The day after Microsoft announced that sales of the Kinect sensor have crossed the ten million mark, Nintendo said Thursday that sales of the Nintendo Wii have crossed the 35 million mark. Nintendo cited NPD Group numbers. Nintendo also said Thursday that 3DS Demo Pods and mobile Nintendo 3DS Demo Squads will tour the U.S. [...]

In a keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference on Tuesday, Nintendo announced that it will bring the streaming video service Netflix to the 3DS handheld gaming system this summer. Netflix users can stream Netflix over a wireless connection, much as the service works on the Wii.“Nintendo 3DS will be the most connected Nintendo device [...]

Nintendo recently held a special event in Japan called Nintendo World. As you’d expect, the star of the show was the 3DS, and we were treated to a whole host of new information on many of the countless games heading to Nintendo’s brand new 3D handheld.. Here are our ten choices for the games you [...]

Nintendo is preparing to kick its 3DS hype machine into full gear. With the March 6 release of Pokemon Black and White upon us, the publisher will turn its considerable might towards its North American (March 27) and European (March 25) launches. This past weekend, the 3DS launched in Japan, and I managed to steal [...]

A remastered Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 3DS will be ready by June, a 25th anniversary title is on the way, and Skyward Sword for the Wii is shaping up nicely, according to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata.“Some of you may want to hear about Zelda. Our intention is for you to [...]

Gadget fans could find themselves in a dilemma over where to spend their hard-earned money on March 25, with both Apple’s iPad 2 – which was unveiled by Steve Jobs last night – and Nintendo’s innovative 3D handheld games device released on the same day.Apple and Nintendo wouldn’t have been considered direct rivals until recently, [...]

Nintendo Co. this week detailed new Nintendo 3DS battery life options that will vary the amount of time users can play on a single charge. Ryuji Umezu, head of Nintendo 3DS system design, said this week that the handheld will last about three to five hours playing Nintendo 3DS titles. When users set the LCD [...]

Let’s take a trip back in time to the magical year of 1989 and all that it entailed; a simpler time when it was acceptable to wear hideous sweaters and video game magazine covers looked like bad fan art.  Nintendo was riding high on the success of it’s NES system, and Atari was still reeling [...]

The developers of the 3DS had trouble convincing their co-workers that the 3D handheld was a good idea, due in part to the disaster that was the Virtual Boy.The Virtual Boy was a mid-90′s console featuring a headset capable of creating 3D images. It was also terrible. Hardly anybody bought it and the ones that [...]

Earlier this month Nintendo invited two competition winners to join the games industry in Amsterdam for the announcement of the European 3DS launch date and software. Eurogamer reader Richard Horne was one of them, and as soon as he got back he wrote up his epic impressions of the hardware and software. Read on to [...]