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. The…
Nintendo’s popular yet short-lived social networking mobile app, Miitomo, launched in the US 10 years ago today on March 31st, 2016. Notable for being Nintendo’s first-ever mobile game, Miitomo is widely considered an unofficial spinoff of Nintendo’s Tomodachi franchise. It took plenty of inspiration from the quirky social sim series,…
In what I will be labeling as a rumor, it’s been reported that Disney is considering buying Epic Games outright in an effort to expand its gaming profile. During a recent episode of “The Town with Matt Belloni” podcast, tech journalist, and former Verge editor, Alex Heath has claimed that…
Have you ever thrown your action figures against one another as a kid (or hey, as an adult) less out of an imaginative drive to exercise creative thought and more just to see how they bounce off each other? To see the way their plastic clashes and bends mid-air? This…
We’ve all been there, right? We’ll be playing a nice single-player game that’s fun and engaging and we’ll think to ourselves “man, I wish I could play this on my absolutely god awful internet connection. I really need more lag, if not the possibility of being unable to play it…
Rejoice, gay farmers – Rune Factory 5 is selling well, crossing the 500,000 unit mark in sales according to publisher Marvelous’s end of fiscal year report. And given that report is based on numbers from the end of March, where it had been out in NA and EU for only…
We’re less than a month out from players hitting the pitch in Mario Strikers: Battle League, which means it’s time for Nintendo to drum up some hype for the scintillating soccer title. The Big N has released an overview trailer for the game that goes over all the fundamental aspects….
Fans have been waiting a few months to transfer the Sinnoh/Hisui Pokémon into Pokémon HOME and beyond and thankfully an update is almost here. While a specific date has yet to be given, the official Pokémon website details what to expect. For starters, Legends: Arceus, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl…
The PlayStation 2 was one of the best places to be if you were a JRPG fan in the early 2000’s. There were the heavy hitters like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, of course, but there were plenty of unique, smaller franchises worthy of your attention. Okage, anyone? Shadow Hearts…
Last year, Ubisoft’s Chengdu division developed and released Rabbids: Adventure Party in China, and now the party game is finally heading overseas with a new title according to the company’s latest financial report. The game, as the new Party of Legends title suggests, is the typical minigame collection starring the…
We’re getting closer to the end of Pokémon GO’s Season of Alola! That means it’s time to venture to Poni Island and get the next part in this Season’s Special Research Story. In order to kick things off, Niantic is playing off Poni Island’s water-focused areas by bringing back an…
Two musically inclined games appeared today during Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase. One is all about following a band’s journey in the LA music scene and another is part rhythm-based game, part dungeon crawler. Totally different, but both titles are coming to Nintendo Switch and will have your feet tapping to…
Yesterday’s Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Digital Event didn’t waste much time diving right into some new info for the upcoming expansion, granting a new trailer that was then broken down in full. One returning monster and two brand-new variants were introduced this time around. Seregios, the fast-flying and…
The term “sacrificial lamb” is woven into the fabric of our culture, in reference to real life ritual sacrifice of the creatures in ancient religions — but what if one of those lambs was saved by an enigmatic stranger? And then started its own religion to worship the stranger? That’s…
Today’s Indie World was a fairly low key string of announcements, with no last minute stunners or showstopper drops (besides, of course, crabs). As such, the show concluded with some very quick rapid-fire clips of upcoming indie games, including some available today — and a port of a modern masterpiece….
