After a few years of running a YouTube channel dedicated to game development tips and insights, Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai has finally hung up the reins. In his final video, he not only shared some extra insight about what he hopes to achieve with any new projects, but Sakurai…
It’s official! After a long wait, Dotemu has finally confirmed that Metal Slug Tactics will be launching on Nintendo Switch, PS4/PS5, Xbox, and Steam on November 5th. Check out the announcement trailer below! Unlike other entries in the Metal Slug franchise, Metal Slug Tactics brings turn-based combat while…
The yearly Halloween event is back and Pokémon GO and is once again split into two parts. For Halloween Part I, Morpeko and Dynamax Gastly debut. Some Costumed Pokémon will be available early, but they’re paywalled behind two paid Timed Research quests. The Halloween 2024 Part II event will start…
The launch of Pokémon GO has been innumerably successful for Niantic, The Pokémon Company and Nintendo. More and more records and statistics each day show that – and this may be the most impressive one yet, as GO is the fastest mobile game to 10 million worldwide downloads, achieving the…
As Pokémon GO continues to spread like wildfire there’s still one country conspicuous in its lack of the mobile phenomenon that’s managed to up Nintendo’s stock by huge factors in less than a month. Due to wanting to have a smooth launch and concerns over the servers, Japan still doesn’t…
Grab some overalls and slip on your best Goomba stomping shoes: Six 8-bit Mario Bros. catchers are returning to the Nintendo Badge Arcade today! Free play? Nothing. Nada. Nichts. Practice catcher: Zelda badges continue to drop like Keeses in a slingshot factory, as five more catchers in the legendary series…
In the final months before the NX is formally unveiled, the once hyperactive rumor mill seems to have ground to a halt. In a way, it’s been a nice change of pace, as most of the rumors that came along turned out to be admitted hoaxes or didn’t have much…
When the original Super Smash Bros. came out I felt like the coolest kid in school. Sure, everyone knew who Mario and Pikachu were, but I was able to tell anyone who’d listen (and several that wouldn’t) who Fox was, or why Kirby was so important. I knew the roster…
Knowing me for any period of time will inevitably lead to the realization that I absolutely adore the Kirby series. Plenty of that will come to light in any of my other entries in this celebratory miniseries, but every love has a beginning. For me, that beginning was Kirby’s Dream…
We have been speculating about the Nintendo NX for over a year now and yet we’re still very unclear on the details, but one of the most prevalent rumors making its way around the internet was that it would be a hybrid of console and handheld in some form. Now…
To those who love posable figures and dramatic lawyer simulators, you’re in luck. A Phoenix Wright Figma was announced today, which will be the first Figma from the Ace Attorney series to be produced. To those unaware, Figma are a series of posaable figures produced by Max Factory and distributed…
Given that it’s attained a massive popularity and prestige in the West only within the last few years, it’s easy to forget that Fire Emblem games have been around since the Famicom days. Until the series’ seventh entry (Rekka no Ken/Blazing Sword, known simply as Fire Emblem in the West),…
Solitaire and horse racing are two concepts one normally wouldn’t associate with one other. At first, it sounds like an imperfect pair: peanut butter and cement mix; peaches and bleach; Paper Mario and stickers. However, with Pocket Card Jockey, Pokémon developer Game Freak has once again proven that sometimes the…
Last week’s investors meeting provided the gaming world with a lot of new information regarding the future of Nintendo in terms of games, the direction mobile plans are headed in, what we should expect at this year’s E3, and (most interestingly) information about the NX. The new hardware’s release window–…
In light of Nintendo’s financial meeting with investors yesterday, the company’s share prices have dropped nearly 6% since last week. This news shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been following Nintendo’s stock prices as of late, as the they have consistently been falling since November of 2015,…
