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The 3DS got a firmware update to improve “overall system stability”, plus minor adjustments to improve the experience.

You Won’t Believe How Dry Nintendo’s January Is

Last month and this month, Nintendo is busy launching the Wii U. And next month? It’s busy not releasing games in Japan. The company’s January schedule, which was recently updated on December 3, is shockingly empty. Here, have a look for yourself: Yikes! That’s pretty freakin’ dry! At the very, very bottom, there’s one Wii…

Nintendo Knows Your Family Doesn’t Know The Difference Between Nintendo Handhelds

So Nintendo is here to help. Perhaps wanting to get out in front of holiday season returns, when Little Johnny furiously explains he wanted a 3DS and not a DS (or your grandmother buys you a game that won’t work in your system), Nintendo has—hastily, judging by the sound quality—put together this instructional video outlining…

Interested In The Tech Behind The Wii U’s GamePad? This Breaks Down How It Works.

Perhaps it’s not surprising, but what this video from The Clan of the Grey Wolf reveals is that much of the tech behind the Wii U’s GamePad is stuff you may already be familiar with—only used in a clever, innovative way. As the video points out at the start, this seems to be a thing…

Wii U Gets Sneaky Firmware Update For “System Stability” And “Other Minor Adjustments”

Wii U users, there’s a new firmware update available for your system. Clocking in at around 600MB, it doesn’t appear to do anything drastic (like speed up loading and menu times). Here’s what Nintendo says it does do: Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user…

This Game Mixes Wind Waker’s Cel-Shading With The Gameplay of Banjo Kazooie

While it’s just in alpha, Danish developer Jonas Kærlev’s game A Hat In Time still manages to look positively delightful. All one has to do is look at the many videos Kærlev has uploaded to get a sense of how charming this game is. Here’s a couple, though the game’s YouTube page features a good…

The Wii U’s Infamous Day-One Update Will Be Around For a While

As with most new console debuts, the Wii U launch has been rocky. The part that has gotten most consumers complaining is an hours-long, 1 GB patch required to access many of the system’s features. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has even apologized for it. Nevertheless, that annoying experience won’t be going away anytime soon. In…

There will be a new Nintendo Direct tomorrow at noon ET. Watch it here. Topic unknown: Wii U and 3DS games

Someone Made An Entire Song Out Of Random Wii U Noises. It’s Pretty Catchy.

From the snapping noise a Wii U game case makes to the menu music, this Wii U song by YouTube user jimmy incorporates a whole bunch of sounds the Wii U can make. And the result is great. But it does kind of get awkward in the middle there.

PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida is busy playing with his new Wii U. If you have any words of advice, here’s his Twitter

Man Finds Old Game Boy Camera, The Spirit of 1998 Trapped Within

When Reddit user 80sArcade found his old Game Boy the other day, it had a Game Boy Camera still attached. Within, 14 photos from 1998. You don’t often get that kind of gaming time capsule from so long ago, mostly because the Game Boy was about the only system outside the PC to have a…

The Dorkly Weekly: Pokemon Rusty Does Not Get Hidden Machines

Hidden Machines are the most useful moves you can teach a Pokemon, but it has to be the right Pokemon. Let’s see if Pokemon Rusty can figure it out. Nope. I don’t know why I expected otherwise. For more sick and twisted video game comedy, follow the link to Dorkly.com

In This Version of The Legend of Zelda, Link Cuts People’s Heads Clean Off

Artistic interpretations of Nintendo’s most popular fantasy swordsman run the gamut from burly and broad-shouldered to effing pissed to utterly horrifying. But these stripped-down paintings by Dave Palumbo represent a more grounded, pulp fantasy take on the Hero of Hyrule. Palumbo—who’s done work for Blizzard, Marvel and Wizards of the Coast—removes the iconic hat and…

1167 People Are Playing Black Ops II Online On Wii U Now

1069 people are playing multiplayer, with 98 people playing Zombies mode on the Wii U version of Black Ops II. More than last week Like we’ve said, comparing the number of people playing the game on a brand new console to those playing on the veteran machines from Microsoft and Sony is unfair. Not to…

Playing Mario With My Wife, Who Hates Mario… Part One

I hit a question block, two Super Acorns appear. Mario turns into a squirrel. To me this feels like the most natural thing in the world. “Urgh,” grunts Heizy, my wife. “Why are these greasy old men always playing dress up? It’s really creepy.” My wife. She doesn’t hate video games. She tends to tolerate…

Little Girl Learns about Trolls, Thanks to the 3DS

There are strange people out there! They’re filled with malice and evil thoughts. And some of them even have 3DS handhelds. Considering how neither the 3DS nor StreetPass are exactly new, it’s somewhat odd that Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Japan’s biggest newspapers, would run a story on StreetPass trauma, but it did anyway after one…

How to Make the Wii U’s Controller Even More Like The 360’s

The Wii U’s Pro Controller already does a great 360 pad impersonation, but just in case you wanted/needed it to be more like Microsoft’s input device, here’s a mod that shows you how to drop a pair of Xbox 360 thumbsticks inside the casing of a Wii U Pro Controller. It’s of course not going…

Hate Using the Classic Controller on the Wii U? Use the PS2’s Instead.

A conversion kit going on sale soon in Japan allows gamers to connect a PlayStation 2 DualShock to the Wii U. It’s an alternative for those who don’t prefer the Wii Classic Controller to play old Wii games, and find themselves unable to use their good old GameCube controller because the new console lacks a…

That New 3DS Game By The Creator Of Vagrant Story Is Out December 13

I’m quite interested in Crimson Shroud, a downloadable 3DS game that was just announced for release on December 13 Mostly because it was designed by Yasumi Matsuno, he of Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story fame. But also because it sounds kind of awesome. Here’s the official description: LEVEL-5 and Yasumi Matsuno have brought together…

Watch Nintendo’s Hardware History Come to Life in This Really Cool Animated Video

The Wii U just launched in Europe last night. And, just like the console’s U.S. launch, pictures of long lines and complaints about the long day-one update popped up on Twitter and Facebook. But good things appeared, too, like this sharp video by graphic designer Anthony Veloso. I really dig how the music and motion…