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…
The Toy Foundation’s Toy of the Year Awards is back for a second time this year. Thanks to pivoting to an autumn schedule, 2022 is double dipping with a February 2022 TOTY Awards and a September 2022 TOTY Awards. The September 2022 edition took place this week and The Pokémon…
Super Mario Sunshine is less the black sheep of 3D Mario and more the odd duck, which is really saying something in a series where games’ standout mechanics have included flying through space and throwing your hat onto enemies to possess their mortal flesh. The mess-cleaning, water-focused game has some…
Soon, Pokémon GO’s Test Your Mettle event will be over and there will be a bit of a break with events happening in-game. Still, that’s not stopping Niantic from releasing details of the next Pokémon GO event – the Fashion Week event! Beginning on Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 at 10…
Ah, August. The season of football starts. I think. Do I look like someone who knows things about sports? I just watch Jon Bois videos and perennially wait for the Seattle Mariners to break my heart. Okay, hold on let me fact-check myself. …It turns out professional American football starts…
When it was announced a few weeks back that Splatoon 3 would be getting its very own line of amiibo, fans of the little figures, myself included, were eager to get our hands on them as soon as possible. While Splatoon 1 and 2 both launched with a trio of…
Last year, game developer Falcom and Tatsunoko Production announced a team-up for an anime based on its The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series. We’ve finally got that project’s first trailer and some initial details! Subtitled “Northern War”, the anime will take place concurrently with the…
We’re less than a month off from Yoko Taro’s existential pain fest and showcase of attractive android women. NieR: Automata makes its way to the Nintendo Switch, and naturally, the critically acclaimed and fan-favorite game was showcased at Tokyo Game Show this year with a dramatic trailer that showcased the…
With September 2022’s Community Day behind us, Niantic was ready this week to announce various details about Pokémon GO’s October 2022 Community Day. While we knew the date just before the Season of Light began, we didn’t know which Pokémon would spotlight, the exclusive move its evolved form would learn,…
Despite a relatively close release date, there’s much we don’t know about Fire Emblem Engage, the next game in the illustrious tactical RPG series. But while we continue to look for details beyond the initial premise of summoning old FE heroes and the strikingly… striking look of the protagonists, we…
Sonic Prime will be hitting Netflix this winter, bringing more adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog to the small screen. A new teaser has dropped that reveals two familiar faces – Shadow the Hedgehog and Doctor Eggman! Big the Cat also makes another brief cameo. Check it out below: …
Just last month Bitwave Games surprised us all with the reveal of a re-release for the extremely rare Sunsoft NES platformer Gimmick! Turns out that wasn’t the only love the cult classic is getting this year, either. Ship to Shore PhonoCo. has announced that Gimmick! will be their next video…
As we approach the closure of the Wii U and 3DS’s online functionalities, Nintendo has announced the next wave of structural changes, including one which will affect current log-ins as well. For starters, after October 25th, 2022, you won’t be able to log into your Nintendo Account with a linked…
