Technically it's after the recent spring 2012 date, but only by a week.

Heroes of Ruin, n-Space's ambitious 3DS dungeon crawler, is slated to hit stores on June 26 in North America, according to publisher Square Enix.

The game will be playable at PAX East in Boston this weekend. You can read all about Heroes of Ruin in our various previews and impressions. It features online co-op for four players, tons of loot, voice chat, and StreetPass and SpotPass functionality.

Pokémon Champion? Yeah, right. Try Pokémon Warlord! 

Pokémon + Nobunaga’s Ambition is headed to North America on June 18 under the name Pokémon Conquest. 

Developed by Tecmo Koei, the DS game takes place in a new land called Ransei where players must team up with with other Warriors and Warlords, who are based on the Nobunaga's Ambition series.... Read more...

Get a chance to play Temco Koei's latest entry in the series for free starting today!

A Dynasty Warriors VS demo is available starting today, April 4, for free on the Japan eShop. The demo lets players sample the VS mode against computer players, local multiplayer battles, and a tutorial mode where you can choose from one of four military commanders.

Depending on how much they... Read more...

Members in Japan have a chance to make their own Nintendo-themed shirt.

Customizable Nintendo-themed polo shirts are now available for Club Nintendo members in Japan. The shirts, which will run users 550 points, are available in one of eight colors: black, navy blue, red, yellow, green, light blue, pink or white. Members can also choose from one of six Nintendo emblems:... Read more...

GameStop is selling 3D Classics: Kid Icarus for a limited time. 

GameStop is currently selling 3D Classics: Kid Icarus as a timed exclusive. The enhanced version of the classic NES game was released alongside Kid Icarus: Uprising as a preorder bonus from select retailers in North America; however, a download code for the title can be purchased in-store or on GameStop’s website for $5.99 for those that missed out on the promotion.

More tracks from spin off Final Fantasy titles arrives this week.

The fourth installment of downloadable content for Theatrhrhythm Final Fantasy will be available on April 4 with songs being priced at 150 yen each. The following four songs will be available this week:

Final Fantasy II – Madōshi no Tō (Field Music)Final Fantasy VI – Sentō (Battle Music)Final Fantasy IX – Hametsu e no Shisha (Battle Music)Final Fantasy Versus XIII – Somnus (Field Music)

Club Nintendo users with spare coins can get Metal Torrent, You, Me & the Cubes, and Excitebike: World Rally.

Nintendo's Club Nintendo game rewards, which started late last year, are offering three new titles for coins earned by buying games and taking surveys.

The lone 3DS title is a DSiWare game called Metal Torrent, which is a shoot-'em-up made by Arika and published by Nintendo. It is available for 150 Coins, and you can check out our impressions of it for more info.

This is a sign that Virtual Console on Wii is definitely on its last legs.

Prince of Persia for Super Famicom and Metal Slug 3 for Neo Geo will be the only two Wii Virtual Console releases in Japan next month. This is the lowest total of Virtual Console releases on the system in a month in Japan ever.

Recently, Japan has been getting an average of about four new Wii Virtual... Read more...

Hopefully it won't get delayed again and become a GameStop exclusive.

Rhythm Thief, which is coming out in Europe on April 5, isn't coming out in North America until July 10, according to Sega's official blog.

The lengthy release disparity between European and North American Sega release dates isn't new, unfortunately. Crush 3D came out in Europe in January, and only came out in North America earlier in March as a budget-priced GameStop exclusive.

While always planned for 3DS, it started development before development kits were even available.

Kid Icarus: Uprising has been in development so long that Masahiro Sakurai and Project Sora started working on it on PC and Wii before Project Sora was even officially formed, according to the latest Iwata Asks on the game.

"At first we didn't have the Nintendo 3DS development kit, so we started making it on a PC. Oh, and for a while we were using a Wii to make it!" Sakurai said and followed it up with an Iwata Asks-staple laugh.

Wario's brush with immortality comes to 3DS - in color too!

The first sequel to Wario's pioneering adventure on the Game Boy is set for release on the Japanese Virtual Console service on April 4th. The 3DS version is a port of the Game Boy Color re-release, which was the only version released in Japan.

The game is a direct sequel to Super Mario Land 3:... Read more...

Rhythm Thief will be out in Australia early in April.

Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure has been announced for release in Australia on the Nintendo 3DS on April 12, 2012.

Rhythm Thief features over 50 different rhythm-based challenges, making use of a number of different inputs on the 3DS. The touch screen, different button inputs, stylus and... Read more...

Australians should speed towards the eShop soon to tackle Potzol's Puzzle!

The puzzle game SpeedThru: Potzol's Puzzle has been announced to launch on the Australian eShop on April 5, 2012.

The game offers an immersive 3D world which puts players' skills of spatial awareness to the test. SpeedThru: Potzol's Puzzle features over 90 stages, along with three multiplayer modes.

The DreamRift-developed platformer will make use of the stylus, feature classic characters, and show off wonderful parallax backgrounds in 3D.

Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, developed by Monster Tale and Henry Hatsworth developer DreamRift, is actually a sequel of sorts to two different games: Epic Mickey, the 2010 Wii release, and Castle of Illusion, a 1990 Sega Genesis title.

The latest issue of Nintendo Power reveals the game, and... Read more...

Xseed will be bringing this dungeon crawler to western 3DS owners.

UnchainBlades ReXX will be given a western release as Unchained Blades, to be published by Xseed on the Nintendo 3DS.

The existence was initially hinted on the publisher's Twitter account, offering photos of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a single blade of grass, and a scene from the movie Ghost (in which... Read more...

Not one, but two Epic Mickey games will be hitting stores this year.

Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion has been officially announced for 3DS in issue 277 of Nintendo Power.

Officially, only Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two had been revealed until now, but the 3DS version will be joining it as a completely new game. Developed by Dreamrift (who worked on Monster Tale previously), the title is known to be completely different from the Wii game, but little else will be revealed until the actual issue hits shelves.

The cartoon show is getting its own game, developed by WayForward.

Adventure Time, developed by WayForward, is scheduled to hit shelves as a Nintendo DS game later this year.

The cartoon show's creator revealed the news last night through Twitter, along with some humorous pictures. He only revealed that the title would be coming later this year, so we will have to wait for a more definitive release date.

If you ever wanted one of your game ideas to become a reality, now might be the chance.

Renegade Kid and GAMEscribe have joined forces to bring us the pitchWinPLAY contest, a competition where one submitted idea will become a 3DS eShop game.

The contest simply requires that you submit your pitch for a new side-scrolling platformer. Whomever's pitch is chosen in the end will get the... Read more...

Starting April 2, 2012, the retailer will no longer accept the trade-in of GameCube consoles, games, and accessories.

GameStop is ending their part in the used GameCube consoles, games, and accessories market. According to a banner located at the bottom of the Trade-Ins page on their US site and similar signs in stores, GameStop and EB Games will no longer accept trade-ins on any GameCube consoles, games, or accessories starting April 2, 2012.

...and no one has any idea what it means.

The name "Pokémon Tretta" has been trademarked by Nintendo, GameFreak, and Creatures.

The trademark itself (number T2012-14319) has not been given meaning yet, though a logo was included with the trademark. In Japan, the word "tretta" usually refers to something bookshelf or bicycle related, but with an English logo being given alongside a Japanese one, whatever the trademark refers to will likely come to the west in some form.