The two biggest 3DS releases could be expanded upon.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata mentioned the possible idea of paid DLC for their big-name releases at their Corporate Management Policy Briefing/Third Quarter Financial Results Briefing.

Iwata explained, highlighting Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7, how some existing titles could have potentially... Read more...

Skylanders Giants adds 20 new characters, including giants named Tree Rex and Alchemist.

Skylanders Giants, a sequel to the popular Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, is coming out this fall, Activision announced at Toy Fair today.

The biggest addition to the game are the giant characters, which are approximately double the size of regular characters and also light up when near or on the... Read more...

A brand new demo, a double Virtual Console update and burgers. That are this week's Euro downloads in a nutshell!

European gamers can look forward to six new downloads, ranging from a new 3DS demo to a Virtual Console game on both 3DS and Wii, hitting the various platforms this thursday.

On the Nintendo eShop, we begin our journey with a spanking new demo for Crush 3D! Crush 3D comprises over 50 levels of flabbergasting,... Read more...

Gamers in Japan can pick up where they left off from the demo.

The retail version of Denpa Ningen no RPG, the latest work from Genius Sonority Inc., will be able to incorporate save files from the recently released demo version. The demo, which can last from anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour, informs the user that upon saving, their data can be implemented into the final retail version if they decide to purchase it.

Nintendo has applied for rights to a previously-unannounced StreetPass feature... and it might just be in reference to Kid Icarus: Uprising.

A patent application that credits Masahiro Sakarai as inventor details a feature for an unspecified shooting game involving transmission between two systems (StreetPass) and a process for fusing pairs of in-game weapons together.

The application was published on December 29, 2011 and filed... Read more...

1.4 million unsold units and $80 million in potential sales are collecting dust in THQ's inventory.

THQ CFO Paul Pucino revealed that the uDraw performed $100 million below expectations in sales during a February 2 investor's Q & A.

According to the corporate officer, $80 million was lost from the 1.4 million units unsold in THQ's inventory, and the remaining 20 can be blamed on major discounting placed on many of the units that did sell.

The move is part of a "plan of restructuring".

THQ is initiating a 'restructuring plan' which will result in up to 240 job losses and a one-year 50% pay cut of company CEO Brian Farrell, as reported in a recent company financial document.

For the most part, many of the planned cuts will be implemented by March 31, with some being pushed to September,... Read more...

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...