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The Nintendo 3DS XL is a large, fun handheld with a big backwards-compatible game library and a bigger screen, but if you're upgrading from an original 3DS, you'll have to leave your downloaded games ...

With the 3DS XL coming with a bigger battery and lasting longer than the original 3DS, my family got talking one breakfast time about which DS console would last the longest. My daughter thought that ...

The Nintendo 3DS has only been on the market for four years, but it already has a successor of sorts in the New Nintendo 3DS XL. Confusing naming conventions aside — and trust me, we'll get to that — ...

Nintendo announced Wednesday that the new Nintendo 3DS XL will be available in the United States on February 13. According to a Nintendo Direct video update broadcast Wednesday, the enhanced version ...

Blaise Santi is a recent graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts majoring in Dramatic Writing. He's had experience writing not only for screen and stage, but also for sketch and late-night. His ...

New handheld device can track your face movements. — -- The people who just unwrapped a Nintendo 3DS XL over the holidays can enjoy having the newest gaming console for a hot second, because it's ...

Today's the big day for Nintendo 3DS owners. It's the opportunity to upgrade to the New Nintendo 3DS XL. And while the upgrade is not necessarily essential, there are those that will pick it up either ...

Just recently we published a list of five Nintendo 64 games we'd love to play on 3DS, inspired by the recent arrival of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D and its remastered predecessors, The ...

While the Nintendo Switch is quickly becoming the handheld of choice—thanks in part to the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey—the 3DS still has some life left in ...

This is a list of what you need to transfer your content from your existing 3DS to the New 3DS XL System. The above video from Nintendo explains the process, and needless to say it’s going to be ...

Nintendo is not very good at naming consoles. Luckily for gamers, it is very good at making them. Naming difficulties have plagued the corporate behemoth since the release of the Nintendo 64 back in ...