With Animal Crossing: New Horizons almost here, let’s look back at New Leaf on 3DS

We’re just a few months away from Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch. For fans of the franchise, it’s a good time to look back at Animal Crossing: New Leaf on the Nintendo 3DS. Animal Crossing: New Leaf brought all the life-simulating fun of the franchise to the 3DS handheld back in 2013. It came … Read more

Bugs vs. Tanks Review: Honey I Shrunk the Kids meets the Third Reich

Bugs vs. Tanks is bizarre enough to fit alongside The Starship Damrey, Crimson Shroud, Aero Porter and Liberation Maiden, the other games in Level-5′s Guild01 and Guild02 series. All of the games were created alongside prolific Japanese designers to some pretty mixed results. When it was first released in 2013, Bugs vs. Tanks caught my attention when I saw that it was the … Read more

Nintendo will continue to support 3DS into 2020

Nintendo 3DS has lost steam ever since the launch of the Switch. Nintendo shifted first-party development to the console-handheld hybrid. Third-party publishers have done the same. So far this year, Nintendo has only released Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr’s Journey, Yo-Kai Watch 3, and Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn on the 3DS. … Read more

Nintendo remains best-selling game hardware manufacturer as lifetime sales top 750 million

Since it first released the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan in 1983, Nintendo has been one of the leading video game hardware manufacturers. Thanks to the success of the Nintendo Switch, the company just topped all-time hardware sales of 750 million units. The official tally of Nintendo hardware sales since the NES – both console … Read more

Luigi’s Mansion 3 sneaks onto Nintendo Switch today

Just in time for Halloween, Luigi returns for some ghost hunting. Luigi’s Mansion 3 is out now for Nintendo Switch. The sequel to Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon for Nintendo 3DS, Luigi’s Mansion 3 has Luigi return to a haunted hotel on a Nintendo console for the first time since GameCube. It’s scary to think that … Read more

GameStop giving away free 3DS game with New Super Mario Bros. 2DS Bundle

You can get a free Nintendo Selects 3DS title with the purchase of the 2DS New Super Mario Bros. 2 hardware bundle. Essentially, that’s the system plus two free games. The free game offer is valid with purchases of the Nintendo 2DS Scarlet Red New Super Mario Bros. 2 Bundle, which retails for $79.99 and … Read more

Montage pays tribute to the history of Nintendo consoles and handhelds

It’s fun to look back every once in a while at where we came from in video games. Few, if any, companies will be remembered as fondly as Nintendo. For a large percentage of us, Nintendo was our introduction to gaming. For many, the house of Mario remains their favorite to this day. A fan-made … Read more

This Week’s Top Game Deals: Super Mario Party, Control, Mario & Sonic, Fez

Every Sunday we highlight the top game deals of the week from our sister site, Game Deals 365. This week we have several new pre-order deals, a new free game, a PlayStation VR bundle, and loads of digital deals that are expiring soon, including Super Mario Party for Nintendo Switch! Digital Game Deals A Way … Read more

This Week’s Top Game Deals: Hitman 2, Nioh, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, My Hero: One’s Justice

Every Sunday we highlight the top game deals of the week from our sister site, Game Deals 365. This week we have deals for Hitman 2, Nioh, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, My Hero: One’s Justice, and more! Game Deals Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition (PS4/Xbox One) – $19.99 Hitman 2 – … Read more

Star Fox 64 3D Retrospective Review

Back at the launch of the Nintendo 3DS in 2011, the system experienced something of a drought of good games. AAA releases like Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 wouldn’t come out until the holidays. That left it up to titles like Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Star Fox 64 … Read more

Shin Megami Tensei IV Review

You may not be as familiar with Atlus’s Shin Megami Tensei franchise as classic role-playing games like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, or even Pokemon. It is high time for that to change. Heavily inspired by demonic lore, full of mythological beasts, geared toward the niche RPG fans – indeed, Shin Megami and its many spin-off … Read more

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS Review

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS is the series’ portable debut. As a fan of the series, I admittedly looked forward to Super Smash Bros. for 3DS more than most games. This is interesting when you consider the humble beginnings of the franchise. It may surprise you, but the original Super Smash Brothers was definitely not … Read more

Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate Review

Armature Studios was more than willing to admit that it wanted to go with the Metroidvania theme when developing Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, the handheld tie-in to the console game Batman: Arkham Origins. Unfortunately, it might have been better off thinking about ways to make the Batman: Arkham series’ hand-to-hand combat system and gadget-based exploration … Read more

SteamWorld Dig Review

I never really played any “mining games” quite like Image & Form’s SteamWorld Dig before I decided to download the eShop title, but a few rosy critiques and comparisons to the Metroid series convinced me to take the plunge. I quickly found out that SteamWorld Dig is one of the eShop’s brightest gems and best downloadable platformers on the market.

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This Week’s Game Deals: Zelda, GTA V, MGS V, Shadow of the Colossus

You like deals. We like deals. We all like deals! These are the top deals that we found for the week of May 13, 2018. HARDWARE CYBERPOWERPC Gamer Master GMA2600A Desktop Gaming PC (AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz, NVIDIA GT 730 2GB, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB 7200RPM HDD, Win 10 Home) – $689 Nintendo 2DS … Read more

Project X Zone 2 Confirmed for Nintendo 3DS in February 2016

A sequel to the crossover turn-based strategy game Project X Zone is coming to the US. Players can play as their favorite characters from a number of different franchises across several of Japan’s largest video game publishers, including Capcom, Sega and Bandai Namco. Capcom will feature characters from its Resident Evil, Devil May Cry and … Read more

Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud Coming to Super Smash Bros

A big surprise was dropped during the latest Nintendo Direct. The main protagonist from one of the most popular games ever made is coming to Super Smash Bros. on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. Cloud was revealed as a playable character in Smash Bros. and a new Final Fantasy 7 arena was shown off as … Read more

Nintendo Confirms Wii U and 3DS Lineups for Rest of 2015

Good news, Nintendophiles: Nintendo has confirmed the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS lineups through the end of 2015. Super Mario Maker leads the pack on the Wii U with its September 11th release. The game lets users create their own 2D Mario-themed levels. Yoshi’s Woolly World comes out on October 16. The game will also … Read more