When taking a look at where mainstream gaming got its start, one commonality makes itself apparent: the platformer genre. There’s been countless titles to use this formula over the years, and while many are still going strong in the modern day, many likewise have fallen to the wayside. There is…
During yesterday’s Pokémon Day festivities, a new trailer for the upcoming Nintendo Switch game Pokémon Legends: Z-A was showcased which gives us our best look at the game yet. After a year or so of silence, we now can see that Legends: Z-A isn’t deviating too much from what made…
Update: Nintendo of America and Nintendo or Europe have also confirmed it will be removing Super Soccer from the Nintendo Switch Online catalog on March 28th. In a rather surprising bit of news today, Nintendo of Japan has announced that one of the retro titles available through…
With a Nintendo Switch release of Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time finally having been announced this week, you may be wondering just how the port will hold up compared to its PlayStation 4 and Xbox One counterparts. Speaking to Nintendo Life, Toys for Bob Creative Producer Lou Studdert shared…
UPDATE: With regards to the week starting February 22nd, the official Pokémon press site has been updated with confirmation that “fans can expect more announcements that week from across the franchise.” This year’s Pokémon anniversary celebrations on February 27th are set to be a bit more unusual. In this new…
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town is hitting Japan in just a matter of weeks and in the run-up the Japanese let’s play channel HikakinGames has had the chance to take the game for a spin. Forty minutes of gameplay are shown, in-between various skits, giving us a better…
It’s that time of year once again. Loads of brand new figures and statues have been announced from the good folks at GoodSmile at the annual WonHobby Convention in Japan! This year, we get a handful of statues that Nintendo fans are bound to enjoy; like Nia From Xenoblade Chronicles…
Few Star Wars games have the fans longing for a sequel with the same intensity as Star Wars: Republic Commando. Perhaps it’s due to its gritty and dark setting, or because it’s one of the few first-person shooters set in the galaxy far, far away. In this writer’s opinion, it’s…
Nintendo fans from the olden days will remember Howard Phillips. The man was a staple of Nintendo Power Magazine, being featured as a Gamemaster and co-starring in the Howard and Nester comicstrips within the publication. What many fans may not know is that Howard played an important role in the…
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury won’t release until this Friday, but that hasn’t stopped the tech savants over at Digital Foundry from going under the hood of Mario’s latest adventure. In this new video, the team gets into the nitty-gritty of the game’s upgraded performance while playing in…
Whether you’re an avid pursuer of Power Stars or elemental critters when it comes to Nintendo gaming, both Mario and Pokemon fans have cause to celebrate today following Sanei Boeki’s newly announced merch lineups. First up are a new line of Super Mario All Star Collection plushies, including power-ups (Super…
In the latest quarterly earnings report from Ubisoft, the publisher revealed some pretty outstanding metrics that place the company in a very healthy place. Of note, the report states that Ubisoft was the leading publisher in terms of unit sales in 2020 on all platforms combined, the top third-party publisher…
So many events and conventions have been cancelled over the past year, however, BlizzCon 2021 is thankfully not one of them. The convention, which has been changed from a traditionally in-person affair to being completely online, will officially begin on Friday, February 19th, at 2 p.m. PST. BlizzConline, as it’s…
The Outer Worlds’ Peril on Gorgon expansion DLC is now available to download and play on Nintendo Switch. The expansion adds a brand-new planet for players to explore called Gorgon while also raising the in-game level cap, introducing three new science weapons, new armor sets, and new creature variants to…
Over the last year, the growing popularity and demand for the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) has reached almost ‘90s “Pokémania” levels. Whether it’s cards from previous releases being sold for six-figures at online auctions, scalpers buying up current inventory and reselling (or attempting to do so), and even the…
