Even though this update has a lot of sucking, don't sleep on the crossbuy adventure.

Before we begin today, just a public service announcement: If for some reason you have a North American game code from the late Club Nintendo, you have until midnight Pacific tomorrow night to use that code.

The last download update of the month is quite a busy one for North America. On the Wii... Read more...

Also coming: Two beloved RPG characters get Mii costumes, as well as the greatest threat to America.

As promised last night, there are more details of the content in the Smash update.

The Smash Bros JP Twitter has updated with news that the Youtube uploads will also upload to Miiverse. In addition, three new Mii costumes were revealed: Honey bears (pictured below) for the Gunner, Flying Man (Earthbound series) for the Brawler and Lloyd Irving from Tales of Symphonia as the Swordsman.

Though their version is slightly different than North America and Europe's.

Australia and New Zealand didn't get to participate in the Nindies @ Home promotion during E3, but they'll get to do their own version starting tomorrow.

First reported by the Australian specialists at Vooks, the ANZ version of the program will run with three games each week for the next three weeks. Downloading the demos will still provide the 15% off the final product.

Zelda Wii U: Confirmed to have no release date at this time.

Nintendo has issued a supplementary statement to their 1st fiscal quarter financials which includes the traditional updated release schedule.

Although most of the games were already revealed, Project Guard is now listed as a 2016 elease while Project Giant Robot, which previously listed as 1st half of 2015, is now showing a TBA release date. This confirms that Platinum is working to turn Guard into a full game as was announced at E3.

UPDATED: Thanks to the ESRB, we know which ones will be added.

UPDATE: The ESRB has added listings for Kirby 64, Kirby Squeak Squad and Kirby Return to Dreamland, which indicates they will be the three games in question. The original story is below.

A lot of classic Kirby will be coming to the Wii U in North America this week to celebrate the pink ball's birthday.

Could there finally be a use for that Pikachu Amiibo?

The Japanese website for Super Mario Maker has updated with a bunch of new information about the titles.

The main feature is the "Costume Mario" that shows off several of Mario's transformations including Peach, Bowser, Yoshi, Kirby and Isabelle from Animal Crossing. A separate update to the Amiibo... Read more...

Including the return of a much-abused Lord... in Mii costume form.

The next Smash Bros update will launch before the week is out.

The update will drop on July 31 in Japan, with NA/Europe/Australia times to be announced shortly. Among the features of the update are the long-promised Tournament mode, replay uploading and support for the classic Super Smash Bros stages Peach's Castle and Hyrule Castle from the N64 version.

The first financial quarter is a success thanks to kids and squids.

Nintendo has released their financial results for the 1st quarter of the fiscal year, and it's a profitable one.

Nintendo brought in profit of 8.3bn yen in the quarter (US$67m, all figures rounded), on the back of a slight operating profit of 1.1bn yen (US$9m) and 90bn yen (US$729m) in revenue. This was ahead of analyst expectations according to Nikkei, who had estimated a 125m yen loss.

First 4 Figures fully reveals their upcoming statue and opens pre-orders.

First 4 Figures has fully revealed their upcoming Meta Knight statue and have opened pre-orders. Both a Standard and Exclusive version of the collectable are being offered.

Both versions of Meta Knight are 16 inches tall. The Standard version is no frills, limited to 1,000 pieces, and costs $239.99.... Read more...

More slime filled adventures await in the future!

Square Enix in a video presentation today announced the next main entry in the Dragon Quest series, Dragon Quest XI, for the Nintendo 3DS, as well as the Playstation 4 and Nintendo's upcoming system, currently codenamed the NX.

Footage was shown of the 3DS version during the event. This version... Read more...

These New 3DS bundles sure are pretty!

Nintendo fans in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand will get the chance to design homes for their favorite Animal Crossing characters on a brand-new Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer edition New 3DS XL or a white New 3DS system with an exclusive set of Animal Crossing cover plates. Both bundles... Read more...

Includes a tag team match for the players, and some road construction.

The Japanese Splatoon Twitter account has announced a massive content update for August 6, with the update landing on August 5 in North America.

According to a translation provided by @Cheesemeister3k the update will include new weapons and items, as well as private matches and a new tag team match function.

The best use of a bucket since Mario and Wario,

A new Japanese commercial for Splatoon shows some upcoming elements for the shooter.

In addition to showing the Rainmaker mode, the commercial shows a gun in the style of a gatling gun, as well as a paint bucket being used to spread paint. The gatling gun was found in previously mined data, but the paint bucket appears to be new.

The Wii U service never lived up to its potential, anyway.

The TVii service is no more.

Nintendo announced today via Miiverse that the Wii U’s forgettable TVii service will be discontinued in North America on August 11th, 2015 at 3:00 PM PST. The app has been sitting on North American Wii U systems since shortly after launch. The service was delayed in Europe for years and eventually cancelled.

This big bad Meta Knight will scare the garbage out of your Amiibo.

A new Meta Knight statue from First 4 Figures has been revealed. Pre-orders for the new collectable will go live on July 28th on First4Figures.com. Further information, such as pricing and edition size, will be revealed at that time.

Meta Knight is the second statue First 4 Figures has produced in the Kirby line. Previously the company has released Sword Kirby in both the Standard and Exclusive variants.

Along with a sale and a new version

Some major changes are coming to Elliot Quest, with the first of them hitting next week.

The first will come down as an update on July 30, when the game will add support for Miiverse journals which appear to launch July 29, and 20 Miiverse stamps. The update will be accompanied by a 15% off sale in both North America and Europe.

I suspect the E-Liter will be popular here, what with all the camping involved.

The newest Splatoon stage comes tomorrow night, and is well timed for summer camp.

Camp Triggerfish will launch squidkids into bases separated from the rest of the map by water and a series of bridges. Turf War matches will see floodgates go down with a minute left on the clock, while ranked matches will see the gates down at all times.

Multiple sources are showing a 2016 release for the crowdfunded successor.

Multiple retail outlets are now showing the physical version of Mighty No 9 with a 2016 release date.

The following websites have updated their release dates for Mighty No 9 to "December 31, 2016": Amazon (both US and Canada), GameStop, EB Games, GameFly, Walmart (US/Canada), Best Buy (Canada). As of press time, Best Buy's US site and Target still show the game with the previous September 15 release date.

Breakin' bones in the streets.

This week is surprisingly loaded for Nintendo systems in North America. Even if you put aside Donkey Kong Jungle Climber, there's 2.5 major 3DS games in the form of 3D Streets of Rage 2, Dragon Fantasy (complete with crossbuy!) and the controversial New 3DS exclusive Binding of Isaac Rebirth. Yes, the game we thought would never come to a Nintendo console is coming to both of them (in theory).

And the location is more confident in the game than they are in Tekken.

Pokken Tournament will be coming to North America, and the hosts are confident it will do well.

During a Reddit AMA Kevin Bachus, the senior VP of Entertainment/Game Strategy for arcade and restaurant chain Dave and Buster's confirmed they will be holding location tests in some locations. Should... Read more...