As I’m sure anyone with a pulse can tell you, Fortnite is pretty massive. It’s so massive, in fact, that we’ve seen Epic Games’ battle royale title practically become a melting pot of every creative IP of the last 100 years. Players can don skins with characters from John Wick,…
The Rediscover GO update continues with Rediscover Your World and Residcover Kanto. For Rediscover Your World, visual updates have been added to Pokémon GO. That means biomes have clear, visual cues and backgrounds (i.e.: sandy beaches for the beach biome). To celebrate the change, Rediscover Kanto is an event featuring…
In a bit of a surprise announcement this morning, Private Division has revealed a new trailer for Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game. The title is a bit of a mouthful, but essentially, this is a brand new single-player life simulation game set within the Middle-earth…
Independent developer Adrian Lazar has teamed up with publisher Team17 to bring Planet Alpha to the Nintendo Switch and other platforms later this year. The atmospheric platform adventure game has been in development for over four years now and it seems to borrow heavily from an early science fiction aesthetic,…
The Switch Parental Controls app — allowing users to access Parental Controls for their console — has been updated to v1.5 on iOS (and presumably soon to Android). The update comes with a host of new features, including the ability to whitelist titles from Parental Controls, the ability to lock…
Every year, employees at Nintendo receive a company handbook. While this is provided to mainly to discuss a company’s history, code of conduct, other legal information (and more), Nintendo has always put a spin on its book. Beautifully designed, the bound script showcases concept artwork, product photos, and more….
Long-time Nintendo supporter Level-5 will soon be bringing two of its big franchises to the Switch. First up is The Snack World: Trejarers Gold, a port of the Japan-exclusive 3DS game that has a slight toys-to-life component. Check out the HD wide-screen make-over the game received in the trailer below:…
March 10th. Just a normal day, right? Thanks to being somewhat punny and quick-witted, when written as Mar. 10th it looks like Mario. This year Nintendo is celebrating in a variety of ways, so let’s see how you can celebrate Mario Day this year! MY NINTENDO REWARDS Ah yes, My…
Today’s Nintendo Direct shed light on a lot of new mechanics coming to Mario Tennis Aces. Personally, the most exciting part about Aces is that the single player campaign is returning. Not much was revealed about the story mode in the Direct, but it looks like it will shake up…
It’s a busy weekend, squid-kids! Rail riding off the high that was yesterday’s bombshell of a Nintendo Direct, we have a Splatfest kicking off tonight and a new weapon to add at Ammon Knights! Continuing on the neo trend, the Neo Sploosh-o-matic is here! There’s more than just a slight…
Nintendo and Google have partnered up to offer fans a new way to celebrate March 10th, aka Mario Day (Mar10? Get it?). As VentureBeat reports, after updating your Google Maps app you will be able to replace the generic blue arrow used during navigation with Mario in his kart. This…
The bad news for fans of certain big chain toy stores fronted by giraffes keeps rolling in. After filing for bankruptcy and taking on a $3.1 billion loan to keep stores open during corporate restructuring, anonymous insiders have told Fortune that the company’s outlook has become grim in the past…
Yesterday’s Direct ended with an announcement we were all waiting for – Super Smash Bros. for Switch. We know surprisingly little about it, however, with the only development credit being given towards Nintendo and HAL Laboratory for the “Original Game”, likely calling back to the Nintendo 64 original rather than…
While the Nintendo Switch supports several major game development platforms already, from Unreal Engine 4 to Unity, it has been missing out on games from the more accessible GameMaker Studio. Thankfully, that’ll be changing this summer. Coinciding with the announcement of Undertale yesterday, which was built using GameMaker, YoYo Games…
Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct opened with the announcement of WarioWare Gold, a Rhythm Heaven Megamix-style collection of microgames old and new. While we knew several characters would be getting updated designs, a piece of info that wasn’t really highlighted in the western Directs appears on the press site: “for the first…
