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…
Pikachu has been a mainstay of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade since 2001, with the Pokémon mascot having three balloons over the course of 19 years. To mark the 25th anniversary of the franchise, however, a buddy is coming along for the ride in 2021’s parade. Eevee joins Pikachu…
We caught a glimpse of Vampire Waluigi, the next driver in Mario Kart Tour’s autumnal roadmap, but there was no preparing for the full thing. Behold, our lanky lunatic made immortal – or at least dressing to impress for the Halloween Tour. Between the top hat and the…
Next month is big for Nintendo fans in a lot of ways. New Animal Crossing update, Pokémon Diamond & Pearl remakes, Shin Megami Tensei V… But it’s easy to forget that amongst all of that we have some new hardware on the horizon, namely Game & Watch: The Legend of…
Update (10/21/21): Nintendo released Ver. 1.0.1 of Metroid Dread yesterday, which included a fix for the problem players experienced with the game crashing near the end of the journey. Here are the full 1.01. patch notes: Fixed an issue where, if a map marker is placed on a specific…
This morning’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct has ended, and with it came a load of information about the game’s final free major update. Aside from Brewster and The Roost, Kapp’n, new shops and characters at Harv’s Island, group stretching, island ordinances, cooking, and more are headed to the game….
It has been a big day for Animal Crossing fans! Today’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct showed off what’s coming to the Nintendo Switch title next month, as well as the announcement of paid DLC, details on the next series of amiibo cards, and more. Not everything made it into…
Today’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct covered a number of updates that’ll be launching next month! Still, not everything made it into the over 20-minute long presentation. New Horizons is a big game and goes beyond the Nintendo Switch, after all. In fact, it’s one of the few Switch games…
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Ver. 2.0 update has been fully detailed, and as previously announced, Brewster and his coffee shop The Roost will be dropping with it. The Roost will be located in the museum (open 24 hours a day) and will be home to Brewster, the coffee-serving pigeon from…
The massive Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct not only covered the big Version 2.0 update that’ll be launching next month, but it also showed off another surprise. It’s back to work with Lottie and (new) friends in Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise. This is a paid DLC…
Today’s Animal Crossing Direct was full of small additions to better your island life, including (but not limited to) the return of Brewster and a way to invite visiting merchants to set up shop on Harv’s Island. Those lovely additions are all part of a free update coming November 5th….
One of the best parts about playing the Nintendo 64 as a kid was experiencing the power of the Rumble Pak. Released alongside Star Fox 64, the Rumble Pak was a first of its kind accessory that let you feel the game you were playing. Nowadays, rumble is common across…
Here we go again! Nintendo of America has just announced that alongside the upcoming Happy Home Paradise DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a set of 48 brand-new Animal Crossing amiibo cards is coming on November 5th. Dubbed “Series 5” (even though it’s technically the 7th series if…
