As time marches ever forward, I’m beginning to have this bizarre sensation of writing retrospectives for films, games, and consoles that I was alive for the launch of. Released on November 18th, 2001, in the US, the Nintendo GameCube came at an exciting time for the games industry. Even to…
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…
Pokémon Masters EX has its latest event going on right now: in this Extreme Battle Event dubbed the Friendversary Face-Off, you’ll be engaged in a battle of Champions — specifically Lance, Cynthia, and Hau. The event is going on until March 16th, with two areas (Flying Buddies Unite…
The world’s first Digimon Con was held a couple days ago, a first-time worldwide stream for Digimon and Digimon news. In the course of the proceedings there was more than a little talk about Digimon Survive, the upcoming visual novel/strategy game. While they weren’t able to give a firm release…
The Persona 4 Arena sub-series was a tall order all around. Atlus and Arc System Works managed to make a pair of great 2D fighters, pseudo-sequels to the stories of Persona 3 and 4, and introductions to a few all-new characters that fit into existing lore. It’s the last of…
The Persona series debuted in 1996, so 2021 was the year of its 25th anniversary — but the festivities are largely carrying over into 2022, including an Anniversary Festival set to take place at Tokorozawa Sakura Town, Saitama, Japan from May 28th to June 10th. The festival contains what you’d…
Due to COVID-19, both the 2020 and 2021 Tokyo Game Show conferences were made digital-only, with the various publishers typically involved instead opting to show their games through other means, albeit under the same banner. Thankfully that’ll be changing for this year’s show, which will be held in-person at Makuhari…
After being announced back in November, we have a confirmed release date for the love-letter to a certain Bandai Namco mascot – Pac-Man Museum+! The 14 games featured in the collection are… PAC-MAN SUPER PAC-MAN PAC & PAL PAC-LAND PAC-MANIA PAC-ATTACK PAC-IN-TIME PAC-MAN ARRANGEMENT Arcade ver. PAC-MAN ARRANGEMENT…
As part of today’s Pokémon Presents, a brief announcement was made for Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl – specifically for its first, big post-launch Mystery Gift! Beginning February 28th, players will be able to download the exclusive item Oak’s Letter. This distribution will be live for a month, ending on…
Today is Pokémon Day, which means just about everything Pokémon is getting some kind of news or update (assuming it’s current). And there’s little more current than Pokémon Legends: Arceus, only a month old and receiving its first major update, titled Daybreak. Daybreak offers new post-credits story content, as Mass…
Shortly after their debut, we now have the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet starter names! This new trio of first partners only has a little bit of info at present, but their personalities are out in full force despite it. Let’s get to know them, shall we? Sprigatito – The…
Happy Pokémon Day! To celebrate Pokémon’s anniversary, The Pokémon Company published a very special Pokémon Presents. Throughout the presentation, updates on various Pokémon games were given – some new and some old. Pokémon GO’s moment in the spotlight was a new announcement, and it’s to say “Alola!” to some Pokémon…
Closing out today’s Pokémon Presents was a brief, live-action video that gave way to something much grander. Though it might’ve seemed the long expected Detective Pikachu sequel was getting a little love (there was even a cup of coffee!), instead we saw brief gameplay clips of an all-new Pokémon adventure….
Pokémon Day is finally here, and The Pokémon Company is once again marking the anniversary of Red & Green’s launch in Japan with a Pokémon Presents stream. The streams typically contain information on the games releasing over the following months – last year’s event featured our first looks at both…
