With how popular Shantae has become over the years, it’s surprising to learn that one of the games in the series was actually cancelled over 20 years ago. Despite that, Wayforward didn’t give up and would revive the project many years later to create a long-lost interquel for the series….
While home consoles are a widespread and ubiquitous part of the greater video game industry now, it hasn’t always been that way. Video game consoles have their origins from arcade machines, and the transition they made to end up in people’s living rooms was thanks in large part to systems…
As part of today’s financial report for Nintendo, company president Shuntaro Furukawa noted that Nintendo will be considering a price adjustment to the Switch 2 depending on how the situation of President Trump’s tariffs evolves in the coming months. With nobody sure of what the impact will be when Trump’s…
I’m still trying to decide how to feel about some of Detective Pikachu’s designs for Pokémon, and now I’ve been informed there are actually going to be cards of some of these designs. We’ve seen the Detective himself, Charizard, and Greninja already, and now thanks to a recent tweet, we’ve…
Get your fishing poles ready, campers, because Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has an extra lovely treat for everyone today! Head over to Saltwater Shores and speak with Chip as soon as you can — you’ll find that the new fishing tournament (#11 to be exact) has you catching fish so…
For those of you excited about the upcoming new Snapshot feature in Pokémon GO, now’s the time to start getting ready. Over the next few days, you should start to see a new update for the game rolling out on both iOS and Android, with the updated version presumably including…
Whenever a new demo is available in the Nintendo eShop, there’s a chance that the Digital Foundry team will dive in and start analyzing the technical aspects. After last week’s Nintendo Direct dropped one for Yoshi’s Craft World (marking Nintendo’s first foray into the Unreal Engine for Switch), John Linneman…
Astral Chain’s trailer debut during last week’s Direct had me grinnin’, as it marks the return of PlatinumGames to a Nintendo console since Bayonetta 2, their work on Star Fox notwithstanding. While a few things could be gleaned from the trailer in terms of style and gameplay ideas, not much…
The latest character type in Fire Emblem Heroes has been beast characters, and after a strong start with some Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn Laguz, sights have shifted to a different pair of games. Specifically the Fire Emblem Fates duology, bringing their wolfskin and kitsune characters to Heroes in…
The Switch-exclusive Sega Ages series is finally ramping back up, with the Master System’s Alex Kidd in Miracle World getting slated for release in Japan later this week, as reported by Gematsu. Originally released in Japan in 1986, and across the rest of the world in ’87, Alex Kidd in…
Game Informer senior editor Imran Khan has had a busy week in the Nintendo news cycle. Fresh off of crushing Mother fans’ hopes and dreams for the 132,463th time, Khan appeared on Kinda Funny Games on February 13th — the day of the Direct — where he dropped a hot…
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Battle Royale games are all the rage these days. Typically reserved for first and third-person shooters, many were surprised to learn the beloved classic puzzle game Tetris would be entering the fold. I’ll admit I was the first to give it a passing eye-roll. Yet…
