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…
New indie games are always worth celebrating, especially when they mix and match so many flavors together. That looks to be the case with Lucid, an upcoming action-platformer/Metroidvania from Matte Black Studio and Apogee Entertainment that “embraces the flow-state fun of genre giants like Celeste while writing a love letter…
It’s only (already?) been a year since Deltarune: Chapter 2 released to the world in a glorious explosion of Berdley.pngs and Queen laughter. And considering there was a three year gap between the release of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, it’s unlikely that anybody really expected Chapter 3 (or beyond)…
It’s another calendar month, so you know what that means — new icons for Nintendo Switch Online members! Bust out the champagne and party favors. September brings the usual changeover for Animal Crossing: New Horizons icons, featuring characters with September birthdays such as Marshall and Apple. For the…
Are you ready for even more news from the Paldea region, trainers? Well you’re in luck as The Pokémon Company has announced that a new Scarlet and Violet trailer will be dropping tomorrow, September 7th. You’ll be able to catch the video as it drops at 6 a.m. PDT. …
This Labor Day, Nintendo is at PAX West 2022 and they’re taking over the PAX Arena! Starting at approximately 1 p.m. PT | 4 p.m. ET, they’ll be hosting a race to the finish line with the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Championship Cup 2022. Afterwards, at approximately 2 p.m. PT…
For years now we’ve been calling the upcoming Illumination-produced Super Mario movie the “Mario Movie” but it sounds like those days may finally be at an end. As reported by an Out of Context Despicable Me Twitter account, the name “Super Mario Bros.” is listed on Illumination Studios Paris’ official…
While there are common addictions — drugs, alcohol, gambling — the truth is that any person can develop a pathological need to do certain things, whether it be to play video games, eat snacks, or rerelease The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim until you’ve bled every last cent it could possibly…
If you’re a Nintendo fan, you may be somewhat familiar with the idea of themed cafes in Japan — the likes of Kirby comes to mind, for example. While game franchise collabs with certain chains is certainly not unheard of, they rarely go all out stateside. But that’s exactly what…
Tighten up the hatches and be on the look for spoiled fish — Splatoon 3 has leaked ahead of schedule, dripping ink (content) all over the monitors of any sailor salty enough to crack it. That means that spoilers are in the wild and videos of the game’s single player…
Want to celebrate the pink puffball of pop star in a manner akin to receiving a dozen keys to the city? This Kirby 30th Anniversary Deluxe Collection – Key Motif Set (try saying that five times fast) contains dazzling key-shaped charms styled after each mainline Kirby game, with the key…
Once again a new Pokémon-themed Ichiban Kuji (lottery) is scheduled to spread across Japan and this time the theme is café goods based around the bashful ghost Pokémon, Mimikyu. As Famitsu and Siliconera report, the lottery will appear at game centers and book stores across the region and will cost…
Later this year the notorious crime lord Sabu will be returning to River City to cause havoc. Thankfully Misako, Kyoko, and their allies are on the scene to help out, but they have quite a few villains to face. Those nefarious foes are the focus of the game’s latest trailer,…
