Just last September, Splatoon 3 celebrated its two-year anniversary in a spectacular sendoff with the Grand Festival. This celebration also marked the effective ending of the game, with new monthly Splatfest themes coming to a close. While the new content has slowed down, it hasn’t stopped entirely, as the seasonal…
For older Nintendo fans, Space World 2000 is one of the most pivotal moments in the company’s history. The event where Nintendo not only unveiled the GameCube to the public but showcased Super Mario 128 and some ridiculously high-quality 3D renders for a Legend of Zelda prototype, Space World 2000…
Across Nintendo’s vast reach, Mario has quite a few unique games under his belt. While most people tend to focus on the main series entries, there’s many games that fly under the radar for one reason or another. One such oft-forgotten title is Super Mario Run. This mobile-exclusive platformer doesn’t…
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) has gone down in infamy, though plenty of the elements it introduced have stuck around. The time-travelling Silver the Hedgehog makes regular appearances, Crisis City is one of the stages in Sonic Generations, and even Mephiles continues to appear in the mobile games and merchandise. One…
The final episode of the Pokémon anime starring Ash and Pikachu has aired in Japan, but there’s a new series on the horizon… Quite literally, it turns out. The Pokémon Company has confirmed that the next series’ English title is Pokémon Horizons and it’ll arrive in 2023 “and beyond” according…
Announced during this year’s MARIO Day celebrations, cosmetics company Lush would be teaming up with Nintendo and Illumination to craft a limited collection of soaps, shower gels, and more inspired by The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Officially, the collection launches in stores on Friday, March 24th, but sales would launch…
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is imminent, and that means one thing – merchandise! Merchandise! Merchandise! Large toy-making corporation Jakks Pacific is set to release a whole lineup of toys for the movie, and is previewing their lineup at WonderCon in Anaheim, CA tomorrow, March 24th, at their panel from…
With the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie less than two weeks, the collaboration between one of the biggest video game companies in the world and one of the most prominent current animation studios around is getting a promotional boost from one of the absolute most powerful corporations on…
This morning SEGA announced an upgrade to last year’s remastered collection of classic Sonic the Hedgehog games, Sonic Origins. This upgraded version, titled Sonic Origins Plus, was rated in South Korea last month, though no details were known outside of the name at the time. The wraps are fully off…
With 2022 now firmly in the rearview mirror, Metacritic has put out its yearly publisher rankings – an “objective” metric as to how well each publisher did in terms of critical acclaim last year. Nintendo did pretty alright for itself, scoring a #12 on the ranking – narrowly missing the…
If you’ve long since exhausted what you can do with your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island, it might be time to become mayor of this new game from Prideful Sloth, the studio behind Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles and Grow: Song of the Evertree. Go-Go Town! styles itself as a…
Across 2021 and 2022, Square Enix released the unusual RPG series Voice of Cards on Switch, PC, and PlayStation 4. Put together by several veterans of the Drakengard and Nier series, including director Yoko Taro, they’re definitely unique, and if you’ve been waiting to dive into their odd tabletop gameplay…
Of Kingdom Hearts’ many illustrious qualities, one of its most timeless is its music – Yoko Shimomura and co.’s scores are legendary for their heart-wrenching bombast, and now you can obtain some of that masterful music for yourself with the series’ 20th Anniversary Vinyl Box Set, available for pre-order now:…
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon just released last week, to largely positive if unexceptional reviews. It wasn’t long ago that series creator Hideki Kamiya professed that he wants to series to continue past Origins into many many more entries, but in a new interview from Famitsu (translated courtesy…
I think it’s safe to say that we could all use a vacation. If Magic Design Studios is to be believed, that includes Death himself as well, and I can’t blame them. The poor reaper has set aside his scythe and cloak for a business suit and rubber stamp,losing touch…
