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Portable, glasses-free 3D gaming. WTF!?

How's it Work? Putting the 3D in the 3DS

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 23, 2010 1:00 PM | Comment

Japanese newspapers Nikkei and Asahi were all over today's 3DS announcement from Nintendo, providing details about the device Nintendo failed to offer in its somewhat curt press release. Most notably, Asahi says the portable's 3D output is possible without glasses thanks to a technology some gamers might already be familiar with: Sharp's parallax barrier LCD. Read More »

Report: Sharp's Parallax Barrier LCD Tech Makes the DS a 3DS

Nintendo Stuns Industry, Announces the 3DS

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 23, 2010 4:57 AM | Comment

The DSi XL has yet to launch in the U.S., but that didn't stop Nintendo from announcing its successor today. The 3DS, a portable gaming device that features 3D effects without the need for special glasses, is scheduled to ship sometime before March 2011. Read More »

Nintendo Announces the 3DS

Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2 Award Shelf Buckles, Injures Janitor

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 12, 2010 2:04 PM | Comment

500 leading game creators from all over the world and all parts of the industry have spoken: Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is the Game of the Year. Uncharted 2 took home the big prize, as well as four other trophies, at the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, held last night as part of GDC 2010. Hit the jump for the full list of winners. Read More »

GDC Awards: Leading Game Creators Name 2009's Best Games

Wiipocalypse Triggered After 360 Outsells Wii in February

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 12, 2010 11:31 AM | Comment

Big Daddy did the heavy lifting, but it wasn't enough to pull the industry out of its ongoing slump. Videogame software sales dropped 15% and hardware sales fell 20% in February, according to the latest report from market research firm NPD Group. Hit the jump for February's top sellers. Read More »

Report: Videogame Sales Down 15% in February

Scribblenauts 2 Promises Bigger, Badder Dictionary

By Bryn Williams | Nintendo DS News | Mar 8, 2010 4:32 AM | Comment

Warner Bros. Interactive and 5th Cell are making another Scribblenauts game. You remember Scribblenauts, right? It won our E3 Best in Show last year. So it's with some excitement that Maxwell and his word-based antics are coming back to the DS later this fall. The game will feature a whole host of new features including the use of adjectives to solve puzzles, reach goals, and snag those all-important Starites. Read More »

Scribblenauts Sequel Announced

Hollywood Seeking Low-res, Pixelated Actors

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 3, 2010 12:18 PM | Comment

Quick, name an Atari 2600 game. Got it? There's a good chance you just identified a title Hollywood wants to adapt into a film. According to the LA Times, movie studios are on an '80s videogame kick, and now they're looking to score with Space Invaders. Hit the jump to avoid alien fire. Read More »

Hollywood Eyes Space Invaders

Study: Gamers Spend Eight Hours Per Week Teabagging, Getting Banned

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 2, 2010 1:50 PM | Comment

Gamers are spending more time playing online, and the PC remains the platform of choice for online games according to the latest report on videogames from the NPD Group. More than half of all gamers say they play games online, and those that do so log-on an average of eight hours per week. Read More »

Report: 54% of Gamers Play Online

eBay Offers Financial Incentive to Never Play Videogames

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 1, 2010 2:40 PM | Comment

Reminiscent of the baseball card rush of the 1980s, classic videogames are fast becoming highly valued collectibles. In early February, North Carolina eBay seller lace_thongs35 made headlines when her(?) copy of NES game Stadium Events sold for more than $13,000. Turns out that was just the tip of the pixelated iceberg. Last week, a Kansas man who read of the high-priced sale sold his own copy of Stadium Events for more than $41,000. Read More »

Man Sells Unopened NES Game for $41K

Book Publisher Totally Has a Great Idea for a Game

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 1, 2010 1:02 PM | Comment

Publishing houses have long been interested in books based on videogames, evidenced most recently by Penguin's novel "Assassin's Creed Renaissance." Now it appears publishers want to flip the script and get involved with the creative side of videogame development. Read More »

Random House Creates Games Unit

Study: Violent Videogames Make You... ARRRRRRRRGHH HEADLIIIINE SMAAAAAAASH

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Mar 1, 2010 11:02 AM | Comment

A new study published in the March issue of the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin states that violent videogames (VVGs) increase aggression, desensitize gamers to violence, and create anti-social behavior. Some claim the study is inaccurate. Read more about the debate after the jump. Read More »

Academics Sound Off on Violent Videogames

Mario, Samus and DSi XL Get Dates

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Feb 24, 2010 1:36 PM | Comment

It's shaping up to be the summer of Nintendo. At its Media Summit in San Francisco today, Nintendo announced it will help gamers usher in spring with the new DSi XL in March before unleashing heavy-hitters Mario and Samus on the market in May and June, respectively. Hit the jump for for Nintendo's full hardware and software lineup for the first half of 2010. Read More »

Mario, Samus, DSi XL Lead Nintendo's First-half Lineup

Miyamoto Unlocks Rare BAFTA Achievement

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Feb 24, 2010 10:45 AM | Comment

The man who brought us Mario, Donkey Kong, and Link has another award to add to his already brimming trophy case: the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Videogames Fellowship. Shigeru Miyamoto joins Pong creator and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and SimCity/Sims mastermind Will Wright as the third BAFTA Video Game Fellow. Read More »

Shigeru Miyamoto Named a BAFTA Fellow

Nintendo Reaffirms Commitment to Vibrating Game Machines

By Bryn Williams | Nintendo DS News | Feb 23, 2010 5:06 AM | Comment

Various sources are picking up on a recently-filed patent in which Nintendo reserves the right to make "game apparatus" which uses both an LCD screen and rumble-style sensory feedback. The natural leap of logic is that the Big N could well be planning to include such functionality in its new handheld system -- which is most likely going to be a true successor to the Nintendo DS. Read More »

Patent Suggests Nintendo DS 2 Could Feature Rumble Feedback

Mega Man Zero Collection: From Zero to Hero Four Times Over

By Bryn Williams | Nintendo DS Screenshots | Feb 23, 2010 2:35 AM

What's better than getting to play one Mega Man Zero game? Getting to play four, that's what. So it's great news for fans of Capcom's well-received 2D action platformer series that Mega Man Zero Collection is going to be hitting the Nintendo DS later this year. The compilation will give up all four Zero games released so far in one handy cartridge -- check out the new shots we've just uploaded to see what's in store. See More »

Mega Man Zero Collection: New Gallery

Nintendo Prez Grounded for Accidentally Revealing DS2

By Mike Sharkey | Nintendo DS News | Feb 17, 2010 12:51 PM | Comment

In January, Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun interviewed Nintendo President Satoru Iwata and asked him about a successor to the DS handheld. Iwata replied that the DS successor would include an HD display and motion-capture capability. After the article was published, Iwata quickly claimed he was misquoted. It now appears that he actually let the Pikachu out of the bag early. Read More »

Rumor: Nintendo DS Successor Now in Developers' Hands

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