During a recent investor call with Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, President, spoke briefly about bringing DLC to their first-party games. He specifically mentioned both Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land for the Nintendo 3DS. Iwata connected DLC to the longevity of software, as is often its purpose: “What if we could provide add-on content through the

Nintendo’s official YouTube channel shared the second volume of Super Mario 3D Land‘s “Super Plays” in the series’ second week. The original volume released last Wednesday and is no less impressive. If you own a Nintendo 3DS, the best advice I can give you is to pick up Super Mario 3D Land if you haven’t already.

Nintendo sent out a press release this morning, the first business day in the New Year, in order to tell the world that the Nintendo 3DS has officially moved more than four million units. The company has been claiming the system would do it for a few months now as a point to indicate its

2011 was an amazing year for the gaming medium. When I first gathered the roughly 50 titles that I thought would even be worth considering for the of the year, I knew immediately that I’d have a tough road of sorting ahead. This year was brilliant, and I can honestly say that there were so

Nintendo set record sales numbers for the Nintendo 3DS over the week leading up to and including Christmas in Japan. Andriasang has it from Famitsu gaming magazine who has it from Enterbrain, a Japanese sales statistics company. In that single week at retail in the Land of the Rising Sun, the Nintendo 3DS moved 510,629 systems.

Saturday night brought gamers, and anyone watching one specific cable television network, the Spike Video Game Awards for 2011. Awards were given out for the best of the best across a ton of categories. The nominations were picked by a committee of gaming industry critic veterans. They were then voted upon by the gaming community,

In speaking with Japanese publication Nikkei, Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, delivered information concerning the current state of the Nintendo 3DS and some of its software sales statistics. The system is doing well, according to Iwata, and is on pace to cross the three million units sold mark around two weeks ahead of the Nintendo

A much-anticipated software update for the Nintendo 3DS which promises to introduce a number of exciting new features has been delayed by Nintendo and given a new release date of December 8. Nintendo first announced the update back in October, and promised users of its new handheld that it would be available this month. But

Nintendo has released some sales figures for its hardware and software regarding both this holiday season and Black Friday. The company covered the performance of the Wii, the 3DS, Super Mario 3D Land and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Here are some of the stats they released… During Black Friday, the Wii sold 500,000 units.

Review embargoes for Super Mario 3D Land in the western part of the world lifted today at 10 AM. Across the board (so it seems), the game is being heralded as a platforming classic and the reason to buy a Nintendo 3DS. My own review on a different publication stands as a part of that pack,

Enjoy the trailer above and the 29 screenshots below as Nintendo has given gamers another blast of media leading up to the launch of one of the Nintendo 3DS‘ banner titles for this holiday season, Super Mario 3D Land. The highlight of the trailer and screens is definitely the Boomerang Mario power-up. This suit has

75 screenshots. 75. Want a taste of Super Mario 3D Land in pictorial format? Well, we’ve got some of what you crave. To be honest, we’ve got a metric ton of what you crave. Did we mention the fact that Nintendo dropped 75 screenshots for Super Mario 3D Land to the media yet? They did. There was no press release

You could say that Nintendo’s 3DS will be supported, largely, by two brand new titles this holiday season: Mario Kart 7, for which we just posted some fresh Raccoon Tail related screenshots earlier today, and Super Mario 3D Land. Today, Nintendo unveiled their October trailer for this upcoming 3DS Mario adventure. You’ll be able to catch

Nintendo sent over a press release this morning adding two screenshots, boxart and the trailer you see above to the docket for their upcoming Mario entry on the Nintendo 3DS. Go ahead and watch the trailer while being mindful of the nods towards classic Mario elements, mechanics and themes. The flagpoles, the Raccoon Tail and the Tanooki

The holiday season of 2011 is officially upon us. The last few months have been scary slow as far as gaming releases have been concerned. But now? Publishers are gearing up to vanquish our savings accounts as they deliver a storm of outstanding content. We at TechnoBuffalo decided to assemble two separate lists for this

Nintendo just sent around a press release indicating that their price cut maneuver paid off to the tune of 235,000 Nintendo 3DS units sold during the month of August in the United States alone. The handheld enjoyed a sales rate uptick of 260% since the company dropped the price of the 3DS from $250 to

Nintendo will be streaming a pre-Tokyo Game Show press conference specifically to announce brand new Nintendo 3DS software on September 13th in Japan. We will be live-blogging the presser, which may or may not be in Japanese, starting at 11PM EST on September 12th. Though the presentation is less than a week away, Gematsu is

Nintendo’s 3DS is the world’s first handheld console to offer glasses-free 3D, and before its launch it looked set to follow in the footsteps of its Wii, which has been a huge success for the company. However, the 3DS has suffered some pretty disappointing sales figures since it hit shops earlier this year, with Nintendo