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…
Splatoon has quickly become one of Nintendo’s most popular franchises, with three games being released so far, a plethora of merchandise and collabs under its belt, and numerous mangas available to the masses over the years. Nintendo of Japan has now revealed that a new app featuring the Splatoon manga…
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,…
After the much needed success of Awakening, the launch of Fire Emblem Fates was a more highly anticipated release for many. With over 300,000 units sold over the weekend, it’s officially the best Fire Emblem opening in America by a large margin. This amounts to five times as much as…
In following with the Pokémon trend for this month, and this year, Medicom Toy has just announced a new Pokémon figure of Cynthia under the PPP (Perfect Posing Products) line. The figure features Cynthia, our favorite Sinnoh Champion, with her ferocious looking Garchomp. Or, the top half of him, anyway….
The celebration of Pokémon’s 20th anniversary continues as a new Pokémon Photo Booth app is released for iOS. The free app will allow fans to show their Pokémon spirit by creating custom Pokémon themed portraits of themselves. Users can choose from a variety of different old school Pokémon Red/Blue captions…
The Pokémon Company has decided to really treat us to quite a day on Saturday! All day on the 27th, special events will be taking place in celebration of Pokémon Day, all on top of the month and even year-long celebrations that are taking place. If you decide to log…
Sate your badge hunger with this Tomodachi Life catcher– here today and gone tomorrow in the Nintendo Badge Arcade! Free play?: No. Practice catcher: Today is also the final day for the retro Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda badges, so be sure to grab those if you’ve…
Get ready, Pokémon Trainers! In celebration of Pokémon’s 20th anniversary, Nintendo has taken to social media accounts around the world to announce that a Pokémon themed Nintendo Direct is coming this Friday! The Pokémon Direct will be approximately five minutes in length and its contents are currently unknown. This could…
Barbara the Bat, a character from the Japanese music game Daigasso! Band Brothers, is coming to Super Mario Maker. Daigasso! Band Brothers was released only in Japan all the way back in 2004 so many Western gamers may not recognize this Super Mario Maker newcomer. To get a closer glimpse…
Kirby is all geared up to adorn your home or workplace with these new wall outlet and switch panels being sold on Runatown, a Japanese store that sells a load of cute character items. Up for sale on the page are four varieties of panel designs featuring old school Kirby…
UPDATE (2/23): Sega announced that all first print copies of Sega’s 7th Dragon III Code: VFD will include a gorgeous 28 page art book. The book will give fans “a closer look at the design work that went in to creating the game’s esoteric character classes, ferocious dragons, vile monsters,…
With an update a bit on the smaller side today, the Badge Arcade’s gotten a single new Pikmin themed catcher that didn’t appear in yesterday’s update. Additionally, in replacement of the veggies catcher that was featured yesterday is a seafood catcher! This catcher is only available for today though, so…
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a long-awaited return to the classics that every fan of “The Blue Bomber” has been waiting for. Never having played a Mega Man game in the past, I decided to tackle this game head on and see what all the hype and excitement was about–…
The popular Pokémon spin-off game originally released for the Nintendo DS, Pokémon Ranger, will be getting a Virtual Console release this Thursday in Europe. However, contrary to what you might think, Ranger is not coming out for the 3DS Virtual Console but instead the Virtual Console on the Wii U,…
