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….
Nintendo has historically been relatively good about preventing leaks, but details about The Super Mario Bros. Movie have been oozing out of the internet the past few days – and it’s all because of Mickey D’s. First, a work program revealed what the official renders looked like before the teaser…
In case you haven’t heard, the next Splatoon 3 Splatfest is a Pokémon collaboration, where players will duke it out to determine whether Grass, Fire, or Water is the best type. This means, of course, that in-game your character will receive a Splatfest Tee for your respective squad — but…
Square Enix is back with another chill piano rendition of a Final Fantasy song for the weekend, this time from the game that started it all! Pianist Yui Morishita is at the keys, delivering a surprisingly upbeat version of Final Fantasy 1’s first dungeon where the Warriors of…
One of the constant rules of thumb in video gaming is that no matter the quality of a Sonic game, the soundtrack is almost certainly going to be fantastic. Sonic Frontiers will hopefully be no different and it seems like Sega is throwing its full weight behind it’s audible delights,…
Persona 5 is practically everywhere at this point. It’s had multiple games, an anime, a stage show, and more merch than you can imagine, and yet there’s still more to come. Atlus has announced a collaboration with Pandasaurus on a new physical card game based on the IP! Specifically the…
Back in 2021 Wizards of the Coast announced that Magic: The Gathering would be expanding outside its own borders with the Universes Beyond initiative, where various franchises were adapted to fit into the card game. Previously we’ve seen Street Fighter, Fortnite, Doctor Who, and more besides. Now we know what’s…
MAMA MIA! Nintendo has just released the very first image from the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie and it looks absolutely stunning! The image was tweeted by Nintendo to announce a special Nintendo Direct specifically for the Super Mario Bros. movie that’s set to air this Thursday at…
Back in July Nintendo confirmed it would be transforming the recently acquired Dynamo Pictures into Nintendo Pictures, an official visual content house for the company’s IP. Now, a couple of months later, we have an official logo for the renamed company and an official website. The logo itself is the…
It’s been announced that the Japanese general goods brand Swimmer will be collaborating with the Pokémon Company on a new wave of merchandise! Swimmer is well known for its adorable designs and now it’s applying that style to a wide range of Pokémon. The merch wave’s breakout star, however, is…
Time to mix drinks and change lives — Jill Stingray, snarky bartender, moody lesbian, and protagonist of VA-11 HALL-A — is the latest to get the Nendoroid treatment. While she lacks in the explosive armaments of many another Nendo, she has her tools of the trade all on hand: cocktail…
Wahoo! A few months ago GoodSmile surprised us all with the announcement of a Nendoroid based on Bandai Namco’s revived mascot, Klonoa, and now it’s available to pre-order via GoodSmile’s online store! While the adorable figure of the Phantomile explorer won’t ship till approximately August 2023, pre-orders come with an…
On September 24th, 1992, SNK launched its second fighting game series in the form of Art of Fighting. Originally pitched as a prequel to the iconic Fatal Fury, the game introduced genre elements like its drainable spirit gauge, graphical sprite scaling, and super attacks. To celebrate its recent anniversary, SNK…
