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…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
Talk about repressed memories coming back to me suddenly, but anyone who was a kid during the N64’s lifespan will likely remember the brash commercials Nintendo aired. One of the more obscure was for the 1998 classic Banjo-Kazooie. A brief 30-second ad had some men camping in the forest and…
UPDATE (Thursday, June 9th, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. PT): It’s official! The release date was confirmed during Summer Game Fest as well as a new character reveal and six-player mode. The turtle brothers might be ready to fight back as soon as next week. As spotted by Twitter user…
Game Freak’s first-ever westerner to design Pokémon, James Turner, has announced over social media that he has departed from the developer to form his own studio. With the help of his old friend Jonathan Biddle, the two have opened All Possible Futures and will be announcing their first title soon….
Trainers, Community Day is fast approaching! We’ve known the date for June’s Community Day for a few weeks now – after all, Niantic announced the dates for all Community Days taking place during the Season of GO – yet we didn’t know which Pokémon would be in the spotlight. Unova…
So pre-orders for the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Special Edition were supposed to go live on the My Nintendo Store yesterday as an exclusive, presumably since the game and the actual SE contents are going to ship separately (as only revealed on the store page itself) and coordinating that with other…
Another TailsTube broadcast has dropped, giving us even more of the surprisingly cute Tails-hosted Sonic the Hedgehog lore deep dives. While the last episode was an interview with the blue blur himself, this time around it’s an exploration of the big bad himself – Dr. Eggman. There aren’t…
Techland has announced that Dying Light: Definitive Edition will eventually bring the ultimate Dying Light experience to Nintendo Switch. Revealed yesterday by the polish developer and launching today on all supported platforms except Switch, the latest version of Dying Light is a complete full-blown package of the game’s content developed…
E3 might not be happening this year but Geoff Keighley has swooped in with Summer Game Fest to give us some June game announcements. You’ll be able to tune into the official livestream below starting at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET.
Japanese jeweler U-Treasure has released plenty of Nintendo-themed items over the years but this latest creation is gorgeous and more than a littlel pricey. The Monster Ball Diamond, or Poké Ball Diamond, is a round brilliant but has over double the usual facets at 143 cuts to create the distinctive…
Hey, remember 1-2-Switch? The quirky minigame collection available for Nintendo Switch launch that was, well, mostly forgotten? Well, it actually sold quite well all things considered (3.45 million copies!) so Nintendo furtively greenlit a sequel, according to a report by Fanbyte’s Imran Khan, titled Everybody’s 1-2-Switch. And apparently, it isn’t…
After one comes two, and then three. Such universal mathematical knowledge is imparted before children hit kindergarten, but even so, there are many works that strive so you can play the second game before the first if you really want to. I mean, who here played Splatoon 2 before Splatoon…
Update (6/13/22): Just today, Nintendo of America announced that the Stardew Valley Game Trial will also be available for Nintendo Switch Online members here in the West. From tomorrow, June 14th, to Monday, June 20th, players will be able to partake in farming life through the service! Restore your…
Nintendo Special Editions are known to sell like hotcakes, mostly due to scalpers and bots that will turn around and flip them for a profit, but the company’s attempts to get more SEs into the hands of fans have been… mixed so far. Case in point, the Xenoblade Chronicles 3…
