With the Nintendo Switch 2’s release closer than ever, pretty much everything there is to know about the system has been made public. Even prior to the official reveal there was a good amount of features known due to leaks, like the new C button. That being said, all these…
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 one would expect from the Nintendo Switch 2 featuring mouse functionality with its controllers, players can navigate the Switch 2 home menu with the Joy-Con 2’s mouse mode. The company released a short video showcasing this functionality over the weekend, and it works exactly as you would expect. You…
Arriving just in time for the new Idle Beats garden event, DJ KK’s Beat Booth, and Cherry’s rockin’ cookie is an all new rock-star themed clothing collection. These new items you can craft will quickly transform you into the edgy star of a rock concert! Have a look at the…
DJ KK is here to make all our lives a little more musical in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp! If you adore this pupper as much as I do, you’re going to love what he has in store for us all in this new garden event. You’ll be collecting riffbats this…
If you’ve been out and about in the past 24 hours playing Pokémon GO, and noticed an influx of Ground-type Pokémon, you’re not going crazy. Niantic is following through with more promises and more bonuses, and as celebration for all the Trainers out there who participated in Earth Day cleanups…
In recent years, Sega has had something of a resurgence. 2D Sonic finally returned in style with the critically acclaimed Mania, Yakuza finally went mainstream, Atlus released several major titles after being brought under the umbrella, and the company’s history has started to be thoughtfully cataloged with the likes of…
Well, it’s finally here – the Sonic the Hedgehog movie has its first trailer. Watch the blue blur in live-action below, complete with Gangster’s Paradise, for some reason. The Sonic movie will hit theaters this November.
Sinnoh’s legendary trio has finally popped up in Pokémon GO, but Niantic is breaking the mold when it comes to their distribution. Rather than having them be top-level raids, Azelf, Mesprit and Uxie have started cropping up in the wild, but they’re very rare finds. Hmm. We’ve been hearing…
The marketing team over at the French branch of Pokémon: Detective Pikachu is bringing us one pika-pika of an idea. Introducing the “Pika Translator” browser extension! Once the extension is downloaded for Chrome, you can translate the entire page into an onslaught of “Pika! Pika!”s. No “Chu”s, “Pi”s, or…
Have you ever been playing Super Mario 64, happy to finally be fighting Bowser once again in a battle that’s both familiar and satisfying? All things considered, it’s not a particularly tough fight, and the mechanics are easy enough. You knock Bowser down, you pick him up by his tail,…
Another day, another interview. The press tour for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu is still going strong. Fielding questions from entertainment news outlets and film aficionados, the Pokémon Company is starting to publish their pieces with Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, and Ryan Reynolds. Interviewing Justice and Kathryn together, the pair were asked…
Mortal Kombat 11 is like a perfect distillation of the modern AAA game industry. It’s a tug of war between game designers, artists, producers, and distributors. While the gameplay is the best it’s ever been, almost everything that happens when there isn’t a health bar on screen feels like it…
This year has two major video game movies coming out – Detective Pikachu, which seems to have won a lot of people over, lands in under two weeks, while Sonic the Hedgehog’s live action hybrid has been baffling fans with leaks for months now. It looks like the wait is…
There’s been a bit of concern and consternation over some of Splatoon 2’s latest gear. While the game has drowned fans in free updates and equipment in the past, this latest batch (born via a fan contest with Japanese magazine and Pokémon infomine CoroCoro) has some squid kids in a…
