Alongside the myriad of announcements this morning from the Switch 2 Direct was the confirmation that certain Nintendo Switch titles would be getting enhanced Nintendo Switch 2 Editions. First up for the enhancement process are two of the Switch’s biggest titles, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and…
Not revealed in today’s Direct, Nintendo has a new wrinkle in store for publishers that opt to sell physical games without the physical component. For anyone looking to sell a “key-in-a-box,” Nintendo has a brand-new option: the Switch 2 Game-Key card. As the name suggests, this will be a Switch…
Mario Kart World, the newest entry in the Mario Kart franchise and the first new console game in over a decade, races on to Switch 2 in just two months! First teased back in January for the Switch 2 reveal, Mario Kart World was the first trailer shown off in…
VIZ Media kicked off Day 1 of Anime Expo with a panel filled with announcements. Among news of manga, art books, anime, and more, key members from Powerhouse Animation were invited onstage to discuss Castlevania and their new show “Seis Manos”. Our special guests are here! Welcome Brad Graeber, @powerhouseanim…
This year has been amazing for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild fans. After over two years since release, we finally got confirmation of a sequel in the works at E3. And as we wait for the next adventure, GoodSmile showed off the Princess Zelda prototype for their…
Another entry in 5pb.’s science adventure series is heading west thanks to Spike Chunsoft – Robotics;Notes Elite, the enhanced version of the 2012 visual novel which released in Japan for the Nintendo Switch and PS4 earlier this year. While the anime adaptation was translated into English by Funimation, this will…
One of the most memorable things to come out of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been the “Everyone is Here!” mural – a lush, painterly panorama featuring every single fighter on the Ultimate roster. Now, the illustrator behind the mural, Yusuke Nakano (who provided main character designs for The Legend…
Fire Emblem is no stranger to DLC, as its past three mainline releases have all featured extensive amounts of add-on content. And Three Houses will be no different, as a full Expansion Pass for the game that will include all planned DLC has been announced. The Expansion Pass will release…
UPDATE: Anime News Network is reporting that XSEED will be localizing the game for the west with the title Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. No release date has been given. Just a few days ago we saw the announcement that the GBA’s Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town…
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new batch of amiibo cards in North America. For a while, it seemed like amiibo cards would be taking the world by storm with hundreds of Animal Crossing cards released, a Mario Sports set, and even a Shadow Mewtwo card that…
The pixel wizards at WayForward are back with a new addition to the long-running River City (aka Kunio-kun) series: River City Girls. River City Girls finds Kyoko and Misako pinching and kicking their way through River City to rescue their boyfriends, Kunio and Riki, who star in other games in…
Fans of the headache-ridden duck/platypus ‘mon, lend me your ears: The North American Pokémon Center has been stocked with an incredibly vibrant collection of Psyduck items today! Whether you’ve always been a fan of the Water-type or you just jumped aboard the bandwagon with its inclusion in Detective Pikachu, you’ll…
Earlier this year, remakes of the first two games in the classic Langrisser series were remade for the Nintendo Switch in Japan, but a localization wasn’t mentioned – until now. NISA has confirmed it’ll be bringing the games west in 2020, to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC. If…
It was almost inevitable that Super Mario Maker 2 would launch last week to critical and commercial acclaim, and the latter has been proven already thanks to the latest phsysical sales reports from the UK’s UKIE/GfK coming in, courtesy of GamesIndustry.biz. Super Mario Maker 2 took the top spot for…
The famously-Kickstarted Shovel Knight is returning to the crowd-funding platform — this time in the form of a miniatures board game, Shovel Knight: Dungeon Duels. Shovel Knight: Dungeon Duels is a one-to-four-player “competitive side-scrolling board game” produced by Panda Cult Games in “close cooperation with Yacht Club Games.” From the…
