It’s safe to say that Nintendo is enjoying at least some success with their new-ish handheld now that they’ve dropped the price and launched some quality software. Particularly, the Nintendo 3DS is doing well in its home nation. According to Famitsu, Enterbrain (a Japanese entertainment sales data collection company) has tallied the Nintendo 3DS sales in Japan

Once again, Nintendo will be among the companies to stream their E3 presentation for the world to see. The confirmation of this year’s plans came to us today by way of press release. You can read that full thing by hitting the fancy button at the base of this post. Science! Nintendo’s show will kick

It’s all about the games, folks. Gamers want, wait for it, games. Nintendo would know. They launched the Nintendo 3DS into the market without much in the way of software to support it. The result? They found their brand new hardware suffering from a high price tag and poor game selection. No one wanted a

If you’ve been waiting for the right shade of violet to appear before stepping up and grabbing your Nintendo 3DS, consider the wait officially over. Nintendo sent out a press release this morning in order to announce the upcoming availability of the Nintendo 3DS in Midnight Purple. The royally hued system will launch alongside one

This morning, SEGA announced the return of everyone’s favorite blue hedgehog in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.  Sonic and friends will race their way across land, air and water yet again in SEGA’s newest racing thriller. If you’re familiar with the original Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing, you know that this isn’t your typical racing game. Not

Part of Nintendo’s digital content plan for the future involves releasing games simultaneously in physical form at retailers and in digital form on their systems’ marketplaces. The quote comes by way of the financial meeting the company held yesterday. They announced that the first game to take advantage of this new strategy will be the

Nintendo posted big losses last year. In fact, it was the first year the company ever posted financial loss. That number came in to the tune of $455.9 million operating loss. For 2013, however, the company has painted themselves a much better financial forecast. The core of its discussion lies in the current hardware price

The Nintendo 3DS has received a new software update today, which was first announced during last week’s Nintendo Direct conference live-stream. Available to gamers worldwide, this release adds the ability to organize your home screen items into folders, and offers some nifty new features. You can now organize your home screen and make navigation a great

It may be entirely in Japanese, but it does give Pokémon fans something to look forward to. Pokémon Black and White 2 will take place two years after the events in the first game. The trailer above shows off the new heroes, a new gym and the new starting city. In case your curious, the name

Where Super Mario 3D Land was a title that felt like a blend of Super Mario Galaxy and Mario 64, New Super Mario Bros. 2 looks like it falls directly in line with the spirit of its titular predecessors. New Super Mario Bros. (for the DS) and New Super Mario Bros. Wii were both 2D titles, and this game looks

Given the discussion in a recent interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, the father of all sorts of gaming classics and staples at Nintendo, there’s a chance gamers might see a fresh take on or remake of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The legendary game designer spoke with EDGE about his love for the

You’re a fan of Community, right? You know, the ridiculous comedy on NBC with folks like Joel McHale, Donald Glover and Chevy Chase? If you’re not actually a fan, or if you’ve never seen the show, find a way to right that wrong post haste. We’ll wait… …good? Good. Nintendo sent over a note this

Back in the early and mid 1990s, Sega of Japan took to developing a series of Mickey Mouse games below the Illusion banner. It started with Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, and the series continued with Land of Illusion and World of Illusion. If you owned a Sega Genesis, Master System, Mega Drive or Game Gear, you

According to a French Nintendo gaming mag, a special presentation for press will reveal Epic Mickey 2 next week. The rumor comes in the form of a Tweet, and the Tweet offers up an extra bit of information regarding this possibly forthcoming sequel. Epic Mickey 2 might also launch for the Nintendo 3DS with the subtitle, “Power

Nintendo released a presser this morning that indicated the Nintendo 3DS has sold more than 4.5 million units during its first year at retail in the United States. The news comes as the handheld nears its retail birthday. Nintendo went as far to include a table of figures in the release. The table stacks the

Today, Sony announced by way of press release that the PS Vita has sold more than 1.2 million units worldwide since its launch back in December in Japan. While the company did not announce the first week’s worth of sales for Europe and North America, our quick math has it that roughly 300,000 units were

Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Jon answers a few questions while having several high-powered Nerf guns pointed at his face. They’re set to fire anytime Jon slips an “uhh” or an “umm.” Tune in to catch JR talk about the PS

Over the weekend, Nintendo unveiled Pokémon Black and White Version 2 during Pokémon Smash, a Japanese Pokémon television show, due for Nintendo’s home nation of Japan this June. Nintendo of America released a press release to editors this morning that indicated we’d be seeing the game in the fall of this year. The titles will release for the Nintendo

The Amazing Spider-Man, in case you haven’t already heard, will see a video game tie-in launch from Activision and Beenox. The trailer above features a good helping of in-game footage and the reveal of one of Spidey’s long-time foes, Rhino. This Amazing Spider-Man tie-in title has me cautiously excited. Beenox, the studio behind the game, have shown that

Nintendo Direct is one of Nintendo’s recent attempts to share game information for upcoming releases with fans directly. The video you see above is the second entry in the brand new series of clips, and it comes packed with news and details for Nintendo’s upcoming software. The clip checks in at more than 11 minutes.

Seaman was originally released for the Sega Dreamcast in 1999. The game puts players in the care of a strange new creature as they’re tasked with bringing him from the mushroomer to frogman stages in his lifecycle. Nikkei reports, without much detail, that Seaman will be heading to the Nintendo 3DS in the future. Specifically, the story

While certainly not a definite indicator of long-term international success, the first year’s worth of performance for gaming hardware in Japan is definitely a decent gauge of said device’s potential. If that gauge is a good predictor of what’s to come, this is tremendous news for both Nintendo and the Nintendo 3DS. As Andriasang has it

The PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo 3DS each saw an increase in sales at Japanese retail between the previously reported week of 1/16/2012 through 1/22/2012 and the period listed below. January is one of the worst months of the year, traditionally speaking, as far as gaming hardware sales go in Japan. While these numbers are

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

Things have just gotten a bit darker for the troubled game publishing giant that is THQ. The company, in the wake of poor financial reports, has seen significantly decreased stock value over the last few months. It’s now so low that NASDAQ has given them a time limit to improve before removing the THQ listing.