Nintendo has ended up in the red thanks to the 3DS.

Nope, we're not talking bank balance slides due to poor sales, but rather a fetching new shade for the 3D handheld console - Flame Red.

We use capitals for that colour description...

The lure of the 3DS grows ever larger. Following the massive price-cut announced last week, Nintendo has now done a deal with public Wi-Fi specialist The Cloud to get gamers free access to the internet whilst they're out and about

And, with...

Nintendo has announced massive price-cuts for its 3DS - a console not selling as well as the Japanese gaming giant might have liked - but also casually dropped in that virtual NES and virtual Game Boy Advance console titles will become available in...

Darth vs Luke, Superman and kryptonite, ketchup against gravy - these are some of the all time great battles that have been fought out between our heroes. There is however one face-off that has always ruled above all else, the tale of a pesky plumber...

Nintendo's equivalent of the App Store, its eShop has finally made it to the 3DS in the UK this week, two-and-a-half months after the handheld console was released, and many will be wondering if it was worth the wait.

It does offer access to...

The Nintendo 3DS is to finally get the firmware update that UK owners have been crying out for, but not for another month. Nintendo has announced that the forthcoming patch will be available to download on 7 June.

There are few details on what...

Konami has had a long old time to get its claws into 3DS football-sim fans with its PES 2011 3D title. But now there's a new kid in town, and a familiar nemesis for the Pro-Evo series.

That's right, we're talking EA with FIFA, who has announced...

There's a new plumber in town just in time for the Olympic games. Nope, the Stratford stadium loos don't need fixing, it's Mario and he's brought his old pal / nemesis Sonic along for a new Sega title.

Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic...

Nintendo flogged a whopping 113,000 3DS handheld consoles in its opening weekend, making it the Japanese gaming giant's most successfully ever UK console launch.

The Wii sold 105,000 units in the same time period and the DS around 87,000.

With...

Strangely, Super Monkey Ball 3D on the Nintendo 3DS has been getting bad press, but from our short time with the title, we're impressed enough with the varied gameplay styles and colourful use of the franchise's main stars.

Indeed, we're such...

In the second of our hands-ons with 3DS games on the console's launch day, after PES 2011 3D, we're looking at Ridge Racer 3D, the latest release in the incredibly successful arcade driving franchise, and one that Pocket-lint has been looking forward...

The launch of the iPad 2 may be dominating the news at the moment, but we haven't forgotten the other entertainment device that was released in the UK on the same day (25 march), the Nintendo 3DS. And as we've now got a few games to go with it, we...

If you don't like Plan B, or there isn't a HMV in your area, but you still want to get your hands on the Nintendo 3DS minutes after it goes on sale in the early hours of Friday morning then get yourself down to your local Asda.

The pocket-friendly...

25 March is shaping up to be the biggest tech launch day that the UK has ever seen.

Not only is the iPad 2 hitting Apple Stores (hopefully) that day, but the Nintendo 3DS is landing too.

And, according to Amazon, it's a console much...

With the Nintendo 3DS having been available in Japan for a few weeks now, there's been plenty of time to tinker with it, and one negative aspect has been unearthed; it loads original DS games markedly slower than a conventional DS Lite.

Clearly...