2 Feb, 2012

Today Nintendo announced that the fledgling Nintendo Zone service is about to receive an injection of new content, from 3DS demos to episodes of the Pokemon animated series. Nintendo Zone access is available at over 29,000 locations across the States, accessible only through 3DS WiFi. Although Nintendo’s reasons for maintaining private, location-based 3DS...

2 Feb, 2012

Nintendo struck up a pretty sweet deal, and it doesn’t have anything to do with a free toy at the bottom of a box. 3DS owners living in Europe will now be able to enjoy free Wi-Fi at over 5,000 hotspots across the nation thanks to a deal between Nintendo and free-hotspot.com. If you’ve got the right settings on the 3DS, the handheld consoles will...

2 Feb, 2012

Retirement? What’s that? Does that mean finally resting on your laurels and enjoying the fruits of your labors? Yes, that’s what it means. For Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto though, his announcements of a maybe-retirement brought along some speculation. Well, what he really meant was that he was retiring as…well, whatever his current...

1 Feb, 2012

Future Publishing’s Nintendo TV has been available on the Wii for the last 18 months and received over a million views. After the debut episode in December, Nintendo TV is back – and now planning to bring deliver ninty goodness on a regular basis. Made by the good people at Official Nintendo Magazine, the programme covers news, tips and the latest games...

1 Feb, 2012

While the Mayans might have believed the world may end in 2012 (or maybe they just ran out of room on their calendar), gamers will probably expect that their social lives will end again in 2012. No, it’s not another Elder Scrolls game, although we really wish it was. It’s Nintendo’s release of the Wii U. The gaming giant released a statement...

31 Jan, 2012

With baseball season fast approaching, 2K Sports has released a new trailer for their upcoming baseball title, MLB 2K12. This new trailer puts a focus on the My Player mode, with a rookie working his way to the majors to face 2011 Cy Young winner, Justin Verlander. The moral of the story – Sit Down Rook, as our rookie wiffs out with three swings to the...

30 Jan, 2012

FIFA 12 successfully held off against a surge in Modern Warfare 3 sales to remain at number one last week, with Skyrim dropping into third place and Just Dance 3 into fourth. Battlefield 3 remains in fifth place and – finally – we have some new blood in the chart in the form of 3DS title Resident Evil: Revelations which has entered in sixth. There...

30 Jan, 2012

Nintendo has announced that a new color is getting ready to join the current 3DS lineup of Flame Red, Blue and Black. What is the color? Well, it appears that Pearl Pink is the new color and it will be dropping onto store shelves on February 10th, just in time for Valentines Day. The new system will hit the streets for $169.99 and will include all the features...