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…
The Mario Strikers series is getting rebooted this year with Mario Strikers: Battle League, which makes this the perfect opportunity to go revisit some of the older titles and see what secrets they might have held. Case in point: the original Super Mario Strikers for the GameCube, which has been…
Last week Nintendo Switch Online’s console app was updated with a unique marketplace to spend Platinum Points on a variety of new user icon elements. As promised, Nintendo has refreshed the library a week later, this time rotating in a bunch of Fossil Falls elements from Super Mario Odyssey. Given…
It’s been in the works for a while now but PIKO Interactive’s remaster of the iconic (?) Nintendo 64 platformer is almost here, on PC. The port, which is apparently completely recreated from the original game’s source code, will roll onto Steam on April 20th. Finally the wait is…
Most fighting game tournaments announcing their lineups don’t have announcements for said announcements, but, well… EVO is special in a few ways. The most famous fighting game tournament in the world has long turned the announcement of which games will be hosted at the tournament into an event itself, one…
After a small delay, the release of The Cruel King and the Great Hero is nearly upon us. It’s almost time to join a young hero on her journey, with the help of her fierce, yet loving dragon protector and allies. Following in the footsteps of Liar Princess and the…
Last September, Hasbro launched the next generation of My Little Pony, literally titled “A New Generation”, and now that fresh squad of tiny horses is getting its own video game already. As detailed on the official website… “Only you can help Sunny throw the most magical celebration Equestria…
It’s time once again for Capcom to hold a Monster Hunter Digital Event, this time dedicated to Monster Hunter Rise’s Sunbreak expansion. The event’ll be approximately 20 minutes long and feature updates on new monsters, gameplay info, and more. Tune in to the Monster Hunter Digital Event – March…
Spring is fast-approaching, but that doesn’t mean you can’t take a more leisurely stroll! In fact, the next Pikmin Bloom Community Day is just around the corner and will make for the perfect excuse to do just that. Best of all, the main flower this time around is the cherry…
We have entered a new era of Fire Emblem Heroes, as its latest preview of upcoming units has done something no previous video has. No, not the bunny outfits — those have been around since 2017. Rather, the text for skills and weapons has gotten so extensive that one of…
Nintendo Switch Sports, announced during last month’s Nintendo Direct presentation as a successor to the 2006 smash hit Wii Sports, has a variety of new sports categories not seen in its predecessor. As well as the returning Bowling and Tennis games (with Golf confirmed to arrive in a future update),…
Only ’90s Kids (and those who are forced to engage with the culture of the decade due to nostalgic overexposure) Will Remember: Chex Quest, the kid-friendly FPS from 25 years ago, is getting a HD remake. While the age of finding CD-ROMs in cereal boxes is long past, you’ll be…
In a stunning turn of events so well known for upheaval and revolutionizing the wheel each game, the upcoming ninth generation of Pokémon appears to be doing the unthinkable: having normal Pokémon mechanics, which has never been done before in the history of humanity. They definitely haven’t had the same…
