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…
There’s just a week to go until Sonic Origins releases and Sega is bringing the hype to fever pitch with this latest trailer that runs down the collection’s many features. While most of the content has been described before, it’s worth a look for a refresher, and to…
There are many things the Xenoblade Chronicles series does well, but one of the things it does best is its music. Featuring a mixture of sweeping orchestral majesty and banging rock energy, it’s a very distinct part of what gives the series identity. Which is why it’s so exciting that…
At long last players can return to the mean streets of New York as a reptilian martial artist in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, which has launched for the Nintendo Switch today. To mark the release, a new trailer has been shared giving a quick overview of the game…
Kingdom Hearts fans have been raising their Keyblades triumphantly over the past year, with Kingdom Hearts III releasing on Nintendo Switch, protagonist Sora debuting in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and most recently, the announcement of Kingdom Hearts IV. It’s a great time to be a fan, and a perfect time…
You may have caught wind of the story a few months back about a man named Gary Bowser getting sentenced to three years in prison. Bowser was the moneyman of Team Xecutor, a hacking group that sold hacked Nintendo products that allowed people to play pirated games, and in his…
Summer vacation is the stretch of time all students live for, and that applies to Garreg Mach as well. After some of their classmates hit the sand and surf last year, the leaders of the titular Three Houses are getting their much needed break in Fire Emblem Heroes! They won’t…
Sonic fans have been divided on what elements should make up the franchise’s ethos for years, from how the Blue Blur controls to who should be playable in games to what mechanics or gimmicks should be present. But there are three rules that Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka has that…
Update (6/17/22): The first Pokétoon short, Scraggy and Mimikyu, is now available to watch on Pokémon TV! We all like Looney Tunes (this is non-negotiable), and we all like Pokémon (this one is more of an educated guess based on you reading an article on a Nintendo news…
Fans of River City Girls will be happy to hear that its heroines, Misako and Kyoko, will be heading back in time to become playable in River City Saga: Three Kingdoms. The game, which transplants the classic beat ’em up/RPG gameplay into the classic period of Chinese history, features plenty…
While the classic RPG port Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II launched for the Switch last week, those who want to play through the full intended experience might want to wait on the free post-launch Restored Content DLC. Aspyr has confirmed that the DLC will arrive in Q3,…
The wait is almost over, aspiring digi-destined, as the upcoming strategy RPG/visual novel hybrid Digimon Survive will be launching worldwide next month. To get players up to speed with the game, Bandai Namco has shared a new English trailer detailing the gameplay loop and setting. Give it a watch: …
Live A Live has the dubious distinction of being one of the finest SNES era RPGs that no one really played. More of a hidden gem thanks to a lack of localization, it’s been refreshing to see Nintendo and Square Enix partner up for its HD2D revival. For a bit…
