Just last September, Splatoon 3 celebrated its two-year anniversary in a spectacular sendoff with the Grand Festival. This celebration also marked the effective ending of the game, with new monthly Splatfest themes coming to a close. While the new content has slowed down, it hasn’t stopped entirely, as the seasonal…
For older Nintendo fans, Space World 2000 is one of the most pivotal moments in the company’s history. The event where Nintendo not only unveiled the GameCube to the public but showcased Super Mario 128 and some ridiculously high-quality 3D renders for a Legend of Zelda prototype, Space World 2000…
Across Nintendo’s vast reach, Mario has quite a few unique games under his belt. While most people tend to focus on the main series entries, there’s many games that fly under the radar for one reason or another. One such oft-forgotten title is Super Mario Run. This mobile-exclusive platformer doesn’t…
The Pokémon Company is currently holding a showcase of the Pokémon World Ecological Society and as part of the show it’s revealed an all new Diglett form from the Paldea region… Or is it? As Serebii.net reports, the Ecological Society concludes that it’s a new Pokémon altogether. We’ll just have…
Over the month of September Nintendo has been updating its Switch Online selection of icon elements with a variety of classic NES sprites and hardware images. With October fast approaching, the fourth, and presumably final, wave has landed. The games featured this time are Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Excitebike, and…
Back in June Capcom Fighting Collection released, bringing a bunch of classic arcade brawlers, and one puzzle game, to Switch. We thought it was quite fun in our review, and now it’s been given a major update! While there aren’t any huge additions, a lot of small tweaks have been…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before — a cozy, wholesome simulator game where you get off a train and live in a town full of cute cartoon animal people. Okay, maybe not the most original premise in the world, but Hokko Life from Team 17 fleshes out the…
It was a sad state of affairs as earlier this year it was announced that Dragalia Lost, the 2018 Nintendo/Cygames mobile action RPG, would be ending service. The game hosted its final update in July of this year, and it was announced last month it would be shutting down at…
He’s large, in charge, and has the heft of a barge (rhymes are hard, okay) — King Dedede is the latest First 4 Figures Resin statue up for pre-order, specifically in two incarnations: his usual hammer-wielding persona and his more pro-wrestling-inspired Masked Dedede look. He strikes the same hefted pose…
She’s the mightiest bounty hunter the galaxy has known — and on this mission, it’s personal (actually, it’s been personal on a lot of her missions when you stop and think about it). Samus Aran has received yet another figma from Good Smile based on her initial suit in Metroid…
The long-awaited The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero has finally gotten an official English release over a decade on from its original 2010 Japanese launch, with the game arriving on Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC from today. Set in the Crossbell region, the game follows a different cast of…
In recent years the publisher eastasiasoft has been making an effort to release a number of games outside of its titular region, with both the Xuan-Yuan Sword and Sword and Fairy RPG series in particular standing out. Today, the company made a batch of announcements for Switch ports, including two…
Healthy news on the squiddy sales front — Splatoon 3, the big Nintendo release of the month, is still going strong in the UK, where for the third week in a row it’s been the top selling boxed retail game. This is a sign of presumed longevity for the title,…
We’re about a month off from the release of Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, which mean it’s time for the companies involved to focus on what really matters (to them): merchandising. As one might imagine for a game so heavily focused upon the eponymous mascots, the merchandise in question…
Fans of Oxenfree — the 2016 teenage time loop mystery that won widespread acclaim and a devoted following — have been patiently waiting for the sequel, Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, originally announced in 2021 to be releasing this year (that is, 2022). Well, it looks like we’ll have to wait…
