Get it, it’s fantastic Once upon a time the 3DS wasn’t doing so hot. Sales weren’t great shortly after its launch, there were hardly any games for it on the horizon, and Virtual Console updates were a joke. As you may probably tell, it got much better as each year went by. Ocarina of Time 3Dis a huge reason why I came to love the handheld. The touched-up visuals are absolutely beautiful, the new controls were superior to the original in every way, and the portable format was perfect forZelda, as it has been many times in the past....

If you’re curious to see the differences betweenNieR Gestaltfor Xbox 360 andNieR Replicantfor PS3, then you’ll need to find a young rich Japanese widow to marry and become a citizen in the land of the Rising Sun. OnlyGestaltis releasing outside of Japan, withReplicantbeing a Japan-only deal. At least, that’s theimplication. While not specifically stated, Japanese-to-English blogAndriasangis reporting that aFamitsuinterview withexecutive producer Yosuke Saito “heavily implied” the international status ofNieR.Considering it’s only ever been calledNieRin the West, with no mention of aGestaltorReplicant, it’s an implication that is quite likely true....

Baseball fans know the season officially kicked off on Tuesday, with Ichiro Suzuki and the Mariners dispatching the equally lowly Oakland A’s in extra innings in Suzuki’s native Japan. Man, Ichiro really deserves a World Series ring. I feel bad for him, wasting away on a talentless Mariners team for so long. Anyway, this means the long baseball season is starting anew, and that there are plenty of baseball games that will need watching from now until October....

College gets physical. Finally. NCAA Football 14is going to be a much better game thanNCAA 13. I can assure you that much because it has implemented a physics engine, the Infinity Engine 2. If the name rings familiar, the first iteration of the Infinity Engine was implemented in last year’sMadden 13, prompting me to give it high marks. Football is physical. Physics are good for football. The six week lead time onNCAA 13(ahead ofMadden) prevented the team from having enough time to employ the physics engine last year, but now the series is getting its new iteration, one designed to remedy some of the growing pains of the first version of the engine....

The first option you’re presented with inPrince of Persia: The Lost Crownis whether to choose Exploration mode or Guided mode. The two modes affect how the game displays minimap and location information to you and can offer different styles of gameplay because of it. Here are our thoughts onPrince of Persia: The Lost CrownExploration vs Guided mode explained and which we recommend you choose. Exploration Mode explained In Exploration Mode forPrince of Persia: The Lost Crown, players are left to explore and discover the world however they want....

Select a playable character or a pack of guns. Resident Evil: Revelationsfinally looks like areturnto theResident Evilthat many have longed for, and many who didn’t have a3DShave hoped that it would come to consoles and PC. With that the wish being granted and due to come out next month, Capcom has now given details for the various pre-order bonuses spread across different retailers. A character is always a nice bonus to get, and Amazon customers are the lucky ones here....

Tetsuya Mizuguchi fans, your week has come:Rez HD(800 Microsoft Points) is finally upon us. It seems like it’s been an eternity since the game was announced for Live Arcade, but our patience ultimately paid off, and we’ll be putting thevibrating functionalityto good use come Wednesday. Additionally, Ubisoft’sChessmaster Live(800 Microsoft Points) will also see release this week. If you haven’t already playedRezon the Dreamcast (or PlayStation 2), then you should be pleasantly surprised....

Loving it After announcing a metric shit-ton of indie games during GDC week, Nintendo put out a new trailer forRunbow, the upcoming nine-player Wii U action platformer. There are seven modes available, including one that allows a player to act as “Color Master,” changing the track around at will. The developer notes that it will launch with a bunch of solo content as well to keep you interested if you don’t have friends available locally....

Podtoid 340 The three most beloved Destructoid writers and Steven took enough time away from playing and writing aboutOverwatchto record another podcast. We’re selfless creatures like that.(Everything we do) we do it for you. On this episode, we talk about a good number of things: Judges week, Platinum’s newTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesgame, bowel movement speed runs, and how half the cast bafflingly forgets shoes when they leave the house. It’s a good’un....

Nintendo is still bafflingly silent Wave 4 of the amiibo crazeis rapidly approaching on May 29, and despite the fact that we have all of the exclusives sorted, one mystery remains — the Silver Mario amiibo. It was found alongside ofthe Gold Mariothat launched as a Walmart exclusive a way back, and multiple reports have confirmed that it has shown up in places likeTarget and other smaller stores. Now, I can confirm that the Silver Mario figure is in GameStop’s systems according to a source, but it is not dated yet, nor is it flagged for pre-order....

The slimy indie hit returns Lots of great indie games have been getting a lot of love this year —Straywas Annapurna’s biggest launch by far, andCult of the Lambhadover a million players in a week. Now it looks likeSlime Rancher 2is joining those ranks, because it has reached a big milestone of over 100,000 copies within the first six hours of its release. Nick Popovich, co-founder and CEO of the studio behind theSlime Rancherseries Monomi Park, shared a tweet yesterday thanking fans for making the game a success....

Ruining MVS cabinets throughout the ’90s It’s Thursday, and that means that its time for another retro re-release from SNK fans Hamster. This week sees batshit wrestling title3 Count Boutmake its return on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, although this particular ring-rocker is a little different from theWWE 2Kseries. Released in arcades and on the Neo Geo platform back in 1993,3 Count Bout(known in Japan asFire Suplex) was SNK’s attempt to cash in on the global pro-wrestling craze of the day....

Soft Not Weak’s debut game is flipping fantastic I’ve been lucky enough to get to meet a lot of game developers from very different walks of life. From people at big names like Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, Devolver, Riot, and Bethesda, to little indies likes Tom Happ and Joakim Sandberg, I respect them all, and hope they all get what they want out of this unpredictable, often terrifying industry. That said, there are some games I feel more hopeful for than others; the games that I think might be “good” for people in the ways that matter....