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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.

Professor Layton’s Fourth Game is Coming to America

Professor Layton and the Last Specter, a DS game out in Japan since 2009, is finally coming to the West, Nintendo revealed during its E3 press conference earlier this morning. It’s coming to the US this Fall.

Nintendo Wii U Hands On: An Entirely Different Way to See Things

It looks like the product of a fevered fanboy wetdream. A 6.2-inch touchscreen, surrounded by dual analog sticks and oodles of buttons. Like the portable hardcore gamers wish Nintendo made. But it’s the most incredible controller ever. I’m completely immersed in my own tiny world with the Wii U controller, staring into the screen, moving…

Now You Can Download the E3 2011 Legend of Zelda Medley

Want a copy of the stirring Zelda tribute performed earlier today at Nintendo’s E3 2011 presser for your very own? Music masters FireGS and ZREO have remastered the medley and put it online for your downloading pleasure. Rejoice!

Resident Evil: Revelations is a Frightening, Delightful Experience

This is Resident Evil as I remember it: Eerie, tense, long moments of exploration punctuated by brief, startling encounters. Resident Evil: Revelations, due out next year on Nintendoʼs 3DS, is a brand new title with roots firmly planted in the early days of Resident Evil, back when the game was unequivocally about surviving the horrors…

Paper Mario Is As 2D As The 3DS Could Possibly Be

Paper Mario, you have been a delight on every Nintendo system you have ever appeared on. Don’t go changing that with the 3DS version! Not that there’s any reason to doubt the series, given what’s on show in the above E3 trailer.

You Are the Hero In Super Mario Bros. Mii

If this looks familiar, that’s because Super Mario Bros. Mii is basically Super Mario Bros. Wii. Only for the Wii U, and instead of controlling lesser Mushroom Kingdom stars, your Mii can pull on some overalls and get to work. Remember, although Nintendo is releasing media for this and has playable demos, it remains just…

Smile, it’s Animal Crossing 3DS’ E3 Trailer

I swore I was done with Animal Crossing. That too many same-same games and too many wasted days meant I was finished with the franchise. But this just looks so…charming

What’s Under the Wii U’s Hood? IBM Spills a Few Chips

While Nintendo normally doesn’t like to talk numbers when touting a new system’s capabilities, the companies providing those capabilities have no such qualms. Like IBM, who today issued a press release boasting some of the Wii U’s hardware specifications, including the fact the microprocessor serving as “the heart” of the console is a custom 45nm…

Mario Kart 3DS Adds Miis, Flying and…Oh yeah, 3D

If you thought for a second that Nintendo wasn’t going to bring Mario Kart to 3DS, than I guess today is your lucky day. For most of us however, the game’s biggest surprise is the addition of flying and undersea racing. Nintendo has also added Mii support and the standard array of 3DS features; Spot…

Animal Crossing 3DS is a Link to the Past

Are you ready for a radical departure from the Animal Crossing formula for the game’s foray on the Nintendo 3DS? That’s just not going to happen, but here’s a guy dressed as Link. Animal Crossing; Animal Crossing never changes. Those were the words famously spoken by actor Ron Pearlman in my head the last time…

Mario Kart 3DS

Lets Go Hands-On and Take a Closer Look at the Wii U

Here are a bunch more photos of Nintendo’s new platform taken from every angle. If you’re more interested in the tech specs, you should check those out here

Seven Different Ways to Play the Wii U

Combining the Wii U’s innovative new controller, the console itself, the stylus, and Wii remote and nunchuk controlers, here are seven different ways you’ll be playing with the Wii U come 2012.

This is Surely the First of Many Wii U Super Mario Bros. Games

This is New Super Mario Bros. running on the Wii U. As with all of the Wii U software being shown at E3 in Los Angeles this week, it’s Only A Prototype. Surely, though, the people at Nintendo will make some sort of Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii U. And maybe, as in…

Aliens: Colonial Marines for the Wii U Might Happen, or Possibly Not [Update]

While they’ve got nothing to show and aren’t even sure it’s going to happen, Gearbox Software and SEGA want everyone to know that there’s a chance Aliens: Colonial Marines might appear on the Wii U, possibly. Game development isn’t an exact science. One can never tell if a new game will work on a new…

Yes, You Can Use a Stylus with the Wii U Controller

Although it’s certainly not necessary to use a stylus all the time with the Nintendo Wii U’s touchscreen controller, as this picture shows there may be games that work better with the 3DS-like stylus. (That also implies that it’s a resistive touchscreen, not a capacitive one like the iPhone and iPad.)

How Do You Play Chase Mii?

In Chase Mii, up to four players work together to catch a single person, chasing them through Mario-esque environments. The twist is that the player being chased uses the new Wii U controller, which gives them a tactical advantage by allowing them to see a map.

There’s an Exclusive Ninja Gaiden in the Works for Wii U

While Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners can still look forward to Ninja Gaiden 3, Tecmo Koei announced today a special version of the game being developed for Nintendo’s Wii U, tentatively titled Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge

Say it With Us: Wii U Wii U Wii U

Reader Nathan reminds us of the proper way to pronounce the name of Nintendo’s new console, courtesy of the classic (to someone at least) film Kung Pow: Enter the Fist