Nintendo 3DS News

After the frenzy of releases in the run-up to the holiday season, we're now back in another lull for a month or two. Still, next week will bring Joe Danger Special Edition, X3: Albion Prelude, FlatOut 3, Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights, and more.

The madcap experiments of world-flipping puzzle-platformer Shift are leaping from web browsers to Nintendo 3DS in Shifting World, publisher Aksys Games announced today. As well as shifting to 3D, it's picking up a level editor and a level generator.

While Animal Crossing games traditionally cast the player as little more than a wandering vagrant, beachcombing and shaking trees for money, Animal Crossing for 3DS will cast you as mayor--and you'll get to make a few changes around town.

A new "pearl pink" Nintendo 3DS model will launch on December 4 in a bundle with nintendogs + cats, just in time to be a Christmas gift for girly ladies or gentlemen unfazed by oppressive gender stereotypes

If you want shiny new video games products in boxes but don't fancy facing the Black Friday crush, luckily you can buy them from the comfort of your computer chair. We've rounded up the Black Friday deals at the US's biggest retailers.

A trailer for the European version of Professor Layton and the Last Specter teases a 3DS Layton game to hit next year. Since Layton games tend to come to North America before Europe, this probably means we'll get Mask of Miracle sometime in 2012.

The flood of new releases in time for the holiday season continues unabated next week. We'll be getting Saints Row: The Third, Need for Speed: The Run, Telltale's Jurassic Park: The Game, Rayman Origins, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and oh so many

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim headline a packed release bill next week, which also includes Rayman Origins, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, L.A. Noire on PC, Super Mario 3D Land, and so much more.

Demos, downloadable content, and a web-based storefront are coming to the Nintendo 3DS eShop, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed during his latest financial results briefing.

Battlefield 3 (or JetProne64, to use its true name), Stronghold 3, Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Sword of the Stars II, inFamous: Festival of Blood, The House of the Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut, and heaps more new games are arriving next week.

Next week will bring Batman: Arkham City, Rocksmith, Dungeon Defenders, Payday: The Heist, and heaps more.

A bumper week is coming, with Forza 4, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Might & Magic Heroes VI, Aliens: Infestation, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, MDK 2 HD, and heaps more shiny things all due to arrive.

Indie developer Terry Cavanagh's stonking gravity-flipping platformer VVVVVV is coming to Nintendo 3DS as an eShop download, publisher and porter Nicalis has announced.

The arrival of Rage and Dark Souls make next week a glorious time for violence, though there'll be Just Dance 3 to provide relaxation when you're sick of bloodshed.

A recent study found that twenty-eight percent of Nintendo 3DS owners dislike the system's 3D effect, with thirteen percent turning it off all together.