Nintendo's top man told viewers about upcoming firmware updates, Miiverse smartphone integration and new games for the company's Yoshi and Zelda series. And bombs about new titles from the Xenoblade team and a Shin Megami Tensei/Fire Emblem crossover were dropped, too. If you missed any of the above, you can watch the whole thing in glorious Iwata-vision right now.

Monolith Soft showed off its latest game today in a short trailer. The game footage showed a protagonist running across a field, slaying monsters, and flying around in a jet pack.

The trailer also showed what looked like a motorcycle. A very cool motorcycle. And it seems like there will be lots of monsters, giving the trailer a decidedly Monster Hunter vibe.

At the end of the trailer, however, a large X in red splashed on the screen.

Kunihiko Tanaka is the game's character designer, Tetsuya Takahashi is the executive director, while Hiroyuki Sawano is doing the music. Takahashi is the creative force behind Xenogears, the Xenosaga games, and more recently, Xenoblade.

You'll be able to play The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker on your Wii U this fall. No, the Wii U isn't suddenly getting backwards compatibility to support the GameCube. Nintendo's remaking the game.

Yep, Nintendo is remaking the cartoonish GameCube Zelda game and giving it the full Wii U treatment, complete with new graphics and Off-TV Play (meaning you can play the new Wind Waker on your GamePad controller, with the TV off). The remake will be out this fall.

Nintendo announced the news along with the promise of another Zelda game, which they say won't be ready to announce for a while.

Miss the rest of this morning's Nintendo Direct bonanza? The Mario makers detailed the Wii U's Virtual Console, showed off the new game from the creators of Xenoblade and even teased at a crazy Fire Emblem-Shin Megami Tensei crossover. You can find all of our Nintendo Direct coverage right here.

Holy crap! Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei are crossing over in this new Wii U game, announced at the Nintendo Direct today.

We don't have any details on the surprising crossover: all we know is that it's a collaboration between Atlus and Nintendo's developer Intelligent Systems.

You might recognize Atlus's Shin Megami Tensei as the series comprising some of their most popular games, like Persona 3 and Persona 4. It's interesting and unusual to see Nintendo blending that with its Fire Emblem strategy-RPG series.

Just look at that adorable twine Yoshi. This new Yoshi game, made by the folks who made Kirby's Epic Yarn was announced for Wii U this morning.

We really enjoyed Kirby's Epic Yarn, a Wii game starring a knitted version of the obese pink furball that came out back in 2010.

We don't have many more details on the new game, other than the short teaser that you can see above. But it sure is cute.

Nintendo today promised that new 3D Mario and Mario Kart games are coming to Wii U.

That shouldn't surprise you: Mario and Mario Kart are staples of any Nintendo hardware platform. But the new 3D Mario is coming from Nintendo's A-Team, the developers responsible for classics like Galaxy and Super Mario 3D Land for 3DS, so that's pretty exciting.

Even more exciting: they'll both be revealed—and playable—at the E3 convention this June.

Smartphones will be able to access the Miiverse—the Wii U's social network—sometime this spring, Nintendo announced this morning, with a dedicated app for smart devices to follow sometime later. In short, it sounds Miiverse will have a mobile-optimized website soon.

Miiverse is the hub where Wii U players connect with others, sharing comments, thoughts, images and drawings in communities segmented by game (or app). The smartphone support is one of a few upgrades Miiverse is getting this spring, including the ability to set up user-created communities within certain games. Wii Fit U was given as an example.

This spring, the Wii U will get its own version of the Virtual Console—you'll be able to purchase and download Nintendo and Super Nintendo games to play on the Wii U and separately on your GamePad.

We already knew that a Virtual Console was coming to Wii U, but Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata announced further details—and a spring release window—during a Nintendo Direct this morning.

The service will start off with a limited selection of Nintendo and Super Nintendo games, with more to come, including games from the Game Boy Advance. There will be "special pricing" if you already own Wii versions of each Virtual Console game: $1 for NES games; $1.50 for SNES games. (You'll have to transfer those Wii VC games over to the Wii U in order to get the discount.)

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System, there will also be a discounted program that starts today: you can download Balloon Fight for NES as soon as the Nintendo Direct is over. You can buy it right now for 30 cents.

Here's what the rest of the lineup looks like for U.S. Wii U owners:

Japanese Wii U owners will be able to get Mother 2. No word on whether U.S. Wii U owners will get their hands on the North American version, Earthbound.

In this morning's Nintendo Direct broadcast, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that the company is aware of complaints of long load times. Iwata said that two system updates—one in spring and the other in summer—will improve load times and add new features to the system.

Slipping quietly onto Google Play over the weekend, Kotaku game of the year contender Super Hexagon performs its seductive dance on Android owners, spinning it's way into this week's top charts.

The spiraling shape will make you go insane, but that hasn't deterred Android gamers from getting a taste of the game that's drove iOS and PC players batty last year. I'm tempted to buy it again just to have it on my new phone, and the $.99 introductory sale price isn't helping matters. Oh screw it—bought.

Along with Terry Cavanagh's sublime creation, Temple Run: Brave makes an appearance in the paid charts as players gear up for this week's Android release of the free Temple Run 2. Which spot do you reckon that one will debut in next week?