When taking a look at where mainstream gaming got its start, one commonality makes itself apparent: the platformer genre. There’s been countless titles to use this formula over the years, and while many are still going strong in the modern day, many likewise have fallen to the wayside. There is…
During yesterday’s Pokémon Day festivities, a new trailer for the upcoming Nintendo Switch game Pokémon Legends: Z-A was showcased which gives us our best look at the game yet. After a year or so of silence, we now can see that Legends: Z-A isn’t deviating too much from what made…
In a rather surprising bit of news today, Nintendo of Japan has announced that one of the retro titles available through its Switch Online subscription service will actually be getting delisted soon. On March 28th, 2025, Super Formation Soccer will leave the Super Famicom App and subscribers will no longer…
While we all know Nintendo products to be made of Nintendium (except whatever filaments are used for Joy-Con sticks, apparently), but it’s always good to have a backup plan in case you accidentally stick it in a vat of acid or smash its screen with a sledgehammer — we’ve all…
Nothing quite screams summer as much as bubbles do — according to the Japanese Pokémon Center! Arriving in just a few weeks, on July 23rd, goods themed to bubbles will release at Pokémon Center locations around Japan. In this series Water and Electric-type pocket monsters adorn a variety of items…
The never-ending flow of items continues in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp with the latest fortune cookie! This time, newcomer Ione is here to share celestial beauty with the Starry Cookie, which offers items like a floating star seat, gently falling stars, sparkly apparel, and other items glowing with cuteness that…
Sabotage Studio’s RPG Sea of Stars, which will be set in the same universe as the platformer The Messenger, has been pushed out of its initially planned 2022 release window into 2023. In the statement below, the studio confirms the delay was for the development team’s “quality of life” and…
Fans of vintage memes from vintage games prepare yourselves as four games dropped onto Nintendo Switch Online’s Sega Genesis library to close out June and one is the ever-memeable Zero Wing. It’s not just the origin of “all your base are belong to us” that’s made its long awaited return,…
Headlines of executives making big figures for companies in the face of worker exploitation or other scandals is nothing new. But most of the time those are for Western megacorporations — how does the upper echelon of Nintendo compare? Well, in the latest “Corporate Governance Report” from the company, we…
Cocos Technology has announced that their Cocos Creator game engine will be able to officially create games for the Nintendo Switch starting next month. The game engine’s official launch on Nintendo Switch marks the first instance in which the Chinese tech company will be dipping its feet into the console…
You can now rock the Wyvern of Malice wherever you go! Fangamer has added a new Monster Hunter Rise t-shirt featuring Magnamalo to its catalog. Below, viewers can get a good look at the stylish Hellfire t-shirt that features the feared fanged wyvern in a watercolor palette. …
It’s been a pretty good time for Sega on the non-video game front — both Sonic movies have done gangbusters, and they’re looking to expand their influence even further on that front. And which properties they’re considering hardly come as a Last Surprise — Atlus titles, specifically Persona, but potentially…
It’s daring! It’s devilish! It’s delectable! After many years of waiting, Cuphead’s The Delicious Last Course DLC is finally out now! Studio MDHR’s smashing successor to the 2017 action platformer follows our jolly good boys Cuphead and Mugman, aided by the adventurous Ms. Chalice, as they take on a whole…
In a move that displays the raw power of anime chess, Fire Emblem Heroes has become the first mobile game from Nintendo to make over $1 billion from player spending in its lifetime. With a B. All for a mobile game. And people wonder how gacha is so lucrative. People…
Valve created a lot of games using the same Source engine back in the late 2000’s, including Portal, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike, and Team Fortress 2. The first two in particular are tied together even closer, with Portal effectively being a mod of Half-Life 2 and sharing a lot of the…
