Yesterday during a shareholder meeting, EA shareholders voted in favor of a company takeover by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Set to sell to the tune of $55 billion, the deal will now need government approval before it becomes official. Sadly, it seems that approval is a matter of when,…
Rumored over the weekend, it seems that GameStop is ready to confirm that Nintendo has pulled the plug on its Mario Kart World Switch 2 bundle SKU. Announced as a limited time offer before the console’s launch, the bundle was sticking around a lot longer than most people anticipated. If…
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…
Indie publisher Alliance has announced that the action-horror platformer Overwhelm, originally released on PC in June 2018, will be heading to Switch on April 4th, 2019, complete with an exclusive co-op mode. The game is run-based, with one hit kills and three lives per attempt. The game’s unique hook is…
Bandai Namco has been releasing a steady stream of anime-licensed games on the Nintendo Switch ever since the launch window, and now one of the biggest franchises has been given a release date for North America and Europe – Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition. The game is slated…
The Sonic the Hedgehog movie poster was revealed a while back and left fans shocked, confused, and, in some cases, outraged. Well, it’s time for some more confusing emotions regarding our favorite blue hedgehog’s cinematic outing. Some images of the upcoming movie’s style guide have surfaced online (which we’ve taken…
While the Nintendo rumor mill perpetually churns at about mach-5, few have got it to chug along as much as the recent talk of Microsoft bringing their Xbox Game Pass service to Switch. With the highlight of a couple particular games — namely Ori and the Blind Forest and Cuphead…
There are many a Pokémon Center in Japan, but only one holds the DX distinction. With its grand opening held last year on March 14th, Tokyo’s Pokemon Center DX also hosts the Pokémon Cafe and soon will be sharing a special lineup of Pikachu plushies to mark the one year…
If you have any interest in trying out Daemon X Machina before it launches later this year, it looks like this week is your last chance. The Prototype Missions demo is slated to be removed from the Switch eShop on March 11th. The demo launched last month after the Nintendo…
There are a number of anecdotes from Nintendo’s early years in the gaming industry that carry an almost Arthurian quality about them, from the naming inspiration to Mario to how the NES was marketed as a toy rather than a video game system to drive up sales. One of the…
Journalism is never an easy task, as it takes a conscious amount of digging and a fine-tuned sense of perception to detect what’s verifiable and what’s not. But sometimes you just forget to do the proper research, as was the case with La Voz de Michoacán, a newspaper for the…
As Nintendo fans we’re pretty used to the Direct cycle at this point, but every now and then another company gets in on hosting a similar type of event to hold us over ’til the next big Nintendo presentation. Today NIS America announced they’ll be hosting their 2019 Showcase next…
Looking for a place to vacation on spring break? Why don’t you bring your Nintendo Switch along and check out Camp Crystal Lake! Too bad there’s no Friday the 13th on 2019’s calendar… unless you count the horror game ‘Friday the 13th: The Game’ releasing this spring for the Switch….
Campers, if you’ve been adamantly growing those garden event flowers and helping out your friends catch festibees, it’s time you pick up the pace! Yup, that’s right — the second half of Pavé’s Viva Festivale has begun today, meaning you can now plant the new flower type, orange featherblooms. Growing…
The Trine series is something of an indie staple at this point, with Frozenbyte bringing the puzzle-platformer trilogy to seemingly every modern platform. Just a few weeks ago Trine 2 hit the Nintendo Switch, a few months after the original, and now the fourth game has been confirmed for a…
