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...

Unfortunately, the game might be region locked.

The crossover game Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition will have DSi-enhanced features.

Pidgi.net recently discovered the product code of the title, which confirms that the final release of the game will feature DSi enhancement. The product code is TSA-TWL-VPYJ-JPN. Each set of letters represents a specific... Read more...

The musical Final Fantasy adventure gets a second demo before release.

Square Enix's Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy is getting a second downloadable demo on February 1.

The demo will contain two songs from the 3DS title: "The Man with the Machine Gun" from Final Fantasy VIII and "The Sunleth Waterscape," the field theme from Final Fantasy XIII. Tetsuya Nomura, director and designer of multiple Square Enix titles, confirmed the demo in several interviews.

The collaboration hopes to expand upon the communication features on Nintendo systems.

Japanese communications company NTT is working with Nintendo on developing speech recognition software, NHK recently reported.

NTT developed software for the DS that can convert voices into text. The hope is that it would help children with disabled students do better in school. 

Nintendo supplied the DS units. The teacher's voice is converted by NTT's software into words that will be displayed on the device's screen.

The highly successful toy-driven game is flying off the shelves.

Activision is having problems keeping Skylanders in stock, but are doing their best to keep up with demand, Activision VP of Marketing John Coyne told Kotaku.

Skylanders has become a massive holiday hit for Activision, with demand for starter kits and more figures going up since its release last... Read more...

February and March will be kind to Aussie gamers.

Nintendo Australia has announced that Tekken 3D Prime Edition will be available on February 23, 2012.

March will also see the release of two more games, the first being Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, which will be launching on March 8. The other is Kid Icarus: Uprising, which has no exact date as of yet.

Like January, three titles will be revived, two for Neo Geo.

February's Japanese Wii Virtual Console releases have been announced, and next month looks a lot like this month. Wii gamers in Japan can expect two more Neo Geo fighters and a Kunio-kun dodge ball game.

D4 seems intent in making their entire SNK line-up available on Virtual Console. Just this month,... Read more...

He plans to find a balance between flexibility and security.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata explained how Nintendo will use micro-transactions during a recent Q&A with investors at the recent financial briefing.

Iwata stated that Nintendo plans to keep an appropriate level of flexibility in its handling of micro-payments (transactions involving a very... Read more...

The key to all of this might be in Nintendo Direct, as Iwata aims to "construct a seamless flow" that guides viewers through videos and demos.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata wants to eschew the idea that Nintendo is "cautious, conservative, or even negative about business on a network," as he responded to investors at the recent Financial Briefing Q&A.

"Our answer [to that notion] is, in short, that we will make a bold attempt when... Read more...

Nintendo's developers are also "taking into consideration [the system's] network-related capabilities."

The Wii U controller's realization of the original concept of the Wii Remote is one of the main ways the system is unique, according to Nintendo's Genyo Takeda, senior managing director and general manager of the IRD division, who said as much during the Q&A portion of Nintendo's recent Financial Reports Briefing. 

The game was announced at a 10th anniversary event for the series.

A fifth installment of the Ace Attorney games was announced yesterday as part of a 10th anniversary event for the series. No platform was given for the game, nor a release date. No further details about the game were revealed, and it is currently unknown whether there will be a release outside Japan.

Capcom has acknowledged and will be fixing the mistake.

Box art of the North American version of Resident Evil: Revelations has a typo, publisher Capcom acknowledged.

Images circulating the internet via Twitter, revealed that the typo is not just an isolated incident. The side of game's box reads "Revelaitons" instead of "Revelations."

Capcom's Christian... Read more...

The premium-priced Resident Evil title for 3DS is now 10 dollars cheaper.

Resident Evil: Revelations will now be priced at $39.99, Capcom announced through its community blog.

Originally, Revelations was priced at $49.99 due to the game being on a more expensive 4GB cartridge, making it one of the few 3DS titles to be sold at that price. While Capcom maintained that the value of the content justified the original price, after "weeks of effort," the company was able to lower the game's price.

The developer of the hit Batman Arkham games could be behind a TMNT title for Wii U.

Rocksteady Studios is working on a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the Wii U, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, according to rumor posted by Paul Gale Network.

According to the source, the title of the game will be TMNT: Manhattan Crisis. The title is set to have all four turtles as playable... Read more...

Mutant Mudds has arrived, along with other games and a new demo.

Four new downloadable games were added to Nintendo's downloadable services, along with another demo on the eShop.

One of the biggest releases of the week was Mutant Mudds. This highly acclaimed 2D platformer sets the hero, Max, on a quest to eliminate the Mutant Mudds. You can read our review of the game here. The game can be downloaded now for $8.99. 

Professor Layton 5, Mario Tennis, and Luigi's Mansion 2 all listed as 2012 releases as well.

Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir, the sort-of spin-off to Fatal Frame from Tecmo Koei and Nintendo, is coming to Europe according to Nintendo's Financial Reports Briefing.

The game recently came out in Japan, and was announced for an April 13 release date in North America. Currently, the European release has no set date other than 2012.