The 10th anniversary show of The Game Awards is less than a month away, and today we will find out the nominees for 2024! Today at 9 a.m. PT | 11 a.m. CT 12 p.m. ET, a livestream will reveal nominees for each category, including the coveted Game of the…
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,…
Bandai Namco’s news outlet recently had a chance to interview Ryosuke Hara, producer of the upcoming Dragon Ball: The Breakers, to ask about a number of details for the game. He answered a handful of questions, which we’ll break down right now: The playable characters are ordinary civilians who end…
We previously learned that Tetris 99 would be hard dropping in a theme tied to Pokémon Legends: Arceus. The game’s 28th Maximus Cup will be built around the sights and sounds of the Hisui region, and a new video is here to preview them. The background is the…
A swell surprise has just arrived from the Inkwell Isles! A brand new trailer for The Cuphead Show! is here, giving us our best look at the series yet. Plenty of familiar faces are here, now fully voiced and impressively animated. The core premise appears to be intact…
Late last night, Square Enix dropped a keyblade-shaped bombshell upon a sleepy world by revealing not only the release date for the entire Kingdom Hearts series on Nintendo Switch, but also a surprise playable demo. Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5+2.5, 2.8, III + Re Mind (DLC) as well as the all-in-one…
Well, 2022 is certainly starting with some bombshell news. Microsoft has announced plans to buy Activision Blizzard for a whopping $69 billion. The deal will come into effect in the 2023 fiscal year. Activision Blizzard has been mired in controversy these past few months regarding gender discrimination and harassment. The…
The original GBA was a fine little console in its heyday, but it of course had limits — nobody would expect it to run a game in 3D very well, if at all. Yet in a seismic showcase of porting chops, the console has now been shown to run the…
Pokémon Sword and Shield’s 2022 International Challenge has been announced and the reward for participating in the event might just be worth every Trainer’s participation. Players who register and battle in the upcoming online competition will be able to receive all three of the Shiny Galarian versions of the Kanto…
Pokémon continues its slate of Sumo wrestling promotions with a new, kid-friendly venture — Makuhita competing against a former Yokozuna. The Guts Pokémon enters the ring against Nishinoseki Yutaka, known during his career as Kisenoseki Yutaka, the 72nd Yokozuna in Japanese Sumo history, as the two face off with seven…
Nintendo NYC has no shortage of exclusive merch, and this latest piece is for the bounty hunters among us — a Metroid Cayenne hoodie. Featuring a minimalist design, including a custom 8-bit Samus patch on the sleeve, it’s going for a whole $49.99 at the store. Suit up with…
Gachapon toys in Japan always provide fun little novelties, and this appears to be one of the most charming yet — a set of watches based around the Sony PlayStation One and the Sega Saturn of the ’90s, going for ¥400 (~$3.50) a pop. 「セガサターン」と「プレイステーション」が腕時計になってカプセルトイに登場！ 2月中旬発売 “白サターン”に“PS one”も！ 盤面はディスクデザイン https://t.co/zhO2dcXlIx…
Last year NIS America made the surprising call to officially license the fan translations of the two missing games in the Trails saga – Zero and Azure. These two final PSP entries had been skipped by localizers in order to more quickly reach the full-3D Trails of Cold Steel saga,…
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream, the upcoming sequel to 2015’s Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book (lots of mysteries around here, it seems), has revealed its redone battle system in a new trailer (that is for some reason soundless): Now battle can…
