Mario Kart World, the brand-new entry in the Mario Kart series and the first new console title in a decade, is racing its way onto Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5th, 2025 as one of the console’s launch titles. We’ve learned a lot about the new game ever since it…
With the Switch 2 dominating headlines this month, you’d think Nintendo might be ready to leave the original Switch in the past. Thankfully, that isn’t the case, and Switch Online subscribers will be able to play a trio of “new” classic titles. Available starting today, April 11th, 2025, the Sega…
I love to review games that are a perfect fit for the console I’m playing them on, as if they were made with the console in mind. Rift of The NecroDancer is one such game. I first saw it revealed as a Nintendo Switch release, so I have always thought…
Heads up Splatoon fans, a new map is being added to the rotation tonight! Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. PST, Splatoon players will have the chance to play the new Flounder Heights map that features a large apartment complex right in the middle of the battlefield. Try and get to…
Puzzle fans who’ve been jonesing for a new fix can rest easy, as Nintendo announced today that Picross 3D 2, a sequel to the 2010 DS game Picross 3D, is coming to the 3DS in Japan. The latest entry in Nintendo’s long-running series of Picross games retains the classic gameplay…
Ever since the release of the New 3DS in late 2014 for Japan and Europe, and then in early 2015 in North America, there’s been a steady stream of people discussing why the standard version of the system made it to every region but North America. Fans of the handheld…
According to Nintendo of America on Twitter, Splatoon’s next Splatfest is a bit of a first for the popular Nintendo game. This fourth Splatfest is Transformers based. For the first time ever, Nintendo is “sponsoring” the event by partnering up with another company. Hasbro is joining in on the fun…
After a three week hiatus, Amiibo Jason and Lauren are back and better than ever in Episode 18 of the Amiibo Newscast! In this latest episode, they tackle a plethora of amiibo related topics, which include Animal Crossing amiibo cards, recent amiibo releases like Dark Pit and the Retro 3-Pack,…
Once again, join Amiibo Jason and Happily Candied from Amiibo News as they open eight more booster packs from the Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer amiibo card series. As an added bonus, they take a look at the Japanese exclusive Isabelle variant card only found in a magazine imported directly…
If you’re a Wii U owner, and for some unfathomable reason have yet to try out Splatoon, keep reading. This weekend, Nintendo will be holding Summer Splatdown, the first post-release Testfire of its inky shooter. Would-be inklings can download the Splatoon Testfire software now on the Wii U eShop in…
It may be hard to believe, but it’s only been a mere nine months since Nintendo released its first amiibo figures. Of course, since that fateful day when amiibo were fully stocked on store shelves across the country and there was no such thing as “The Holy Trinity” yet, the…
Rainmaker, Splatoon’s long-awaited third ranked mode, is finally coming to the game tomorrow night. Like Tower Control, the objective in Rainmaker is to escort something from the center of the map to a point near the opposing team’s base. Instead of an on-rails tower, though, the object in question is…
Super Mario Maker is now only a few weeks from release. Soon a community of (hopefully) millions of players from around the world will be cranking out brand new Mario levels on a daily basis. The latent game developer in each of us will be able to use the game’s…
You heard it right, folks! Walmart has officially listed Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer amiibo booster card packs on its site– and for just $5.96 per pack. Unlike Japan’s Animal Crossing card packs that contain only three cards, the U.S. packs will contain a whopping six cards. And when…
Hot on the heels of this month’s gargantuan Splatoon update, data miners have found some intriguing new content that appears to be headed to copies of the game sometime in the future. Data miner NWPlayer123, having searched through the bowels of the 2.0.0 update, has found evidence of playable Octolings…
