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Welcome back to another electrifying edition of Nintendo Voice Chat! A lot of Wii U and 3DS news has come to light since our last podcast - and by golly, we're going to chat about it...

A new month can only mean one thing. No, not rent time (boring!), but rather that new prizes have been added to the Club Nintendo reward catalog...

You can now connect your Nintendo 3DS to the internet at over 5000 locations across Europe for free...

What legendary developer Shigeru Miyamoto does at Nintendo is rather unclear. Back in December this lack of clarity led to rumours of him stepping down from his role as Senior Managing Director and General Manager of Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development Division...

During a recent investor Q&A, legendary developer Shigeru Miyamoto fielded questions regarding Nintendo's strategies for growing its internal development teams, and how he can effectively nurture his employees without taking away from his own work. In light of recent events, in which a comment to an online outlet lead to false reports of his retirement spreading like wildfire, Miyamoto answered the question carefully...

The arrival of Wii U marks a new era for Nintendo. That's the message Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has been stressing for months, and in his company's most recent meeting with investors, he emphasized it again...

During a recent investor Q&A, the observation was brought up to Nintendo President Satoru Iwata that the 3DS has seen significant growth in popularity among those who classify themselves as "hardcore" gamers. The system's adoption among the casual audience, however, has been much slower, largely due to the relative lack of software that would appeal to that kind of player...

Did you see that Nintendogs Plus Cats bundle that hit store shelves this past holiday season and think to yourself, "Darnit! I want that pink 3DS but I already own the game!" Well, now you're in luck...

From a distance, Nintendo would appear to be in some serious trouble. After stumbling with the launch of the 3DS, being forced to prematurely cut the portable's price tag, fumbling the introduction of Wii U, not offering enough quality titles for much of 2011 and forecasting $838 million in losses ...

Nintendo and Japanese telecom company NTT are working together on a voice recognition project, aimed at making it easier for students with hearing or other disabilities to keep up in classrooms.

The project, which NHK reports is undergoing trials in Okinawa and Tottori Prefecture, captures instructor speech, converts it to text, and saves it to the cloud while also sending it to devices -- like the DSi. That way, students can read along, and have an automatic record of lessons. See it in action in the video on NHK's site.

The downside to this plan, of course, is that it creates a situation in which a student is expected to be paying very close attention to his or her DS in the back of the classroom -- a situation ripe for abuse of the Retro Game Challenge variety.

Square Enix game director and character designer Tetsuya Nomura says that the company has "a secret team working on an unannounced title"...

Capcom has confirmed that a fifth instalment in the popular Ace Attorney series is in development...

Guttenberg! Yes, it's the IGN AU Pubcast - the world's leading podcast on all things Police Academy... and gaming, movies, dolphin love... you know the drill by now! This episode, we continue our 'Police Academy Watch' with a live update from the Police Academy stunt show at Warner Bros. Movie Wo...

Nintendo's touch screen controller for the Wii U is now becoming a more powerful tool for communication. During the latest investor conference for the company, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata confirmed "NFC functionality" would be featured in the tablet device...

It seems there may be even more to Nintendo's next generation of home consoles, the Wii U, than we initially thought. According to Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono, Wii U's features have advanced since its E3 2011 reveal, which wasn't necessarily an accurate representation of everything the system will offer upon release...

One of the many complaints levied at Nintendo in the aftermath of its E3 2011 reveal of the Wii U was that the system's name simply wasn't good enough. Although few faulted the publisher for wanting to retain its powerful Wii branding, many wondered if 'Wii U' would confuse consumers rather than make them immediately understand a new console was on the market. According to the latest rumor moving through the industry, Nintendo might now be reconsidering its naming strategy...

Faced with intense scrutiny, investor pressure and the first fiscal year losses for his company in over 25 years, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata once again reiterated plans for the future. Notably that includes making sure Wii U is available globally by the 2012 holiday season...

The Nintendo 3DS has crossed 15 million units sold worldwide since its launch in March 2011, outpacing the early lives of the Wii and DS, yet its publisher is still struggling financially. Nintendo has released its latest quarterly earnings report, where it posted a loss of $623 million for first nine months of its fiscal year (April 2011 through December 2011)...

Welcome back to another mind-bending edition of Nintendo Voice Chat! This week we've got the one and only Papa Koopa, Rich George, Audrey "Birthday Girl" Drake (ME!), Samuel "The Man with the Plan" Claiborn, and Jose "What up, 1-Up?" Otero...

About one year ago, we here at IGN Nintendo put together a list of the Game Boy games we wanted to see on the 3DS eShop. It was before the system had even launched, but about half of our picks actually made it to the new portable's Virtual Console. Of our choices, Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land ...

You can hate or love SOPA, call yourself a hardcore Republican or Democrat, or prefer vegetable oil to butter. No matter how you identify, you will no doubt laugh your face off watching a former presidential primary candidate sing the entirety of the theme song from Pokemon: The Movie 2000. Herman Cain did just that last Friday afternoon during Stephen Colbert's Charleston, South Carolina faux political rally, much to the delight of people everywhere on the planet.

What does this have to do with video games? In all honesty, not very much, but we know how hard life can be -- sometimes it seems impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line, but you can make a difference. And Herman Cain is here to share that message, in song.

In the history of video games, few companies have out-marketed Nintendo. From the days of the Nintendo Seal of Quality and the "Now You're Playing With Power" campaign to Wii's non-gamer demos and "Wii Would Like to Play" ads, the Big N has accumulated a wealth of commercials and concepts ranging from incredibly effective to incredibly insane...

So ... Pokemon Plus Nobunaga's Ambition is still happening. That's pretty weird.

Despite its reputation as a casual gamer's console, Wii has actually been an incredible system for Nintendo fans. Not only does the platform house some of the greatest modern achievements in the company's history, it launched the Virtual Console, the digital service that allows fans new and old to c...

Though Japanese 3DS owners have been able to download playable game demos for about a month, Nintendo has confirmed that North American gamers will be getting the same treatment. The free eShop demos will begin arriving tomorrow, starting with Resident Evil Revelations...

It's the first IGN AU Pubcast for 2012 - the triumphant return of our distinctly Aussie take on the traditional podcast, blending our love of gaming with beer and toilet humour, plus a liberal dose of intelligent debate...

Nintendo has many questions to answer when it comes to Wii U. Price, release date, launch library, online functionality all of these are important details that the entire industry wants to know as a new console approaches. But there's another side to the system that Nintendo needs to address, and ideally it will do so at E3...

Sony has commented on the sales of its competitor, saying that Nintendo's recent success with the 3DS could be a good sign for the Vita's future...

In late 2009, Nintendo put five demos for WiiWare games on the Wii Shop Channel, though, inexplicably, it was a limited-time deal, and they all went away on January 31. Then, in late 2010 (and also inexplicably) the program returned, and WiiWare demos started trickling in at the rate of one a week. These were also intended as limited-time offers, which continued not to make any damn sense.

Now, in the crowning moment of weirdness for the service, all 50 demos that were previously offered in North America are now available on the Wii Shop in a "demo" section found within the selection of WiiWare "genres," with no explanation at all. Of all the bizarre moves related to this service, this is the one we can most wholeheartedly support.

Go try some demos! Lilt Line, And Yet It Moves, Bit.Trip Beat, and more are there to sample. Use your downloads to send Nintendo the incredibly obvious message that people like demos.

Two years is a long time for a major studio to stay quiet. Though it worked on some of the tracks for Mario Kart 7, Retro Studios has not shipped a major project since Donkey Kong Country Returns at the end of 2010. Since then, the company has been quiet, very quiet, without a single announced proje...