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’ve been plenty of Kirby Nendoroid figures in the past. I don’t just mean characters from the Kirby series, I mean Kirby himself. The tough pink puffball is getting another Nendoroid meant to mark his 30th Anniversary — and even owning all the previous versions, I don’t think I can…
The Sega Genesis Mini is a fine micro-console, sitting proudly beside the SNES Classic for 16-bit fans. While there were hopes and rumors that a “Dreamcast Mini” could be on the way, Sega’s instead announced another opportunity to bask in their retro glory. Behold, the Mega Drive Mini 2! …
Kotaro Uchikoshi is one of the most interesting men working in video games. The Zero Escape and AI: The Somnium Files director/writer has a distinct frankness and bawdiness when discussing his work (one that you can often feel in the writing itself). And now, he’s conducted another interview with Nintendo…
June is here, which means more than pride discourse on Twitter — it means it’s time for summer! And Nintendo is celebrating the latter the only way they know how — promotion for their consumer products. From June 10th to September 5th, Nintendo of America will be embarking on the…
Yahoo! The countdown to Super Nintendo World’s early opening in 2023 encroaches closer and closer, and we’re finally seeing behind the curtain of the park’s operations. Universal has released a short teaser look at the park’s Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge ride, the “world’s first interactive Mario Kart ride” that will…
Father Time comes for all things, and while most of us live in blissful ignorance of when we will shudder off this mortal coil, the same cannot be said for the likes of the video games we play. Apparently. And the clock is ticking on this beloved title — Animal…
Konami has sad news for fans of Super Bomberman R Online, the latest title in the Bomberman series. Servers for the free-to-play online multiplayer game will be shut down on December 1st, 2022, at 01:00:00 (UTC) (which is 6 p.m. PT on November 30th when converted). In a recent statement,…
You best play your opponents better than those cards. The highly-anticipated indie game Card Shark from publisher Devolver Digital and developer Nerial releases today on the Nintendo eShop. Below, viewers can check out Card Shark’s animated launch trailer previewing the game’s deceitful skills players will have to utilize to survive…
The Nintendo eShop’s web browser version may have accidentally revealed that a demo for Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes could be on the way soon. As can be seen in the photo below and currently on the Nintendo eShop product page for Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, a “Download demo”…
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet brought new characters and a look at its open world, but the real star as always are the Pokémon themselves. With Koraidon and Miraidon now revealed, we’ve also been graced with the box art for both titles, and an update to its logo. The…
In a move that is either surprising or difficult to comprehend depending on your first brush with it, Junichi Masuda — founder of Game Freak, longtime managing director, and a man who directed a huge run of titles on the series from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire through Let’s Go —…
Well, this just trousles our bones — after composing a hidden track for Pokémon Sword and Shield in the battle tower (which fans noticed bore a striking similarity to. Uh. Well.) Toby Fox has returned for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet in an even greater capacity — he composed the field…
