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…
Skyward Sword may be considered one of the more divisive entries in the Legend of Zelda series, but that hasn’t stopped the announcement of its upcoming Nintendo Switch remaster gaining immense hype from fans. Like a free Loftwing, Skyward Sword HD has soared its way upward, perching atop the number…
SNK has been adding many a guest character to the latest title in the Samurai Shodown series, ranging from Ubisoft’s For Honor and the company’s own The Last Blade. As part of the Japan Fighter Game Publishers Roundtable #2, though, they decided to rock fans with an even more unexpected…
One of the biggest surprises of the second Japan Fighting Game Publishers Roundtable came courtesy of Arika. Founded by the creators of Street Fighter II after they left Capcom, they would go on to develop the Street Fighter EX and eventually take those original characters and create their own game…
One of the biggest surprises out of this week’s Nintendo Direct had to have been the announcement of both Famicom Detective Club remakes getting localized. These NES era mysteries are exciting gets in their own right, but if you love your retro revivals or have been extremely curious about Ayumi…
As part of this year’s BlizzCon, Blizzard has decided to look back on their 30 year history in games and revive a trio of classics. While more known for the likes of Warcraft and Overwatch these days, the three included titles all made their mark on the Super Nintendo (despite…
The Overwatch 2 portion of BlizzConline has officially come to an end, and while a release date was completely MIA and story details were sparse, the rest of the game was detailed heavily and appears to be shaping into something very special. I went into the presentation expecting a run-of-the-mill…
One of Rare’s last projects with Nintendo was the GameCube’s Star Fox Adventures – a surreal game starring Star Fox characters that shared more in common with Zelda than the space-faring action of its source material. That was due to the game effectively being a retooled Nintendo 64 game called…
Diablo II is coming to Nintendo Switch in the form of Diablo II: Resurrected, a “faithful remaster” of the original 2000 RPG hack-and-slash for PC and Mac. Diablo II: Resurrected will take the original 2D sprite-based game and update it with “full 3D physically-based rendering, dynamic lighting, revamped…
Street Fighter icons Ryu and Chun-Li will be joining the fray in Fortnite this weekend. Fortnite’s YouTube channel shared the news with a video calling back to the characters’ arcade origins. Ryu and Chun-Li are the third and fourth video game stars to join the game this season,…
It’s that time again for a new, weekly Super Mario Bros. 35 Special Battle! theme, and yet, this week we’re getting even more Super Mario Bros. 35 news. First, though, let’s hop down a warp pipe to the most pressing issue. From Thursday, February 18th, at 11 p.m. PT until…
The GameBoy Advance SP has long been held as the definitive platform to enjoy GameBoy titles on. This has been thanks to its extremely portable form factor, an illuminated display, and most importantly, its ability to play the entirety of the GameBoy library. There really is only one major flaw…
This April, Koei Tecmo will be bringing the “Mysterious” trilogy of Atelier games to the Switch with a Deluxe Pack. This includes the Switch debuts of the Atelier Sophie and Atelier Firis games, as well as an updated DX port of Atelier Lydie & Suelle. If you’ve been curious how…
