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To cut to the chase, the price and launch date for the Nintendo 3DS was just announced. The launch date is set for March 27, 2011. The price will be $249. There will be a hefty amount of games released between the launch date and E3, not all of which have been listed. An educated guess would assume that Ocarina of Time 3DS will be included in that window.

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We want to be clear: We’re calling attention to the various rumors floating around; not endorsing them.

It would seem that we may be looking at an Ocarina of Time remake for the Nintendo 3DS. Supposedly, the link was placed on Nintendo’s E3 site (http://e3.nintendo.com) for a few images (shown below), as well as some Starfox images, which can still be found here, on the official site. About 20 minutes after our friends at 1up released the links for where the images were found, Nintendo took them down. Now, Nintendo’s always been good at keeping things quite, especially with the Zelda franchise. If these are legit (which is more than likely), they were intentionally leaked.

But never fear; the images were mostly claimed before they were taken down. As far as we know, we have all of them. If you know of more, pleast don’t hesitate to contact us! You can see the images below.

We hope you’re as excited about this possibility as we are! Keep in mind that the images could be fakes, but it’s not too likely. Also, if they’re reamaking Ocarina of Time, I would suppose you could count on Majora’s Mask receiving the same treatment!

Our friends over at Zelda Informer have just released an article/video that they have been working on for over eight months. You can be the judge over whether or not it was worth all of that time, but it’s a nice six minute watch if you’re interested in seeing what opinions people over at other websites have on on the series. You can visit Zelda Informer’s website here to check out the article.

And although we don’t normally cover non Zelda-related projects, our sources tell us that most of you also play the games from the Pokèmon series. Anyway, Nintendo has just announced the new “starter” Pokèmon for the Black and White installments in the series. Visit Official Nintendo Magazine‘s site for more information.

Finally, we have a special announcement; this coming week, we will have a beta testing engine for Kakshi: The Search for Tingle. Keep in mind that this will contain no actual gameplay, and will just demonstrate the way that our engine is shaping out to be.

Sources:
Zelda Informer
Official Nintendo Magazine

As usual, Nintendo is remaining tight-lipped about the new 3DS system, but it was just made known that “3DS” is not the system’s actual shelf name. Our good friend Mr. Iwata made this statement earlier:

“Since we’ve stated that it will go on sale during the present term, I think the formal name will be made public in the not-so-distant future.” – Satoru Iwata

Other than the fact that it will be Nintendo’s first three-dimensional system, as well as continuing their line of handhelds, we really don’t know anything about the end game for this system. It all seems relatively similar to Zelda Wii, if you ask me.

Feel free to discuss what you think the name should be in our comments section!

Source: Kotaku