Many people in the gaming community were taken aback by Nintendo's announcement last night that the 3DS would be dropping price from $250 to $170 only five months after its initial launch in America and after fewer than 900,000 units have sold in the U.S.

You may be playing two of EA's biggest upcoming games on the go, as the publisher has listed "handheld/mobile" releases for both Battlefield 3 and Mass Effect 3, two games currently announced for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

While the first iPhone games were announced earlier this year, today's Let's Rock event from Apple seems to have sharply defined gaming as a major focus for the mobile device. Hell, gaming is now listed as one of the main selling points of the new iPod Touch, but the biggest proof came today during the event, after…

Sure. Why not? There's handhelds for all those fancy games with their graphics and tapping and analog nub control schemes, so why not engineer one so you can play Dwarf Fortress on the bus. It's a question Florian & Rob are asking over at Boing-Boing - complete with fancy mockups - and it's one an adventurous maker…