Posts tagged virtual-console 
NintendoWare Weekly: The Denpa Men, Quarth
The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave is a new dungeon RPG by Genius Sonority, in which you use augmented reality-type exploration to find little guys in the environment, who then form your party. It's cute, quirky, and available on the 3DS eShop today. There's a demo if you'd like to try it out. Also ...
NintendoWare Weekly: Prince of Persia
The SNES version of Prince of Persia arrives on the Virtual Console in North America. We'd forgotten this was happening in the interim between the December ESRB rating and today, so this is, like every Wii Virtual Console release, a pleasant and unexpected surprise. Speaking of surprises, DSiWare's ...
Nintendoware Weekly: Metal Slug X, VectorRacing
It's a quiet week on Nintendo platforms (except, of course, for last Sunday's New Super Mario Bros. 2 launch), with just one new game per platform. Wii Virtual Console fans can rescue hostages and blow up everything that isn't a hostage in Metal Slug X; 3DS owners get to see through the track in ...
Nintendoware Weekly: Touch Battle Tank 3D, Super Mario Land 2 sale
This week is fairly light on content, with one new Virtual Console game on Wii (another Neo Geo fighter) and one new game on 3DS eShop (Touch Battle Tank 3D, an abstract-looking top-down tank shooting game). A couple of deals are available that might be worth knowing about: Hulu Plus on Wii offers ...
NintendoWare Weekly: Wario Land, Mole Mania, Planet Crashers
Once again, the 3DS eShop is rich with content, including the 8 Bit Summer releases of Wario Land and Mole Mania, the latter being a somewhat under-the-radar puzzle game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and a small team. There's also the fascinating Dot Runner: Complete Edition, a new game that mashes ...
NintendoWare Weekly: Kirby's Pinball Land, Ace Mathician, Mighty Switch Force sale
We could get used to this – there's a lot to download on Nintendo platforms this week! The "8-Bit Summer" brings two 3DS Game Boy games, one you likely know and one you probably don't. You'll also find some new games, Johnny Kung Fu and Sweet Memories - Blackjack. The latter is, for real, ...
Nintendo's 8-bit Summer on 3DS eShop has these eight classics
Nintendo has dubbed July the "8-bit Summer," and plans to launch eight Virtual Console games for the 3DS eShop next month, beginning July 5 with The Legend of Zelda. Kirby's Pinball Land and The Sword of Hope 2 will hit on July 12, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters and Tumblepop will land on July ...
Nintendo Direct trailers: Kirby's Dream Collection, Professor Layton, and more
Last night during the US Nintendo Direct presentation, we were treated to footage of several new games including the Wii Kirby's Dream Collection and Pikmin 2, the 3DS's Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, New Super Mario Bros. 2, and the DS's Pokemon Black and White Version 2. There's also a ...
Two new Virtual Console titles to hit 3DS per week in July
Nintendo's 3DS eShop will launch two new Virtual Console titles each week from July 5 to August 1, beginning with The Legend of Zelda and Kirby's Pinball and including Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3. Super Mario Land is now $2.99 in the eShop through the end of June, Nintendo also announced. ...
NintendoWare Weekly: Double Dragon 2, Order Up
The NES classic Double Dragon 2 unexpectedly shows up on Wii today, in an otherwise portable-heavy week. Today's 3DS releases include the popular Order Up!!, and a series of "Slitherlink" math puzzles. Normally, we don't give too much attention to the kids' stuff on DSiWare, but we feel compelled ...
