Not surprisingly, the Nintendo 3DS saw excellent sales through the week leading up to Christmas. According to Enterbrain (a market quantifier in Japan), as picked up by Famitsu and brought to our attention by Andriasang, sales of the handheld device in Japan hit 510,629 units over the week, bringing... [more+]

Many of you got a Nintendo 3DS yesterday or over the last few days. Today, Nintendo has rewarded our patronage with a nice surprise. If you fire up your 3DS (assuming you receive notifications), you'll notice that Nintendo has pushed out a brand new application called Swapnote. Swapnote... [more+]

We've known for a while that Nintendo would start allowing paid downloadable content for the 3DS. Now we know how soon it will begin. According to Japanese newsource Nikkei, as translated by Andrisang, the company is targeting March of next year to begin DLC sales for the system, and the first... [more+]

Good news came out of Japan's Jump Festa event this weekend, especially for Kingdom Hearts fans. At the event, Square Enix narrowed the release window for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance in Japan from this coming spring to March of next year. In related news, Jem Alexander on the Square... [more+]

Apparently, the 3DS isn't just for gaming anymore. The Louvre Museum, situated in Paris, France, is the most visited museum in the world. The top brass at the Louvre noticed something about their visitors, however – of the 8.5 million they received annually, a paltry 4% used the museum's... [more+]

UPDATE: Of course the video game was eventually confirmed, and here's a link to the LEGO: The Lord of the Rings game page with screenshots and the trailer they launched at E3 2012. Click to Enlarge This morning, LEGO Group announced that new LEGO sets based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord... [more+]

Forget the rumors saying we would have to wait until next year for these games. As I am writing this, Nintendo's 3DS Ambassador plan has finally been completed, with all 10 of the GBA games they promised us early adopters now available for download. But how do you even download these games... [more+]

Click to Enlarge Square Enix has temporarily suspended operation of its Square Enix Members service, a move that started at around 10pm PST on December 12, after the company discovered a potential breach in the server by "unknown parties". The company had this to say, "We are... [more+]

Via a press release made this morning, the House of Mario revealed that it is kicking things into full gear this winter, with many anticipated games finally getting a release date. First up is Resident Evil: Revelations, which is set to come out on February 7. Also of note is Metal Gear Solid... [more+]

Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's best-known figure and responsible for tremendous worldwide hits such as the Zelda and the Super Mario series, took a real-life Mario Kart for a spin (figuratively speaking) last Saturday at California mall Westfield Topanga, located in Canoga, CA. Nintendo teamed up... [more+]

Egad, that is fast. 16 days... that's just a slight bit over two weeks. And you know what's so impressive about that figure? It's that, according to the announcement made by Activision today, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 crossed the $1 billion mark in that amount of time. How... [more+]

Considering the near-universal praise The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's motion controls have received, it should come as no surprise that series producer Eiji Aonuma no longer feels the way he did towards them before (he initially thought about scrapping them during the game's development). But... [more+]

Credit: Wired.com Shigeru Miyamoto's retiring?! Now hold your horses, folks. The end of the world hasn't come a year early. Hear me out.  Yesterday, Wired.com published a part of a recent interview it had with the legendary video game designer. And during this interview, he stated... [more+]

70 years ago today, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor. Another invasion is underway, but this time in the form of a Nintendo 3DS system software update. Still, the Nintendo 3DS system update is something of a sneak attack, as it was originally set for a November release... [more+]

Click to Enlarge How many of you still think a Spider-Man film reboot is really unnecessary right now? Will no one say it? Eh... it's just as well, as this article isn't about the upcoming movie. It's about The Amazing Spider-Man video game announced today by Activision and Marvel.  Planned... [more+]