Here we go! Let’s take a look at the nominees for the 2024 Game Awards. While Nintendo doesn’t have an entry in the Game of the Year category this year, it currently holds three out of five nominees for Best Family Game, where the company has historically been the favorite…
Raid Hour (also referred to as Legendary Raid Hour) started as an experiment in March 2019. Initially called Legendary Lunch Hour, Niantic set aside an hour on Wednesdays for Pokémon GO Trainers to find 5-Star (Legendary) Raids easier by increasing the appearance rates. After further testing, Raid Hour was renamed…
One of the most common talking points among video game circles is often the music that accompanies them. Yet for every award-winning soundtrack, there’s a handful of tracks that live on for more amusing reasons. Perhaps the most well-known song of this caliber is the notorious “DK Rap” from Donkey…
For those of you who love to customize your 3DS, a brand new home screen theme has crept its way into the My Nintendo rewards system. Featuring the ever-adorable and easily recognizable Jibanyan from Yo-Kai Watch, this theme is a huge pop of color that decorates your touch screen with…
It’s challenge week in the Arcade, featuring some of the toughest catchers from the past year! Fortunately, that means there’s a wide variety of game franchises to choose from. Be sure to check out the full gallery below: Free play?: Yes! Everybody gets one. Practice catcher: Most notable this…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Western audiences get some long overdue puff-puff action from the Dragon Quest series, Shin Megami Tensei puts a dark spin on the phrase “gotta catch ‘em all,” and Wario shows off his smooth moves. Sega’s giving some love in the sales department for the…
The Nintendo 3DS has no shortage of laid-back simulation games; from Story of Seasons to Fantasy Life to Animal Crossing: New Leaf there are plenty of options. That doesn’t mean there can’t be new contenders for your down-time, however, which brings us to a new “slow living miniscape RPG” from…
Strolling through one of the multiple, local arcades in Japan can be a bit overwhelming. So many machines, so little time (and yen), but sooner or later something will call out to you. While it wasn’t my first adventure, as soon as I saw the large, enclosed machine with familiar…
On paper, the Shin Megami Tensei series can sound like a seething cauldron of mismatched ideas. With elements of world mythologies, the nature of order versus chaos in our lives, science fiction-like world building, urban punk sensibilities and motifs, and Jungian psychological concepts all mixed in the pot, it falls…
A huge piece of news was casually dropped earlier today during a Monster Hunter Stories stage event at the Tokyo Game Show: a Hollywood movie adaptation of Monster Hunter is in progress. It was announced by long-standing Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto, who also clarified that the movie wouldn’t be…
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Fans of deviant moustaches and garlic breath gather ‘round (but not too close): Wario is re-releasing his smoothest collection of microgames to date on Wii U Virtual consoles tomorrow! Smooth Moves is the fifth game in the WarioWare series, originally released back in 2006 for the Wii. Like its predecessors,…
Most gamers have a favorite game – ask any one of them and they’ll tell you all about it. Whether it’s an entry in the Final Fantasy series, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Super Metroid, or The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, you can be sure that any particular gamer’s…
We’re less than three days away from the launch of Pokémon GO Plus and we still don’t know everything the device is going to do. Originally, the device was plugged as a companion to Pokémon GO, which required the app to be open to count steps or catch Pokémon. Now,…
Some memories just have a way of sticking with you and when it comes to my own gaming history one of those memories is the first time I ever played a GameCube. It was my birthday and my mom surprised me by renting the system from Blockbuster and inviting my…
