register cheating if it's used near the start... Read more...

We probably won’t be seeing a new Ice Climber game anytime soon either.

Masahiro Sakurai, the director of the new Smash Bros. games, stated the Ice Climbers were running on the Wii U version of the game, but were cut due to the technical limitations of the 3DS version. A higher priority wasn’t given to the duo because the odds of a new Ice Climber game coming out in the near future is rather low.

The series' first handheld entry is already a smashing success.

Nintendo has announced first-week sales for the Japanese release of Super Smash Bros. for the 3DS have surpassed 1 million units. The game officially hit store shelves on Saturday, September 13, meaning this sales milestone was reached in roughly four days of availability. These figures take into account both retail and digital purchases.

It doesn't come with the game, but look at those face plates!

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire will have two special New Nintendo 3DS on the day the game launches in Japan.

One version comes with a Black New Nintendo 3DS and has special custom Groundon face plates. The other, a white New Nintendo 3DS, comes with plates features the Pokémon Kyogre. Next to the fancy face plates, both versions come with a theme download code.

Link, Sonic, Mega Man and more highlight the sales of week 2!

Last week we saw the likes of Mario, Peach, and more getting their own sales. This week, we branch off a bit as Link, Mega Man, Pit, the Fire Emblem crew, Captain Falcon and others are all represented in this week's sales. Here is what Nintendo is offering:

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS) - $29.99 (regular $39.99)

Mega Evolutions, new moves for Primal Groudon and Kyogre and a demo!

A new trailer has revealed more information regarding the upcoming Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire games, stemming from the recent news detailed in CoroCoro magazine in Japan.

The trailer highlights new moves and abilities from Primal Groudon and Kyogre. Groudon has Desolate Land, which... Read more...

Older models will not be able to access Miiverse features while playing the game.

Key Super Smash Bros. for 3DS Miiverse features have been revealed to be compatible with only the New 3DS models coming in October, posters at NeoGAF have discovered.

Players have discovered that trying to enter Miiverse while playing the game will get them an error message. The same goes for... Read more...

The new mode is indeed set on making you experience quite the challenge.

Hyrule Warriors will be getting a brand new Challenge Mode on the day that it drops, alongside a couple of additional enhancements.

Revealed today during the Nintendo Treehouse live stream, Challenge Mode plays a lot like Adventure Mode, just tougher—or "Adventure Mode on steroids," as the Treehouse... Read more...

Mega Man's first foray into the Super Nintendo is now available for the Wii U.

Mega Man 7 is now out for the Wii U Virtual Console.

The new release was announced earlier today during the Nintendo Treehouse live stream. Mega Man 7 continues the steady stream of classic Mega Man games on both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U Virtual Consoles in the last month.

Originally released... Read more...

You can also connect your 3DS to the Wii U to exchange custom fighters.

The 3DS can be used as a Wii U controller for Super Smash Bros. according to a menu option in the 3DS version of the game. Players can only do so if they own the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros.

Additionally, connecting the 3DS to the Wii U is a way to share custom fighters between the two systems, likely giving you the option to bring your customized roster with you when playing the Wii U version with friends.

Speedrunners, you have met your match.

Speed Mario Bros. has been announced as a new sub-game for the upcoming 3DS release, Ultimate NES Remix.

Speed Mario Bros. is essentially the same as the NES classic Super Mario Bros., only sped up. Everything from the movement, the enemies, and even the music will be at a much faster pace, making the game much more difficult.

Club Nintendo Platinum members also getting the demo early.

The demo for Super Smash. Bros. for Nintendo 3DS demo will be hitting the North American eShop on September 19th, as revealed on the Nintendo Treehouse live stream.

Acknowledging that the Japanese demo has already been released, the Treehouse crew stated that they didn't want Western audiences... Read more...

Teslagrad and Adventure Island highlight this week's releases!

Another week, another sparse week of eShop. Perhaps we can chalk up this slow sumer to a series of big guns Nintendo is saving for the holiday season, but all we can do right now is hope that things start getting beefier as fall begins. This week’s highlights include Teslagrad and the Virtual Console release of Adventure Island. I always thought Master Higgins had the best name out of any NES platformer character ever.

Players with early copies of the Japanese version have unlocked quite a few characters.

The Super Smash Bros. roster is nearing total confirmation as players who were able to get early copies of the Japanese version of Super Smash Bros. on 3DS have unlocked a number of characters, including Duck Hunt Dog, Bowser Jr., and Dark Pit, confirming the leak from a few weeks ago.

The Duck... Read more...

Ubisoft’s latest big budget IP is finally set to launch on Nintendo hardware.

Watch Dogs is coming to Wii U on November 18 in North America and November 21 in Europe, publisher Ubisoft has confirmed.

The game was released on other platforms in May of this year. The Wii U version was originally expected to ship alongside those, but a February announcement revealed that its appearance on Nintendo hardware had been delayed indefinitely.

Want some Smash Bros. love on your 3DS? How about NES? Or Persona Q?

Four new special editions of the 3DS XL are coming to North America later this year, all for the price of $199.99 each.

The first two, coming out on September 19, are Super Smash Bros. 3DS XL systems that come in either a red or a blue variant. The systems do not come with a copy of Super Smash Bros. for 3DS, which is due out on October 3.

Announcement confirms suspicion created by a leaked URL last month.

The second Wii U entry in the Taiko No Tatsujin series, known as Taiko Drum Master in the west, will be released on November 20 in Japan.

The game will be available at retail for 5,627 yen and released on the Japanese eShop for a price to be announced. Taiko No Tatsujin Tokomori will feature 100 songs.