One of the coolest features of the new Nintendo 3DS console is StreetPass -- a feature that lets your 3DS wirelessly trade information with other nearby consoles. We explain what it's all about. Luke ...

The greatest thing about the new Nintendo 3DS hardware has to be its StreetPass feature. This feature can very well change the way we play handheld gaming devices, and will encourage 3DS players to ...

While Nintendo's Wii U video game console has languished both in terms of sales and interesting content available on the device, the Japanese gaming giant's mobile counterpart, the 3DS, has continued ...

The DS's Tag Mode is an under-used feature of the hardware, with very few games getting the most out of it. That hasn't deterred Nintendo from making it a bigger feature of its upcoming 3DS however, ...

Why isn’t StreetPass on the Nintendo Switch? Of the long list of unique features Nintendo supported during the 3DS and Wii U era — your Miiverses, SpotPasses, and the like — StreetPass, a wireless ...

When it comes to unique gimmicks, the Nintendo 3DS is mainly remembered for the wow factor of its glasses-free stereoscopic 3D effects (which Nintendo would eventually abandon with the introduction of ...

One of the best features of the Nintendo 3DS is its ability to StreetPass. You will find this feature in no other portable device that plays games. The Vita doesn’t do it. The iPhone can’t do it.

One of StreetPass Plaza's most frustrating features - the ability to only have 10 Mii characters visit at one time - is finally being amended in a new update announced as part of today's 3DS-focused ...

Nintendo is building a system of server relays to allow 3DS owners living in North America and Europe to use the handheld's StreetPass functionality with greater frequency, Nintendo president and CEO ...

The start of this week saw the closure of the 3DS and Wii U eShops, a sad time for all of us, many of whom spent last weekend feeling a little sentimental about all of the brilliant games that we ...

The 3DS' StreetPass feature is a neat one, letting you exchange data with fellow 3DS owners you pass. But if you're not someone who travels much, odds are that anyone you do manage to StreetPass lives ...