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…
Rejoice, gay farmers – Rune Factory 5 is selling well, crossing the 500,000 unit mark in sales according to publisher Marvelous’s end of fiscal year report. And given that report is based on numbers from the end of March, where it had been out in NA and EU for only…
We’re less than a month out from players hitting the pitch in Mario Strikers: Battle League, which means it’s time for Nintendo to drum up some hype for the scintillating soccer title. The Big N has released an overview trailer for the game that goes over all the fundamental aspects….
Fans have been waiting a few months to transfer the Sinnoh/Hisui Pokémon into Pokémon HOME and beyond and thankfully an update is almost here. While a specific date has yet to be given, the official Pokémon website details what to expect. For starters, Legends: Arceus, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl…
The PlayStation 2 was one of the best places to be if you were a JRPG fan in the early 2000’s. There were the heavy hitters like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, of course, but there were plenty of unique, smaller franchises worthy of your attention. Okage, anyone? Shadow Hearts…
Last year, Ubisoft’s Chengdu division developed and released Rabbids: Adventure Party in China, and now the party game is finally heading overseas with a new title according to the company’s latest financial report. The game, as the new Party of Legends title suggests, is the typical minigame collection starring the…
Two musically inclined games appeared today during Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase. One is all about following a band’s journey in the LA music scene and another is part rhythm-based game, part dungeon crawler. Totally different, but both titles are coming to Nintendo Switch and will have your feet tapping to…
Yesterday’s Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Digital Event didn’t waste much time diving right into some new info for the upcoming expansion, granting a new trailer that was then broken down in full. One returning monster and two brand-new variants were introduced this time around. Seregios, the fast-flying and…
The term “sacrificial lamb” is woven into the fabric of our culture, in reference to real life ritual sacrifice of the creatures in ancient religions — but what if one of those lambs was saved by an enigmatic stranger? And then started its own religion to worship the stranger? That’s…
Today’s Indie World was a fairly low key string of announcements, with no last minute stunners or showstopper drops (besides, of course, crabs). As such, the show concluded with some very quick rapid-fire clips of upcoming indie games, including some available today — and a port of a modern masterpiece….
It’s a big day for indie games, with the Indie World Showcase having just wrapped up, but we aren’t done getting indie goodies on our beloved handheld. Wolfstride, a new mecha RPG from developer OTA IMON Studio and publisher Raw Fury, releases today for the Nintendo Switch. The game features…
The cozy game genre has been growing over the last few years across all gaming platforms. It’s easy to find charming, cute games featuring farming, befriending cute little creatures, and participating in dance battles? Ok, the last one is rather specific, but that mechanic belongs to Ooblets. Initially launched via…
Traffic. Easily one of the most reviled aspects of the human experience. Truly a collective and momentous waste of fuel and time; it serves for many as the harbinger of a day of full-time toil and an obstacle in the way of home. And yet, Dinosaur Polo Club over here…
