We knew it was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye. Nintendo shut down the online servers for both the Wii U and 3DS today. This means the end of online multiplayer gaming for ...

After closing its 3DS and Wii U eShops earlier this year, Nintendo will shut down online services for those consoles in "early April 2024," it announced. That will put a halt to multiplayer features, ...

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It’s the end of an era. As first spotted by Japanese Nintendo, Nintendo’s official website has marked the 3DS family of consoles as out of production. Nintendo’s Japanese and UK websites have both ...

While the final days of the Nintendo 3DS might have been a long time coming, that doesn’t take away the sting that comes with the final step of ending a generation of consoles. Nintendo shut down the ...

Through the use of special cards working in tandem with the 3D camera, you could bring elements of your games into the real ...

Nintendo has made some bold, weird choices with its hardware designs. But none were so bold and weird as 1995’s Virtual Boy, a “woefully premature commercial curio,” as one Ars writer put it, that ...

Rovio has licensed its Angry Birds game for consoles through Activision. By John Gaudiosi The online app from Finnish company Rovio, that has been downloaded more than 500 million times worldwide, is ...

Throw in a more powerful processor, swappable faceplates, some exclusive games, and Virtual Console titles, and Nintendo was ...

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When it comes to unique gimmicks, the Nintendo 3DS is mainly remembered for the wow factor of its glasses-free stereoscopic 3D effects (which Nintendo would eventually abandon with the introduction of ...