The year of wild collaborations continues! Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble has revealed two new collaborations, featuring the iconic Kaiju Godzilla and the digital diva Hatsune Miku. Both collabs will be available on November 26th as a part of the big 2.0 update. While the update itself is free, Godzilla…
The history of the Fire Emblem franchise is one fraught with a lot of obscurity and uncertainty. With the franchise nearly being canceled entirely prior to the release of Fire Emblem: Awakening, it has been quite a winding path to get to where it is now. Despite these troubles, the…
Nintendo Switch Online is back with new icons, this time themed to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Celebrating the Shiny Rayquaza Tera Raid Battle event that will kick off in a few weeks, the icons are meant to get players excited for the battles ahead! In the meantime, you can enjoy…
Earlier today Nintendo finally unveiled its next video game system: the Switch. While the preview trailer showcased a lot of what makes the system unique, there were a few lingering questions. Thankfully IGN has contacted the company and gotten a few answers. For starters, amiibo support is guaranteed, which we…
While the focus of today’s Nintendo Switch reveal trailer was clearly on the hardware itself, there were many subtle hints woven into the presentation. For instance, did you spot the Super Mario line amiibo strategically placed next to the Switch dock in this scene? Well, I didn’t either, until some…
The day Nintendo fans have so eagerly awaited since the first whispers of the NX fell upon their ears has finally come. We are now living in a post-NX world following the release of the very first trailer for Nintendo’s next-gen Nintendo Switch. Plenty was shown off in the three…
Pixel Pokémon badges return to the Arcade this week! With this update, all the original 151 Pokemon have been made available at one point or another. Have you caught them all yet? Various Fire Emblem Fates and Star Fox Zero catchers are also featured starting today. Check out the full…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Space robots ransack the galaxy, pirates pillage the Game Boy, and Link gets spirited away on the Virtual Console. There’s unfortunately nothing notable in the sales department this week, but at least the veil has finally been lifted on Nintendo’s latest console: the Switch!…
Not to be outdone by the Wii U’s catch-all approach to controller support, the newly unveiled Nintendo Switch will boast a wide variety of input options both out of the box and beyond. At least five unique control schemes are integrated into the Switch, incorporating both single and multiplayer play,…
While today has understandably been all about the newly announced Nintendo Switch, a rumor regarding the Nintendo 3DS has surfaced – the Lime Green New 3DS XL is heading to the United States. The rumor comes via GoNintendo, who have an image of the box sent in by an anonymous…
The Nintendo Switch reveal trailer gave us a lot of details about the console, but there were also a lot of short glimpses of plenty of games coming to the new system. Here’s a breakdown of all the games shown in the new video: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of…
We got a brief look at a bunch of games heading to Nintendo Switch during today’s exciting preview trailer. One of those titles looked an awful lot like Mario Kart 8, though with two key differences. Most notably, King Boo has joined the roster of playable characters! We also received…
The Nintendo Switch was revealed only a short time ago, and while the short three minute video will no doubt induce speculation for some time, Nintendo did also release a list of third party publishers and developers it’s got backing it. The list is fairly long and full of some…
UPDATE: The Japanese Splatoon Twitter account has sent out a message regarding the brief appearance in the Nintendo Switch trailer. Give it a look – 緊急報告だ！あの会社が公開した映像を調査していたのだが…、これは……新種のイカ…？一体何が起きているのだろうか！？まだ詳細は判明しておらず、お伝えできる情報は無いのだが、引き続き調査・研究を行う所存だ。お待ちいただきたい。https://t.co/cWj5CIWF6L pic.twitter.com/FNKMZ7GV4k — Splatoon（スプラトゥーン） (@SplatoonJP) October 20, 2016 While there’s nothing majorly new, they do ask fans to wait for more news and that it’s…
It was long rumored but with today’s avalanche of news we finally have confirmation – NVIDIA is behind the technology powering Nintendo’s newest system, the Switch. Rather than using one of the company’s pre-existing mobile chips, however, NVIDIA has created a custom Tegra processor for the Switch. Supposedly it is…
