Niantic is bringing back the Sustainability Week event for Pokémon GO this year. For 2024, the event is focused more on hatching Pokémon from event 2 km Eggs. Luckily these Eggs will have a shiny hatching boost. Other than that, there aren’t any themed Wild Encounters or Raids. (For more…
Mother fans in Japan are in for a treat! Following the announcement of Mother 3’s arrival on Nintendo Switch Online in Japan (sigh), the Mother Project has unveiled an exciting lineup of all-new Mother 3 plushies to commemorate the occasion. According to the Mother Project webpage, the plushies…
The Splatoon 3 Spring Fest 2024 is set to go live tonight and to get fans excited, Nintendo has uploaded an amazingly cuddly-looking piece of promo art. A three-way Splatfest between Baby Chicks, Li’l Bunnies, and Bear Cubs, I’m not sure it even matters who wins at this point. This…
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Dragon’s Dogma, a game originally released for PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2012, has long had a cult following, which has only grown over time as Capcom has been porting it to new systems. Now, we can add Nintendo Switch to that list. The official Dragon’s Dogma Twitter…
If you’re a fan of Koei Tecmo’s special brand of army-slaying goodness, then the Switch is already the system for you, with more and more games in the Warriors series being ported to the system. Next in line is Samurai Warriors 4 DX, an updated version of the original 2014…
It had previously been all but announced, but we now know for certain – another game from Tomoya Asano, the producer of Bravely Default and Octopath Traveler, is on the way. After a tease in August that suggested more from the Bravely series, @BDFF_OFFICIAL confirmed that a new game is…
We always wonder “what might have been,” especially in regards to cancelled or stopgapped game projects. Case in point: Headcannon, one of the developers behind the excellent Sonic Mania, pitched a Darkwing Duck game to Capcom that was never picked up. The game was styled a bit like Ducktales Remastered,…
In the hazy smoke of the console wars, it’s easy to forget that while certain fans cling to their consoles of choice like monotheistic idols, the vast majority of actual game devs are enjoying each other’s work. Case in point — Raf Grassetti, art director of God of War…
The Humble Store and their well known Bundles have been tempting my wallet for years now. While those deals have always catered most to PC gamers, console titles have been featured before, and in the past some Nindie offerings have cropped up to boost up 3DS and Wii U libraries….
The holidays are wrapping up and the only thing hotter than a well wooded fireplace has gotta be the ink splashin’ action going on in Splatoon 2. After a long weekend, we’ve got a winner for the game’s Frosty Fest, which asked players to fight over who they like to…
Nintendo has had a long history battling console modding, with players busting apart the code and tinkering away inside. Some may do it for research, to get past region locking, or to enable homebrew apps, while others are less scrupulous, instead using the opportunity to pirate games and bypass security…
Later this week, one of the most well-regarded games in the Tales of series will finally hit a Nintendo system, with Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition. To celebrate the updated re-release, Bandai Namco is hosting a special launch day live stream. Cosplayer and streamer Fruitcake will be joined by producer…
Happy New Year, Nintendo fans! It’s 2019, and there’s just so much to look forward to on Switch this year. January starts things off right, with plenty of exciting titles coming your way soon! January 10 There may not be a Virtual Console in Switch in the conventional sense, but…
One of the best, most recurring Nintendo easter eggs is whenever “Totaka’s Song” pops up. Usually well hidden or requiring direct player input (or rather, a lack thereof) to start it up, this latest discovery of it comes from a game that already featured the song in a different spot….
