PS Vita allows users to easily capture direct-feed screenshots from the system. However, Nintendo 3DS is currently missing that feature. A new app released by Nintendo in Japan will introduce that functionality--but only in select titles.

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf will be coming to 3DS on June 9, and Nintendo has announced a new 3DS XL bundle coming out on the same day as the game.

The unit, skinned in familiar Animal Crossing theme, will sell for $219.99 and will come with the game pre-installed on its 4GB SD card. The game is available for pre-order at $34.99, while a new 3DS XL runs about $200.

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The upcoming Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a marked change for the series, notably making changes to some of its divisive characters. Mr. Resetti, the angry mole who would shout and threaten to delete your game for resetting, is now completely optional. The reason? He makes little girls cry.

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the 3DS iteration of the popular community and mortgage-payment simulator, is coming June 9. During today's Nintendo Direct, the company's Bill Trinen pointed out that as the mayor, you're no longer beholden to the raccoon slum lord Tom Nook, so this one will focus more on making the town as you like it.

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Fishing! Catching butterflies! Moving furniture! Picking flowers! Animal Crossing: New Leaf for 3DS brings back the relaxing activities franchise fans have come to expect, as evidenced by the game's new US trailer. Of course, this time you'll be running the show as mayor, so don't screw things up too badly when the game releases in the first half of 2013.

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Nintendo's beloved living-in-debt simulator is coming back in "early 2013," the publisher has announced. The long-awaited 3DS entry in the Animal Crossing series was first announced in 2010, but little has been revealed about the game since. One of the new features for the still-untitled game is the ability to be the mayor.

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Nintendo has reported its results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012, and they weren't pretty. The company reported an annual operating loss of 37.3 billion yen (approximately $460 million), the first time in the company's history of reporting such a loss. This is a slight improvement from its adjusted forecast from January, which predicted a 45 billion yen loss.

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While Animal Crossing games traditionally cast the player as little more than a wandering vagrant, beachcombing and shaking trees for money, Animal Crossing for Nintendo 3DS will see you as mayor. Yes, Mayor Tortimer's reign of tyranny has ended, and players will get to make a few changes around town. You'll probably still end up shaking trees for money, though.

Watch: Mayoral duties and more discussed in a developer roundtable »

Next week will see the formal debut of the long-awaited Wii entry in Nintendo's unique Animal Crossing series, according to a now-edited blog entry from an Official Nintendo Magazine UK editor.

"Animal Crossing Wii will be unveiled at the [Nintendo E3 press] conference," ONM UK online editor Tom East's blog entry formerly read, according to Kotaku. Now, it simply states that "everyone is hoping that Animal Crossing Wii will be there." Read more »

The long-rumored Wii edition of Animal Crossing will hit Japan this year, according to financial documents released by Nintendo of Japan.

Other Wii titles listed in the document for a Japanese 2008 release include Wii Music, a new Kirby title, Disaster: Day of Crisis, Super Mario Stadium Family Baseball, and Minna no Joushikiryoku Terebi, which is roughly translated as Everyone's Common Knowledge Television. Read more »