It’s been a day of official announcements today from Nintendo. Nintendo have announced today that when they release the Wii U console later in the year, the console will come fitted with a support for NFC (Near Field Communication).

Due to hit the stores in the UK on February 3rd, Konami’s third-person action game looks like it will be offering “head-basketball” from the following screenshots.

The Dead Island Ryder White DLC will be available from next week – and here is the trailer to accompany it –

The Death Eternal video for Darksiders II, coming this year.

The first episode is now available on the App Store and comes with a mini-game and soundboard.

Trion Worlds’ Rift Mobile application is now available for Android devices as well as iOS.

gPotato’s Browser-based MMORTS Terra Militaris has been awarded “Favourite Strategy Game” in BBGsite’s Best Browser Games of 2011.

Rock Hippo’s TPS-MMO MicroVolts will be getting an update containing a new map based around the developer’s own office.

Nintendo Japan have announced a brand new 2D side-scrolling Super Mario game for the Nintendo 3DS. Although Super Mario 3D land was impressively designed with the Nintendo 3DS owners in mind, Nintendo would like to concentrate and focus their efforts of a side-scrolling game in the series. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata recently addressed the state [...]

Capcom are fully aware of the misspelled box art title on Resident Evil: Revelations on the Nintendo 3DS, which unfortunately spells out Resident Evil: Revelaitons on packaging and has issued a statement.  Capcom have vowed to fix the problem.

Capcom Japan announced today that Mega Man and Pac-Man will be playable characters in Street Fighter x Tekken. The two characters will be exclusive to the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 versions of the game. Pac-Man will be instantly recognizable, while the Mega Man character is based off the Mega Man 1 US box art.

The Japanese video games website 4Gamer received an unexpected gift from Sony today. The gift was covered in red paper, but when opened revealed just a plain looking box from the outside, except for a message that was attached to it.

Square Enix has announced the Kingdom Hearts 3D 10th Anniversary Box. Inside the box you will find three games; Kingdom Hearts 3D, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded. It also includes a protect cover and a set of twelve post cards featuring cover art from previous Kingdom Hearts games. The box will [...]

Nintendo have officially announced the Nintendo Network, which is Nintendo’s new network platform. It will be used in conjunction with the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.

Video game accessories are an essential purchase for keeping your consoles and handheld devices safe from falls, bumps and knocks and it looks like ‘Pelican‘ have some decent cases for the PlayStation Vita.

Creat Studios’ turn-based strategy PlayStation Mini title, Mecho Wars, is now available on PSN for €4.99.

The final gameplay video from the soon to be released (3rd February) Final Fantasy XIII-2 concentrates on things to do outside the main quest, including Chocobo Racing.

Denki’s word strategy game, which seems to have taken ages to get here, finally made an appearance on XBLA yesterday and should be downloaded straight away at the bargain price of 400 MSPoints.

Creat Studios yesterday launched their Pinballistik Bundle on PSN providing two-player battles alongside authentic pinball action.

To celebrate the impending release of Soulcalibur V, due February 3rd, Namco Bandai have joined forces with GYMBOX to offer a brand new fighting fit workout class.