The beat-em-up genre tends to stay in its lane. Its tried-and-true arcade format has rarely been deviated from or added onto. There have been some recent attempts at modernizing the genre such as Xbox Game Studios’ live service brawler Towerborne or the open nature of WayForward’s River City Girls games….
If you can believe it, a second Animal Crossing-like knock-off game has appeared on the PlayStation store recently. Dubbed “Anime Village Online,” the sole screenshot available for the game looks not only heavily inspired by Animal Crossing, but almost like an HD mod for New Horizons. Spotted by Redditor YellowFlower69,…
Switch Online subscribers are in for a treat this month. As announced by Nintendo last night, the Super Nintendo App is going to receive a trio of new games for October 2025. One of those is the western debut of Mario & Wario, the 1993 puzzle game developed by Game…
Now that the Switch 2 is finally out and Nintendo can openly talk about new projects, it seems inevitable that we’ll start to hear about Directs every few months. In the latest rumor from Nate the Hate, it has been stated that Nintendo is planning a Direct stream for July…
With Donkey Kong Bananza set to release this week, it was pretty inevitable that someone would get their hands on an early copy of the game. Since the Nintendo Switch 2 title actually has a full physical release instead of some ludicrous “game-key card” doohickey, that means some lucky few…
That’s a wrap, all you squid kids and Octolings! Hope you had fun out there this weekend inking up a storm during this year’s Summer Nights Splatfest because the event has (sadly) come to a close. Team Sea brought home the trophy without too much trouble from either of its…
Yesterday on voice actor Erica Schroeder’s Instagram page, it was revealed that prolific Meowth voice actor James Carter Cathcart had passed away from throat cancer at the age of 71. While he may not be an immediately recognizable name, fans of a certain age will be intimately familiar with his…
While Nintendo will forever be engaged in the battle against piracy, it seems the company has just gotten a big helping hand from the FBI of all organizations. Yesterday, it was reported by Kotaku that the FBI has taken down one of the largest Switch piracy sites as part of…
While Hitman: World of Assassination is a pretty decent Nintendo Switch 2 port, all things considered, it hasn’t been without its fair share of criticisms. Most of the complaints focus on the performance of the game, which can be a bit shaky when stacked against the title on other platforms….
We’re now halfway through Pokémon’s Year of Eevee celebration, and it’s fair to say that it has more than lived up to the expectations so far. There’s been a wide array of new merchandise, life-size plushies, and one of the most popular TCG sets of the year, Prismatic Evolutions. Despite…
The team behind upcoming Switch 2 platformer Donkey Kong Bananza has explained its decision to make its hero’s sidekick Pauline 13 years old – when the character has mostly been portrayed as an adult woman in previous games. In an interview with IGN, Director Kazuya Takahashi wanted to present the…
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 is currently available via “early access” on all platforms and while we’ll have a review for the Nintendo Switch 2 version soon, it seems that direct comparison with the Switch 1 iteration offers some noticeable improvements over the last-gen outing. It should be pretty obvious…
This morning, The Pokémon Company International has announced that the upcoming “Mega Evolution” expansion set for the Pokémon Trading Card Game will be launching on September 26th, 2025, at select retail outlets. The first expansion for the Mega Evolution series, these new cards will see the return of Mega Evolved…
Nintendo has revealed that it will be discontinuing its rather convenient “Game Voucher” program for the Switch eShop on January 30th, 2026. While there is no stated reason for why this is happening, Switch owners who primarily purchase titles from the eShop will have until 11:59 p.m. PT on the…
Considering how long the Nintendo Switch 1 generation lasted, it should be no surprise to learn that the soon to be released Donkey Kong Bananza originally started off as an original Switch game. In a new interview with IGN, DKB producer Kenta Motokura confirmed as much and gave some insight…
