December continues to deliver the big hits on the eShop.

Tomorrow's eShop update in North America will be bringing a relative rarity.

Trauma Team, the 2010 Atlus published adventure game/surgery simulator, will launch on the eShop tomorrow at noon Eastern time for US$19.99/C$24.99. This marks the first 3rd party Wii title to get a digital release on the North American eShop.

Truly karma for the next day's retail release.

December 10 will have major games on both eShops.

FAST Racing Neo, Shin'en Multimedia's much hyped futuristic racer, will join SteamWorld Heist in launching next Thursday, December 10. Expect to shell out US$14.99/€14.99/£10.99 for the ultra fast action.

#FAST Racing Neo - The wait is (almost) over! Release Date: December 10 Price: 14.99€/14.99USD/10.99GBP #WiiU #eShop pic.twitter.com/YtQiizr7f1

A December surprise that comes with some neat rewards. UPDATE: Rewards program announced

The Nintendo Account has launched in Japan. This new system will work as a cross-platform connection between consoles, PCs, and mobile devices, allowing data transfer between games these various devices through a cloud-based data service.

The online registration site went live overnight (North... Read more...

A tale of food that will *not* be fresh.

Following a November hiatus, the Splatfest has returned to North America.

The next event, scheduled to kick off just before midnight Friday night and run all day Saturday Eastern time, will pit Callie's Team Hamburger against Marie's Team Pizza in the battle of the fast food staples.

Whatever side you're on, we encourage you to get the splatting in before or during the NWR Child's Play Telethon the same day.

Stamps! Costumes! Quizzes! Oh my!

The 2.0 update for The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes will be launching tomorrow.

In addition to the costumes and Den of Trials announced in the last Nintendo Direct, the patch notes confirmed a group of additions to the game.

The 3DS hit's sequel will launch on other platforms next year

Image and Form has confirmed the date and price for SteamWorld Heist.

The indie hit will launch in North America and Europe on December 10, at US$19.99/C$21.99/€19.99/£14.99. A launch discount of $3/€3/£3 will be active until December 31.

Image and Form confirmed in their note to us that the game is expected to last 20-25 hours, and will not go on sale for "a very long while" following the expiration of the launch deal.

Now, how many Pokémon have the letter "N" in their name...?

Pokkén Tournament's roster will expand slightly next week.

The game's official Twitter announced today that they plan to unleash the next playable Pokémon into the game on December 10. According to Gematsu the teaser contains the Japanese character ン, which roughly translates to the letter N with no vowels.

Reminder: That's shipped to suppliers, not consumers.

Some members of the supply chain may have begun floating shipment numbers for new Nintendo hardware to release in 2016.

According to the Taiwanese newspaper DigiTimes, the new system would enter production at the end of the 1st quarter of 2016 - whether fiscal (April - June) or calendar (January - March) is not specified - and would ship between 10 and 12 million units in the first year.

A few updates round out the week

Some of the big Nintendo games have had minor content releases today:

Some things to play when the uncle crosses the line twice.

Of course, the big focus this week on the eShops is the various sales. Although half the eShop isn`t on sale right now, it just SEEMS like it. But there are a couple of new titles for your perusal before the football games kick off. On the Wii U, the sole newcomers are a Cuite Pets title and the VC... Read more...

Prepare to get Heracrossed up by some of these puzzles.

The newest Pokémon puzzle title has its launch date.

The Pokémon Company confirmed the free-to-start puzzler will be available starting next Thursday (December 3) in both the North American and European eShops.

Pokémon Picross, which debuted in the most recent Nintendo Direct, uses the... Read more...

The 3DS picks up the newest game from an indie favorite

Following the success of Retro City Rampage, its sequel will hit the islands on 3DS.

vBlank Entertainment announced the game today in association with Sony as the game will first be viewable at next week's PlayStation Experience event, but vBlank has confirmed they will be targeting the 3DS with... Read more...

Pick up some puzzle pieces with your shopping

The Nintendo fan newsletter has announced a National StreetPass Weekend will be held in North America from Thursday to Sunday (26th - 29th).

As with previous weekends, Nintendo Zones across North America that normally send data for the last six players that passed it will randomize the tags sent out. You can find your nearest Nintendo Zone here.

"Mr. Judd, wear down this wall."

The bi-weekly Splatoon update tonight will bring a new favorite son for bucket fans.

Coming to the rotation at the standard time regular update of 9 p.m. Eastern (6 p.m. Pacific) is the Slosher Deco, a modified version of the existing Slosher that uses its arc to evade Splash Walls.

As a taunt to the above, the Slosher Deco packs a Splash Wall sub to go along with a Kraken special.

And it looks like this one won't wipe your save file.

Another Splatoon update will drop this week in the form of the Hydra Splatling.

The long range weapon fires ink in a similar fashion to a fire hydrant, but it's balanced by a long charge time. It brings the Splash Bombs as a sub and the Echolocator special. The weapon will come at 11 a.m. JST tomorrow, or 9 p.m. Eastern time.

No, the Canadian Mario Tennis and Stella Glow prices aren’t a typo, man.

As this happens to be the downloads that preceed Nintendo’s biggest release day of the year (allegedly), obviously the big movers of the week for North America are supposed to be Mario Tennis Ultra Smash (Wii U) and Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon (3DS). But in this case, there’s probably more fun... Read more...

For those who can't handle Toby the Plane but still want the cuteness.

The standalone Chibi-Robo Amiibo will be available for preorder today at Amazon for North American customers.

Preorders will open at 5 p.m. Eastern / 2 p.m. Pacific at this link, and the figure will retail for standard US Amiibo price of $12.99. No such listing has been made available for Canadian residents.

Nothing like a little horror to go with your holiday cheer.

Renegade Kid has provided updated dates for a couple of upcoming titles.

Dementium Remastered, the updated version of the DS horror title, has completed NOA lotcheck and will release on December 3, according to a video on the Renegade Kid Youtube channel. Unlike the Moon Chronicles, this remaster will be sold as a single package.

The action RPG basically features any job you'd care to work in the world of Final Fantasy.

Final Fantasy Explorers, the action RPG due out on January 26, 2016 on 3DS, will feature 21 different job classes when it launches, including your regular Knight, Thief, and Mage classes, as well as Bard, Machinist, Beast Master, and more. The Blue Mage and Samurai jobs will be included with the release on January 26, 2016 after appearing as DLC in the Japanese version.

Sheldon's got the deets later, but we've got them now.

The Splatoon update train will keep rolling tonight US time with the Bamboozler 14 Mk II.

A modified version of the Bamboozler appears to be firing at a longer range than the standard version, and has a slightly different physical appearance. It packs a Disruptor for a subweapon and a Echolocator special.