Check out the newly confirmed dates for Luigi's Mansion, Fire Emblem, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon and Animal Crossing.

Nintendo Australia has announced release dates for several high-profile games for the Nintendo 3DS.

The games Nintendo has given dates to include Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, which is coming out on March 28, Fire Emblem Awakening will be coming on April 20, the new Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity is arriving on May 18, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf will be available on June 15.

Come play Wii U games with NWR staff and readers!

Nintendo World Report is having a Wii U community event tomorrow night, February 26, where our staff and readers can get together and play online. 

The action starts at 7 p.m. Eastern (that's 4 p.m. Pacific and Midnight UTC), so pick your favorite Wii U online game and get in the chat to find people to play with!

Merchandising, merchandising - that is where the real money from games are made.

JAKKS Pacific will be marketing and distributing  lines of Nintendo toys and costumes under JAKKS Pacific sub-division, Disguise, Inc.

Toys and costumes will come from multiple Nintendo franchise including Mario, Donkey Kong, and The Legend of Zelda. Jack McGrath, COO of JAKKS... Read more...

The quirky action platformer series makes its way forward.

A sequel to 2011’s Mighty Switch Force is in development for Nintendo 3DS.

Mighty Switch Force 2 will see the return of protagonist Patricia Wagon and will again feature music composed by Jake Kaufman. The development team is aiming for a release in either Q1 or Q2.

WayForward director Austin Ivansmith announced the game during a Destructoid podcast. The developer later confirmed the reveal on their Twitter page.

The Wii may still have some life left in Europe. 

The Wii Mini may be coming to Europe.

The Wii Mini has been discovered under the Wii tab on multiple European versions of Nintendo's official site. However, it could be a mistake; after clicking on the link, users are greeted by an error page.

So far, the Wii Mini has been exclusive to Canada.

Expect service interruptions on February 25 and 26. 

Nintendo has stated on its Network Status page that "emergency maintenance" is scheduled Monday, February 25 and Tuesday, February 26 for the online portions of Pokémon Black and White (both the originals and sequels), Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge, and Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper. Nintendo has not specifically discussed what needs fixing, but expect intermittent issues with playing any of these games online on February 25 and 26.

How many Pixar franchises can fit in one game? 

Cars was revealed as the fourth playset in Disney Infinity.

Following The Incredibles, Monsters University, and Pirates of the Caribbean, Cars will let players play in the world of Radiator Springs as Lightning Mcqueen, Mater, Holley Shiftwell, and Francesco Bernoulli.

The Cars... Read more...

Get twice as many points for shooting people in the face.

A double XP weekend for Call of Duty: Black Ops II is happening right now.

The weekend promotion runs from Friday to Monday, and is available to players on Wii U, PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

To participate, simply hop online between February 22 and February 25, and you’ll automatically earn double the experience points for every headshot, frag kill, and flag capture you can rack up.

A demo and discount for the acclaimed Wii U eShop release is now available across the globe.

A demo for Trine 2: Directors Cut is now available on the Wii U eShop worldwide. The full game is also on sale for a 25% discount across all territories.

The singleplayer demo allows players access to the first level and half of the second, the demo will be available until February 28, although in Europe it will be up until March 7. The demo version also allows local co-op for up to three players.

WiiWare's swan song gets a release date.

Retro City Rampage will be released on WiiWare through the Wii Shop Channel on February 28.

Coming with it is ROM City Rampage, a prototype version of the game accurate to the hardware specifications of the NES. Grandtheftendo, the precursor to Retro City Rampage, was built to run on a real NES.

This batch of downloads is full of Jaggies!

So maybe you missed out on Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii. That's fine, we cool. But there's no excuse for missing out on this week's double dose of Monster Hunter loving. With a 3DS and Wii U demo for March's Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, now is your chance to find out what causes riots to break out... Read more...

The next wave of unique games is coming.

Guild 02, consisting of three games, will be exclusively released in the Nintendo 3DS eShop and sold separately, President Iwata reported in today’s Nintendo Direct. Guild 02 is the second installment of the Guild series, whose first installment, Guild 01, was originally as a retail package consisting... Read more...

Nintendo starts to sell movies in the eShop.

Shaun the Sheep, an animation series which was broadcast in 3D via Nintendo Video on the Japanese 3DS, came to the Japanese eShop after today’s Nintendo Direct. As of today, Volume 1 to 3, each of which contains 3 stories, are available, and in total, 5 volumes are planned to be released. Volume 1 is priced at 100 yen; other volumes are 200 yen each. 

UPDATE: Also Coming to North America. 

UPDATE: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages have been cofirmed for North America by Eiji Aonuma, longtime series developer.

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages will be released on the Japanese Nintendo 3DS eShop next

Making friends like never before!

Tomodachi Collection: Shin Seikatsu (New Life) is set to release in Japan on April 18, Satoru Iwata revealed in the latest Nintendo Direct. The game will be available both digitally and physically for 4,800 yen. 

In the video, Nintendo's president showed himself in a Nintendo themed room, after... Read more...

It isn't pretty, but gamers will finally be able to take the 3DS version of the game online.

Online play is coming to Monster Hunter 3 (tri) G, known as Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate in the West, for the NIntendo 3DS in Japan. To enable the online connection for the 3DS version of the game, players will first need to purchase a special LAN adapter for their Wii U. From there, they will need download... Read more...

Third-party 3DS games are the topic of Nintendo's latest online broadcast.

A Japanese Nintendo Direct broadcast focusing on third-party 3DS titles will take place tomorrow at 3 a.m. PT/ 6 a.m. ET.

For those of you not located in the United States, here is the time of the broadcast converted to a few other time zones.

3 a.m. PT6 a.m. ET11 a.m. GMT8 p.m. JST

It's the only Nintendo news to come out of Sony's PS4 reveal.

Watch Dogs is coming to Wii U, Ubisoft finally confirmed.

Following Sony's PlayStation 4 event, where they showed off a real-time demo of the game, Ubisoft issued a press release saying that the game would see release on not only the PlayStation 4, but also the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and of course, the Wii U.

Rising Star Games be keepen' it reel.

Super Black Bass 3D will be coming to North America courtesy of Rising Star Games. The 3DS game will be arriving on April 2, a little under a month after its European release.

Super Black Bass 3D provides 30 types of fish, and allows players to use the Real Rod System; a way to cast and reel in your catch through the 3DS's motion controls.

Bungie's newest game may be coming to the Wii U.

Destiny, the newest game by Bungie, may be coming to the Wii U.

When looking through the official pre-order page, Gamnesia found Wii U listed in the code for the page among other not yet announced platforms.

It is also possible that all platforms may have been listed by Activision by default, a publisher that supports major platforms. So far Destiny is only confirmed for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.