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…
Super Sonic, the powered-up form of Sonic debuting all the way back on the Genesis’ Sonic the Hedgehog 2, has taken on two different kinds of utility over the years — in early games he was a bonus for collecting all the chaos emeralds, a reward for hard work that…
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. And sometimes, people alter history so that the moe anime girls, skeletal demons, and time travel are scrubbed from the records. Fortunately, Samurai Maiden from D3PUBLISHER is here to finally set the record straight with a…
For those who have been out of the Nintendo-focused loop, Bandai Namco revealed the brand-new Tekken 8 last week during Sony’s State of Play, full of hyperrealistic graphics, cool combos, and of course Mishimas battling each other to the death. And while the exquisitely rendered rain particles dripping off the…
It took years and years of speculation, but last week, Nintendo finally revealed the subtitle for the next Zelda game, Tears of the Kingdom, thereby making it illegal for anybody to call it “BOTW2” or “the Breath of the Wild Sequel” from now on. (Just try it and watch a…
Last week saw the reveal of Octopath Traveler II as part of the latest Nintendo Direct and over the weekend, at Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix played a brief snippet of the game. Kicking off at the 25:40 minute mark of the video below, we see fast travel, a wide…
As much as Dragon Ball fandom is known for power level discussion and “who would win” arguments and hyping up their favorite buff man (Piccolo stan here), the series is also full of jobbers. From the boisterous Hercule/Mr. Satan to… arguably half its main cast. (Yamcha has it rough, what…
Super Rare Games’ next physical release has been announced! It’s time to defy Lady Luck in the roguelike deck-builder, Dicey Dungeons. Released on the Nintendo Switch in 2020, this month it’s escaping it’s digital-only fate thanks to a 5,000 physical copy run from Limited Run Games. Luck won’t save…
This is it! We’re down to the last Mystery Gift code to add Ash’s team to Pokémon Sword and Shield. The last Pokémon to be distributed is none other than Ash’s Lucario! To add Ash’s Lucario to your copies of Pokémon Sword and Shield, head on over to the game’s…
Masahiro Sakurai’s YouTube channel (where he explains various concepts and minutiae of developing and understanding games) is already popping off, with over 700,000 subs and hundreds of thousands of views per video. And the high-quality, laconic style, easily accessible to onlookers, has already found a place among more established institutions…
Splatoon 3 got its first patch before the game was even officially out, and now we’ve got the first post-launch update. While not a ton has been added, much has been tweaked to change the gaming experience — many of which involve Splatfests, known communication errors, Salmon Run, multiplayer mode,…
Another week, another slate of Nintendo Switch Online icons to gussy up your profile. It’s already been a week since the release of Splatoon 3, presumably meaning some of you have already unlocked all weapons and achieved level three billion. But regardless of whether you’ve played 50 minutes or fifty…
SaGa fans haven’t been left out this Tokyo Game Show season, especially with a new remaster on the horizon! As part of the event, Square Enix has shared two new trailers for Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered focusing on the game’s cast of characters and the gameplay. In the first…
