Happy birthday Kirby! 33 years ago, Kirby was first created by Masahiro Sakurai, made his first appearance in Kirby’s Dream Land, and nobody could have foreseen his popularity. The pink puffball would go on to headline 30+ games, as well as become one of the original 12 characters of the…
Nintendo has launched firmware 20.0.0 for the Nintendo Switch and introduced its recently unveiled “Virtual Game Card” system to its console. Launching ahead of the Switch 2 this summer, Virtual Game Cards are exactly what they sound like: the ability to treat digital games as cards you can share with…
Fans of the Donkey Kong franchise are likely aware of the infamous “DK Rap” from Donkey Kong 64. Conceived as something of a goof to start off DK’s first 3D outing, the theme was written and composed by legendary composer Grant Kirkhope after being implored by designer George Andreas from…
Out of the blue during today’s Nintendo Direct mini Square Enix shared an all-new game, the fantasy life simulator Harvestella. In Harvestella you’ll tend to crops and chat up townsfolk, but there’s plenty of exploration and combat to partake in too. Not to mention the Quietus, a downright sinister event…
Get ready to Jack In as the classic Game Boy Advance and DS RPG series Mega Man Battle Network is finally being brought back with a Legacy Collection port. The series of games, which takes place in an alternate universe where Mega Man is instead a computer program battling viruses…
The cake may be a lie, but the Portal Companion Collection is 100% true and coming later today on the Nintendo Switch! The game features both Portal 1 and Portal 2 in one head-scratching package. If you’ve never played Portal before, you owe it to yourself to check…
When three Persona games were announced for Xbox platforms earlier this month it was strange to see Switch missing from the line-up. Now we know Atlus and Sega were saving the announcement for today’s Nintendo Direct partner showcase! As confirmed in the presentation, Persona 5 Royal will release for the…
Nintendo’s back to spotlight its third party developers with a new Partner Showcase, which you can watch below: We’ll be sure to have articles focusing on the major releases so be sure to stick around!
Unexpectedly, Millenium Kitchen’s laidback Shin-chan game Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation – The Endless Seven-Day Journey is getting a western release this August from publisher Neos Corporation. Essentially the latest entry in the My Summer Vacation series, which has only had one prior localization in the form of…
Back in 2017, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was the subject of a fairly notable leak, spoiling the surprise but doubling the hype — that’s what happens when you call Peach a badass princess. Now history is repeating itself a bit, as it appears Ubisoft’s own storefront has leaked info…
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…
Even without a full-blown first party Nintendo Direct this week, the rumor mill churns on and on and on — Jeff Grubb, journalist and Giant Bomb contributor who has a good reputation in the industry, claims that a Metroid Prime Remaster is coming our way this holiday season, and that…
Young’uns these days aren’t old enough to remember (or weren’t even born when it happened… god I’m old), but The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker caught a lot of heat back in the day for having a cartoony art style. After a previous demo had shown a more realistic…
June 2022’s Community Day for Pokémon GO is in the books and Niantic is already announcing what’s next. We’ve known the date for July 2022’s Community Day for a few weeks now (Sunday, June 17th, 2022), but we didn’t know which Pokémon would be featured. That changes today with Niantic’s…
Basically every 3D Mario game can be split into one of two categories — a wide open sandbox exploration title where you find Stars (and Star-like objects) throughout a level, like Super Mario Odyssey, and linear “mission-based” titles where each level has a pretty direct course for you to venture…
