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Late last year Nintendo started doing these “Nintendo Direct” presentations — short streaming videos put out every few months that hype what’s coming up on Nintendo platforms with a few announcements mixed in here and there. They’re basically, mini, less flashy E3 presentations.

Well, there was a Nintendo Direct early this morning, and while it mostly focused on stuff we already know about, there was some interesting info to be gleaned.

- We learned more about the Mario Tennis game for 3DS. It’s going to be called Mario Tennis Open and it looks much closer in style to the awesome N64 Mario Tennis than to the over-elaborate, power-up focused Gamecube game.

- A remake of Fatal Frame 2 is hitting the Wii, and unlike the last Fatal Frame game on the system, this one’s being translated into English. So far only a European release is confirmed, but hey, even if it doesn’t officially arrive in North America, it’s not like hacking your Wii to play European games is a particularly well-guarded secret anymore.

- Capcom, Sega, and Bandai are all teaming up to make a game on the 3DS. Could be something interesting, could just be some anime adaptation nobody outside of Japan will care about. We shall see.

- A nutty-looking new game in the Brain Training series is coming out. Apparently it’s going to be called Devil Training, beeecause it’s extra hard I guess? Or maybe because knowledge is the root of all evil. I dunno. Nintendo’s going to have a hell (heh) of a time localizing this one for America.

As if this guy wasn’t scary enough already.

- The Last Story, the latest title from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, and one of the games that inspired the Operation Rainfall movement, is finally coming to North America. Interestingly, Nintendo will be handing publishing duties over to XSEED.

You can check out the Nintendo Direct videos for yourself after the jump…

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Nothing causes Nintendo more pain than watching a perfectly good character or franchise go unexploited. Of course Nintendo’s own characters have all been squeezed to their last drop, but what about the properties of other companies? What about all those potentially profitable series being squandered over at Sega, Capcom and Konami?

Well, according to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Nintendo is so serious about getting 3rd party support for the 3DS and their upcoming WiiU that they’re planning to partially fund and help develop sequels to properties owned by other companies. Top on Nintendo’s list of other people’s stuff they want to revive? Sega’s weird pet sim Seaman.

So yeah, this certainly opens up some interesting possibilities. What neglected and/or mistreated properties from other companies would you folks like to see Nintendo revive? There’s about a dozen horribly mismanaged franchises at Sega alone — Toejam and Earl in 2012!

via  GoNintendo

So, Nintendo’s 3DS has had an up and down 2011 to say the least, but as we sit here at the beginning of 2012 things definitely seem to be more up than down. That said, the 3DS still has a way to go before it can call itself the equal of the original DS. The 3DS is a good system — the DS was one of the greatest of all time.

I have a feeling the 3DS may never quite match up to the DS, but delivering the following six things will get it as close as it possibly can…

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I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: haters gonna’ hate. Guinness Book of World Records Gamer’s Edition 2012 confirms that an engineering team from the Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, has officially constructed the world’s largest gaming controller. Students Benjamin Allen, Stephen van’t Hof, and Michel Verhulst are the ones responsible for the giant NES controller; taking nearly four weeks to assemble, the 12ft X 5ft 3 in X 1ft 8 in controller cost the team around $6,000 to build, weighing in at a whopping 265 pounds.

And just in case large-scaled controllers aren’t your thing, the video after the jump also features other winners from Guinness this year: the world’s first female Street Fighter champion, some dude who plays Wii inside a wind tunnel for 18 minutes and let us not forget the world’s most successful Pokémon playing family. Like I said: haters gonna’ hate.

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So, around 15-years ago a few Japanese guys got together and made this simple little RPG for the original Gameboy filled with cute imaginary creatures. There was a little lizard with a fiery tail! A chubby cheeked electric squirrel! There was Squirtle! Awesome!

Then this cute little RPG somehow became one of the most popular video games of all time, and suddenly these Japanese guys were sentenced to a lifetime of hard Pokemon-creating labor. For a while they tried their hardest. It really seemed like they were trying to come up with the next Pikachu or Bulbasaur, but somewhere around 2007′s Pokemon Pearl and Diamond, it became obvious the guys at Game Freak (the developers behind Pokemon) were starting to burn out. It only got worse with last year’s Pokemon Black and White.

The following aren’t necessarily the worst or weirdest Pokemon from Diamond/Pearl and Black/White, but they are the most half-assed. The least creative. They’re the Pokemon scribbled on a napkin over lunch and dumped directly into the game. In other words, you’ll spend far more time trying to catch most of these guys than was ever put into creating them…

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