
The Internet was rocked and/or bemused worldwide last night by the Nintendo 3DS's new circle-pad attachment, formally announced after a lengthy spate of rumors in this week's issue of Famitsu magazine. Within Japan proper, though, news of the attachment was almost overshadowed by what the thing's actually meant for -- Monster Hunter 3G (or "Tri-G," if you prefer), a 3DS-exclusive enhanced port of last year's Wii release Monster Hunter Tri. Due out before the end of the year in Japan, 3G will be fully playable at the Tokyo Game Show in a couple weeks, and director Kaname Fujioka sat down with Famitsu to answer a few questions.

FuRyu revealed on Friday its Exstetra fantasy role-playing game is getting an HD remaster that will launch this summer on Steam.

NE: "We rank the 10 best main series Super Mario games in celebration of the recent MAR10 Day with 2D and 3D included."
Best 2D, Mario World, best 3D, Mario 64. Can't say there's been a bad one, although Mario World 2 wasn't a true sequel. The Mario Land games were good (not the first one) and also Wario Land. I thought after Mario 64, Mario 3D World was excellent.

A new amiibo has its release date from Nintendo, and pre-orders have started revealing the price and how it's the most expensive figure ever.