Our First Look At Princess Kitana In Mortal Kombat X

Of course Kitana is going to be in Mortal Kombat X. You try telling the adopted daughter of Shao Kahn to stay home and watch Gilmore Girls on Netflix. Kitana, named because one of her parents must have seen a katana somewhere, has been a fixture of the fighting game series since Mortal Kombat II,…

How Amiibo Work In Nintendo’s New Games, And At What Cost

This morning’s Nintendo Direct was chock full ofnew Amiibo toys and Amiibo-enable games. Here’s how the colorful pieces of plastic will work in Nintendo’s upcoming titles, including the one you might have to delete existing Smash Bros. Amiibo data to play. First off we’ve got the toys: a newly-announced third wave of Smash Bros. Amiibo…

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A new Rhythm Heaven game is headed to the Nintendo 3DS this summer in Japan. It will feature in excess of a hundred rhythm games, over thirty of which are new to the series.

Woo, Xenoblade 3DS Is Actually Coming To North America

Good news: the upcoming New 3DS exclusive remake of Xenoblade Chronicles is actually coming to North America this April, Nintendo announced this morning. No petitions necessary!

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M., is coming out for the 3DS on March 13th, Nintendo just announced during its Nintendo Direct stream. It’s a turn-based strategy game that pits Abraham Lincoln against space aliens, because why the fuck not? They also said that it will work with the Fire Emblem Amiibos being made for Smash Bros.

New 3DS XL Coming To America In February, Smaller One MIA

The New 3DS is coming out on February 13, Nintendo just announced. This release date is no surprise given yesterday’s leaks, but now it’s official. It looks like we’re only getting the New 3DS XL—no smaller version. In a video presentation this morning, Nintendo America president Reggie Fils-Aime gave us a walkthrough of all the…

Nintendo’s experimenting with cross-buy using Mario vs. Donkey Kong Tipping Stars. Buy a copy on Wii U, get a code for 3DS and vice versa. Mario vs. Donkey Kong Tipping Stars is the latest in Nintendo’s series of simple puzzlers. It doesn’t look much different this time, but at least Nintendo’s catching up with Sony…

Tingle’s Coming to Blow Up Hyrule Warriors on February 5

A new Majora’s Mask-themed DLC pack for Hyrule Warriors will be arriving in a few weeks, giving the beat-em-up its most unlikely combatant yet. That’s right, Tingle. Zelda’s weirdest rupee-lover is here to kick butt. Just revealed during today’s Nintendo Direct, Tingle will be battling hordes of enemies with a giant bag of money as…

Mario Party 10 is coming out this March, Nintendo just announced. It’ll hit the Wii U on March 20.

New Wave Of Amiibo Coming Soon

Nintendo offered up some news about its newly-minted Amiibo toy line during its Nintendo Direct stream this morning, including a few new models they said are coming this Spring. Pac-Man! The next round of Super Smash Bros.-centric Amiibo (there are 11 in total) are coming out in February. But we already knew about those. The…

Wii Games Will Finally Be Downloadable On Wii U

It’s been possible to play Wii games on your Wii U since forever, but Nintendo’s finally making Wii games downloadable through the eShop. This new feature kicks off with one of the company’s best platformers, Super Mario Galaxy 2. It’s available today. Other games are coming very soon, too. Punch-Out!! is scheduled for January 22,…

Nintendo’s got a new free-to-play downloadable 3DS Pokémon puzzle game (with microtransaction support, it sounds like) coming this February. It’s called Pokémon Shuffle and might remind you of Pokémon Trozei. It was announced in this morning’s Nintendo Direct by Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata. Here’s some footage from the Direct, capped by Gamexplain….

Two flavors of Puzzle & Dragons comes to the North American 3DS in May 2015. Nintendo is bundling two 3DS versions of the popular mobile game — Puzzle & Dragons Z and Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition — in on package this spring.

New Fire Emblem Announced For 3DS

The team behind Fire Emblem Awakening is making a new game for 3DS, Nintendo just announced. Though this game will be developed by Intelligent Systems, Nintendo says it’ll play differently than the last one, including challenges “the likes of which have never be seen in the series up until now.” No word on a name…

Popular online game Kantai Collection is getting an arcade game from Sega. Location tests begin this month in Japan.