Nintendo Switch Online is back with new icons, this time themed to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Celebrating the Shiny Rayquaza Tera Raid Battle event that will kick off in a few weeks, the icons are meant to get players excited for the battles ahead! In the meantime, you can enjoy…
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…
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…
Last month, iam8bit held a charity drive for Rainforest Trust by donating 5% of sales of Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Thanks to the purchasing power of the video game community, $58,000 was raised! As the infographic in the tweet below shows, that’s enough to protect an area…
The 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees have been revealed, with Nintendo Switch games Hades, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Ikenfell, and If Found… up for the category of “Outstanding Video Game.” Each year, the GLAAD Media Awards recognize art and entertainment for their “fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian,…
In the Switch’s lifetime Nintendo has been pretty darn good at localizing its titles and bringing them to the wider world. That makes anything that does remain Japan-only all the more noteworthy. That’s exactly the position Buddy Mission BOND finds itself in – a new adventure game/visual novel from Koei…
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2021 is underway, with February nearly here. For anyone looking to make something sweet for your special someone on Valentine’s Day, Nintendo has introduced some new Super Mario goods that are perfect for any Mushroom Kingdom kitchen. The best of these is clearly the Yoshi Pot Holder sets, which give…
Earlier this year, eagle-eyed fans noticed that the Astral Chain website had changed its official copyright information from “© 2019 Nintendo / PlatinumGames Inc.” to simply “© 2019 Nintendo”, resulting in a lot of speculation that Nintendo had obtained full ownership of the IP. It turns out they were spot…
February is a big month for the Pokémon franchise. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, there are plenty of events and announcements to participate in and look forward to! Well, except for a particularly nasty one. Team GO Rocket is up to something, which means we’ll have to crash their plans yet…
Last week’s Special Battle! was a doozy! Part of the first World Count Challenge, the Bowser-centric Special Battle! lasted a full week instead of its usual four-day event. With those extra three days, did Super Mario Bros. 35 players around the world drop the axe on 3.5 million Bowsers? Actually,…
Super Bowl LV may be over a week away, but that hasn’t stopped Psyonix from getting the party started early on Rocket League. Announced via a blog post, the in-game Super Bowl LV Celebration will run from Tuesday, February 2nd to Monday, February 8th, and feature an NFL makeover to…
2020 may have celebrated Pac-Man’s big four-decade anniversary, but the world’s most iconic arcade hero still has so much more in store for this year. Online art dealership and Dutch publisher Cook and Becker partnered with Bandai Namco to release a brand new dedicated Pac-Man art book this upcoming July….
The latest entry in the Lego Star Wars franchise was already shaping up to be a grand celebration of the films, featuring space combat, planets from each film, and an open-world structure. Thanks to an interview in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine, it seems those initial lofty reports…
You may have already saved the gods of Olympus and set the land free from Typhon’s schemes, but work is never done for a demigod — especially when there’s a promotion up for grabs. This latest expansion for Ubisoft’s open-world action-adventure sees Fenyx invited up to Olympus by the gods…
