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The 3DS eShop is now offering 3D movie trailer downloads, and the first trailer available is for non other than The Green Lantern. The 3DS is supposedly getting netflix at some point later this year, so being able to actually watch trailers in 3D is big news for those hoping to eventually watching movies in 3D on their 3DS. While netflix is not likely to launch on the platform with streaming 3D movies, it is something they have cooking for the future. I do hope a system like vudu eventually ends up on the system as well. That way you can rent any movie and have it instantly be streaming on the device. Some of this is wishful thinking, but in the end it is true that the 3DS now has downloadable 3D trailers. So... go have some wild fun folks....

So the Nintendo World event is going on right now in Japan and of course there is a lot of new details coming out about many of the upcoming 3DS titles. What better way to start off that coverage than with details about Ocarina of Time 3DS? What's different? How do the controls work? What about freely looking around? All that and more is detailed after the jump....

I don't want to speculate how much practice time he put in to nail down this tune, but clearly it took awhile to get it down so well. Why would a fellow nerd go through so much trouble? I think it's obvious: To get chicks. After all, as Brentalfloss taught us, Tetris is for Chicks. Sure we love to show you songs played on actual Ocarinas, but hey what beats the original Ocarina of Time? ...

Apparently Nintendo's a bit surprised by the overwhelming success of the limited edition re-release of Super Mario All-Stars for Wii this past holiday season, as they're now thinking of giving the popular port another go in the future. While it's unclear whether this means another limited holiday run or an unlimited forever edition, if you wanted to pick this one up but had some trouble finding a copy you may yet be in luck. "We are gratified by the consumer response to this limited-edition product, which we created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original Super Mario Bros. game on NES," Nintendo public relations director Marc Franklin told Wired.com via email on Friday. "Because of the strong response, we are exploring the option of bringing this item back at a later date." Hopefully Nintendo will decide to include Super Mario World next time - even though I've already got the whole set on Virtual Console, I know the draw of having all the classic Mario titles in one package is pretty intense. Etiher way, congrats are in order. Mario, dear boy, you've done it again! Source: Wired Gamelife...

There’s a saying that “You can’t please everyone.” Yet this is often the challenge game designers face in the process of creating a game: to release a game that appeals to a wide variety of players, from young to old, from new gamers to veterans. When it came time to begin designing Ocarina of Time, [...]

Not a lot to say here, except that the renditions of the Skyworld and Underworld, while not particularly groundbreaking in the artistic department, look positively great. I'm not really sure whether these are promotional images or pure game stills because of the commentary from Palutena, who's looking rather expressive for a goddess of light. Does she speak through text boxes like that in-game in addition to the vocal work we heard in the debut trailer? The appearance of new screens does suggest one thing, however: the game's probably nearing the late stages of development. Perhaps we'll see Kid Icarus as a 3DS launch title after all? I know Sakurai's been aiming for as much. We'll probably find out later this month. Source: Nintendo Everything...

Itoi: Well...you know...this is really... Oh, that's Pikmin! Great! Miyamoto: Doesn't Pikmin look great? (laughs) Iwata: It seems like Pikmin is perfect for 3D. Miyamoto: I like the way they scurry around. Itoi: Pikmin is a game with a peculiar 3D effect as if you're getting down on hands and knees to look at something small. Man, I want one of these! I'll buy one, Prez! How much is it going to cost me, Prez? So, while this isn't an official announcement, Shigeru Miyamoto, Shigesato Itoi, and Satoru Iwata have already been talking about Pikmin in 3D, and how perfectly it would fit on the 3DS system. Itoi in particular seems to comment as if he is actually looking at Pikmin on the 3DS in this interview, as this appears in the first part of the feature where they are showing off the 3DS system. In other words: If I was a betting man, Pikmin 3 is coming to the Nintendo 3DS. Now we may truly understand why it's been so long, as it may seem Pikmin was always planned to come out next on a 3D system. Of course, that wasn't all we learned in this four-page interview....

As I was recently writing an article that took a look at how important Princess Zelda is to Legend of Zelda games, I briefly touched on the point of what exactly "The Legend of Zelda" is. Often we get messages here at Zelda Informer wondering why the series is called "The Legend of Zelda" when the games are based around the story of Link. Yes, we do know that the series is named after Zelda Fitzgerald, so most people conclude that due to that Nintendo continues to use a princess named Zelda in every story. That is not entirely the case, because "The Legend of Zelda" is actually the backstory and the legend that drives the whole series. Ironically, the very game that tells us about this legend is the one that lacks that very phrase in its title: "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link". That's right, the so called 'flop' or odd game out of the series is the very game that gives meaning to the whole series along with its ambiguous title. It is time for lesson 101 on "The Legend of Zelda"....

MSNBC: Did you miss an opportunity by not introducing a new version of the Wii? Reggie: You know, we had a new version of the Wii: it was red, and that did phenomenally well on a global basis as we celebrated Mario's 25th anniversary. If you'll remember, as we reported last weekend, it did so phenomenally well that Wii sales continually surpassed Xbox 360 sales over the holiday season despite the Kinect. Yet commentator Todd Kenreck seems to take it as an evasion of the question of whether a Wii successor will debut soon, and of the "threat" that Kinect supposedly poses to the Wii's dominance this generation: The Wii has been hugely successful, no doubt. But it is now four years old and its sales have been on the decline. And with both the PlayStation Move and Xbox's Kinect motion control devices having strong showings in 2010 this is the year Nintendo needs to up its game. I do not think that the past tense is warranted here, sir; the Wii continues to outperform its competition even in the wake of their new motion control input devices, and with 2011 promising more great Wii software like Skyward Sword...

Our music spotlight this week focuses on a few videos by Mart0zz. The video being featured is a marimba arrangement of Tal Tal Heights from Link’s Awakening. Check it out! If you like this, you should check out some of their other videos. Gerudo Valley Song of Time Saria’s Song/Lost Woods Song of Storms I [...]