Nintendo 3DS News

How often do you take your Nintendo 3DS out StreetPassing with you? Less than Nintendo would hope, evidently. It's adding a new way to meet people on StreetPass in North America and Europe, simply by visiting a Nintendo Zone WiFi hotspot that someone else has been near at so...

Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate attempts to distill the concepts from its console siblings into a portable game, but an E3 demo seemed lacking some key qualities.

Developer and publisher Atlus is bringing another of its RPGs over from Japan for your niche playing pleasure--another remake of another of its RPGs, in fact. Jazzing up the original Etrian Odyssey for Nintendo 3DS, Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl is due this fall...

WayForward is celebrating their 23rd anniversary by releasing Mighty Switch Force 2, a sequel to their 2009 Nintendo 3DS downloadable platformer

Next week is a good one for hackers and cyberpunks everywhere, bringing both Remember Me and Gunpoint. Other new arrivals include the long-awaited Animal Crossing: New Leaf for 3DS, Mojang's Scrolls, and plenty more.

What with the holiday and all, here's Release List to start the week. This week brings long-awaited racer Grid 2, intriguing RTS Wargame: Airland Battle, Insomniac's shooter Fuse, the Wii U Virtual Console release of Mega Man X, and more.

Next week will see the release of Resident Evil: Revelations' home edition, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, Call of Juarez Gunslinger, Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes, and other things you can play for entertainment.

Becoming a fledgling samurai in Shin Megami Tensei IV sounds pleasant, but what responsibilities does an initiate have? Cleaning shoes? Answering phones? A new gameplay trailer shows a samurai's duties are far more of the 'wearing a cool wrist computer' and 'slaying demons' ...

Remember that old stuff? Well it's coming back a bit newer. In this case, we're talking Putty Squad, a updated take on the classic platformer from 1994. System 3 has talked idly about the game for several years, including aborted plans for it to be a European Vita launch tit...

How pleasant that Capcom this week announced a western release for courtroom thriller Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, but how curious that it'll only be available via download in the 3DS eShop. It's a popular series, isn't it? Not enough to justify a retail re...

Scribblenauts Unmasked for 3DS, Wii U, and PC promises to feature all the DC Comics characters--and not just characters from the New 52. "Even characters that appeared in one panel in one comic in 1976" can be found in the game, Warner Bros promises.

"Oh my Glob!" you gasped when Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward first talked about a video game of the fine cartoon series. What a shame that Hey Ice King! Why'd you steal our garbage?! only hit handhelds, then. Steel yourself, heroes, as D3Publisher today announced a ne...

Nintendo dropped a Pokébomb this morning, with news including confirmation that Pokémon X and Pokémon Y are set in the new region of Kalos, whose capital Lumiose City boasts an awfully Eiffel-ish tower. The publisher lifted the wraps off another four new Pokémon, with th...

Survival shooter sequel Metro: Last Light headlines next week's new releases, supported ably by EVE Online's FPS tie-in Dust 514, god game Reus, first-person tower defense Sanctum 2, tower offense Anomaly 2, and more.

Next week is a little light on new releases. Perhaps everyone's tired after the initial burst of spring exuberance. Still, we'll see the PC-wide release of Pinball FX2, Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move, a PS2 Classic release of Fatal Frame 2, and some other odds and ...