Nintendo is turning 
to Hollywood to help bolster the 3D content for its 3DS handheld gaming system.
The game maker has announced partnerships with DreamWorks Animation for a pair of timed-exclusive digital shorts as well as with 3net, the joint venture between Discovery, Sony and Imax. Content from both studios became available this morning.
In August, Telltale 
Games saw 15 percent of its monthly revenue come from the sale of iOS games. Last month, that percentage jumped to 30. Gamasutra’s Chris Morris talks to Telltale’s Connors about the tablet revolution.
In August, Telltale Games saw 15 percent of its monthly revenue come from the sale of iOS games. Last month, that percentage jumped to 30.
In fact, year to date, the iPad has been the fastest-growing revenue driver for the episodic game maker. That phenomenal increase came amid an effort to drive new content to the device, but it was also a chance for Apple’s systems to prove themselves as viable income sources.
Naught is a game 
that is utterly dependent on its controls, and that sometimes proves to be its Achilles’ heel. It’s certainly a beautiful, minimalist title to look at, but controlling a game simply by tilting your iDevice (or using onscreen controls to do the same thing) is a risky proposition. It inevitably results in your character dying again and again as you get used to the unusual controls, which takes a while (and some players may not get). That said, the game uses the accelerometer better than perhaps any other app, and the challenges give it a longer life than you’d expect. The six free levels aren’t something you’ll finish in 20 minutes and (assuming you enjoy them) makes you less wary about paying the one dollar in-app fee for additional ones.
The concept of 
taking a photo a day as a visual scrapbook of sorts is a wonderful way to build memories, and Photo 365 is a good tool to store and relive those memories. It’s also an app that will nudge you to take that daily shot should you get too caught up in the details of life to remember to do so, and it lets you add a caption to photos to prompt memories. There’s nothing particularly revolutionary about the app, but its minimalist interface gets the job done well.
Despite some very 
concerted efforts by video game publishers, it appears 3D is still having trouble finding traction with gamers.
More than half of 1,000 gamers recently surveyed say they’re not interested in 3D becoming a part of the next generation of consoles.
While the Wii 
was a runaway success for Nintendo, the biggest criticism about the system was the lack of big third-party games. Now a new compilation of the console’s top-selling software is dramatically underscoring that complaint.
Of the top 20 selling games for the Wii, 13 were made by Nintendo. Among third-party publishers, Ubisoft was the big winner, thanks largely to its music games â “Just Dance” and “Michael Jackson: Experience”.
The long-awaited consolidation in the music streaming space is underway.
Rhapsody has acquired Napster from electronics giant Best Buy for an undisclosed price. The deal will combine two of the largest streaming services in the U.S. and could roughly double the number of Rhapsody subscribers.
When Rage, the 
long-awaited shooter from id Software, hits shelves Oct. 4, it will end a seven-year drought for the company.
The pioneering game developer is often credited with creating the first-person shooter genre through revolutionary games like 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D (often hailed as the first FPS ever) and the ever-controversial Doom, but it hasn’t produced a new game since 2004.
When “Mortal Kombat: 
Annihilation” hit theaters in 1997, it did something that parents groups and senators had failed to do: Brought the franchise to its knees.
The film was so horrendously bad that it made 1995’s “Mortal Kombat,” which only the most die-hard fans of the series truly embraced, look downright artistic. Production on a third sequel, sub-named “Devastation,” was shelved and New Line Cinema never looked back.
It’s been 14 
years since Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade and Raiden were in theaters, but in 2013, they’ll be back.
New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Interactive are partnering to bring Mortal Kombat back to the big screen — and they may just be able to redeem the franchise’s long tarnished cinematic legacy.
Chris Morris: Journalist 