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…
It seems like the Pokémon Company wanted to bookend this week with localized PokéToon episodes. On Monday we saw a spirited Magikarp while this time it’s Slugma taking the spotlight. The new episode, titled “The Slugma-Powered Home”, is very cozy with its winter setting which will hopefully help those of…
Pokémon fans will be delighted to hear that the series is once again getting some love over at Build-A-Bear. The company has just announced that two new exclusive bundles celebrating the 25th anniversary have made their way to the online store, this time featuring the familiar, beloved Pikachu — who’s…
The Pokémon Company has announced a new, massive figure and, fittingly for the summer, it’s all about water Pokémon. The figure is essentially two tiered, with Pikachu surfing on Lapras above the water and a bunch of other Pokémon swimming around the depths. These include Shellder, Staryu, Wishiwashi, and more….
The next wave of Good Smile’s Fire Emblem: Three Houses (and technically Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes) POP UP PARADE figures have been unveiled. Representing the Blue Lions is none other than the house’s leader Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd and one of his childhood friends and fellow classmates, Felix Hugo Fraldarius….
Are you a fan of Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes AND need to write stuff down on occasion? Well, the My Nintendo store has your back with the FEW:3H memo pad, featuring characters Shez (male and female), Arval, Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude. The memo pad costs 600 Platinum…
Reggie File-Aimé continues his forever press tour for his book Disrupting the Game, stopping by a Third-Place Books location in Lake Forest Park, Washington (a suburb of Seattle) to handle a Q&A about his time at Nintendo. Thanks to GameXplain, we have excerpts for slivers of the Q&A — specifically,…
We all enjoy raising little virtual pets, but what if those pets were instead international pop stars with synthetic voices? Fortunately, Bandai is here to provide an answer to that question we’ve definitely all had in the past, announcing that there will be an exclusive set of Hatsune Miku Tamagotchis…
According to Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb, a remaster of the Nintendo 64 release of Goldeneye 007 is stuck in release limbo due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Goldeneye is still in limbo because of the war. 1 v 100's team lead left Microsoft. I don't know what…
Four years ago, Octopath Traveler was released on Nintendo Switch! To celebrate the occasion, the official Japanese Twitter account for the game has released a brand-new illustration from artist Tatsuaki Urushihara. Urushihara was one of the leading artists who worked on Octopath Traveler along with some of producer Tamoya Asano’s…
During the month of June, Europe saw a small spike in gaming-related sales. Two of the games that helped drive these sales were F1 2022, the latest multiplatform racing game from Electronic Arts, and Mario Strikers: Battle League from Nintendo. According to sales data, Mario Strikers: Battle League sold over…
Nintendo has announced that it’s amidst closing a deal to acquire visual content company Dynamo Pictures. According to Nintendo’s official notification of acquisition, which was made publicly available by the company this morning, it will also be renaming Dynamo Pictures to Nintendo Pictures once the purchase is complete. Nintendo states…
Very soon English-speaking JRPG fans will be able to officially experience one of the best-regarded Super Famicom titles with the 2D-HD remake of Live A Live. To mark the coming occasion, Nintendo has put out a new trailer featuring the creation of some new artwork from Naoki Ikushima. In recent…
