The application will offer 2D and 3D videos using SpotPass from July 13.

The new Nintendo Video application will offer a range of 2D and 3D video content to users who download it from the eShop for Nintendo 3DS from Wednesday July 13 in Europe.

Featured content is set to include comedies, cartoons, and music videos. These videos will be downloaded automatically through... Read more...

Get ready to set sail for the land of high seas brawl with Luffy and friends. 

Japan is getting a new One Piece game this autumn for the Nintendo DS. 

The title, called "One Piece Gigant Battle! 2 Shin Sekai (New World)," is featured in the next issue of Jump. The game will feature over 40 characters from across the One Piece universe. The original One Piece Gigant Battle... Read more...

Nintendo considers a sequel to Find Mii due to internal demand.

Nintendo is considering StreetPass Quest 2, according to its company president in a recent interview.

Satoru Iwata stated that many staff within the company have quickly finished the RPG packaged with the 3DS console, and have been requesting a sequel for some time.

At the recent shareholders meeting, he said:

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Level 5's Girls' RPG Cinderella Life is coming to the 3DS with a few changes.

Level 5’s upcoming Nintendo 3DS RPG for Japan, Kyaba Joppi, has been retitled and the theme has been reworked. The new title is Girls' RPG Cinderella Life, and references to the main character working as a hostess have been changed. The new name was chosen as a way of distancing the game from the hostess profession, as some people may be against the idea of hostesses, despite the game's comical portrayal.

The game will now be available two weeks before the scheduled release.

Xenoblade Chronicles will be released across Europe on August 19. This is two weeks earlier than the originally scheduled date of September 2.

The game bundle including a red Classic Controller Pro and a poster set remains a pre-order exclusive with limited numbers, so pre-orders must be made before... Read more...

Operation Rainfall has claimed a partial victory.

The Last Story and Xenoblade Chronicles may be heading to North America after all, despite Nintendo of America's continued insistence that the company has no plans to localize those titles.

On the official Operation Rainfall blog, a post has gone up claiming that the American localization of Xenoblade... Read more...

Pokémon Company is working independently on their game for iPhone and Android.

Nintendo will not be bringing any games to smartphones and will develop software only for their own hardware platforms. This strategy “hasn’t changed and won’t change,” said Yasuhiro Minagawa, a spokesperson for Nintendo Co., Ltd.

This comment was in response to the announcement of... Read more...

The latest lawsuit against Nintendo is for glasses-free 3D as seen on Nintendo 3DS.

Tomita Technologies USA LLC have filed suit against Nintendo for infringement of their patent for a stereoscopic (3D) system that displays images on screen for viewing with the naked eye.

The company, founded by a former Sony engineer, is saying that the Nintendo 3DS infringes on their patent for... Read more...

Just jam to these eShop and DSiWare releases.

Nintendo's download game services have been updated with seven new games this week.

The 3DS eShop got two classic Game Boy games: Jaleco's Fortified Zone, a top-down shooter starring a pair of secret agents originally released in 1991 and Taito's Qix, a game in which players must capture flying lightning bolts by enclosing them in a square.

No word on whether or not this release window is only for Europe.

Kid Icarus: Uprising isn't coming out in Europe until 2012, according to a fact sheet from Nintendo that was distributed at an event in the Netherlands today.

At E3 2011, Kid Icarus: Uprising was slated for a holiday 2011 release, most likely coming out in November or December. As far as we know, it is still coming out in North American and Japan in 2011, though no firm release date has been announced.

The game sold well in Japan, and the 3DS became the top selling system of the week.

Tales of the Abyss for Nintendo 3DS has had a successful first week of sales.

The game sold 74,173 units for the week of June 27 till July 3. The release also propelled the 3DS to be the top selling console of the week, with 30,233 units sold. The RPG beat out titles including Capcom's Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition for the PS3 and GoldenEye 007 for the Wii.

The 8-bit inspired 3D racer will feature ten tracks, ten racers, and eleven cars.

3D Pixel Racing has been given a July 14 release date for the North American WiiWare service.

The title, developed by Microforum, is a 3D racer with an 8-bit inspired look. It will features five games modes for up to four players, along with ten tracks, ten pilots and eleven cars to choose from. In addition, the tracks will experience different weather conditions like rain, snow and sun as well as night and day cycles.

Pokémon are coming to iOS and Android this summer.

A Pokémon game is currently being developed for release on the Apple App Store and the Google Android Market. The game, titled Pokémon Ie TAP? (Pokémon Say Tap?), is a music-based game that has the player trying to tap in game Pokémon cards with a beat. The Pokémon music and creatures are the ones featured in Pokémon Black and White.

Hudson Soft's classic will hits the 3DS VC next week.

Adventure Island II will arrive on the 3DS Virtual Console in Japan on July 13 for 400 yen.

Adventure Island II is a side-scrolling game that puts players in the role of Takahashi Mejin (Master Higgins in the English language versions) as he navigates his prehistoric world in an attempt to save his girlfriend from invading aliens. Skateboards, dinosaurs and axes aid Master Higgins on his valiant quest.

Reggie Fils-Aime talks about the Wii U's online service.

Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime acknowledged Nintendo's online shortcomings and need to do better with Wii U in an interview with Forbes.

Fils-Aime also gave some rather uncertain details regarding their plans for the service. Telling Forbes that “what we’re doing is creating a much more flexible system that will allow the best approaches by independent publishers to come to bear.”

That's right. One of the six 3D Classics is Urban Champion and not something good.

Urban Champion is coming out as a 3D Classic in Japan on July 13 for 600 yen.

The simple one-on-one fighting game originally came out on the Famicom in 1984, and the NES in 1986.

It is the third 3D Classic to come out in Japan after Excitebike and Xevious. So far, six 3D Classics have been made. Only Excitebike has come out in North America and Europe.

Will feature rhythm-based battles set to music from the series.

A new rhythm-action Final Fantasy title is coming to the 3DS, Square Enix announced today.

Titled Theatrhythm (short for "theater rhythm action") Final Fantasy, the game is laid very similar to a traditional Final Fantasy game, with an overworld and dungeons, except with battles played out on the... Read more...

Rayman's first adventure game in years is coming to Nintendo's 3D handheld.

Ubisoft's Rayman Origins is coming to the 3DS, confirms the latest issue of Nintendo Power.

Details regarding the 3DS version remain scarce according to Nintendo Power, but Ubisoft promises that it features the same content as the home console versions.

The title is a prequel to previous Rayman... Read more...

Team Meat don't even have dev kits yet.

The designers of Super Meat Boy have ditched plans to port the acclaimed game to the Nintendo 3DS. The team are approved 3DS developers, but have yet to receive dev kits for the system.

They are now working on a new title, but are unsure if it will work on the 3DS, or even if it would be a good fit for the system.