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…
It’s almost time for the return of Castlevania, Netflix’s animated adaptation of the legendary game series. Anticipation is high for what’s being advertised as the final season, at least of Trevor Belmont and company’s story. A new trailer recently arrived, setting the stage for Season 4 with blood and gravitas…
Things have been changing (thought perhaps not drastically enough) in the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. While all us residents are still without our pigeon-prepared coffee as the game’s second year rolls along, Nintendo themselves are making the most of what they’ve given us. They’ve updated their Dream Island…
The latest Gala Dragalia may be over, but two more new additions are ready to make their own summonable debut. A new adventurer and dragon will both be added, putting focus on the wind element. This isn’t a normal showcase, though, as it also marks the return of the Prize…
May has begun, and that officially puts us within a month of E3 2021. With a new, digital format, this will be the return of the event after COVID-19 made a 2020 show impossible. Several companies have already announced their involvement, among them Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, and most recently Square…
Spring is in full swing, and Pokémon Center of Japan is celebrating nature’s reawakening with a new line of gardening-themed merchandise that’s almost too adorable for words. Introducing the “Pokémon Grassy Gardening” line! This collection will feature a mix of decorative items alongside more useful gardening equipment all themed around…
Previously, we reported that Activision’s hit studio Vicarious Visions, who spearheaded the recently acclaimed Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, would be exclusively supporting Blizzard’s game development in the future as the developer had been merged with the larger studio. It appears now,…
Update: The app is now available to download via the Google Play Store. Earlier this month, Fujifilm and Nintendo announced an exciting and photogenic partnership, merging the two companies’ tech via the INSTAX Mini Link printer. The handheld and portable printer will be able to print images from your Nintendo…
Hot Wheels Unleashed, the highly-customizable arcade racer from Milestone will be speeding its way onto the Switch and other major platforms later this year. Despite its fast-approaching release date, we’ve thus far only seen one of the game’s environments, The Garage, and a tease of another, The Dorm Room. That…
Next month on Saturday, May 8th, a brand-new vibrant lineup of Pokémon plushes will be entering Pokémon Center stores and the online shop in Japan. From Japanese artist F * Kaori, the “Saiko Soda Refresh” Pokémon plush series will bring the fancy anime illustrator’s work on the retro pop theme…
It seemed as though we were closing in on finally having the joyous jump-a-thon Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout arrive on Nintendo Switch, with February’s Nintendo Direct announcing that Mediatonic’s multiplayer smash hit would arrive on the system in Summer 2021. Sadly, it looks like we’ll be waiting a little longer…
It’s been an interesting week for ultra-rare Nintendo console variants, with Queen Elizabeth’s golden Wii recently going up for sale for a hefty $300,000. Another ultra-rare system has also resurfaced, this time it’s the unreleased silver-and-teal Game Boy Advance from Spaceworld 2000. Andrew, who goes by @GamingLegend64 on Twitter, is…
It’s the big day for Pokémon photographers as New Pokémon Snap launches on Nintendo Switch, and to celebrate, My Nintendo US has revealed its physical rewards for participants of the reward program. The items appear to be the same ones previously featured in Japan’s My Nintendo rewards. These include the…
