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,…
During the Pokémon GO’s Season of Max Out (Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024 to Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024), Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokémon were added to the game. This mechanic is part of Pokémon’s Generation VIII (Pokémon Sword and Shield) where Pokémon transform into “giant” versions of themselves or even new larger…
The hot button topic of the Super Mario Bros. Movie teaser has been the same hot button topic surrounding the movie for well over a year: the casting of generic Hollywood everyman Chris Pratt as Mario, a move widely disliked by scores of internet-goers, especially intensified as the general consensus…
Nintendo has historically been relatively good about preventing leaks, but details about The Super Mario Bros. Movie have been oozing out of the internet the past few days – and it’s all because of Mickey D’s. First, a work program revealed what the official renders looked like before the teaser…
For as much skepticism and scorn as certain parts of The Super Mario Bros. Movie casting and performance has gotten (most of the ire falling on the man whose name rhymes with ‘Cis Brat’), the one thing everybody seems to love is Jack Black’s monstrous performance as Bowser, which he’s…
In case you haven’t heard, the next Splatoon 3 Splatfest is a Pokémon collaboration, where players will duke it out to determine whether Grass, Fire, or Water is the best type. This means, of course, that in-game your character will receive a Splatfest Tee for your respective squad — but…
Square Enix is back with another chill piano rendition of a Final Fantasy song for the weekend, this time from the game that started it all! Pianist Yui Morishita is at the keys, delivering a surprisingly upbeat version of Final Fantasy 1’s first dungeon where the Warriors of…
One of the constant rules of thumb in video gaming is that no matter the quality of a Sonic game, the soundtrack is almost certainly going to be fantastic. Sonic Frontiers will hopefully be no different and it seems like Sega is throwing its full weight behind it’s audible delights,…
When it was announced that Splatoon 3 would be having three teams face-off in Splatfests many Nintendo fans were quick to notice how perfect Pokémon would be. After all, we’ve already had a Pokémon Red vs Blue Splatfest, and there are plenty of iconic trifectas in the series, whether it…
It’s almost time to take to the skies as one of the Nintendo 64’s launch games is finally heading to the Nintendo Switch Online’s retro library! Pilotwings 64 was a launch game in Japan, North America, and Europe developed collaboratively between Nintendo EAD and the visual technology group Paradigm Simulation….
Nintendo is here with a Direct focusing entirely on the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie! Check it out below:
Google, in between shutting down projects and generally owning too much power and influence, likes to sneak in little surprises on their website, whether it be in the form of Google doodles or fun bonuses for searching certain terms (here’s a fun, very current one — google “velma”). This one…
Bayonetta 3 releases later this month, which means it’s a perfect time to gear up on promotion for the upcoming action title. PlatinumGames has begun releasing a series of dev diaries on the game with the Umbran Studies blog, the latest entry headed by character designer Mari Shimazaki, who once…
Nobody has ever held to the slogan of “Gotta Catch ‘Em All” quite as steadfastly as this anonymous woman from Hertfordshire, England — her world record collection of Pokémon memorabilia, containing over 20,000 items, is set to be auctioned off on October 18th as one unit. While she’s holding onto…
