Despite the success Nintendo has been having with the Switch 2, there are a ton of avenues where it seems to be backsliding into corporate overreach this generation. One such is a line in its EULA that gives Nintendo the freedom to brick your Switch 2 console if the company…
Can you believe that the N64 classic Perfect Dark is 25 years old? It actually turned that on May 22, 2025, but now is as good a time as any to remember the impact it had for not only Nintendo, but its developer Rare. The game shifted Nintendo’s image from…
In its quest to become the worst company in America, Microsoft has announced a new round of layoffs for the company today. In a memo sent out to the press as if it’s a time to celebrate, Microsoft revealed it will be laying off around 9,100 employees with the majority…
Just when you thought you’d have a Kirby-free day (aka: an absolute tragedy), Nintendo has announced a trio of SNES title SP versions for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. The pink puffball’s 16-bit library is both excellent and varied, and now players can float right into some of their secrets. …
In the wee hours of the morning today, James Turner (designer of several Pokémon from Gens V through VIII and director of fellow Game Freak games Harmoknight and Tembo the Badass Elephant) announced that he had left GF to form a game studio with Johnathan Biddle called All Possible Futures….
Devolver Digital held its ever-chaotic June presentation today, which as usual was just as much if not more so about the inanity of (the now dead) E3 than actual game footage. But one of the handful of game trailers they showed off was for Cult of the Lamb, a woodland…
Devolver Digital’s Devolver Direct 2022 is kicking off at 3 p.m. PT | 5 p.m. CT | 6 p.m. ET today. Find out what’s what’s in store for Switch by watching on YouTube, available below!
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Feost (how it should be spelled) kicked off today with two hours of horror-themed space shooters, horror-themed space shooters, and… more horror themed space shooters. Everybody wants to make Dead Space all of a sudden, especially former devs behind Dead Space! But we did get a…
At Summer Games Fest 2022, publisher and developer DotEmu revealed a new trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. On top of revealing that the game will debut one week from today on Thursday, June 16th, DotEmu showcased a new 6-player mode (local and online) coming to TMNT: Shredder’s…
Hot on the heels of the ESA’s confirmation that E3 will return next year, it was announced that Summer Game Fest will have both a digital and in-person event in 2023. Geoff Keighley, Summer Game Fest organizer and host, shared the news at the end of today’s Summer Game Fest livestream….
UPDATE (Thursday, June 9th, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. PT): It’s official! The release date was confirmed during Summer Game Fest as well as a new character reveal and six-player mode. The turtle brothers might be ready to fight back as soon as next week. As spotted by Twitter user…
Game Freak’s first-ever westerner to design Pokémon, James Turner, has announced over social media that he has departed from the developer to form his own studio. With the help of his old friend Jonathan Biddle, the two have opened All Possible Futures and will be announcing their first title soon….
Trainers, Community Day is fast approaching! We’ve known the date for June’s Community Day for a few weeks now – after all, Niantic announced the dates for all Community Days taking place during the Season of GO – yet we didn’t know which Pokémon would be in the spotlight. Unova…
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…
So pre-orders for the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Special Edition were supposed to go live on the My Nintendo Store yesterday as an exclusive, presumably since the game and the actual SE contents are going to ship separately (as only revealed on the store page itself) and coordinating that with other…
