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…
Dusters. Drawstring bags. Humidifiers. These are simply some of the mundanities of everyday life that have previously not featured Pokémon on them. But now the geniuses at The Pokémon Company have rectified this existential mistake with a new slate of “Everyday Happiness” household goods that feature Pokémon designs. This includes…
Hobonichi – Shigesato Itoi’s company for news, merchandise, and some very well known book planners – is adding some EarthBound related merch that will debut soon at select storefronts across Japan. First is a selection of refrigerator magnets sold separately: Ness, Dr. Saturn, the Ultimate Chimera, and the Worthless Protoplasm….
Another Dragon Quest spinoff is about to make the Nintendo Switch its home, and this time around it’s starring everyone’s favorite thief from Dragon Quest XI, Erik, along with his sister Mia. Set in a time before the events of Dragon Quest XI, Dragon Quest Treasures starts with a young…
It’s time for another excitingly dreadful round of “Nintendo vs. The Internet.” The battlefield is once again YouTube, and in particular the gaming info wizards over at Did You Know Gaming. DYKG released a video on “Heroes of Hyrule,” a DS strategy game pitched by Retro Studios back in the…
The Nintendo Switch has smashed yet another sales record – overtaking the titanic PlayStation 4 to become the fourth best-selling video game console of all-time worldwide. The news comes from VGChartz, who calculates that the console’s Black Friday week sales of just under 1.3 million bring the console’s lifetime total…
Akira Toriyama is one of the most legendary Japanese creatives around. He created Dragon Ball, after all, but video game fans will also remember his contributions to Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger over the years. Now, one of his lesser-known works is seemingly getting the video game treatment, with Bandai…
Nobody on earth is born a gamer. As much as we love to flaunt how we were born with a controller in one hand and… another part of the same controller in the other hand, it’s all taught and encultured throughout our long and rich lives, some coming later to…
It’s been a hot minute since the HD-2D remake of Dragon Quest III and the next entry in the series, Dragon Quest XII, were announced in the middle of 2021 during the franchise’s 35th anniversary. But progress on the two is going swimmingly, according to franchise mastermind Yuji Horii. In…
In what is now a human representation of the film “Morbius,” Yuji Naka, co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, has been arrested for insider trading at Square Enix. For the second time in a month. First game creator in history to make one “morbillion” bucks (via insider trading). The first time…
Recently Square Enix has been embracing YouTube as a platform for official soundtrack downloads, though most of those are purely just the music. This latest project, however, is tying the iconic tunes to video footage. The Video Soundtrack series only includes a few Final Fantasy I tracks right now, namely…
The latest update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has arrived, adding eight new tracks including 3DS Rainbow Road, DS Peach Gardens, and more besides. It turns out that’s not all, though, as an all new menu option has appeared! As Eurogamer reports, an item selection menu has been added. This…
XSEED has announced that the quirky story-focused game Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories will be bringing its retro vibes to Switch next March. The game takes you to Hog Town, a sweet little place filled with eccentric animals, which hides a tale of crime and corruption. Check out the debut trailer…
