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We expected Jimmy Fallon to flip out during Reggie Fils-Aime's 3DS demonstration during last night's episode of Late Night. We expected the audience to get a kick out of the device's AR functionality. However, we did not expect the 3DS to swap Fallon's gender on live national television. Priceless.

This Sunday, the 3DS launches in the US and, to celebrate the occasion, US-based megastore Walmart is offering quite the deal for anyone who lives in one of a dozen states. When purchasing the new handheld, consumers in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and South Carolina will have the option of trading in their used DS for a $100 credit towards their 3DS purchase. If they've got two old DS systems laying around, both can be traded in for $200 towards a 3DS, but that's as high as Walmart's willing to go.

The trade-in program will start this Sunday with the 3DS launch and continue through April 30. This promotion is in-store only -- sorry, no online orders.

A portion of a 3DSTribe review… Not only is it full of those Nintendo touches as well as being free, but Face Raiders is a perfect showcase for 3DS, somewhat excusing it from being a tad short-lived. More involving than its AR cards, it’s also very WarioWare-esque, with tonnes of neat ideas.

What is Face Raiders? Face Raiders is an "alternate reality" shooting game that is built into your Nintendo 3DS. It's part of the tech demo package software that the 3Ds comes with...