Here we go! Let’s take a look at the nominees for the 2024 Game Awards. While Nintendo doesn’t have an entry in the Game of the Year category this year, it currently holds three out of five nominees for Best Family Game, where the company has historically been the favorite…
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…
One of the most common talking points among video game circles is often the music that accompanies them. Yet for every award-winning soundtrack, there’s a handful of tracks that live on for more amusing reasons. Perhaps the most well-known song of this caliber is the notorious “DK Rap” from Donkey…
Few games are more cult classic this point than Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the DS mystery adventure game by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi. Despite a huge amount of love from basically everyone who’s ever played it, the game has lied dormant since its release year of 2010 — until…
Hatsune Miku. Pop idol. Synth software. Leek spinner (okay, it’s technically a green onion). The world is hers, and we’re all just living in it. And while her holy visage has been sold in countless forms, whether in Racing, Snow, or Sakura form, this might be her most divine appearance…
Pokémon has done many a collaboration with Build-A-Bear Workshop at this point, with plush Pokés ranging from Pikachu to Eevee to Gengar. But there has been a slight deficiency in all this — I mean, it’s Build-A-Bear. Not Build-A-Mouse or Build-A-Lizard or whatever. Fortunately, they’re rectifying this most egregious mistake,…
Most Yooka-Laylee fans will know that the series is a spiritual successor to Rare’s classic collectathon platforming series, Banjo-Kazooie, with Yooka developer Playtonic even formed by ex-Rare staffers. According to ex-Playtonic Games writer Andy Robinson, however, the connection between the two series was, at some point, going to be more…
You know, everybody always talks about how as soon as Halloween ends they roll out the Christmas (or broader “holiday”) decorations immediately instead of, like, just chilling in November and getting people amped up for Thanksgiving. And there are multiple reasons for that — Christmas is a global holiday while…
TYPE-MOON is perhaps best known these days for the Fate series but it has a variety of other visual novels in its back catalogue. One of those, Witch on the Holy Night, is heading to Switch next month but if you’re intrigued you can check out a demo now. Witch…
The simplicity and appeal of Witch Beam’s Unpacking is something I’m always happy to discuss. There’s an inherent zen to its pixels and pleasantries, and though it’s a brief experience as a whole, it’s one that’s worth revisiting every now and then. One such occasion would be the game’s one…
Forever Entertainment will soon be releasing a remake of the original Front Mission, first released for the Super Famicom way back in 1995. You might not have expected to be quite this soon, though, with the game slated to launch on November 30th! The tactical RPG, originally published by Squaresoft,…
Sonic the Hedgehog as a series has almost never disappointed when it comes to music. Almost. One of the longest running contributors to that legacy has been Tomoya Ohtani, dating all the way back to Sonic Adventure 2’s legendary “Pumpkin Hill” track, among others. As lead composer of the fast-approaching…
In less than two years, Capcom’s latest entry in the flagship series has made an impressive mark on the company’s portfolio. New all-time sales numbers (as of September 30th, 2022) show that Rise has passed 11.2 million copies sold, making it Capcom’s third best-selling game of all time. …
The It’s Kirby Time stories have been a delight, letting the pink puffball’s wholesomeness shine through in illustrated mini-narratives. This newest one, called Together With Kirby, shows what happens when a new friend pops up!… and what happens when it’s time to say goodbye. As per usual there…
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope has been a recent favorite for Nintendo Switch owners, bringing back the strategic crossover in a fantastic way. There’s plenty of game to enjoy already, but fans eager for more have just gotten their best peek at the future of the game. More specifically,…
