Metroid's prolific villain is headed to the upcoming Smash Bros. games.

Mother Brain from the Metroid video game series has been revealed as an assist trophy in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. sequels for both the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS. 

"Pic of the day. Housed within the Control Capsule! Protected by Rinkas! Eyeball armed with a Laser Brain Attack!! The... Read more...

Sledgehammer Games joins the fray as the series switches to a tri-annual rotation.

The developers behind the historically successful Call of Duty franchise will now operate on a rotating three-year release cycle, with Sledgehammer Games joining series stalwarts Treyarch and Infinity Ward.

Activision will continue to release Call of Duty games on an annual basis and they confirmed... Read more...

Prepare your spatial reasoning skills for its launch this spring.

Shin'en is developing a new game in its Art of Balance series that will launch on the Wii U eShop in spring 2014.

The series, which originated on WiiWare in 2010 and then saw an installment on the 3DS eShop two years later, involves puzzle situations in which the goal is to stack a series of items while maintaining their balance. 

Leave your friends a tip, or a shovel to the face; the choice is yours!

Using the Wii U’s Miiverse platform, Shovel Knight will allow players to leave tips on a room by room basis to others.

Though Yacht Club games did not initially include specific details last November when it announced Miiverse and StreetPass integration would be coming to Shovel Knight, developer... Read more...

The mysteries of Lemuria will soon be revealed.

Child of Light, Ubisoft's upcoming artistic platforming RPG, will be coming to the Wii U eShop on April 30, 2014 for $14.99.

The Japanese-style role-playing game created by Ubisoft Montreal is built on the UbiArt Framework, the same engine used to power Rayman Legends and Origins, helping to create worlds that feel like interactive paintings.

Open world action and traditional JRPG tropes collide in this week's downloads!

While I wouldn’t call this week the deluge of content the eShop and Virtual Console need, it certainly has some gems. 3DS fans will be satisfied at least, with both a great-looking JRPG as well as an excellent open world action game hitting the system. The Wii U is a little less robust with Ninja Gaiden and…a game about a penguin. Well, don’t knock it ‘till you’ve tried it, kids.

The 3DS version is being developed by the team behind the last Sly Cooper. 

A brand new Sonic game, called Sonic Boom, is headed exclusively to Wii U and Nintendo 3DS later this year. It's a prequel to the new Sonic CG TV show of the same name, and features new character designs, including a burlier Knuckles. Sonic Boom is the third in three previously announced Nintendo-platform exclusive Sonic titles from Sega.

The enhanced version of the NES-style GTA game finally comes out on a current-gen Nintendo platform.

Retro City Rampage DX is finally arriving in the 3DS eShop tomorrow.

After a few months of vague release windows, Vblank Entertainment, the developers of the enhanced version of the WiiWare/PC/Playstation Network release of Retro City Rampage, has confirmed that the Deluxe version of the game will... Read more...

But not all is magic and happiness in the world of Disney.

Disney Interactive saw a 38 percent increase in revenues for the first fiscal quarter of 2014, according to a report released today by The Walt Disney Company, and the company has the success of Disney Infinity to thank for it.

Revenues for Disney’s games business jumped to a total of $403 million,... Read more...

Marty talked about some tweaks to Miiverse on the Wii U!

Players can now control both the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS versions of Miiverse in a similar fashion. Marty from Nintendo of Europe announced the news in a Miiverse update earlier today.

The button for reloading is no longer the L button, replaced by the Y button. Nintendo added a new feature related to when you have a community open. You can now quickly go from post to post by using L and R buttons, which allows for quicker scrolling.

After a month delay, the service is finally available stateside.

Pokémon Bank is now available for download in the Nintendo 3DS eShop in North America. The app is free to download and a trial period has been implemented through March 14. Following that date, a yearly fee of $4.99 will be required in order to continue using the app.

The service allows players... Read more...

Nintendo struggling in the gaming market might not be the best news for Sony and Microsoft.

Playstation UK’s Managing Director, Fergal Gara, recently spoke about how Nintendo’s performance in the market could affect the industry.

"[The decline of Nintendo] could be detrimental to the market, unless people like us raise our game and help tap into the younger consumer group that they serve rather well", Gara said.

Download The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in this weeks Nintendo Downloads.

This week's Nintendo Downloads offers a double helping of eShop originals, along with two classic Virtual Console titles.

Wii U eShop Sales

Super Indie Sale – 60 percent off the following titles until 9 a.m. PT on February 13:

Lack of demand for extra content means that the story ends here for Wii U owners.

The Wii U version of last year's action-adventure title Batman Arkham Origins will not receive the previously announced downloadable content.

Users who purchased the game's Season Pass, which had been sold for $19.99 in North America and £15.99 in the UK, will receive a full refund to their Wii U eShop account.

The Aura Pokémon will be even more potent this time, says Sakurai.

Lucario is the latest veteran fighter to be confirmed as a returning character in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U.

The Fighting/Steel Pokémon, who falls at #448 in the National Pokédex, made his series debut in Super Smash Bros. Brawl on Wii, in which he was known for his signature Aura ability that increased his attack power as he sustained more damage.

For a very limited time in the USA!

American Nintendo 3DS owners who missed out on the earlier release of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition have another chance to download the title.

For a strictly limited time, the game is now available for free as a download from the eShop. The rerun comes as part of a promotion to advertise the Wii U Virtual Console release of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

S.H. Figuarts tackles the portly plumber! (Coming soon to Mariobilia, of course!)

Bandai's S.H.Figuarts line of poseable action figures has adopted Nintendo's mascot character into its ranks.

Toted as the world's first full action figure of Super Mario, the Figuarts toy looks like it comes with an incredible amount of articulation on his limbs and torso. As with most of these style of toys, clear plastic stands will allow you to position Mario in all manner of impossible mid-air poses.

Two cool posters for New Leaf fans.

An Animal Crossing: New Leaf 2-Poster Set is now available as a reward for North American Club Nintendo members at a cost of 500 coins.

The first poster focuses on New Leaf characters that can, and will, appear in any players village in a setting that looks like the Animal Crossing Plaza. The second poster is a big list of all the standard villagers that appear in New Leaf.

Iwata believes expansion will bring new customers to consoles.

Nintendo will use smart devices to bring new customers to their consoles according to President Satoru Iwata. The service will start later this year.

First-party Nintendo titles will not be released, but rather smart devices will be used to "make connections with customers." Iwata believes that... Read more...

Mario Kart Wii also manages to sneak in another million

Five titles in the Wii U's library have surpassed the million-sales mark worldwide.

Following tonight's investor presentation, Nintendo released sales data for its top-selling Wii U titles. Super Mario 3D World came in first place, with over 1.94 million units sold. New Super Mario Bros. U came... Read more...