With how popular Shantae has become over the years, it’s surprising to learn that one of the games in the series was actually cancelled over 20 years ago. Despite that, Wayforward didn’t give up and would revive the project many years later to create a long-lost interquel for the series….
While home consoles are a widespread and ubiquitous part of the greater video game industry now, it hasn’t always been that way. Video game consoles have their origins from arcade machines, and the transition they made to end up in people’s living rooms was thanks in large part to systems…
As part of today’s financial report for Nintendo, company president Shuntaro Furukawa noted that Nintendo will be considering a price adjustment to the Switch 2 depending on how the situation of President Trump’s tariffs evolves in the coming months. With nobody sure of what the impact will be when Trump’s…
Surely you’re familiar with Picross, the now-classic grid-puzzle game. A high-intensity, wackier version of the concept, titled Picross X: Picbits vs. Uzboross, came out back in August in Japan. And while developer Jupiter stated when the game was announced that it hoped to bring it to the West this year,…
The slate of monthly Nintendo Switch Online icons has once again rolled over, bringing with it another featured game and more Animal Crossing: New Horizons birthdays. Characters this month include Snooty, Eugene, Kiki, and the (in)famous cat Raymond, alongside many more. Meanwhile, the featured game this month is…
The Nintendo Switch has long wanted for a killer app of this magnitude — karaoke, with ABBA. We’ve previously covered Let’s Sing ABBA, a game that will reshape reality and set off a new wave of enlightenment for the human race, and now the day has finally come — the…
Nintendo has announced an upcoming Nintendo Direct where it will properly reveal the new Super Mario Bros. movie to the world for the first time. And while many people (or at least myself) continue to quake in fear at what the voice cast will sound like, Nintendo has whetted our…
MAMA MIA! Nintendo has just released the very first image from the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie and it looks absolutely stunning! The image was tweeted by Nintendo to announce a special Nintendo Direct specifically for the Super Mario Bros. movie that’s set to air this Thursday at…
THQ Nordic has confirmed that the brand-new SpongeBob platformer, The Cosmic Shake, will be released in 2023 after previously being slated as “Coming Soon”. That’s not all, though, as the game will also be receiving a very fancy limited edition! Named the “BFF Edition” it features more than a few…
Last November, publisher Microids announced it would be working with developer Pastagames and the original studio Taito to bring back Arkanoid with the energetic arcade experience Arkanoid 0 Eternal Battle. The game features the tried and true block breaking gameplay combined with stylish modern graphics, but it’s big new addition…
Sonic the Hedgehog has seen many redesigns over the years, but one of the most bizarre was Sonic Adventure 2. In most regards he looks the same as he did in the promotional art for the first game, with one big exception – the shoes. As a cross promotional tie-in…
It’s official! Earlier this week, Nintendo has officially shown off the upcoming Sephiroth and Kazuya amiibo from the Super Smash Bros. line at the Zurich Pop-Con in Switzerland. While we haven’t received any official announcement from Nintendo themselves, a few attendees of the Con were nice enough to share some…
Update: Is that the Kazuya amiibo? We could only find this one pic and are searching for more! If you were at the Zurich Pop-Con and have more pics, let us know on Twitter! Well, look what we have here! Earlier today, a Twitter user by the name of @zaypiie…
Sonic the Hedgehog might be the first true example of a video game star who made it safely to the silver screen, garnering commercial success, fan appraisal, and critical… well, not veneration, but not vitriol either. Toru Nakahara, the movie’s producer and a senior executive officer at Sega Sammy, discussed…
Did You Know Gaming, noted researchers and discoverers of lost video game lore, recently began diving into pitches by Retro Studios for various Zelda spinoffs back in the mid-’00s. Their main focus was on a Wii title that followed the last male Sheikah alongside Sheik (from Ocarina of Time), they…
