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The Rabbids are coming to TV in a new animated series. Find out the debut date and check out the trailer!

Yves Guillermot has stated he thinks there'll be another generation of consoles beyond next-gen. Find out why.

Nintendo has announced that Olimar and a bevy of Pikmin are joining the roster for both versions of the upcoming Smash Bros. game.

Ever wanted to know what your little brother dreams about? Mario finds out in the latest Mario RPG from AlphaDream for 3DS.

The Wii U version is packed with content, but this challenging platformer is made even tougher by a murky fake 3D effect.

We've played Bingo Battle and sampled Mission Mode. But now, for the first time, we've played nearly two hours of Pikmin 3's main story mode. Our thoughts inside.

A new firmware update is available for Wii U - plus Nintendo provides a timeframe for a mysterious future update!

Three days of streaming coverage, including news, analysis, celebrity interviews and game exclusives.

Great demon customization and combat helps this monster-hunting RPG rise above its middling story and exploration.

In a Famitsu interview, Miyamoto hints that he's working on a brand new game - not part of one of Nintendo's existing franchises.

Nintendo has changed its mind and allowed streaming of Super Smash Bros. Melee at Evo 2013 after all.

Nintendo has denied the Evo 2013 fighting tournament permission to broadcast Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Nintendo has achieved another victory in its ongoing quest to rid the world of the R4 flashcart. The Tokyo District Court has ruled that two Japanese resellers of the homebrew/piracy-enabling device owe Nintendo (and 49 other companies, including Capcom, Konami, Square Enix and Namco Bandai) ¥95,625,000, or roughly $946,113 at today's exchange rates.

Nintendo et al.'s victory also reinforces legislation passed into Japanese law in 2009, which makes it illegal to sell R4 carts in the country. Another blow to the R4 was dealt last year, when new law made importing the device into Japan illegal as well.

Atlus and Nintendo have announced a special promotion for fans who register Fire Emblem Awakening and Shin Megami Tensei IV on Club Nintendo.

Nintendo has explained the long silence on its Wii Vitality Sensor peripheral, which it feels is currently “insufficient as a commercial product.”

Ubisoft's CEO has announced that ZombiU didn't turn a profit, which in turn made the company reassess exclusivity for Rayman.

Platinum Games won't be creating DLC for The Wonderful 101, as it's put everything it wants to put into the game already.

If the Wii Vitality Sensor were to be spoken of in Monty Python parrot terms, it would be an ex-parrot - bereft of life, it rests in peace. Originally announced back in 2009, Nintendo's unreleased biometric accessory has been indefinitely shelved due to the fact that the thing doesn't work with 10 percent of the people who use it, according to internal Nintendo testing.

"After a large-scale test of a prototype inside the company, we found out that for some people the sensor did not work as expected," Nintendo global president Satoru Iwata said during a meeting with investors, after being asked for a status update on the product.

"We wondered if we should commercialize a product which works as expected for 90 people out of 100, but not so for the other 10 people," he continued. "Though I am sorry that we did not give any specific updates after this product's initial announcement, I would say that knowing that a product has a problem we should not launch it for the sole reason that we have already announced it."

Iwata also added that, even when the sensor functioned as expected, "it was of narrower application than we [read: Nintendo] had originally thought." The Wii Vitality Sensor (or something like it) may eventually make it to market, providing that the technology advances to such a degree that "999 of 1,000 people to use it without any problems, not only 90 out of 100 people."

Tickets to sold-out PAX Aus available to win at Brisbane and Melbourne Pokémon Meet-ups this weekend.

Nintendo of Japan has unveiled two new 3DS XL models released to celebrate Pokemon X & Y. Spoiler: they're gorgeous.

Masahiro Sakurai talks to IGN about development on Smash Bros. so far, some of the early ideas for both games - and what choices have yet to be made.

Nearly 10,000 fans have signed a petition asking Nintendo to end region locking on Wii, Wii U and 3DS.

Nintendo wants the rights to the WiiU.com domain, but the case's arbitrator says that the company has no right to own it.

A federal judge in Seattle has dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo of America, which claimed that the company's Wii MotionPlus peripheral violated a patent owned by Triton Tech of Texas.

Originally filed way back in the prehistoric times of 2010, the lawsuit named both Nintendo and Apple as defendants, alleging that both companies had violated its patent, No. #5,181,181: "Computer apparatus input device for three-dimensional information."

The abstract, available in full here, describes a device that uses accelerometers and rotational sensors to calculate movement across three dimensions, and then wirelessly transmit that data back to a central computer. While that does sound like a dead ringer for the Wii MotionPlus when put in a nutshell like that, there was evidently enough minutiae in the patent's full-length definitions to keep Nintendo in the clear.

More of a well-designed challenge mode than unique experience, this slightly pricey add-on offers some stressful good times.

The classic game that inspired Spelunky is now available on Wii U and 3DS in certain territories.

Often funny and consistently frantic, this is a great tactical RPG despite its confusing story.

Will there every be a LEGO set based on the Legend of Zelda? We spoke to the man behind the CUUSOO project under review to find out.

A series of tweets from Codemasters are teasing a new rally game, with more information promised for tomorrow.