Since the Game Boy's debut in 1989, Nintendo has operated a twin-pillar games business: home consoles and gaming handhelds. The discontinuation of the 3DS, and lack of a direct successor, marks the ...

The PlayStation Vita is hanging on by a thread. Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said in 2015 there was no hope for a follow-up to the handheld console, and since then, the Vita machine ...

Even as the Console Wars raged at home, the Japanese giant’s iron-fingered, battery-powered grip on the handheld market remained unshakable, from its venerable Game Boy line down through that plucky ...

To download the games, players with an Ambassador certificate should visit the Nintendo 3DS eShop, select menu, select settings/other, select titles you've downloaded and re-download each game ...

When Nintendo cut the price of the 3DS by one-third within six months of launching the handheld, it offered consolation for early adopters by promising they would be able to download 20 free games for ...

1UP has issued a timely PSA on how to play Virtual Console games on the 3DS at their original resolution, rather than smeared across the larger screen. It's pretty easy - after launching the game from ...

This week’s 3DS Virtual Console release is Golf for the Game Boy. There was a version of this game on the NES as well, but the Game Boy game has different content. You have 32 holes and need to ...

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When Nintendo dropped the price of the Nintendo 3DS last week, they announced that current 3DS users would be able to download 10 NES games and 10 Game Boy Advance games for the device before the end ...

There is a new emulator in town, and it is the first of its kind. It offers gamers the Nintendo 3DS emulator experience on the iOS platforms, expanding the retro experience even more. The new emulator ...