Kirby breaks down all of my manliness, and when he’s made of yarn and standing in an adorable diorama, I began to weep tears of pure joy. What is happening to me?!

Nintendo have finally announced the European release date for Kirby’s Epic Yarn: February 25.

These days everyone is talking about Nintendo’s next handheld, the Nintendo 3DS, and forgetting about the classic Nintendo DS. Yes, the Nintendo 3DS’s big release may be just around the corner, but the Nintendo DS isn’t going to die the day it comes out.

Nintendo has just shown off two new games for their traditional Nintendo DS hardware. The first game is a new entry in the famous Kirby franchise.

While I can’t speak or read Japanese, the universal message of this new trailer released by Nintendo of Japan is clear: Kirby is cute…sickingly so.

Looks like the Prince took a roll through the Mushroom Kingdom! And Hyrule. And the world of Pokemon. And Metroid. There’s even a Tetris block in there!

My job, obviously, is to argue that Nintendo “won” E3 2010. Not only have Nintendo conquered the minds of the casual market, but they appear to have won back the minds of the hardcore market, too. How have they managed this? Well, they did so by putting on the best E3 press conference that I’ve seen in many years.

Kirby’s Epic Yarn is a brand new Kirby game for the Nintendo Wii, set to be released in Autumn 2010. Here’s the delightful trailer from Nintendo’s E3 press conference this year.

“No time machine? Not my problem!” I admit it, I’m a hypocrite. I have no problem busting Nintendo’s chops on forums across the internet for banking on nostalgia these days, but I’ve got a secret rose-tinted past of my own. Like most of you, I grew up on Nintendo — watched the cartoons, ate the [...]

One of the flat-out coolest endeavours I’ve seen in awhile comes from “hattoriyaro,” who’s using a specialized program to turn the individual notes of MIDI music into complex animations. Among his creations are several dedicated to classic video games from Megaman 2 to *ahem* “cult classic” Cheetahmen. Hit the jump for videos and more information [...]