With the Nintendo Switch 2 finally confirmed after all this time, the discussion of what will be on it grows stronger every day. From thoughts of new first-party titles to third-party ports, there’s a lot of potential to be had here. That latter point is particularly interesting; as exciting as…
As one can expect with a franchise that has been running as long as the Super Mario series has, the cast of characters in it has seen a wide variety of iterations over the years. From all the way back to the arcade origins of Donkey Kong and Jumpman to…
It’s been six years since developer Team Cherry announced Hollow Knight: Silksong, the hotly anticipated sequel to its 2017 classic. Originally envisioned as a bit of DLC for the first game, the scope of the game had expanded so much that Team Cherry decided to make it a standalone title….
Summer is almost here and to celebrate the occasion, Capcom’s cafe in Saitama will be getting an Ace Attorney make-over. As shown in the key art below, the key cast from the modern games will be wearing some traditional garb for the occasion, with Edgeworth even brandishing a Steel Samurai…
The Pokémon Cafés of Japan has revealed a new dish that will debut at the end of May. This dish is centered around the mascot of the franchise itself, Pikachu, and consists of a rolled omelette shaped like Pikachu’s face (complete with ears and a tail) and a macaroni gratin…
Since the beginning of the year, Re-Ment has announced plenty of new Pokémon blind box figure sets, however, fans didn’t receive a new look at any upcoming collectibles during the entire month of April. Finally, after skipping out on a month of new announcements, Re-Ment has recently unveiled Pokémon Pocket…
Well, that was quick! We haven’t even reached summer in the northern hemisphere yet but Build-A-Bear is getting ready to dress up its Tom Nook and Isabelle plushes with a pair of their winter outfits. Starting tomorrow, May 11th, you’ll be able to pick up the winter outfit variants pictured…
Letter writing may be a dying form of communication (and art, if you ask me), yet that hasn’t stopped gaming companies from releasing beautiful stamps to adorn the correspondences of those who still partake in the oldest form of long-distance communication. The Pokémon Company is the latest to do so,…
Just in time for the year-long 25th-anniversary celebration for Pokémon, Unique Art Studio’s stunning statues of Pikachu and Charmander are now available to fans outside of China. Currently, there are only two statues from Unique Art Studio – a 1:1 scale figure of Pikachu and first in a Kanto Starter…
The majority of Pokémon to come to Build-A-Bear hail from the first generation, bringing some warm and fuzzy nostalgia to fans and families. That’s always welcome, but what if you’re after something a little newer? A little more contemporary? Well, we’ve got good news, especially for that “warm” part! …
The long-running Pokémon Adventures manga has been going strong for almost 22 years now, with writer Hidenori Kusaka giving fans a relatively game-accurate narrative journey through the various regions. The latest chapters naturally have focused on Galar, adapting the events of Sword & Shield to the black and white page….
Detective Pikachu was a box office smash hit in 2019, quickly becoming the highest-grossing video game movie ever shortly after its release (until being surpassed by the following year’s Sonic the Hedgehog movie). You’d assume that a sequel would be inevitable due to the film’s success, but Justice Smith, who…
Okay, okay. I’ll say what we’re all thinking – “Eekum Bokum.” Banjo-Kazooie’s resident shaman (well, one of them) is next in line for a deluxe First 4 Figures statue. His skull head and googly eyes are ready to join your collection, based on his original design, and coming soon will…
It’s that time of year! LEGO Ideas, the official LEGO platform that allows passionate builders to submit their custom creations for a chance to turn them into official sets, has revealed the latest batch projects selected for review. A total of 57 sets made the cut for the First 2021…
First published in 2014, The Art of Street Fighter is a gigantic, 448-page book collecting over 25 years of beautiful artwork. The paperback edition has since gone out of print, but fortunately for collectors, publisher Udon Entertainment will issue two new hardcover editions on July 20th, 2021. The standard edition…
