Nintendo announced this morning that an official release date has been set for the upcoming remake of the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D. The game is set to hit store shelves on June 19th in the States. The game will feature updated graphics, new gameplay elements, especially thanks to the touch screen on the 3Ds. It also appears the game will also have newly implemented motion controls as Read More ...
Kmart blog, My Kmart, revealed the latest in retail offerings for the upcoming handheld launch of the Nintendo 3DS. With every in store purchase of the system at $249.99 you’ll be able to save $25.00 USD off any launch 3DS titles ($29.99-$39.99). It appears noted that the game must be purchased at the same time as the system is purchased for the savings to be in effect. Check out below Read More ...
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time will be released in June for the 3DS. He didn’t confirm whether that was a worldwide date or just for North America during his Game Developers Conference keynote. “Last year marked the 25th anniversary of Super Mario, this year it’s the 25th of Legend of Zelda,” said Iwata.
Nintendo head honcho Iwata-San today announced a brand new 3D Mario game. It will be released on the Nintendo 3DS, and is currently in development at the same team that developed Super Mario Galaxy (plus its sequel). The world will be in full 3D and apparently tails will be a big part of the game. The Tanooki suit has been confirmed to return too.
Nintendo hero Shigeru Miyamoto has announced that he is working on Super Mario Broz. for the Nintendo 3DS. Miyamoto unveiled the game in a new Iwata Asks interview on Nintendo’s official website. He said: “In the interests of adopting new technology for the Super Mario Bros. tradition, I am now making a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Nintendo 3DS system.”
Capcom has confirmed that Street Fighter IV 3D Edition lets you send a versus demo of the game wirelessly to a friend. They can then use that to play versus matches without the full game. Apparently, it will use both Nintendo 3DS Download Play Support and the 3DS’ Street Pass function to send a cut down version to other 3DS’ and fight them. The demo includes Ryu and a single Read More ...
HMV and GAME have slapped a £229.99 price point on the Nintendo 3DS, with them both also pricing games at an astonishing £39.99 (the same as PS3 and 360 games in the UK). The news follows the Nintendo Europe 3DS conference, where the big N failed to announce a price and left it up to the retailers to determine how much it will cost in Europe. The rest of Europe Read More ...
Ubisoft has announced their 3DS launch window line-up. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot took to the stage at Nintendo’s European event to confirm the eight titles that Ubisoft will be releasing between March and the end of June: Rayman, Splinter Cell, Combat of Giants: Dionsaurs 3D, Asphalt 3D, Rabbids 3D, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, James Noir’s Hollywood Crimes and Driver Renegade.
Nintendo has unveiled that the 3DS will get some 3D video content from EuroSport, Aardman Animations and Sky in Europe. Sky will be releasing some short 3D clips for the device, with EuroSport doing some 3D sports highlights and Aardman doing some 3D short episodes of Shaun the Sheep. Nintendo is working with other partners for special video content too.
Nintendo is finally starting to put an end to the friend code nonsense they started on the DS with the 3DS. They announced today at their US and European conferences that the system will have one universal friend code that will work across all games. If someone’s on the same WiFi network as you or you are near them, you don’t even have to enter their codes either. Apparently, there Read More ...
Nintendo Europe has unveiled that the 3DS will be released on March 25th at their European press conference just now. That’s a full two days before the system is launched in the US. They purposely didn’t unveil the system’s price, and are apparently leaving it up to retailers to price the console so expect a very high cost. The US price is $259.99, which translates to £156 in actual money Read More ...
Nintendo of America is currently holding its press conference at its Nintendo 3Ds event today in New York City. Revealed by Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, the Nintendo 3DS will be on store shelves March 27th in the United States and come with a price point of $249.99. The system comes with two screens with the top screen showing the 3D visuals to the naked eye without the use Read More ...
Nintendo’s 3DS European Conference is about to kick off. We will be providing live text in this post for the event, which you can access after the jump. The US event will be going on at the same time, so we will do our best to keep you up to date from both events in the same live text box. However, the majority of the US updates will probably hit Read More ...
Square Enix has given Kingdom Hearts 3DS an official name: Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. We are honestly not making it up; they are genuinely releasing a title with that name. We know they’re trying to be clever with the three Ds, but it doesn’t really roll off the tongue.
Nintendo has confirmed that the 3DS is compatible with the DSi and DSi XL power cable. Moreover, 3DS game boxes are slimmer than DS game boxes. On top of all that, the system’s Street Pass feature (which allows a 3DS to connect to other 3DS’ whilst out and about) can transfer data for up to 12 games at once. We don’t have anything else to say about it just yet, Read More ...
