Never put it past dedicated modding communities to make older consoles run on a wide range of hardware. Once we started to get into 3D consoles, the desire to play older games on newer hardware increased and it was up to fan communities to make that wish a reality. While…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
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…
Update (10/19/21): Check out Greedent’s spotlight trailer! We’re getting closer and closer to Halloween! While plenty of games have announced their Halloween-themed events, Pokémon Unite hasn’t – until today. Get a glimpse of what awaits later this week when Pokémon Unite’s Halloween Festival begins! This…
Breaking news from the NPD sales report for September: people are still buying video games, and companies are still selling them. Who could have seen it coming? Jokes aside, the most notable item of the month is that the PlayStation 5 led in unit sales, snapping a streak by the…
Welcome to this week’s episode of Mii Weekly, a series where we feature headlines, impressions, and an assortment of variety segments all centered around Nintendo! In this episode we cover the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct — including release dates, new features, paid DLC, and much more.
As unbelievably successful as the Super Smash Bros. series is, it always amazes me how many games try to copy its style and fail in unique ways. While there are some successes, like Rivals of Aether, it feels like so many developers struggle to understand what makes Smash so much…
In 2018, FuRyu released Crystar for the PlayStation 4 in Japan and it saw a western release via Spike Chunsoft the following year. In the action RPG, you enter purgatory as a girl called Rei who is searching for her deceased younger sister. Throughout the game you utilize the power…
Next year the MMORPG Dragon Quest X will be getting an Offline remake of sorts for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and PC in Japan. While we’ve seen a couple of trailers for the game, we’ve finally gotten a good look at gameplay courtesy of a Japanese PlayStation stream. There’s a…
The upcoming sequel to the classic arcade action game Pocky & Rocky has been delayed, developer TENGO PROJECT has announced. The gorgeously animated Pocky & Rocky Reshrined was originally slated for a Fall 2021 release but will now come out in Spring 2022. “Various circumstances” were blamed for the delay….
Pikachu has been a mainstay of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade since 2001, with the Pokémon mascot having three balloons over the course of 19 years. To mark the 25th anniversary of the franchise, however, a buddy is coming along for the ride in 2021’s parade. Eevee joins Pikachu…
We caught a glimpse of Vampire Waluigi, the next driver in Mario Kart Tour’s autumnal roadmap, but there was no preparing for the full thing. Behold, our lanky lunatic made immortal – or at least dressing to impress for the Halloween Tour. Between the top hat and the…
Next month is big for Nintendo fans in a lot of ways. New Animal Crossing update, Pokémon Diamond & Pearl remakes, Shin Megami Tensei V… But it’s easy to forget that amongst all of that we have some new hardware on the horizon, namely Game & Watch: The Legend of…
Among all the features coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons on November 5th are a dozen new tracks from the islands’ top musical talent – K.K. Slider! These new songs will all be requestable once the major free content update arrives, and like all other K.K. songs can be added…
Update (10/21/21): Nintendo released Ver. 1.0.1 of Metroid Dread yesterday, which included a fix for the problem players experienced with the game crashing near the end of the journey. Here are the full 1.01. patch notes: Fixed an issue where, if a map marker is placed on a specific…
