With how popular Shantae has become over the years, it’s surprising to learn that one of the games in the series was actually cancelled over 20 years ago. Despite that, Wayforward didn’t give up and would revive the project many years later to create a long-lost interquel for the series….
While home consoles are a widespread and ubiquitous part of the greater video game industry now, it hasn’t always been that way. Video game consoles have their origins from arcade machines, and the transition they made to end up in people’s living rooms was thanks in large part to systems…
As part of today’s financial report for Nintendo, company president Shuntaro Furukawa noted that Nintendo will be considering a price adjustment to the Switch 2 depending on how the situation of President Trump’s tariffs evolves in the coming months. With nobody sure of what the impact will be when Trump’s…
School’s back in session and the weather’s slowly getting cooler (in some regions, at least), meaning the time of spookiness is upon us all. The North American Pokémon Center is in the process of playing catchup with its Japanese branch, as the Halloween Pumpkin Parade collection that was announced back…
The enhanced port of the 3DS’ Rune Factory 4 is still scheduled for launch later this year, and XSEED has announced that it’ll be receiving a special “Archival Edition”. This big boxed version will include the game, a 160-page artbook featuring pieces from every game in the franchise, the soundtrack,…
Next year the third Mana game, finally given the English title Trials of Mana during E3 alongside a shadowdrop onto the Switch eShop, will be seeing a modern remake with full 3D graphics, voice acting, and more. A collector’s edition was recently announced for Japan, and among the contents is…
The first of what will likely be many announcements scheduled for this week’s Tokyo Game Show has dropped, and it’s a release date for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition. Give the latest trailer a watch below, which also confirms additions to the game like new voice work, extra items,…
The past few years have reiterated that Nintendo is no stranger to redesigning its hardware – the Switch Lite earlier this year confirmed as much. Some new patents have emerged that even more changes coming to Switch hardware too, namely the Joy-Con and Dock. The new Joy-Con design that’s been…
The meteoric drop of a Sans costume into Smash this week has reignited the amount of funny skeleton fan art on the internet this week, but everybody’s favorite pun-cracking bone man has even more content on the way — namely, a new dress-up doll courtesy of Dolk, a Japanese manufacturer…
Did you miss Wednesday’s Direct but not have the 40 minutes on hand to look through the slate of Nintendo news? Worry not — the Big N has you covered with this handy infographic of games covered in the Direct: Click the thumbnail to view the image in its full…
It feels like every time the Pokémon comes up in social media or in a presentation, we learn something new about Alcremie. This upcoming Sword & Shield ‘mon is a Fairy-type delight based on cream, and after its introduction we found out that it goes full layer cake for its…
A few days ago, a mysterious Golden Shovel Knight amiibo appeared at several retailers in North America without a word from Yacht Club Games. Well, it now appears that the gook folks at YCG are ready to break their silence with a detailed look at the new figure. …
It’s been about a month since BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle’s 2.0 announcement that got everyone loving a skull-faced tank, and while the update isn’t due ’til November, we now know when the rest of the nine additional characters will be revealed. According to Arc System Works’ Japanese site, a trailer…
You can pre-order Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition on Amazon today. This week’s Nintendo Direct covered many of the games heading to Switch later this year, but one of the strange omissions was Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition, a bundle of two stylish JRPGs heading to a Nintendo…
Longtime fans of Nintendo were more than pleased to hear that Super Nintendo games would finally be making their way to the company’s Switch Online service during the Direct a few days ago. While we’ve all undoubtedly enjoyed diving into the readily available NES library since the program launched approximately…
