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Wal-Mart Taking 3DS Pre-Orders, Handing Out Free Cases

Wal-Mart is now taking pre-orders for Nintendo’s 3DS. And if you pre-order the $249 portable from the store they’ll throw in a $10 Nintendo-licensed Flex Case. $10!!!

By Brian Crecente Published January 20, 2011

How To Teach Math Using A Nintendo Wii

Teacher Robert Drewnowski had only $300 in grant money to help him develop a more effective way of teaching math to fourth graders. He used it to buy a Wii. The $300 came to the Bacon Elementary School teacher as part of a special science and math grant doled out by New Jersey’s Millville Board…

By Mike Fahey Published January 20, 2011

Short Cords, Long Friend Lists And Other Burning 3DS Questions Answered

We’re on the verge of the release of Nintendo’s first major new gaming system in a half-decade, the 3D capable 3DS. It’s the seasons, then, for both excitement and lots of little nagging questions. From Nintendo, we’ve got (some) answers. When are the games actually coming out? Two months out from the 3DS’ release, Nintendo…

By Stephen Totilo Published January 20, 2011

Will Nintendo And Hollywood Get It Right This Time?

While Hollywood and Nintendo haven’t exactly hit it off (remember that Super Mario Bros. movie?), that doesn’t mean Tinseltown is soured on Nintendo. It’s totally excited about the 3DS. In a recent roundtable (via Edge), Nintendo present Satoru Iwata talked about how excited Hollywood was about the Nintendo 3DS. “When we show Nintendo 3DS to…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2011

Meet The Nintendo DSi Extra Extra Extra Large

A much larger take on the Nintendo DSi XL. As seen on Famitsu.com at a recent event in Kyoto.

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2011

Sheath Your Nintendo 3DS In Plastic Film

With the 3DS pre-orders underway in Japan, peripheral makers are wasting no time releasing things for the handheld. 3DS covers, anyone?

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2011

The Price Of The 3DS Is Too Damn High (And Other Complaints)

Hey, Nintendo: this whole 3DS launch thing may be the talk of the town this week, but when you peel back the hype of a new handheld what’s left beneath isn’t all high fives and back slaps. No, beneath the new things and smell of fresh plastic there are gripes. And here are my biggest…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2011

How To Get Hot Hardware Like The 3DS…Easy!

Japanese gamers lined up early this morning to place pre-orders for the Nintendo 3DS. I didn’t. I didn’t leave the house until after many stores were already selling out. Yet, I had no problems getting my pre-order. So what’s my trick? Photos from this morning showed long lines in Tokyo’s Akihabara and Shinjuku. According to…

By Brian Ashcraft Published January 20, 2011

Get Your 3DS Game Trailers And Screenshots Right Here

The Internet is awash in a sea of new screenshots and videos for new, third-party 3DS games. So we’ve dropped as many of the new ones we could find right here for your easy perusal. Currently the list includes games like Pro Evo 2011, Resident Evil, Super Monkey Ball 3D, Super Street Fighter IV 3D,…

Team Kotaku Published January 20, 2011

Hands-On With Kid Icarus Uprising, A Superb-Looking 3DS Game

It might be a little hard to appreciate how good the 3DS’ Kid Icarus Uprising looks in this video. All games look better in person and not under funky lighting. But, surely you can see? Kid Icarus was the best-looking game I played on the Nintendo 3DS at today’s New York City pre-launch event. I…

By Stephen Totilo Published January 19, 2011

Hands-On With Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition

Capcom’s Seth “S-Kill” Killian walks us through the controls for 3DS’ upcoming Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition. The game will have the same stages, costumes and moves found in the console version. The game will have two different control modes: Pro and light. Light mode enables you to set up macros, essentially, into the…

By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011

There’s A Little Metroid In Dead Or Alive For 3DS

Dead or Alive: Dimensions, the Nintendo 3DS entry in the long-running, extremely jiggly fighting game series, is coming from Team Ninja. That’s the same team behind Wii game Metroid: Other M. Now the two are coming together. How? A new video of Dead or Alive: Dimensions shows off two Metroid cameos, one from mini-boss Ridley…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011

Hands-On With the 3DS’ Picture-Morphing, Monster-Seeing Freebies

Nintendo walks us through all of the many apps built into the 3DS. This is what you get out of the box for free the day you buy the system. We already knew about the ability to take amazing, 3D photos and look at them live. But that’s not all you get when you pick…

By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011

How Does The Nintendo 3DS Price Stack Up?

Nintendo has revealed the launch price of the Nintendo 3DS, the company’s priciest portable yet at $249.99 USD. How does Nintendo’s stereoscopic 3D gaming handheld compare to the competition and its ancestors? The cost of buying into Nintendo’s latest and greatest portable gaming systems has been on the rise since the launch of the DS…

By Michael McWhertor Published January 19, 2011

The 23 3DS Games You Can Play By June

By this summer, three months after the Nintendo 3DS hits the U.S., there will be more than 30 games to play on the system, according to Nintendo. Here’s 23 of them. Reggie Fils-Aime today defined the 3DS’ launch window as between March 27 and June 7, when E3 kicks off, and said that more than…

By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011

Hands-On With Pilotwings Resort

Pilotwings Resort will have at least three modes of flight when it hits for the 3DS soon after the portable’s launch in March. Totilo walks us through some of the gameplay and controls of upcoming Pilotwings Resort. Totilo says that he’s not entirely happy with the game’s 3D effect, a first so far for a…

By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011

Hands-On With Steel Diver on the 3DS

Totilo dives in to Nintendo’s submariner Steel Diver on the 3DS today in New York. This new hands-on with the game also includes a look at the game’s periscope mode. In the video above you can see the basic mechanics of gameplay, mostly the side-scrolling gameplay you’ll find in Steel Diver. But in the video…

By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011

Nintendo Finally Makes Online Play Easy With 3DS

The Friend Code, the bane of every modern Nintendo gamer’s existence, is getting a major overhaul with the release of the 3DS, allowing friends to find friends with little to none of the hair-pulling frustration that is currently involved. Gamers who try to play online with others using the DS or the Nintendo Wii currently…

By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011

Hands-On With The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

Take a look at how Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D will look on Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS. This top, first video, has Stephen Totilo walking us through some of the neat new features coming to the game when it hits the 3DS. That includes things like a gyroscope-enabled first-person mode and…

By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011

3DS’ Augmented Reality Turns Cards Into 3D Dragons

The Nintendo 3DS will come with six augmented reality cards. But what does that mean? It means you can drop 3D dragons on to coffee tables, desks and your son’s sleeping head and then shoot virtual arrows at them. Excellent! Stay tuned to Kotaku’s 3DS page for a day full of updates, interviews and videos.…

By Brian Crecente Published January 19, 2011