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…
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,…
Talk about repressed memories coming back to me suddenly, but anyone who was a kid during the N64’s lifespan will likely remember the brash commercials Nintendo aired. One of the more obscure was for the 1998 classic Banjo-Kazooie. A brief 30-second ad had some men camping in the forest and…
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Well, in that case, Nintendo is gonna be raking in the cash for the upcoming Pikmin 4, because one intrepid fan has paid for the greatest advertisement of all: a 15-second advert for the game upon a Times Square billboard featuring…
Build-a-Bear Workshop’s long, illustrious lineup of Pokémon plushies makes its first foray into Paldea: the grass-type starter Pokémon from Scarlet & Violet, Sprigatito, is now available for order online. The bundle includes the grassy cat alongside the usual sleeper and cape, though unlike most other online Pokémon-BAB bundles…
If you were active on video game forums in the mid-2000’s you might remember fans raving about the Game Boy Advance RPG Riviera: The Promised Land. A blend of anime aesthetics, dating sim elements, and turn-based combat, it struck a chord with quite a few players. It may be time…
Square Enix has released a bunch of different projects and merchandise for Final Fantasy’s 35th Anniversary but this latest video is something special. While on the surface it might look like a simple interview, some big names have attended. These include series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, original graphic and UI designer…
Microsoft’s ongoing quest to acquire Activision-Blizzard has netted a major victory – in its longstanding fight with the Federal Trade Commission (which sought to block Microsoft’s deal due to concerns about open competition among cloud gaming, subscription services, and consoles), a U.S. Federal Judge has ruled on the side of…
Fans of games (or anything) love drawing comparisons – when you’ve got one critically acclaimed massive open-world game you’re undoubtedly gonna hear about another one. So it’s only natural that people would mention The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and last year’s Elden Ring in the same breath….
Another Nintendo-themed Kung Fu Tea collaboration is in the works! This time it’s all about the latest installment in the Pikmin franchise – Pikmin 4. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kung Fu Tea (@kungfuteausa) Teased on social media yesterday, the Kung Fu Tea x…
Good news for the workers of Sega of America – the developers of the company have officially unionized as the Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS), the Local 9510 of the Communication Workers of America. The union election was won 91-26, and the 200+ member union is now the biggest…
Later this year RPG fans will finally be able to play official localisations of the remaining Rhapsody games with Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles bringing together the second and third entries for the first time in English. NIS America has shared a fresh trailer for the collection, specifically spotlighting the third…
During the recent Nintendo Direct we got our first look at an all-new entry in the Dragon Quest Monsters series, subtitled The Dark Prince. Now, an official Square Enix blog post has given us a lot more details regarding the game, and we’ll cover a few of the essentials here….
People like figurines of pretty girls. Some may act agog at the concept, but sometimes we need an emotional support anime girl to get us through the day, y’know? (Disclaimer: I have Lyn and Melia figures at my desk as I type this). But a few folks take it further…
One of the greatest highlights of the Super Mario Bros. Movie was Peaches, a heartrending ballad from Jack Black’s Bowser that revealed the innermost romantic turmoils of the King of the Koopas. An immediate hit both in and out of the context of the movie, the song has now reached…
