3DS - Timeline

Wednesday6th Mar 2024

Tuesday5th Mar 2024

Wednesday14th Feb 2024

  • News Nintendo To Stop Repairing 2DS, New 3DS & 3DS XL In Japan

    Goodbye, old friend

    The 3DS has had a good run over the years, but it's at the end of its life now that Nintendo has concluded eShop sales and announced the shutdown of online play. Ahead of the shutdown of online play in April, Nintendo's customer support service has also revealed repairs for the system will be ending in Japan. Even though this...

Friday26th Jan 2024

Thursday25th Jan 2024

Wednesday24th Jan 2024

Monday15th Jan 2024

  • News 3DS Emulator Citra Is Coming To Meta Quest Next Week

    Say hello to CitraVR

    The popular open-source 3DS emulator Citra is making its way to the Meta Quest platform as a native OpenXR application called CitraVR on January 20th, 2024. As reported by UploadVR, the application will launch in beta on SideQuest and GitHub, skipping Steam as a result of the Dolphin emulator's legal issues. Users will be able...

Wednesday10th Jan 2024

  • Random Wait, Is Ocarina Of Time 3D Old Now?

    "Like a river's flow, it never ends"

    Here's a little fact that made us choke on our Cornflakes this morning, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D is old. Okay, maybe not old-old, but older than the original N64 release was back in 2011. Yes, the time between today (10th January 2024) and the release of OOT 3D (16th June 2011) is now one day...

Sunday24th Dec 2023

  • News New 3DS And Wii U Users Can't Go Online In Games

    Update: This particular issue has reportedly been resolved

    Update [Wed 27th Dec, 2023 05:30 GMT]: Pretendo has provided a new update, confirming the issues occurring were "indeed unintentional". While not all issues have been resolved, it appears new users on both 3DS and Wii U can now connect to servers. "We noted in our last blog post that it...

Wednesday20th Dec 2023

Tuesday19th Dec 2023

Tuesday12th Dec 2023

Tuesday5th Dec 2023

Wednesday22nd Nov 2023

  • Anniversary Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Is 10 Years Old Today

    Worlds apart

    The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds on the Nintendo 3DS is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. Released in North America and Europe on November 22nd, 2013, the 3DS title represents one of few instances in which Nintendo created a direct sequel to one of its Zelda games. Directed by Hiromasa Shikata and produced by Zelda...

Sunday12th Nov 2023

  • Poll Box Art Brawl - Duel: Hey! Pikmin

    Hey! Another brawl

    Hello everybody, and welcome to the latest edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we took a look at Kirby Mass Attack for the Nintendo DS. It wasn't quite as close as we were admittedly expecting, with the North American version easily beating the competition with 65% of the vote. This week, we're skipping ahead to the 3DS and the...

Tuesday31st Oct 2023

Sunday29th Oct 2023

Thursday12th Oct 2023

Friday6th Oct 2023

Thursday5th Oct 2023

Wednesday4th Oct 2023

Monday25th Sep 2023

Friday22nd Sep 2023

  • Random AMOLED 3DS Concept Shown Off At Tokyo Game Show 2023

    Includes 90Hz refresh rate

    Over at the Tokyo Game Show this week, Japanese hardware firm Tassei Denki has been showing off some hardware prototypes that could potentially give us a glimpse into the near future. One of these is of particular interest to us and appears to be a new concept for the Nintendo 3DS. The two units on display are powered by...

Sunday3rd Sep 2023

Monday7th Aug 2023