The beat-em-up genre tends to stay in its lane. Its tried-and-true arcade format has rarely been deviated from or added onto. There have been some recent attempts at modernizing the genre such as Xbox Game Studios’ live service brawler Towerborne or the open nature of WayForward’s River City Girls games….
If you can believe it, a second Animal Crossing-like knock-off game has appeared on the PlayStation store recently. Dubbed “Anime Village Online,” the sole screenshot available for the game looks not only heavily inspired by Animal Crossing, but almost like an HD mod for New Horizons. Spotted by Redditor YellowFlower69,…
Switch Online subscribers are in for a treat this month. As announced by Nintendo last night, the Super Nintendo App is going to receive a trio of new games for October 2025. One of those is the western debut of Mario & Wario, the 1993 puzzle game developed by Game…
Over the past few years, Nintendo and Lego have shared a pretty fun relationship with a number of pretty fantastic Mario-themed sets. But one thing fans have been begging for since Lego and Nintendo teamed up back in 2020 was a Legend of Zelda collaboration of some kind. While nothing…
If you’ve booted up Fire Emblem Engage at all, you were probably knocked off your feet by the opening song, a rocking, over the top anthem that much like the rest of the game is emanating pure burning melodrama. That very song is getting a CD release soon in Japan,…
As expected, Bandai Namco has dropped the third part of its classic four-part Tales of Symphonia the Animation series for free on YouTube. You can catch the first and second episodes in our prior articles, though if you’re planning on playing the upcoming remaster at all you might want to…
Got some Platinum Points burning a hole in your digital pocket? Fear not, as a shiny new reward is available at the My Nintendo Store! For 700 Platinum Points, you can pick up this button pin set themed to the newly released Fire Emblem Engage. This reward contains…
Mario’s Italian-ness is a matter of debate among scholarly historians. While his status as an Italian-American plumber living in Brooklyn was once widely accepted lore, in the decades after the ’90s, as TV shows and cartoons for the mascot disappeared and his role in the fantastical Mushroom Kingdom became more…
Update (2/20/23): It looks like the release of Snorlax and Togepi is inching closer, Squishmallows fans! The Squishmallows and Pokémon Instagram accounts have joined together to give a cute sneak peek of the two newest additions in a short clip. Get a look at the already-released Pikachu and Gengar with…
Last week, Bandai Namco dropped a surprise on its YouTube channel – the first episode of the four-part Tales of Symphonia the Animation. Now it looks like the company will be sharing all of the episodes for free, with the second dropping earlier today. Be sure to turn on closed…
There’s just a few weeks to go until The Super Mario Bros. Movie makes its debut on cinema screens around the globe and the merchandise machine is starting to gear up. Jakks Pacific, the company that has been handling a wide variety of Nintendo properties for years now, has officially…
There are hundreds of thousands of Pokémon plushes out there in the world that are just begging to be hugged, but what if the tables were turned? That’s the premise of this new wave announced by The Pokémon Company Japan where you can be hugged by some very long-armed Pokémon!…
One of the coolest features that Super Nintendo World will bring to the public when it officially opens its pipes to the masses on February 17th is the Power-Up Band, an amiibo-like NFC bracelet that allows park goers interact with various areas in Super Nintendo World, including rides, set pieces,…
Super Mario has always been an important part of my childhood, and seeing some of the amazing Mario themed merchandise hit store shelves as of late has me feeling like a ten year-old boy again. The latest toy to be released is part of Jakks Pacific’s Super Mario Bros. Movie…
Next month, Bandai Namco will be releasing a remaster of Tales of Symphonia for modern systems, letting even more players play the foundational 3D entry in the long-running series. Symphonia was something of a smash-hit when it first came out, eventually netting itself an anime adaptation, animated by Ufotable and…
