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…
The Shanghai-based developer Arrowiz and publisher Prime Matter have announced the stylish, neo-futuristic turn based RPG Mato Anomalies for release next year. Described as a “stylistic and truly original JRPG” set in Mato, a city that stands where Old Shanghai once stood. Strange demonic creatures are appearing and the dual…
Turtle fans are not holding back and they won’t cut those not playing the latest shell-kicking hit any slack. Publisher Dotemu has announced that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge from developer Tribute Games, in partnership with Nickelodeon, sold over a million copies in one week across all platforms. While…
A couple months back, we reported on animator RwanLink showcasing a project dubbed “Zelda Ocarina of Time Next-Gen” wherein he recreates various locales from the game with super high fidelity graphics in Unreal Engine 5. And despite our pleas to Nintendo to Hire This Man, This Man remains Unhired, and…
Recently Sega of Japan confirmed a follow-up to its Sega Mega Drive Mini, incorporating games from the Mega CD. Now it’s finally been confirmed for a western release! The Sega Genesis Mini 2 will contain over 50 games including one never-before-released title. Its design will be based on…
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has been out for only a couple weeks, but it’s already crossed an impressive threshold — it’s shipped over 3 million copies, marking a great success for an expansion for an already successful game. Three Lords, three million copies of #Sunbreak shipped! Thank you all…
Twitter, Twitter, on the wall, who’s the most popular of them all? The website has released data on its most tweeted about games of 2022 so far, and the results may or may not surprise you depending on how many gacha games you play. The rank, from 1 To 10,…
If you’re gonna release a horror game, what better time than October, the spookiest month? NIS has announced that Yomawari: Lost in the Dark will hit the market on October 25th in North America and October 28th in Europe. The latest in the Yomawari series, the game follows a very…
We’re only a couple weeks out from the release of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Nintendo is still showcasing some of the game’s banging tunes for our aural pleasure. This week we have a preview of the track that plays in Millick Meadows, the game’s first big starting zone. Today’s…
As she destroys demons with unbridled style, titular heroine Bayonetta has a habit of being rather provocative and showing a fair bit of skin in her fight against the Angels of Paradiso. We love her for her confidence and unique flair, but it does mean that her games aren’t always…
Fangamer has announced that its catalog of Rare throwback products has once again expanded with new merchandise. Surprisingly, rather than just a handful of original Banjo-Kazooie and Conker items, the company’s collaborative catalog of products is seeing additions from Rare’s golden age Nintendo days. Below, viewers can check out Fangamer’s…
Get those sound stones ready to absorb some of the wonderful moments from Shigesato Itoi’s cult classic game. Hobonichi will be releasing eight dioramas based on EarthBound (Mother 2) in Japan this August. Below, viewers can get a look at the multi-layered papercraft products fans of Ness and the gang’s…
UPDATE: A North American release of both physical products. Bayonetta 1 will get a limited physical Switch release for $29.99 on September 30th, while “more details about the Trinity Masquerade Edition and pre-orders will be revealed in the future.” Not content with just announcing Bayonetta 3’s release date, Nintendo’s European…
