If you have, your eyes set on a new Nintendo 3DS game system and you are the sort that has no qualms, pirating video games, Nintendo has a new way they can brick your console in retribution.

A short while ago a functional 3DS flashcard emerged into view that gave people the opportunity to play ROMS on their 3DS. ROMS are a particularly touchy subject as many do in fact use them as a means ...

At over two years old, the 3DS has to date avoided the issue of flashcards that was prominent for the DS family of consoles. R4 cards enabled DS owners to download ROMS of games and boot them up from ...

It is no secret that the Nintendo DS portable gaming platform was a major victim of piracy. The availability of specially designed cartridges such as the R4, which allows content stored on an SD card ...

We report this slippery slope to bring to light the desire of earnest 3DS fans to play 3DS games region free. In a shocking development, hackers have revealed that they have successfully broken into ...

3DS flash card manufacturer Gateway has been accused of allowing users' 3DS consoles to become irretrievably bricked by a secret "kill switch" it introduced in a recent update. Report indicate that ...

Users who have attempted to use a specific 3DS flash card device have been left with a permanently broken console. A thread on the gbatemp forum, as spotted by Eurogamer, reports that users of Gateway ...

Even if hackers do succeed in circumventing the security measures included in Nintendo’s 3DS handheld, there are indications that a nasty surprise lays in store for those who do. Kotaku reports that ...

Bad news for those that plan on using a flash card with their 3DS-- if Nintendo detects that you've been dabbing with one, the company might send a firmware update that could possibly brick your ...

A firmware update released last week for Nintendo’s handheld 3DS console has blocked flash carts on the system, according to a forum post on a device manufacturer’s website. In a forum post from ...

Aksys Games and Fishing Cactus are giving the popular Flash game Shift a makeover. It’s coming to Nintendo 3DS as Shifting World with a new story and 2D to 3D world shifting. If you haven’t played ...