Users can get a free pack of cards as part of a promotion for the upcoming title.

Club Nintendo members can now participate in a promotion to recieve a free pack of AR Idol Cards from Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS.

The limited-time promotion (which will be running while supplies last) contains three cards: Great Reaper, Drill Arm, and Palutena (Rare). The cards can be used in AR battles or for display using the 3DS camera.

Genius' first downloadable effort is crashing Nintendo's party!

Denpa Ningen might very well be the biggest third party bestseller on the Japanese eShop, this according to statistics on the digital store.

The game currently sits on place four on the all-time sales charts, surrounded by the downloadable efforts of Nintendo. The numbers one and two are 3D Classics:... Read more...

Level-5's popular RPG series may be coming to the 3DS.

The Little Battlers, Level-5’s popular RPG series about model robots, may come to the 3DS. The 3DS game, currently dubbed The Little Battlers Experience Baku Boost, is rumored to be revealed in the upcoming issue of CoroCoro magazine, alongside a PSP title of the same series.

Similar to the Custom... Read more...

Despite the delay, the hit game is still arriving on Nintendo's 3DS.

Rovio's hit mobile game Angry Birds is still being planned for release on the 3DS, chief marketing office Peter Vesterbacka recently confirmed to Joystiq at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival, held in Austin, Texas.

Despite the game being available on nearly all major mobile systems, including iOS and Android, Rovio has yet to release the game on any handhelds or consoles. 

Developer Two Tribes might be aiming for a launch window release.

Toki Tori 2, the sequel to the downloadable cult hit by Two Tribes, is "definitely" coming to the Wii U, according to a conversation at the 2012 Game Developers Conference.

In conversation about the much hoped-for Wii U port of their upcoming game, Collin van Ginkel, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Two Tribes, responded that "it will be on Wii U. Definitely. Yes."

The cult arcade FMV shooter will be gracing the 3DS in non-3D fashion.

Classic FMV-based arcade title Mad Dog McCree will be coming to the 3DS's eShop soon, Ruud van de Moosdijk, VP of Development at Engine Software BV, told Nintendo World Report.

According to Moosdijk, Engine Software approached publisher Digital Leisure regarding the project. "We got in touch with them and said you know, Mad Dog McCree, you guys own the license, how about a 3DS version?"

Is this new trademark possibly the name of a new game?

Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures Inc. filed for the trademark Pokémon Adventure Camp.

It does not appear that the trademark relates to any of the upcoming Pokémon titles we know of (Pokemon Black and White 2, Pokemon + Nobunaga’s Ambition). So currently we can only speculate that this may be the title of an upcoming game.

Six Virtual Console games and one WiiWare game will be disappearing soon.

The European Wii Shop will be losing six Virtual Console games as well as one WiiWare game at the end of this month.The list of games the shops is losing is as follows: 

-R-Type (Turbografx)-Super R-Type (Super Nintendo)-R-Type III The Third Lightning (Super Nintendo)-Vigilante (Turbografx)-Ninja... Read more...

Mario's space adventure becomes the ninth Wii game to pass five million.

Super Mario Galaxy became the ninth Wii game to sell more than five million units, according to the NPD Group.

Super Mario Galaxy now joins other Wii titles that have sold more than five million copies such as Wii Play, Mario Kart Wii, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. It is expected that Just Dance 3 will soon become the 10th Wii game to reach this milestone, currently at a total of 4.61 million units sold.

If you ever wanted Rainn Wilson's Mii on your system, now you can.

Nintendo has begun to release celebrity Mii QR codes through their Nintendo 3DS Facebook page.

The first celebrity released was Rainn Wilson, the actor who portrays Dwight Schrute on the US adaptation of The Office. The Miis distributed by Nintendo feature gold pants, distinguishing them from normal Mii's.

The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer... and then one day, I got in.

Square Enix reconfirmed a 2012 North American release for Kingdom Hearts 3D and also revealed some screenshots of The Grid, the Tron Legacy-inspired world.

Check the screens below for fun with Sora, Quorra, Riku, Sam Flynn, and Kevin Flynn/Jeff Bridges.

Is a new trend in the making for packaged 3DS software?

Hatsune Miku and the Future Stars Project mirai has a digital manual built into the cartridge, similiar to Nintendo's recent packaged software. This is what we discovered when we opened our version of the game.

Sega's music rhythm game featuring the Vocaloid singer is the first third party release... Read more...

Sega and Zoe Mode's 3D-fueled platformer is a GameStop exclusive now, for the budget price of $19.99.

Crush 3D is coming out on March 9 in North America as a GameStop exclusive for $19.99, according to a tweet from Sega's official Twitter account.

Originally, the remake of a PSP game was slated for a September 2011 launch before it was delayed because of lackluster 3DS sales. From there, it was delayed to February, moved up to January, and then pushed back to March. The game came out in Europe in January.

The Wii Virtual Console is back again, along with some downloadable handheld games.

An eShop game is joined by both a 3DS and Wii Virtual Console title as well as a DSiWare game in this week's Nintendo Downloads.

The Shin'en-developed Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH! is now available on the Nintendo eShop. Play minigolf as your Mii in 81 different minigolf holes. Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH! can be purchased for $4.99. You can read our review of the game here.

The hundreds of cards will be tough to collect.

AR cards for Kid Icarus: Uprising will have limited distribution, according to a Nintendo representative at GDC.

Most cards will be available only through events, such as GDC, as well as tournaments. Some cards may be packed in with magazines, such as the latest edition of Game Informer, which included... Read more...

The developer once again holds the rights to its 3DS platformer.

Endgame, the developer of Fractured Soul and its 3DS incarnation, Fractured Soul: Deep Void, might self-publish the latter through Nintendo's eShop service.

In an interview with Joystiq, Endgame managing director and co-founder Grant Davies (whom we spoke with about the games last month) noted that... Read more...

The middleware developer will help power Nintendo's upcoming console.

Nintendo has licensed Havok Technologies middleware (services provided to software development beyond the operating system) for use on the Wii U.

With the licensing agreement, Wii U software developers will gain access to Havoks Physics and Animation technologies, previously used in the Assassins Creed franchise, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and L.A. Noire.

The Tao dragons will appear to those who had no opportunity to catch them in their original versions.

Reshiram or Zekrom will be distributed to Pokémon Black and White starting March 10.

The distributed legendary Pokémon is specific to which game a player owns. If the player has Black version (featuring Reshiram as a mascot), they will be given Zekrom, and if the player has white version (featuring Zekrom), they will instead recieve Reshiram.

Nintendo can now provide Autodesk Gameware technology to Wii U developers.

Nintendo is now able to provide Autodesk Gameware technology to Wii U developers through a license agreement, according to Autodesk, Inc.

The licensing agreement allows Nintendo to distribute three of Gameware's development tools to Wii U developers. Autodesk Scaleform is used for user interface development, Autodesk Kynapse is used for artificial intelligence, and Autodesk HumanIK is for interactive character animation.