A new deal will help facilitate downloading Virtual Console games or playing Mario Kart online instead of whatever you’re supposed to be doing while you’re out. Nintendo of Europe has partnered with free-hotspot.com, giving 3DS owners free use of “over 5,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across 21 European countries.” According to Nintendo, a 3DS will automatically find [...]

Nintendo will host a launch event in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 6-10 p.m., for Rhythm Heaven Fever, and hands-on sessions and giveaways are planned for the event. They’re teaming up with iam8bit and Giant Robot to throw a party at the iam8bit gallery, so expect some art with your gaming, food, and drinks. Shirts, [...]

[Gamasutra rounds up recent reports on the Japanese games industry from local news site Andriasang.com, a leading destination for English-language news on Japan's game industry.] In our latest round-up of Japanese game industry news not previously reported on Gamasutra, we look at Nintendo’s development of voice recognition technology, the PlayStation Vita’s top-selling game, and a [...]

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If you fancied a Pearl Pink Nintendo 3DS but had no interest in the nintendogs + cats game it was exclusively bundled with, this is your lucky day. The shiny 3DS model will be sold on its lonesome from February 10 for the regular price of $169.99, Nintendo announced today. Nintendo suggests, very helpfully, that [...]

Nintendo and NTT are testing a voice recognition project in Japanese schoolrooms that would help hearing impaired students in their schooling. In these test classrooms, speech from a teacher is captured into an electronic blackboard, converted to text, and then uploaded to the cloud for for use on mobile devices like Nintendo’s DSi. NHK says [...]

Nintendo and Japanese telecom company NTT are working together on a voice recognition project, aimed at making it easier for students with hearing or other disabilities to keep up in classrooms. The project, which NHK reports is undergoing trials in Okinawa and Tottori Prefecture, captures instructor speech, converts it to text, and saves it to [...]

Speaking to investors, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata gave insight into the company’s new network service, which is separate from the familiar old “Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.” Nintendo Network, as it’s called, will be supported by both the 3DS and Wii U. The name should sound familiar. Through this online platform, we’ll see “competitions and communication among [...]

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