More tracks join the mix in Japan!

Four more tracks are being released this week for Theatrhythm Final Fantasy in Japan for the Nintendo 3DS. The following songs will be released on March 21:

Final Fantasy II – Dungeon (Field Music)Final Fantasy V – Saigo no Tatakai (Final Battle, Battle Music)Final Fantasy XII – Azuma Dalmasca Sabaku (East Dalmasca Dessert, Field Music)Final Fantasy XIII-2 – Megami no Kishi (Knights of the goddess, Battle Music)

The Wii Shop Channel is getting even thinner.

Several Sonic games on the Wii's Virtual Console will be pulled from the service in Japan, according to a report by Inside-Games.

The ones mentioned are the Mega Drive games; Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic & Knuckles as well as the Master System version of Sonic the Hedgehog.... Read more...

Only a few more weeks to wait.

Pandora's Tower, the highly anticipated Wii title and the last of the three Operation Rainfall games, is set to release in Australia on April 12 this year.

The game puts you in the role of a soldier named Aeron who must journey to the top of 13 towers to fight and kill large monsters and harvest... Read more...

A series of animations for the Nintendo 3DS begins rolling out in Australia.

A series of six short 3D animations for Kid Icarus: Uprising will be released over the next six weeks through the Nintendo Video application on the Nintendo 3DS. The first short is available now.

The animations are being produced by top studios such as, Production I.G, Studio 4°C and Shaft Inc. The stories presented through the videos will include various scenarios relating to the backstory and world of the new Kid Icarus game.

Club Nintendo isn't the only one giving out free cards.

There will be "hundreds of AR cards to collect" when Kid Icarus: Uprising releases on March 23, as stated by Nintendo.

In addition to the previously reported Club Nintendo promotion (offering three cards free to users), and six random cards (out of 20) releasing with the physical game, Nintendo has revealed several other outlets to obtain cards from.

The voice of Mario will be making an appearance on the Nintendo Australia MK 7 Community.

Nintendo Australia has announced that the voice actor of Mario, Charles Martinet, will be playing online along with various staff from Nintendo during their weekly hour long Mario Kart 7 game night.

To have a chance to play against Charles Martinet all you have to do is join the Nintendo Australia Community and log on between 6:30pm (AEST) and 7:30pm, Monday March 19.

The two Nintendo mascots lend their clothing to the game's heroes.

The upcoming 3DS exclusive, Dynasty Warriors Vs., will include two Nintendo themed costumes, according to a recent issue of Famitsu.

Link and Samus won’t be making an appearance in Dynasty Warriors Vs., but at least their clothing will. Link’s costume will be from The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword while Samus’s Zero Suit from Metroid: Other M will appear.

Still holding out on getting this game? A demo is on the way.

A demo of Mutant Mudds will be heading to the eShop in a few weeks, according to Jools Watsham through GoNintendo.

The demo will feature four of the main stages in the game (1-1, 2-1, 3-1, and 4-1) as well as one of the secret stages (secret 1-1). The demo is currently being looked at by Nintendo... Read more...

Users can get a free pack of cards as part of a promotion for the upcoming title.

Club Nintendo members can now participate in a promotion to recieve a free pack of AR Idol Cards from Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS.

The limited-time promotion (which will be running while supplies last) contains three cards: Great Reaper, Drill Arm, and Palutena (Rare). The cards can be used in AR battles or for display using the 3DS camera.

Genius' first downloadable effort is crashing Nintendo's party!

Denpa Ningen might very well be the biggest third party bestseller on the Japanese eShop, this according to statistics on the digital store.

The game currently sits on place four on the all-time sales charts, surrounded by the downloadable efforts of Nintendo. The numbers one and two are 3D Classics:... Read more...

Level-5's popular RPG series may be coming to the 3DS.

The Little Battlers, Level-5’s popular RPG series about model robots, may come to the 3DS. The 3DS game, currently dubbed The Little Battlers Experience Baku Boost, is rumored to be revealed in the upcoming issue of CoroCoro magazine, alongside a PSP title of the same series.

Similar to the Custom... Read more...

Despite the delay, the hit game is still arriving on Nintendo's 3DS.

Rovio's hit mobile game Angry Birds is still being planned for release on the 3DS, chief marketing office Peter Vesterbacka recently confirmed to Joystiq at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival, held in Austin, Texas.

Despite the game being available on nearly all major mobile systems, including iOS and Android, Rovio has yet to release the game on any handhelds or consoles. 

Developer Two Tribes might be aiming for a launch window release.

Toki Tori 2, the sequel to the downloadable cult hit by Two Tribes, is "definitely" coming to the Wii U, according to a conversation at the 2012 Game Developers Conference.

In conversation about the much hoped-for Wii U port of their upcoming game, Collin van Ginkel, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Two Tribes, responded that "it will be on Wii U. Definitely. Yes."

The cult arcade FMV shooter will be gracing the 3DS in non-3D fashion.

Classic FMV-based arcade title Mad Dog McCree will be coming to the 3DS's eShop soon, Ruud van de Moosdijk, VP of Development at Engine Software BV, told Nintendo World Report.

According to Moosdijk, Engine Software approached publisher Digital Leisure regarding the project. "We got in touch with them and said you know, Mad Dog McCree, you guys own the license, how about a 3DS version?"

Is this new trademark possibly the name of a new game?

Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures Inc. filed for the trademark Pokémon Adventure Camp.

It does not appear that the trademark relates to any of the upcoming Pokémon titles we know of (Pokemon Black and White 2, Pokemon + Nobunaga’s Ambition). So currently we can only speculate that this may be the title of an upcoming game.

Six Virtual Console games and one WiiWare game will be disappearing soon.

The European Wii Shop will be losing six Virtual Console games as well as one WiiWare game at the end of this month.The list of games the shops is losing is as follows: 

-R-Type (Turbografx)-Super R-Type (Super Nintendo)-R-Type III The Third Lightning (Super Nintendo)-Vigilante (Turbografx)-Ninja... Read more...

Mario's space adventure becomes the ninth Wii game to pass five million.

Super Mario Galaxy became the ninth Wii game to sell more than five million units, according to the NPD Group.

Super Mario Galaxy now joins other Wii titles that have sold more than five million copies such as Wii Play, Mario Kart Wii, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. It is expected that Just Dance 3 will soon become the 10th Wii game to reach this milestone, currently at a total of 4.61 million units sold.

If you ever wanted Rainn Wilson's Mii on your system, now you can.

Nintendo has begun to release celebrity Mii QR codes through their Nintendo 3DS Facebook page.

The first celebrity released was Rainn Wilson, the actor who portrays Dwight Schrute on the US adaptation of The Office. The Miis distributed by Nintendo feature gold pants, distinguishing them from normal Mii's.

The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer... and then one day, I got in.

Square Enix reconfirmed a 2012 North American release for Kingdom Hearts 3D and also revealed some screenshots of The Grid, the Tron Legacy-inspired world.

Check the screens below for fun with Sora, Quorra, Riku, Sam Flynn, and Kevin Flynn/Jeff Bridges.