The clock has struck midnight on the East Coast. 3DS has hit America.

3D is now in the palm of your hand as Nintendo's newest handheld, the 3DS, is in stores now. Alongside the system, there are 16 launch games, including three from Nintendo.

At Nintendo's grand launch event in New York City, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime reiterated the May eShop-enabling system update and riled up the crowd.

The Green Lantern heads into the third dimension this June on the Nintendo 3DS.

To coincide with the release of the new Green Lantern film this June, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment have announced Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters for all major gaming platforms, including Wii, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS.

The 3DS version of the game is designed to take advantage of the system's stereoscopic visuals, and will be playable in 3D as well as 2D.

Earn coins for registering your Nintendo 3DS!

The Nintendo 3DS launches tomorrow in North America, and like past Nintendo platforms, Club Nintendo is offering coins for those who register their new handhelds.

For those who take the time to register their Nintendo 3DS with Club Nintendo will receive 160 coins after completing a short survey.... Read more...

Ubisoft is bringing the Petz franchise to the Nintendo 3DS this June. 

Today, Ubisoft revealed Petz Fantasy 3D and Zoo Mania 3D for the Nintendo 3DS, both of which are scheduled to release in North America in June.

Petz Fantasy 3D is much like previous games in the series, which appeared on DS, though instead of focusing on dogs or cats, Petz Fantasy 3D allows players... Read more...

Gameloft announces its first downloadable game for Nintendo's new handheld. 

While the Nintendo 3DS has launched around the world without the eShop present, that has not stopped Gameloft from announcing its first game for the service: Let's Golf 2.

Let's Golf 2 is the sequel to Let's Golf, available on both the DSiWare service as well as for iOS. The game, which is a port of the iOS version of Let's Golf 2, is expected to roll out alongside of the eShop later this year.

The Pokémon brand is just as strong as ever.

Having sold in excess of a million copies on launch day, Nintendo announced that Pokémon Black and Pokémon White have reached a new threshold via Twitter.

Today Nintendo of America tweeted:

Thanks, Pokémon fans! You helped the Pokémon Black and Pokémon White Version games hit the 2 million sales mark in just 2 weeks!

The Sims arrive in Japan late next week.

Electronic Arts announced that The Sims 3DS will arrive on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan on April 1 following a delay due to the natural disasters that struck the country.

The game will be available for ¥4,980. The Sims 3DS is a launch title in North America and Europe.

Retailers have been told to destroy all copies of the promotional DVD due to the recent earthquake.

Retailers have been ordered to destroy all copies of the One Piece Unlimited Cruise SP promo DVD containing footage of the upcoming Nintendo 3DS game, according to the Sinobi retailer blog.

Namco Bandai, the game's publisher, is taking this extreme measures because one of the characters has a special... Read more...

The top entries produced at the annual Nintendo Game Seminar will arrive soon.

Four Nintendo DS titles, Planetaria, FloWoooot, The TENTAI-Show, and Pull Pull Pully, were deemed by Nintendo as the best games submitted from their annual Nintendo Game Seminar. Nintendo has applied for trademarks for the four names in Japan. The release of the games, however, has been delayed.

If you've preordered your 3DS console through Amazon, you've just made $25.

Amazon has announced that they will provide a $25 promotional credit complimentary with any 3DS preorders placed until the system launch. Additionally, this offer will be extended to any orders that have already been placed. Once the order ships out, a confirmation email will be sent within 2 days, and the store credit can be used towards any of the 18 listed launch titles.

Allegedly, the total cost of components is around $100.

According to UBM TechInsights, when broken down into components and raw materials, the total value of the 3DS is $101 USD, which is around $15 more expensive than the DSi was reportedly made for.

The inflation on the final retail price is broken up between actual manufacturing and labour, product... Read more...

The sequel to the NES classic will arrive on the Japanese WiiWare service this summer.

The recently announced sequel River City Ransom has now been confirmed for a WiiWare release. 

Initially announced for the PC and another unspecified console, today the developer Miracle Kidz announced that the unspecified console is in fact the Wii. 

The game will hit the Japanese WiiWare service sometime this summer, much earlier than the PC version which will arrive sometime next year.

The Square Enix RPG is finally hitting the Virtual Console. 

Today Nintendo released a list of games that are heading to the Japanese Virtual Console in April. 

Three games will be released on the service next month, led by the highly-anticipated Chrono Trigger from Square Enix. The game, which was released for the SNES in 1995, will run at a premium price of 900 Nintendo Points, 100 higher than most SNES games, but standard for RPGs in Japan. 

The game is still in development, and still has the Duke Nukem brand.

Duke Nukem: Critical Mass, also known as Extraction Point: Alien Shootout, is still set for a Nintendo DS release. The game was original going to be known as Duke Nukem Trilogy, a series of three original new games for release on Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. 

At one point, the game was rumored... Read more...

Nintendo of Europe will bring Tecmo Koei's new fighter to European territories. 

Today Nintendo of Europe and Tecmo Koei announced that Nintendo will distribute Dead of Alive Dimensions in Europe later this year.

Under the terms of the agreement, Nintendo will take care of the sales, marketing and distribution of the game in Europe, while Tecmo Koei will remain as the publisher. A similar arrangement is in place with Capcom for Super Street Fighter IV 3D.

The capabilities of the 3DS allowed Ubisoft to use the famed graphics engine.

Ubisoft's Splinter Cell 3DS runs on the Unreal game engine.

Splinter Cell 3D producer Fabrice Cuny confirmed that the development team at Ubisoft was able to implement the Unreal Engine on the 3DS. He states that "It is pretty impressive for a handheld machine, and the 3D doesn’t affect the performance... Read more...

Along with a confirmed release date, the Resident Evil title for the 3DS has new box art.

Famitsu has revealed the box art for Capcom's Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D.

Along with the announcement of a June 2 release date for Japan, Famitsu gives its readers a look at the game's boxart. It features Chris Redfield, Claire Redfield, and Hunk.

The upcoming crossover title may appear on Nintendo's 3D handheld.

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono believes that a 3DS port of the crossover game Street Fighter X Tekken should happen.

In an interview with Eurogamer, Yoshinori Ono expressed his thoughts on the possibility of a 3DS port.

"I think that's an amazing thing. The next step would be to have Street Fighter x Tekken, which is the celebration of all top fighting gamers' dreams in one, to be on 3DS, where you can play anywhere you want."

A trip to Kmart and Toys "R" Us could save you cash for maximizing your 3DS library.

Toys "R" Us is offering a buy one, get one half off deal to all customers who purchase Nintendo 3DS games at the retailer when 3DS launches this Sunday. With most 3DS games costing $39.99 this will cut the cost of two games from $80 to $60.

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Please show and tell us everything about your 3DS launch experience.

We're all excited for the 3DS launch, but, as with any console launch, we all know the most exciting part is the chase. So, send your tales of launch lines and events to 3DS-at-nintendoworldreport.com. Don't forget to send us your pictures as well. As long as it's appropriate, it will be included in a round-up next week.