If there is one thing you can count on Nintendo for, it’s taking an idea and pushing it to its limits. After months of speculation regarding the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2, we got confirmation in its reveal video that the revamped Joy-Con would attach to the console via magnets. Interestingly…
In a bit of a surprise announcement this morning, the Angry Video Game Nerd has unveiled a brand-new game based on his iconic character. Titled “Angry Video Game Nerd 8-Bit,” there is a cool catch with this latest action/platformer: it’s playable on real NES hardware. After having two indie games…
We’re already three weeks into the new year and I have a prediction: Donkey Kong Country Returns HD will be the best Crash Bandicoot game I play in 2025. Now I can picture you turning your head and cocking it to one side in disbelief but hear me out. DK…
Update 3 (Monday, February 13th, 2023 at 11:45 a.m. PT | 2:45 p.m. ET): Another poster was texted out to those who subscribed to the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing phone number/text hotline. Update 2 (Monday, February 13th, 2023 at 9:15 a.m. PT | 12:15 p.m. ET): Additional posters from social…
Not content with being the most expensive first party Switch game to date, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is poised to set another record upon its release: the largest file size of any first-party Nintendo Switch title. Tears of the Kingdom’s Nintendo eShop page lists the game…
This week’s been busy for the Big N! Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom news, Splatoon 3 Expansion Pass details, Pikmin 4 info… It’s been a fun ride, that’s for sure. With the huge Nintendo Direct now past us, it’s time to focus on the here and now — so get…
Ash Ketchum’s time in the Pokémon anime is coming to an end in Japan, and now we have confirmation for when the follow-up series will make its debut in the region. As confirmed in a new clip, the new series will start on April 14th, 2023. It will follow the…
Last year Sega brought us a long-awaited collection of the original Sonic the Hedgehog games, albeit with a few issues, in the form of Sonic Origins. It seems like the company isn’t quite done with the game, though. As Gematsu points out, a “Sonic Origins Plus” has been rated by…
In the slew of announcements from the February 8th Nintendo Direct, one of the most surprising was Birdo’s return as a playable racer in the Mario Kart series. Before word came of Birdo’s inclusion in Wave 4 of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass, the general impression…
The next game from the makers of the Danganronpa series finally has a release date. Shown in the latest Nintendo Direct via a new trailer, Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE will be bringing its stylized take on mystery solving to Switch this June. In it, we see some…
For a small set of people out there, this might’ve been the Nintendo Direct announcement from the February 2023 presentation. You can say that about any game, really, but Capcom’s relatively unsung Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is the only one with a top pomeranian. Missile aside, Ghost Trick…
Sea of Stars, Sabotage Studios’ anticipated followup to The Messenger, feels more real than ever. Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct not only gave us the game’s release date, but dropped a surprise demo onto the eShop as well. This demo spans roughly the first hour of the game, and serves…
Along with the full reveal of its new Magolor Epilogue, Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe’s main draw in the latest Nintendo Direct was the announcement of an eShop demo. Available now, you’ll find both stages and sub games within that can all be enjoyed by up to four players!…
Sega is good at a lot of things, and among them is monkeys. Super Monkey Ball? Sega. The Tetris game with the monkey? Sega. And then there’s the Dreamcast era rhythm game that literally shook things up, Samba de Amigo. Amigo and his band of fellow funky friends haven’t been…
Every puzzle has an answer, and the conundrum of where one Hershel Layton has been for nearly a decade has finally been solved – everybody’s favorite brainteaser busting gentleman of a professor is coming back in Professor Layton and The New World of Steam. Layton last appeared in…
