Link! Wake Up! Because this is Skull Gaming for Friday April 19th 2013!

On April 17th Nintendo held a Nintendo Direct announcing a lot of info on upcoming games.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 2 has been announced for the Nintendo 3DS and there is a 3D video avalible now from the Nintendo eshop on the 3DS. The Oracle series was also announced to release on 3DS Virtual Console on May 30th.

A new Yoshi's island game has been announced for the 3DS also a new Mario Party game for the 3DS.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team will be released August 11th, Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move May 9th, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D May 24th and Game & Wario on June 23rd

There is a new Pink Pikmin that can fly over obsticals like water. Pikmin 3 is set to release August 4th.

There will be a special 3DS XL for animal Crossing: New Leaf it comes wih the game installed on an SD card. It will be released on June 9th.

Bravely Default, Guild02 and Professor Layton will be released outside Japan.

Next week the new Wii U update will be released. Improving loading times by 13 seconds, can update and download software while turned off and will feature the virtual console service.

And last... EARTHBOUND IS COMING TO AMERICAN VIRTUAL CONSOLE! YEAH!

This Nintendo direct was the best ever. I hope you enjoyed it too. To check it out go check out Nintendo's youtube channel. Youtube.com/user/Nintendo

Thanks for reading,

Crystal