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…
Just after Sonic Superstars was announced earlier this week we got the news that subscribers to the associated newsletter would eventually receive a free DLC code for another outfit for Amy Rose based on her modern appearance. Now, thanks to an update on the official site, we know what it’ll…
For North American Fire Emblem fans, the Blazing Blade no doubt carries a great deal of significance. As our first localized title in the series, so much of the western perspective of Fire Emblem (at least until Awakening) came courtesy of Eliwood, Lyn, and Hector’s campaign. Now that game is…
The Super Mario Bros. Movie made as a collab between Illumination and Nintendo made, proverbially speaking all of the money ($1.3 billion, the second highest grossing animated film ever made), so it’s only natural that people are wondering what’s next. Along with a sequel in early production, a recent rumor…
One of the things Sonic fans are most persnickety about is game physics. It may seem nitpicky to outsiders, but how the Blue Blur controls and runs is extremely important to how the game feels to play. And in what will be a sigh of relief to many, Sonic Mania…
Calculators are deceptively simple devices, built from base blocks of binary sequences in 0s and 1s. They look complicated at the basest levels, but really it’s just about determining whether certain functions are a “yes” or “no.” And user c7fab has built a version of a calculator using The Legend…
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals releases in about a month’s time, and the game’s director Sean Krankel sat down with Nintendo Everything to discuss coming back to the series after several years away, the game’s structure, and more. Developed over the course of three plus years, Oxenfree II takes place in…
In what appears to be a big accident, Square Enix has uploaded a logo for Star Ocean: The Second Story R via its official support website, though it’s already been removed. As reported and shared by RPGSite, the logo follows in the footsteps of 2019’s Star Ocean: The First Departure…
The Sonic the Hedgehog movie universe is set to expand later this year with the release of a Knuckles television series via Paramount+. It’s set to focus on Knuckles as he trains Green Hills’ Deputy Sheriff, Wade Whipple, on the ways of an echnidna warrior. It was already announced that…
If you’ve been holding off on buying some heavy hitters on your Nintendo Switch then now might be the time as the Hyper Max Sale is giving a bunch of games a digital discount via the eShop. Don’t let the very ’80s branding fool you – there are plenty of…
In mid-June 2017, Nintendo dropped a bombshell reveal that they were developing Metroid Prime 4 with the help of Bandai Namco. A couple years later, they announced that development had to be restarted, now handing the reigns over to Retro Studios, who developed the original trilogy back in the naughts….
Dead Cells is a massively successful indie game, recently crossing the ten million copies milestone – and soon, it will receive an honor very few independent titles have received: an animated adaptation. Made by Bobbypills, the same studio that animated the game’s trailers, the series is set to…
Building a Zonai vehicle in Tears of the Kingdom isn’t too difficult – just slap four wheels on a plank of wood (steering wheel optional) and have at it. But while functional, this arrangement isn’t particularly aesthetically pleasing – but with the right creativity, you can have a decked out…
