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Remember when Tupac made an appearance at last year's Coachella festival? It wasn't really Tupac but a holograph of the late rapper.

The current received wisdom from the tech and gaming press is that Nintendo had a dreadful E3 and the Wii U is pretty much doomed.

Animal Crossing : New Leaf is the kind of game that just keeps on giving. As the latest entry in the Animal Crossing series, this Nintendo 3DS title does little to change the formula of past games, but it does manage to push the series forward.

On the closing day of E3 2013 I was invited once again to guest on the EvilCast podcast at Games Are Evil to discuss the week's big surprises.

The big N decided NOT to have an official E3 conference this year, instead opting for a pre-recorded Nintendo Direct video to show off upcoming Wii U and 3DS games.

From above the world of Cars, the Disney's Planes video game takes players on a high-flying, action-packed adventure We have a new video and several fresh screenshots from 3DS/DS , Wii and Wii U versions of Disney Planes: The Video Game , which will be available on August 16th.

Nintendo fans want new IPs , so Reggie reveals that the company maybe has plans to revamp a few outdated ones, instead.

If the madness of E3 has recently pulled you back to Nintendo's handheld, you might be greeted with a firmware update next time you open up that well-worn 3DS .

A new report suggests that mobile gaming, which includes smartphones, tablets, and dedicated units, could earn $12 billion by the end of the year.

Games already make up a huge portion of Apple's App Store, and with iOS 7, the company is finally planning to get serious about this market by introducing support for standardized third party controllers on its devices.

The Nintendo 3DS finally edged out the Xbox 360 in May 2013 as the best selling console across hardware and portables, according to the NPD's monthly report on the retail sector.

The mobile gaming business is poised to top $12 billion in worldwide revenues this year and it's only getting bigger, according to a report from analytics firm App Annie and International Data Corporation.

They're whiny, materialistic, gossipy and co-dependent. If they weren't so darn cute, I would really hate the little animal people who populate Rooty, a seaside village I inadvertently became mayor of in "Animal Crossing: New Leaf," the fourth edition of the adorable Nintendo social simulator that casts players not just as citizens but as managers ... (more)

Nintendo's VirtualBoy - the odd console-inside-a-pair-of-goggles and arguable ancestor of Nintendo's 3DS - was a marvelous piece of technology for its time.

Naughty Dog's fantastic The Last of Us has stormed to the top of the UK all-formats chart and earned the biggest launch for a new gaming franchise in over two years, since Rockstar's L.A. Noire.

As the story of Lords of Shadows progresses, it culminates with playing as Dracula in Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2. As part of a trilogy that includes the 3DS version, LoS2 will take place in Dracula's castle along with a city.

Masahiro Sakurai has provided some commentary in regards to the third-party characters support for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Wii U video game, "Super Smash Bros.

Whew! E3, huh ? Right? Y'all remember when that guy said that stuff, and then all the things happened? What a crazy week! We don't know about you, but we're feeling like it might be time to unwind from this week's insanity by catching up on our gaming backlogs while we wait for all these sick-looking next-gen jams to drop.

Over the past couple of years owners of the Nintendo 3DS original and XL have experienced trouble with the hand held console's Street Pass .

This week's US Nintendo eShop update took a backseat to the calamity of E3, despite having some significant releases for Wii U and 3DS owners.