With the Nintendo Switch 2 now less than a month away, there’s a lot to look forward to. Amidst the news of new games and Switch 2 editions, there are lots of more subtle improvements that many didn’t consider. One of those being the list of default profile icons, a…
It’s no surprise that GameStop has been declining in sales over the last few years. With many people shifting over to digital games and the impact of COVID-19 still being felt, it’s honestly a surprise that GameStop has lasted this long without being snatched up by another corporation. In Canada,…
Since the unveiling of the Switch 2 last month, Nintendo has been hosting a series of videos it calls “Creator’s Voice” for new games coming to its platform. The latest in that line of videos features Square Enix’s Naoki Hamaguchi, series director for Final Fantasy VII Remake and its sequels….
The world of games criticism (and even casual discussion of the medium) is filled with “-likes.” Roguelikes, Soulslikes… we call Metroidvanias Metroidvanias because we had two examples to pick from instead of just one. Even first person shooters were once upon a time simply called “DOOM Clones.” The reasoning for…
Over the month of September Nintendo has been updating its Switch Online selection of icon elements with a variety of classic NES sprites and hardware images. With October fast approaching, the fourth, and presumably final, wave has landed. The games featured this time are Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Excitebike, and…
Back in June Capcom Fighting Collection released, bringing a bunch of classic arcade brawlers, and one puzzle game, to Switch. We thought it was quite fun in our review, and now it’s been given a major update! While there aren’t any huge additions, a lot of small tweaks have been…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before — a cozy, wholesome simulator game where you get off a train and live in a town full of cute cartoon animal people. Okay, maybe not the most original premise in the world, but Hokko Life from Team 17 fleshes out the…
It was a sad state of affairs as earlier this year it was announced that Dragalia Lost, the 2018 Nintendo/Cygames mobile action RPG, would be ending service. The game hosted its final update in July of this year, and it was announced last month it would be shutting down at…
He’s large, in charge, and has the heft of a barge (rhymes are hard, okay) — King Dedede is the latest First 4 Figures Resin statue up for pre-order, specifically in two incarnations: his usual hammer-wielding persona and his more pro-wrestling-inspired Masked Dedede look. He strikes the same hefted pose…
She’s the mightiest bounty hunter the galaxy has known — and on this mission, it’s personal (actually, it’s been personal on a lot of her missions when you stop and think about it). Samus Aran has received yet another figma from Good Smile based on her initial suit in Metroid…
The long-awaited The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero has finally gotten an official English release over a decade on from its original 2010 Japanese launch, with the game arriving on Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC from today. Set in the Crossbell region, the game follows a different cast of…
In recent years the publisher eastasiasoft has been making an effort to release a number of games outside of its titular region, with both the Xuan-Yuan Sword and Sword and Fairy RPG series in particular standing out. Today, the company made a batch of announcements for Switch ports, including two…
It’s a natural course for fan projects to name themselves as sequels to the franchises they’re based upon. How many Star Wars home films back in the day were named Episode VII decades before Disney actually made that a real thing? It’s not a surprise then that Nintendo fan and…
Healthy news on the squiddy sales front — Splatoon 3, the big Nintendo release of the month, is still going strong in the UK, where for the third week in a row it’s been the top selling boxed retail game. This is a sign of presumed longevity for the title,…
We’re about a month off from the release of Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, which mean it’s time for the companies involved to focus on what really matters (to them): merchandising. As one might imagine for a game so heavily focused upon the eponymous mascots, the merchandise in question…
