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Dont have a Nintendo 3DS yet? Well as good old Reggie once said, whats wrong with you?

And now he’s right. Retailer The Good Guys is now selling an awesome little bundle here for the 3DS which doesn’t come with some shovelware game. Instead, it comes with Resident Evil: Revelations and a Circle Pad Pro. Let’s do the maths on that one, the RRP for a Nintendo 3DS at the moment is $249. Now most retailers have been selling it for less than that but still, if you take off Resident Evil and the Circle Pad Pro off that price ($69.95 and $24.95) you’re effectively getting a 3DS for $155. Which is $100 less than normal or $200 less if you had bought one on launch.

Of course this doesn’t help people who already have a 3DS (or three) so if you spot any other deals for Resident Evil: Revelations and/or the Circle Pad Pro let us know!

Via: Lasoo

Full 60 frames per second in 3D and a full movie included, not bad

Nintendo Australia has announced that Tekken 3D Prime Edition will be heading to Australian shores on February 23rd, just under two weeks after the rest of the world. Very nice. This isnt the first time the Tekken Franchise has been on a Nintendo console. There was a Tekken game released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001, Tekken Advance. While that game wasnt bad, Prime Edition looks to be more feature packed.

Prime Edition will bring the full Tekken experience to the Nintendo 3DS with a full 60 FPS in 3D mode and over 40 characters to battle it out. Namco Bandai even thought it was cool to include the Tekken: Blood Vengeance movie on the card as well.

The next few months on the Nintendo 3DS are looking quite odd; Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid and now Tekken. Are we sure this isnt Playstation?

Though two dimensional like the old games, it will still display in 3D

At an investor meeting in Japan today, Nintendo dropped little bits of information about the 3DS and Wii U. While no logo was shown or name given, Iwata announced a "totally brand new" side-scrolling action Super Mario 2D title. Thats 2D in the vein of New Super Mario Bros on the Wii and DS, as it will feature stereo-3D like all 3D games.



The game will be out within the next financial year for Nintendo, so some time after June (most likely for Christmas). Expect to see more at E3!

Source: Nintendo

The title has appeared on a UK retail listing

An unidentified retail source in the UK has generated rumblings that SoulCalibur V will be heading to the 3DS. Apparently the title is listed for preorder at a major store, however we havent yet heard a peep from publisher Namco Bandai regarding a 3DS release.

If youre looking for a fighting fix in the mean time, check out Dead or Alive Dimensions or Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition. Do you want to see SoulCalibur V on the 3DS?

Source: Nintendo Life

Couple of Princes, Some Evil and some cooking. Everything you need.

After being simply forgotten last week with a grand total of 0 titles, Nintendo is back on board with not only some new things for the 3DS but something for the Wii Virtual Console. Remember when that was a thing?

Wii Virtual Console

Prince of Persia (SNES, Ubisoft, 800 points) - Someone should have told someone at Nintendo that normal human reproduction cycles dont apply to retro games on the Wii. It shouldnt take 9 months for the Wii to get another Virtual Console title. At least this ones a good one.

3DS Virtual Console

Prince of Persia (Game Boy Color, Ubisoft, $7.50) - No, not a typo but yet another Prince of Persia game for your consumption. Ubisoft have not only broken the drought on the Wii but brought a third party Game Boy Color game to the eShop.

3DS Demos

Resident Evil Revelations (Capcom, Free) - A brand new demo for your consumption and for the right price. Will make that wait just that little bit shorter. Thats until the 30 play limit is up.

Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic (Majesco) - No need to joke, Im sure someone out there wants to play this one.

Resident Evil and Cooking Mama kick off the demo service

Nintendo Europe has announced that the first retail demos of games will be put up on the eShop later this week. We suspect the games will go up around the same time the weekly download update, which is usually around 1AM Friday on the east coast of Australia (GMT +10).

*While the press release from Nintendo Europe doesn’t actually mention Australia, if worst comes to worst you can always change your region to nab the Resident Evil Revelations and Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic [How rad would it be if she was an actual wizard? -Ed].

More demos coming in the future include Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, Rhythm Thief and the Emperor’s Treasure and Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Which one will you download first? I can’t even guess….

 

Sad news all around as Konami puts the final nail in the Hudson coffin

When Konami bought Hudson in April last year things werent looking good. Konami dumped most of the games in development with the company and instead focused the legendary developer on making social games. That plan hasnt worked out it seems, as the Konami has today announced that the company will be closing completely on March 1st.

Hudson has been not only a developer of popular titles such as the Bomberman series but also had their hand in helping create the Mario Party series for Nintendo amongst others. Hudson also created hardware, with the PC Engine and TurboGrafx-16 systems under its belt.

Its not certain what will happen to Hudsons IP; will Konami keep it for themselves or could another developer be allowed to step up to the plate? Perhaps someone could even make the next big Bomberman title.

Source: NintendoLife

3DS Spin off of the Fatal Frame series is heading outside of Japan

Nintendo of America might not bring obscure Japanese games to the west, but when it does, it does on the Nintendo 3DS. Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir will be heading to America on April 13th. The game uses the Nintendo 3DS camera and AR cards to create a new way of playing a horror game. The game is a spin off of the Fatal Frame series, the last game of which (on the Wii) was never released outside of Japan.

The game comes with a 16-page AR Book called the "diary of faces". The book will tell the games story through the AR cards with characters and places coming to life from the book. Great to see the AR capabilities of the Nintendo 3DS being used outside of the systems in built AR Games.

Good to see another obscure game that could have easily gone un-localised head our way, lets just hope that its actually heading our way to Australia at some point as well.

3DS Spin off of the Fatal Frame series is heading outside of Japan

Nintendo of America might not bring obscure Japanese games to the west, but when it does, it does on the Nintendo 3DS. Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir will be heading to America on April 13th. The game uses the Nintendo 3DS camera and AR cards to create a new way of playing a horror game. The game is a spin off of the Fatal Frame series, the last game of which (on the Wii) was never released outside of Japan.

The game comes with a 16-page AR Book called the "diary of faces". The book will tell the games story through the AR cards with characters and places coming to life from the book. Great to see the AR capabilities of the Nintendo 3DS being used outside of the systems in built AR Games.

Good to see another obscure game that could have easily gone un-localised head our way, lets just hope that its actually heading our way to Australia at some point as well.

Nintendo has no plans to fix the game breaking shortcut

There’s a glitch on the Wuhu Mountain Loop track in Mario Kart 7 and it’s a pretty big one. We won’t go into detail, if you want to use it, you can find out how it works for yourself but it essentially allows a racer to bypass a huge portion of the course. It’s not hard to do but it still means that if it’s done correctly, no one who chooses not to use the glitch can win that race.

Thanks for your patience in waiting for a response during this busy time of year. We are aware that it is possible to navigate a certain part of the track in Wuhu Island in a way that allows a large part of the course to be bypassed. There are no plans to update the game to remove this shortcut as doing so would create an unfair advantage for the users of the original release of the game. Rest assured your comments have been added to our records for Mario Kart 7.

What this means is that Nintendo has no plans to release a second, fixed version of the game - which is usually what they do. This actually would, as Nintendo says give an unfair advantage to people who have the fixed version. However Nintendo, you can release a patch so that the next time anyone with Mario Kart 7 goes online the problem is fixed, that wouldn’t be too hard now would it?