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…
Are you a big fan of The Legend of Zelda? A horse girl (or guy)? Do you have approximately seven hundred united states dollars that you’re not spending on anything in particular? Then feast your eyes on this gorgeous new statue of Link from Breath of the Wild on horseback…
Fire Emblem Heroes has delivered on one of its recurring traditions yet again. The Choose Your Legends Round 6 winners, determined by popular vote earlier this year, have been unveiled. While we knew Chrom, Tiki, Seliph, and Byleth would be getting new outfits and skills, these purposefully powered-up versions are…
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is approaching, and a new overview trailer is here to discuss the renewed stylish fighter. Like some of the original release’s promotional material, this trailer is being handled by two of the series’ characters. Rohan Kishibe and Koichi Hirose (both from Part 4: Diamond…
Are you ready to tread into the unknown brick by brick? LEGO Bricktales – a licensed game from the world-famous Danish brickmaker and the folks at Thunderful Games and ClockStone Studio – is headed to consoles in Q4 2022. Bricktales involves traveling through various diorama-like environments, where you…
Yesterday, we saw the Squid Research Lab put the spotlight on the Tacticooler, one of three new special weapons revealed during last week’s Splatoon 3 Direct. Today, the official Splatoon Twitter account is already detailing the second new special weapon – the Wave Breaker. Another found object hodge podge (I…
It’s that time of year again, as Pokémon has made its return to McDonald’s in the United States of America. pika pika! pic.twitter.com/PCPqnkD76M — McDonald’s (@McDonalds) August 16, 2022 On top of that very vague tweet, PokéBeach managed to snag some exclusive photos of the line from McDonald’s employee @Drakers_12….
Square Enix Japan has revealed a couple of cute home goods based on Final Fantasy VII’s most distinct characters – Red XIII and Cait Sith. While one may be a broody, sincere lab specimen and the other is a Scottish robot cat, they’re both made adorable here. First up there…
Just in time for the end of summer, Wave Race 64 is revving into the Switch Online Expansion Pack library. Wave Race might not be the most recurring series in Nintendo’s catalog, but there’s no denying the appeal of riding the waves through these courses on your jet ski. …
Last week, Nintendo released a variety of commercials for Splatoon 3 in Japan. Short, but filled with lots of ink, the six commercials covered everything from the game’s weapons (new and returning) to the game’s new story and finally some Turf War battling. To kick off this week, Nintendo of…
The world was exposed to Splatoon 3’s announcer trio Deep Cut, last week, with the fanbase immediately falling in love with Frye, Shiver, and (my personal fav) Big Man. And I, along with every other trans nerd I know on Twitter, took one look at Shiver and went “wow, Gender.”…
If you didn’t know, last week Japan hosted the Kirby 30th Anniversary Music Festival, a lengthy orchestral concert celebrating our favorite pink puffball and his music. However, the concert was in the middle of the night for North America and in the middle of the day for Europe, so despite…
The Pokémon Company International, the holding company behind everything Pokémon, has announced a philanthropic pledge and effort to donate a minimum of $25 million over 5 years – or roughly $5 million a year – to charities and other organizations. The focus will be on organizations improving the lives of…
