A big week ahead!

Before the site experiences some (planned) downtime, I figured now would be a great time to remind everyone about the week ahead.

Starting tomorrow at 11 PM EDT / 8 PM PDT, Nintendo will be hosting their “3DS Conference”. Although it will be live-streamed, I assume that all of the proceedings will be in Japanese… so you’ll probably want to check on the site for information, along with any trailers/images that are released once the conference ends. We’ll surely see more of Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, Kid Icarus: Uprising, and Monster Hunter Tri G. There could be a few new announcements as well… and Nintendo has some explaining to do about their new Circle Pad attachment (it hasn’t even been officially announced)!

Later in the week, the 2011 Tokyo Game Show begins. It seems like practically every Japanese publishers will be represented. Namco Bandai, Team Ninja, SEGA, Capcom, and Kojima Productions are just some of the companies that have stage shows and announcements lined up.

And on top of Nintendo’s conference and TGS, we should also be getting a brand new look at Zelda: Skyward Sword from Game Informer. In addition to a ton of details and screenshots, there will also be new footage of the title posted to the magazine’s website.

So if you’re a Nintendo fan, you’ll definitely want to visit the site a few times next week. I’m just hoping we don’t experience any downtime. Right now I’m not too worried!