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Look at All These Third Party 3DS Games

Forget those complaints about the 3DS having no games! Games are coming—from game developers other than Nintendo, too. Whether you’ll want to play them or not is another story, but they’re coming.

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011

There’s Another Ace Combat Making a Fly-by

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360. But it’s not alone. There’s another Ace Combat game. Under the working title Ace Combat 3D, the game features touch screen targeting. Its release date is forthcoming.

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011

New Mario Plus Dragon Quest Game Heading to the Wii

A new Itadaki Street, Square Enix’s Dragon Quest meets Mario board game, is headed to the Wii sometime this year in Japan. Pricing is TBA. [Famitsu]

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011

Nintendo Asks Questions about Wii U, Nintendo Answers Them

“Iwata Asks” is a regular feature on Nintendo’s official site in which Nintendo president Satoru Iwata asks questions about hardware and games his company makes. This time, Iwata asks Mario creator about the Wii U.

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011

The Rolling Western Might be Nintendo’s Best-Kept Secret

Here’s a surprise. Nintendo’s most interesting game of E3 2011 may also be one of its least-publicised, because The Rolling Western for the 3DS looks great Mixing action gameplay with a tower defence-style strategic element (including what looks like resource gathering), it’s not even a retail game. It’s a downloadable from the new eShop for…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2011

Mario Party Will Party Once Again

Our long Mario Party drought is over! The last game in Nintendo’s Mario Party series, Mario Party 8, was released in 2007. And the latest entry, Mario Party 9 was revealed today at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles. The Wii game currently doesn’t have a release date, and it’s unclear whether Nintendo’s Nd…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2011

Nintendo Used 360, PS3 & PC Game Footage In Its Wii U Demo Reel

This morning, Nintendo showed off a highlight reel of third-party games supposedly running on its new Wii U console. They looked great. Turns out that footage wasn’t running on anything of the sort. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has told GameTrailers that the footage—of games like Ghost Recon and Darksiders II—was instead culled from…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2011

Where Is the Wii Vitality Sensor? Somewhere.

The Wii Vitality Sensor debuted at the 2009 E3 gaming expo. Then it was too mellow for last year’s and this year’s E3. Why? When asked this question earlier in April, Nintendo replied that it was still in development, but wasn’t yet working on 99 percent of Wii players. Thus, it doesn’t yet have a…

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2011

Nintendo’s Greatest Designer is Leaving the Wii Behind

Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda, is winding up development on Wii games, the Nintendo legend revealed today. Speaking at a Q&A attended by Kotaku, Miyamoto said that he always “focuses on newest upcoming platforms”, and that would mean that the upcoming Skyward Sword would be “one of the last if not the…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2011

Nintendo Developers Warned of a Future With No More Zelda, Star Fox Games

At Nintendo’s Q&A session earlier today, Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that prior to development of the upcoming Skyward Sword, he’d given the franchise team a warning: either it was the best Zelda ever made or there would be no more Zeldas He also said the same thing to the Star Fox developers. Either Star…

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2011

Nintendo Isn’t Making Luigi’s Mansion 2 Internally

The newly revealed Luigi’s Mansion 2 won’t be developed internally by Nintendo, but by Canada’s Next Level Games, the studio behind the Wii version of Punch-Out!. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto is supervising the project, however.

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2011

Mario Kart 3DS is Being Worked On by Metroid Prime’s Developers

More from the Nintendo Q&A: it seems Mario Kart 3DS is being developed not solely by Nintendo, but as a collaboration between Nintendo and Retro, the team behind the Metroid Prime series. It’ll also run at 60fps.

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2011

Super Mario 3DS Has a Little Zelda Tribute

Fresh from the Nintendo Q&A, we’ve learned that Super Mario 3DS has at least one neat level: one that’s a Zelda tribute, from the top-down NES-style camera view to going room-to-room in a dungeon solving puzzles.

By Luke Plunkett Published June 7, 2011

Kirby Wii is Exactly the Sort of Game I Want to Play on a Nintendo Console

Vibrant, colorful, and full of joy, Kirby Wii is exactly the sort of game experience I crave when I power on Nintendo’s soon-to-be last generation system. An alien ship has crash landed in the realm of Pop Star, and Kirby must travel the lands gathering pieces of the broken craft to help stranded aliens get…

By Mike Fahey Published June 7, 2011

LIVE At Nintendo’s E3 2011 Mystery Developer Q&A

As Nintendo is wont to do at E3, the company is holding a post-press conference question and answer session with Nintendo brass and developers. While these Q&A panels typically reveal all-new details, this one is shrouded in even more mystery. Nintendo will surely talk about the new Wii U, new Wii U games and who’s…

By Michael McWhertor Published June 7, 2011

Kid Icarus: Uprising Looks at the Size of that Squadron

It’s been a long time since the world’s seen a brand new Kid Icarus game, but this year, Kid Icarus: Uprising is going to change that. Developed by Project Sora, Kid Icarus: Uprising is sorry to keep you waiting.

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2011

Wii U Discs Will Be 25GB In Size

In a wide-ranging interview with Kotaku regarding the new Wii U console, one of Nintendo’s chief game designers, Katsuya Eguchi, confirmed that the system’s proprietary disc format will hold 25 Gigabytes of data. That squares with our own reporting from before E3 and puts Nintendo in a good place to run games that fill up…

By Stephen Totilo Published June 7, 2011

Nintendo Looking into Games that Support Two Wii U Controllers

Nintendo’s Wii U controller is such an extraordinary device that we’ve been hearing some skepticism from readers that the company would expect gamers to have more than one of them. After all, the thing looks expensive. It’s got a screen, and a mic, and a camera, and lots of buttons. Is Nintendo going to expect…

By Stephen Totilo Published June 7, 2011

8 Minutes of Our Hands-On Video Shows What It’s Like to Play Wii U

Stephen Totilo takes you on a whirlwind tour of Nintendo’s latest play for the living room, the touchscreen-and-motion-control Wii U. (But you’d watch 8 minutes of Totilo just to take a swim in those dreamy blue eyes, wouldn’t you?)

By Joel Johnson Published June 7, 2011

Super Mario 3D Gameplay Walkthrough

At E3, Kotaku gets an up close look at Super Mario 3D, the 3DS Mario title out sometime this year.

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 7, 2011