This year’s Pokémon GO Fest event will have a Sun and Moon theme – celebrating the Pokémon Sun and Moon games and Pokémon from the Alola region. Of course, Pokémon GO Fest 2024 will have multiple events – three in-person events and one global event. As an incentive for Trainers,…
During the previous Pokémon GO seasons, Niantic started selling a month-long paid Timed Research ticket (which came with additional month-long bonuses). The paid Timed Research ticket is back, but slightly changed. Instead of buying a ticket for each month, an entire season’s worth of monthly paid Timed Research quests is…
Niantic is bringing back Diancie for all Trainers in a free Special Research Story (similar to the rerelease of Shaymin’s Special Research). For Trainers that didn’t purchase the paid ticket for Pokémon GO Fest 2023, here’s your chance to add Diancie to your Pokédex thanks to the free Glitz and…
2023 is just a few days away, which means that the time for year-end roundups and statistics. And Nintendo is no different – after releasing a tool for us all to reflect on our own playtimes throughout the year, the company has also released its ranking of eShop titles by…
Games preservationists are always working tirelessly to document every detail of development history, down to the minutest grain. Sometimes their findings are relatively humble or even plain. And sometimes there’s just a little nugget of intrigue buried within. Take the latest (or rather, earliest) Nintendo DS prototype discovered, Ver 0.40615…
Masahiro Sakurai is a busy guy. After spending decades making video games, and basically 9 years straight working on just Super Smash Bros., he dedicates most of his time to a YouTube channel where he uploads 2 to 3 videos a week talking about game development. The legendary director recently…
The time for gift-giving may be just about over, but that doesn’t mean the flow of consumer goods has stopped anytime soon. Build-A-Bear Workshop has released yet another Pokėmon plushie in its long line of collaborations, and this is yet another Eeveelution – the final one, in fact (unless/until The…
Update (1/17/23): An English version of the video showing off the basics of gameplay has finally released! It provides fans with glances at role-playing, turn-based combat, the many characters you’ll come across, and the basics for how to play the game. Learn about classes, like Magic and Pegasus Knight, and…
This week on Masahiro Sakurai’s YouTube channel where he discusses the development of video games, the Smash Bros. and Kirby director talked about three subjects: The Potential of One Button [Planning & Game Design] – Sakurai discusses all the potential gameplay you can get out of using just one…
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…
A few months back, shortly before the release of the End of YoRHa it was revealed that NieR Automata would be getting an anime adaptation in 2023. Diverging from the plot of the game in some significant ways, the anime has its first full trailer and an upcoming release date:…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
The Pokémon Fit lineup of plushies (known as “Sitting Cuties” over here) is one of the more extensive ones as far as merch goes, with multiple regions’ worth of plushies released over the years. And now another region joins the pack, with Unovan Pokémon from Pokémon Black and White and…
It’s the holiday season and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are celebrating the winter wonderland in style (though when you think about it, a significant part of the globe is experiencing the opposite of winter right now). Input the Mystery Gift code: HAPPYHOL1DAYS … To receive 50 Ice Tera…
Get ready, Fire Emblem and amiibo fans! Fire Emblem Engage is releasing on January 20th, and the good folks at Nintendo have ensured that amiibo will play a role, although a relatively small one. According to the official Fire Emblem Engage Japanese website, you can expect the following functionality at…
