As 2025 carries on and anticipation for the year builds, it feels as if the collective video game industry is holding its breath for something big. With so much to look forward to, many are eager to hear more on upcoming titles and more. Fortunately, the relative silence is set…
Once a hilarious meme that somehow took life 17 years later, Hello Kitty Island Adventure is now available for digital download on PC and Switch. A riff on Nintendo’s popular Animal Crossing series, Island Adventure sees players start a new life with their favorite Sanrio characters on an island where…
Nintendo is planning to release the Switch 2 this year, unless the company pulls a fast one during its April 2025 Nintendo Direct reveal. With a brand-new console set to hit the global market, it stands to reason that third parties will want their games on Nintendo’s newest device to…
The Toy Foundation’s Toy of the Year Awards is back for a second time this year. Thanks to pivoting to an autumn schedule, 2022 is double dipping with a February 2022 TOTY Awards and a September 2022 TOTY Awards. The September 2022 edition took place this week and The Pokémon…
Super Mario Sunshine is less the black sheep of 3D Mario and more the odd duck, which is really saying something in a series where games’ standout mechanics have included flying through space and throwing your hat onto enemies to possess their mortal flesh. The mess-cleaning, water-focused game has some…
Soon, Pokémon GO’s Test Your Mettle event will be over and there will be a bit of a break with events happening in-game. Still, that’s not stopping Niantic from releasing details of the next Pokémon GO event – the Fashion Week event! Beginning on Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 at 10…
Ah, August. The season of football starts. I think. Do I look like someone who knows things about sports? I just watch Jon Bois videos and perennially wait for the Seattle Mariners to break my heart. Okay, hold on let me fact-check myself. …It turns out professional American football starts…
When it was announced a few weeks back that Splatoon 3 would be getting its very own line of amiibo, fans of the little figures, myself included, were eager to get our hands on them as soon as possible. While Splatoon 1 and 2 both launched with a trio of…
If there was one trend among indie games of the ’10s, it was in the development and reflection of empathy. Future classics like Papers, Please and Undertale made the player question their actions and treat the fictional characters of imagined worlds with care and nuance. In a medium where so…
Splatoon has quickly become a mainstay Nintendo franchise over the last several years, so no one was surprised when Splatoon 3 was announced early last year. A follow up to Splatoon 2 and it’s excellent Octo Expansion DLC, Splatoon 3 continues to usher the franchise to stylish new heights by…
Last year, game developer Falcom and Tatsunoko Production announced a team-up for an anime based on its The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series. We’ve finally got that project’s first trailer and some initial details! Subtitled “Northern War”, the anime will take place concurrently with the…
I woke up this morning and logged onto my computer with a stifled yawn and no coffee (I don’t like coffee). As always, I pulled up Slack to see what articles our editor listed as needed for the day. In the wake of a Direct, it’s usually a bit slower…
We’re less than a month off from Yoko Taro’s existential pain fest and showcase of attractive android women. NieR: Automata makes its way to the Nintendo Switch, and naturally, the critically acclaimed and fan-favorite game was showcased at Tokyo Game Show this year with a dramatic trailer that showcased the…
With September 2022’s Community Day behind us, Niantic was ready this week to announce various details about Pokémon GO’s October 2022 Community Day. While we knew the date just before the Season of Light began, we didn’t know which Pokémon would spotlight, the exclusive move its evolved form would learn,…
Despite a relatively close release date, there’s much we don’t know about Fire Emblem Engage, the next game in the illustrious tactical RPG series. But while we continue to look for details beyond the initial premise of summoning old FE heroes and the strikingly… striking look of the protagonists, we…
