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…
Splatoon 3 is finally here! Now that Inklings and Octolings can make the trek to The Splatlands, grab a catalog from Hotlantis, and jump into online matches and/or Salmon Run shifts, it’s gonna be quite busy in Splatsville. Of course, we can’t forget about the game’s companion app via the…
Today marks the beginning of the D23 Expo, with plenty of news regarding Disney and its many, many IP expected to be shared over the weekend. One of the earliest streams is focusing on video games, featuring “announcements, trailers, and reveals for new and upcoming games from Marvel Games, Disney,…
Earlier this week Sega shared a snippet of Sonic Frontiers’ ending theme from the Japanese group ONE OK ROCK. It turns out that wasns’t all the game has to offer, as the game’s main theme has also been revealed. Composed and arranged by the series’ regular Tomoya Ohtani with vocals…
The release of Splatoon 3 is imminent, which means that Nintendo has released the second half of their Ask the Developers interview with some of the masterminds behind the entire squidkid (and octokid!) franchise. While the full round of interviews offered some reasonably interesting tidbits about the test demo lobby,…
Community Day dates for Pokémon GO’s Season of Light were announced right before the game’s new season started. As for which Pokémon would be featured during each one (and a special Classic Community Day planned in November), they were all a mystery. Yesterday, however, Niantic announced the Pokémon starring in…
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 came out at the end of July, and it’s been a huge success both critically and commercially — fans take to websites like Twitter every day to post fanart, memes, and analysis while showing a deep love for the world and characters. It’s enough to touch the…
Good Smile Company has been making Fire Emblem scale figures for a short while, releasing gorgeous figures of Lyn, Ike, Marth, and Byleth since last year (though Byleth has yet to release). I have Lyn and Ike on my desk as I type; they’re absolutely splendid. And now GSC has…
While it’s easy to point to graphical fidelity being a big part of why major third party PlayStation and Xbox games don’t come to Switch, a major issue for a lot of developers is the more limited storage space, both on the system itself and its compatible physical cartridges. Usually…
Last year’s Tokyo Game Show was online and Square Enix Music brought a variety of musicians to the forefront with some live renditions of classic video game music in different styles. A year later, the division’s official YouTube channel has shared archived uploads of the event with both Jazz and…
Few video game cover poses are as iconic as the one adorning the cover of Sonic Adventure, with the titular hedgehog’s rubber-hose limbs striking a dynamic stance that perfectly fit the square Dreamcast case. It’s been referenced multiple times since, from appearing in the second Sonic movie to being a…
In honor of Splatoon 3’s upcoming release this Friday, a new volume of Nintendo’s Ask the Developer has been published (and localized into English). Split into four parts, Part 1 and Part 2 have been released today. In them, Hisashi Nogami (producer of the Splatoon series), Seita Inoue (one of Splatoon 3’s directors…
The Tubbz collection of vinyl duck versions of popular characters is still going strong, naturally, and Sega has just announced the next two Sonic the Hedgehog characters to get transformed into quack-tastic collectibles. Both Shadow the Hedgehog and Amy Rose will be turning into Tubbz, with the former holding a…
