Hotel Transylvania opens next week

GameMill's take on the forthcoming animated movie is set to sink it's fangs into the DS and 3DS next week.

Spidey swings into stores today

Just a reminder that Spider-Man's return to an open world NYC hits stores today with the release of the awesome looking The Amazing Spider-Man.

E3: NY is open in The Amazing Spider-Man

Between this new trailer (that shows Spidey swinging through a gloriously open NYC) and the rebooted film franchise set to open this July, arachnid fans have a lot to be very happy about.

Spike TV's E3 coverage is serious

Serious as in 17 freakin' hours of coverage spread across the web and the channel itself.

And just to whet your gaming news appetite, the network has just released a short rundown of just some of the stuff that you can expect to see from the biggest videogame event of the year.

Hello Kitty's 3DS vacation

The little kitty takes a Holiday vacation with all the Sanrio characters you know and love in tow.

Get cookin' this August on the Wii and DS

Cooking Mama is coming back to Nintendo consoles of both the home and portable variety this Summer- cook off!

Crush 3D Crushes a Launch Trailer

Sega's 3D puzzle/platformer game, Crush 3D, is now available on 3DS' everywhere. Get a feel for crushin' with the launch trailer.

New Skylanders Toys Arrive

Activision today announced that wave 4 of it's hugely popular Skylanders action figure series' should now be at retailers nationwide.

Snake Eater 3D Sneaks onto 3DS Today

Get ready to go back to the Cold War and the 1960s... or at the very least, back to a few years ago to relive Konami's third game in the Metal Gear Solid saga, Snake Eater, in the glorious third dimension.

Nintendo Reveals New Kid Icarus Details

One of the biggest (if not the biggest) games coming to retail shelves in 2012 for Nintendo's 3DS is Kid Icarus Uprising. Today, the Mario company uncovered some brand new deets about it's story and single player experience.

Review: Driver: Renegade (3DS)

The long running, and recently resurgent, Driver franchise makes it's debut on the Nintendo 3DS. But does a portable Tanner still have the skills of his console cousins?

Inhale Your Fruit with Kirby

Nintendo's very own pink puffball, Kirby, has a brand new 3DS DS title about to debut called Mass attack. In the game, Kirby can not only employ his usual method of bad guy elimination (eating them) but he can also multiply himself up to ten times by chomping (natch) on fruit.

While you're working on digesting that disturbing image, why not digest something else? Nintendo is celebrating the launch of the newest entry in the series with a roving snack truck. The iced treat wagon will be making appearances in Huston, San Francisco, and right here in NYC.

The New York meet will, of course, take place in Rockefeller Center at the Nintendo Flagship Store. There you'll be able to get some hands on time with Mass Attack and enjoy some comped frozen fruit treats. Eating the fruit bars will, in all likelihood, not allow you to clone yourself in any way though.

Just thought that was worth mentioning.

Nintendo Expects the 3DS to Sell Well

Shocking huh?

Nintendo says they're looking for sales in the 4.5 to 5 million unit range for year one of the new 3D portable. That should be extremely doable considering they've got three quarters of 2011 left, post launch, in which to hit that goal.

The European theater alone will see 900,000 3DS' hit the retail shelves in the first three weeks of release. If it's adoption rate is going to be anything like the success that the original DS has enjoyed, that may not be enough.

3DS Pre-Orders Now Available Everywhere

Best Buy

Gamestop

Amazon

Wal Mart

Well, maybe not everywhere everywhere, but you get the picture.

3DS Available March 27th for $249.99

Nintendo's early morning US and European press conferences delivered the info everybody wanted about their three-dimensional handheld. It's pretty much as speculated on the date (at least the date range) and price, so nobody should be too surprised about anything there. But there were some little bits & bytes dropped that further flesh out the console's functionality. More about all of that after the break-

Oh by the way- Amazon.com is taking pre-orders.

3DS Games Region Locked?

Well here's something that would come as a shock to anyone who's into portable games- Nintendo's upcoming 3DS might be region locked. This basically means that a game sold at retail in the US wouldn't be able to run on a Japanese version of the hardware.

It's a practice that used to be commonplace but has now become obsolete, for all intents and purposes. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen but we'll update all of you who are thinking about importing a Japanese unit (since it launches a bit ahead of the American one) if we get anything further.

Mad Catz Announces 3DS Accessory Lineup

Peripheral maker Mad Catz has announced it's starting lineup of accessories for the soon to be released Nintendo 3DS handheld. As you might expect, there are pouches, screen protectors, and styli a-plenty.

Pricing seems pretty good and MC has been on a roll the last few years with some really nice products. There's no release date yet (bet on March) for any of this stuff but we'll have that and some shots as soon as something new is available.

Full product list and descriptions after the jump-

Nintendo's Upcoming Gold Mine Gets Official

The 3DS is looking great, Nintendo had a press conference yesterday that outlined their plans as far as the Japanese launch goes and so far it's looking like a fantastic assortment of games and a very nice little piece of hardware.

First things first, the 3DS has no North American or European release date yet- the land of the rising sun will see it on March 11th 2011. Yep, that's right- no 3DS for you this Holiday Season. Personally (and I know a lot of people think I'm nuts) I'm still predicting a global launch for the console. If not day and date with the Asian release, then only a few days or maybe a week after for the rest of the markets.

I just don't see them doing this kind of old school japan first thing with the 3DS, there's way to much money to be made- and way too big of an impression to be made. So I don't see it, could easily be wrong since Nintendo has a history of being a little unchanging in their thinking (like with HD), but I don't think so.

Anyway, after the break you'll see some new Resident Evil screens that you may not have seen before and some you definitely haven't seen before as Capcom announces a second RE for the 3D portable.

Some little flickers:

• Japanese price tag? 250 USD
• There will be a transfer feature allowing you to move over DLC from your DSi to the 3DS
• There's a Virtual Console. Done cheering yet? It'll feature GameBoy and GameBoy Color games to start, but I have to imagine they'll expand that. Game Gear games anyone?

So when is the 3DS going to be out anyway?

Not even Reggie Fils-Aime knows for sure. On the Jimmy Fallon program last Friday, Reggie announced the the console wouldn't be available until next year here in the US. This after the company itself set a fiscal 2011 launch window, which basically means 'before the end of March 2011' Now it looks like that might not be se certain.

Nintendo of Japan, who apparently has a better handle on things, has discounted that statement and says that we might not have quite that long to wait, calling Fils-Aime "mistaken" -according to Kotaku.com sources.

In my mind, the whole thing makes a lot more sense as a global launch rather than a regional one. It's true that Nintendo has always been big on releasing first in it's home country of Japan, but I think that the landscape has changed so much that that kind of thinking just doesn't fit any more. North America is every bit the power in the video game industry that Japan is at this point- and you can make the case that Europe is right up there as well. If this was a simple game launch, I could see Japan first- but a new console is such a big deal... there's an impact that could be made with a global drop that would be a shame to miss out on. 

Maybe it's just wishful thinking but if they have the hardware to cover it, (granted that might be a big 'if') then global is clearly the way to go. Nintendo's money printers would be in overdrive.

More to come-

Resident Evil Revelations in motion on the 3DS

Here's a little more Capcom 3DS love in the form of a rotting corpse.

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