Mortal Kombat is the king of all April games, say the number crunchers at The NPD Group. Selling just shy of 900,000 copies, the NetherRealm Studios reboot managed to supplant Pokemon Black/White as the industry's best-selling title(s), and lead a month that saw incredible gains for the US gaming industry in whole.
According to the report, the US video game market...
Nintendo has given Japanese retailers a hands-on preview of the upcoming 3DS version of Star Fox 3D, so it's no surprise that details of the title's new features were soon flooding into the world. These include local 4-player and a new control mode that utilizes the 3DS' gyroscope sensor.
Just like the N64 original, SF643D (too many numbers in that title!) supports 4-player – and just like the original, that mode is local-only. Once again, you’ll still have to be in the same room to holler about barrel rolls face-to-face – meaning the one big change is the removal of that old cheapo standby, winning by watching the opponent's screen...
The Nintendo eShop that 3DS owners have been waiting for has been delayed. The system update, which will add an internet browser and the Nintendo eShop is now scheduled to launch on the evening of June 6 (Pacific Time). The new launch date for the update, which was previously expected to arrive this May, is worth noting as it will now debut the evening before Nintendo’s E3 2011 press conference on June 7.
In addition to new retail games, the Nintendo 3DS eShop will offer classic Game Boy and Game Boy color titles for download. It will also allow you to download DSiWare games. Expect the update to be a big part of Nintendo’s 3DS presentation at E3 with more details about the content that will be available via the eShop, including more information about Netflix and 3D trailers on the 3DS.
Namco Bandai has confirmed the arrival of two new Tales games for North American retail: Tales of Graces F for the PS3 and Tales of the Abyss for the 3DS. Alright, so they're new(ish)...
Sega has confirmed that it will be releasing a redesigned version of Zoë Mode's PSP spatial puzzler Crush for the Nintendo 3DS this Fall. The remake, oh-so-creatively called Crush3D, will make full use of the 3DS' hardware, and include new puzzles, enemies and a hint system. Which is good, because if my memory serves me well, Crush was one of the PSP's trickier titles.
Similar to the 2007 original, the game stars Danny...
Hoe. Lee. Crap. This is one of the most spellbinding things I've seen in ages. If you ever need a justification for the worth of homebrew fan ingenuity, this is it. If you're feeling suicidal and need to see something beautiful enough to give you a reason to go on living, this is it.
A rather spectacular lunatic by the name of Eighteen has taken literally hundreds of screens from the prettiest Wii and Gamecube games around and converted them to 3D. His purpose? Putting them on a .rar file that you can download, extract the contents of, and stuff your lucky, lucky 3DS SD card to the gills with. The screens are easily viewable with the 3DS camera's photo viewer, and yikes are they a stunning taste of what's to come on Nintendo's sparkly little handheld. Forget the crap launch-window game blues. Myself and Justin have just been looking at the Super Mario Galaxy screens and gurgling about the potential of the recently announced Super Mario 3DS game.
We still weep.
Join us.
According to Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, Super Mario 3D for the Nintendo 3DS will be a mix of Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy. So far, so awesome. However, speaking in an interview with The Telegraph, Miyamoto also revealed that the upcoming Nintendo 3DS platformer will make use of the console’s gryo sensor for controls.
It seems that tilting the Nintendo 3DS will make up for the handheld’s lack of a second analogue stick. “Sometimes people ask why the 3DS isn’t double stick,” said Miyamoto. “One is normally used to control the camera, but having the gyro sensor you can replace the analogue stick by moving the console, which is very intuitive.”...
Our friends at Official Nintendo Magazine UK have a new episode of Nintendo TV ready for you. Let them tell you about this week's goodness:
For the first time ever you can watch the latest NintendoTV on YouTube. The weekly show, which is powered by the Official Nintendo Magazine is usually only available on the Wii’s Nintendo Channel.
If you haven’t seen NintendoTV yet then click on to see what you're missing.
THQ has confirmed the cancellation of Saints Row: Drive By, a PSN and XBLA off-shoot of the farcical GTA-esque crime title that was set to precede the full-on Saints Row sequel later this year...
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