Bethesda’s Pete Hines was recently asked if the company is looking into the 3DS…

“Again, we don’t have DS titles in development. So, if we were to announce or to do DS stuff, then I would guess they would be looked at for whatever title that might be developed. But that’s purely hypothetical. We don’t have anything for DS.”

Given the fact that the 3DS was referred to as the DS throughout the response, I’d say that Bethesda won’t be making any 3DS games soon. Although, it probably isn’t a huge loss, as Bethesda’s never really had much in the works for the DS.

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“The thing that we’ve learned is that there are some games that you want to battle head to head, but you don’t want to necessarily want that other player to have full access to the space. Probably the best example is something like ‘Animal Crossing.’ We may want to trade items in ‘Animal Crossing,’ but do I really want the potential for you to come into my town and maybe disrupt it in some way? That’s what Friend Codes are all about. There are certain games where Friend Codes are important. There are other games where, because of the head to head nature of the gameplay, it really isn’t necessary.”

“In terms of what happens if you lose your system, in terms of digital content, as we’ve announced, there’s the ability to transfer digital content on to a new system, because we’ll have the ability to go back and see what your account was and what you had purchased. In terms of what else you might have lost, that’s really tough to answer in a hypothetical.”

“Essentially if you want to communicate to others what you’re playing, what you’ve done for a particular game, that’s now going to be possible through things like Street Pass.”

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“People are aware that video games, music and movies make massive contributions to the economies of countries. They need to make sure they start protecting those things. I think perhaps there’s been a ‘heyday of piracy’ and we’ve now seen a lot of rules come in to stop it.” – Marketing manager James Honeywell

I believe that the 3DS has a feature with it that allows automatic downloads of updates and patches to your device that cannot be stopped. This would allow a complete destruction of piracy… at least until hackers find a way to turn off the auto-download thing.

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General:

-21 weapons

-Online Updates Support

-48 kHz audio

-Fully realized medals and achievements system that yields in-game currency: other player’s achievements can be viewed online from the game lobby

-Faster frame rate

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Most of you won’t be able to understand what’s being said, but proceed with caution if you’re worried about spoilers!

Nintendo and Capcom® which is a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games today confirmed that they have entered into a distribution agreement for the forthcoming game Super Street FighterTM IV 3D Edition to be made available on the new handheld system- Nintendo 3DS which allows 3D gaming without the need for special glasses.

Under the terms of the agreement Nintendo will be responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of the game throughout European territories & Australia, with Capcom remaining as publisher. Capcom will remain as the distributor in the Middle East. Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition will be part of the stunning launch window line up for the Nintendo 3DS when the system launches across Europe on 25th March 2011.

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PSP – 35,636
PS3 – 23,792
Wii – 14,547
DSi LL – 11,720
DSi – 8,990
Xbox 360 – 2,338
PS2 – 1,836
DS Lite – 1,528
PSP go – 198

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week.

PS3 – 33,190
PSP – 29,806
Wii – 21,291
DSi LL – 17,452
DSi – 13,416
Xbox 360 – 2,636
DS Lite – 1,956
PS2 – 1,629
PSP go – 1,208

Tecmo Keoi released a ton of screenshots for Dead or Alive: Dimensions today. The images give us another look at the stage from Metroid: Other M. Check them out below!