3DS Demos coming, Kid Icarus Uprising Online details

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On December 27th 2011

3DS Demos coming, Kid Icarus Uprising Online details

During last night’s Nintendo Direct livestream, company President Satoru Iwata spoke about some upcoming new features for the 3DS. The long awaited (and much needed) ability to download demos is now available on the Japanese 3DS e-shop, with Metal Gear Solid 3D, Resident Evil: Revelations, Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy, and Sega’s Rhythm Thief being among the first demos of full, retail games available for download. These demos are only available on Japanese 3DS’s at the moment, but it’s safe to assume that a similar selection of demos will hit the American and European e-shops sooner rather than later.

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Mario Games Sell Over 1 Million, 3DS Still Going Strong

Posted By: Angela Min In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On December 26th 2011

Mario Games Sell Over 1 Million, 3DS Still Going Strong

Nintendo didn’t see very strong sales numbers when the 3DS first came out. However, with the help of a price-drop and a better game lineup, they seem to be bouncing back. Both of the recent games from the Mario franchise have done exceeding well, with Super Mario 3D and Mario Kart 7 each having sold over 1 million units.

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Kingdon Hearts 3D(Dream Drop Distance) is dropping in North America and Europe in 2012

Posted By: Chris Hernandez In: Nintendo DS/3DS On December 21st 2011

Kingdon Hearts 3D(Dream Drop Distance) is dropping in North America and Europe in 2012

This make come a little surprise considering the popularity of the Kingdom Hearts series outside Japan, but even still, Square-Enix officially announced that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance will be released to PAL and NTSC-U regions sometime next year, after its March release in Japan. This entry in to the series promises to add more new features beyond the glasses-free 3D.

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Vita Sells 321,000 Units in Japan within Two Days

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News, Handheld, PSP / Vita On December 20th 2011

Vita Sells 321,000 Units in Japan within Two Days

The PlayStation Vita launched on the 17th in Japan and within just 2 days Enterbrain reports has recorded 321,407 Vita consoles sold on December 17th and 18th. To put that in perspective of other handhelds that have come out in the past — The Japanese launch of the 3DS had 371,326 units sold within the first two days but then sales dropped until the price cut in August but Enterbrain is estimating that the Vita will steam ahead and reach 1.4 million sales the first week.

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Ambassador GBA Games available for download on 3DS eShop

Posted By: Chris Hernandez In: Nintendo DS/3DS On December 16th 2011

Ambassador GBA Games available for download on 3DS eShop

It’s been a lengthy wait, for the impatient, since the 10 NES games were made available back in September for those early adopters of the 3DS. For those who did not grow up in the NES era there was likely little worth getting excited over when those 10 titles were announced and made some 3DS owners even more eager to get the forthcoming GBA games. It has been three long months and these games are certainly worth the wait.

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Want to Share Your Vita with Someone on a Different PSN Account? Too Bad

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News, Handheld, PSP / Vita On December 16th 2011

Want to Share Your Vita with Someone on a Different PSN Account? Too Bad

Recently, the news whether or not Sony’s newest handheld will allow for multiple PSN accounts per device or not and we finally have solid answers. A PSN account is not only tied to just a memory card, it’s tied to both the card and the Vita it’s self, Sony told Wired.

What this means for the customer is that “If a second person is using your Vita, it’s not just a case of switching out memory cards, it’s clearing out all of your saved data on the Vita itself when you do the factory reset.” Which, I guess, is their way of trying to combat piracy and make sure no one tries any work around (like that will ever work) in addition annoying the customers of families. Hopefully you didn’t plan on sharing your handheld with a sibling or use that Japanese account to get import games on your American Vita.

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PlayStation Vita Users Get Plants Vs. Zombies at Launch

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News, Handheld, PSP / Vita On December 16th 2011

PlayStation Vita Users Get Plants Vs. Zombies at Launch

If for some reason you don’t yet own a smart phone and don’t have Plants Vs. Zombies installed on your device or you haven’t played PopCap’s famous game on any of it’s other recently ported platforms. Then this should be great news to you as Sony’s offical PlayStation Twitter account tweeted the little tid bit as well as the above picture.

It’s still unclear whether or not the Vita version will have newer levels or additional features to draw in the not-yet adopters or others who just want another platform to play on.

Vita is set to launch in North America in February.

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Huge DS/3DS Game Sale on Amazon

Posted By: Sean Bassinger In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On December 14th 2011

Huge DS/3DS Game Sale on Amazon

Though some of the 3DS titles leave something to be desired, A generous holiday sale is currently taking place on Amazon.com.

The entire list of titles (via Tiny Cartridge) features some of the best Nintendo DS RPGs to release this past decade, while the 3DS games are simply… well, around if you want them. Still, it’s hard to pass up on some of these games when they’re just under 20 bucks.

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Monster Hunter 3G Sales Skyrocket in Japan

Posted By: Sean Bassinger In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On December 13th 2011

Monster Hunter 3G Sales Skyrocket in Japan

Capcom’s Monster Hunter series remains as popular as ever in Japan, and this weeks release of the game goes even further to prove it.

According to Andriasang, Monster Hunter 3G sold over 471,055 units since its arrival on Saturday. On top of that, over 378,114 3DS systems sold as a result of the game’s release, which is nearly 7,000 more units than Nintendo sold during the 3DS launch in Japan. Since its debut, the 3DS has now sold a combined total of 3,237,272 units in the country.

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3DS “Frankenstick” Coming to the US, Only at Gamestop

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, Nintendo DS/3DS On December 13th 2011

3DS “Frankenstick” Coming to the US, Only at Gamestop

Still wish the 3DS had a second circle pad? Do you secretly wish that your 3DS was bulkier and less sleek? Well, for $20 and a trip to Gamestop, your wishes will soon be answered, as Nintendo announced today that the Circle Pad Pro attachment (better known as the “Frankenstick”) will be coming to North America on February 7th, and will be sold exclusively at Gamestop.

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