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…
After making its debut during E3 2021, Dodgeball Academia is now available for the Nintendo Switch! This sports RPG takes the schoolyard game of dodgeball and turns it into a solid, yet zany, adventure in building the best dodgeball team while unearthing secrets at school. For anyone who found themselves…
With Nintendo reporting on its financials for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending in March 2022, a number of noteworthy items are making the rounds. One of these is a major milestone – that Nintendo has now sold 800.07 million consoles since 1983. This number includes all of…
Video game company acquisitions are happening more and more often lately, and while this latest revelation isn’t quite as earth shattering as some recent moves by Microsoft and Sony, it’s still big news for fans of retro-styled games. Focus Home Interactive, known for various Sherlock Holmes games, A Plague Tale,…
As eager as you may be to reach for that boomstick and get groovy with some Deadite destruction, it’s going to be a little bit longer before we can hail to the king’s return once again. Originally scheduled for a 2021 release, Evil Dead: The Game’s official Twitter account has…
We’re about a month away from the return of one of Sonic’s most beloved modern adventures. Sonic Colors: Ultimate introduced us all to the Wisps, squidish aliens at the mercy of Dr. Eggman and his interstellar amusement park aspirations. Thankfully, Sonic’s able to befriend them and make better use of…
Nintendo released their first financial report from the fiscal year set to end March 2022 this morning, and while the report shows a small decline in hardware sales compared to the same quarter last year, the sales information released alongside the report shows that Nintendo’s newest flagship console has hit…
After five years, Nintendo of Japan released a statement yesterday regarding their lawsuit against publisher and developer Colopl for their hit mobile game White Cat Project. Colopl has agreed to pay Nintendo an undisclosed figure for their infringement of a variety of the company’s technology patents. For those unaware, White Cat…
If you’ve ever played Pokémon and thought “what if this leaned into the darker elements?” then Monster Crown will have you covered this October. The game, which has been in early access on Steam since July 2020, is heavily inspired by the classic Game Boy Pokémon entries, though with a…
As promised during the last Nintendo Direct, Mario Golf: Super Rush is getting a free content update, and better still it’s landing tomorrow! The update will be adding a new character, Toadette, who will be able to throw turnips, as well as a New Donk City course. 🏌️ Fore!…
Nintendo’s first financial report from the fiscal year ending March 2022 has landed, covering the 3 month period of April through June 2021, and while it’s on the surface bad news for the company, there’s a pretty compelling explanation for why. In the report, it’s confirmed that sales have declined…
The world within the The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is beyond vast. Heck, I’ve been playing the game for over five years now, and from time to time, I still find myself lost in the large, open world of Hyrule. From rivers and lakes, to mountains and…
Nothing is quite as nostalgic for me as sitting down with my friends after school for a rousing match of Mario Kart 64. The four-player split-screen action was mindblowing to us and the graphics at the time were some of the sharpest, and prettiest, we’d ever seen. Fast forward 25…
