With how popular Shantae has become over the years, it’s surprising to learn that one of the games in the series was actually cancelled over 20 years ago. Despite that, Wayforward didn’t give up and would revive the project many years later to create a long-lost interquel for the series….
While home consoles are a widespread and ubiquitous part of the greater video game industry now, it hasn’t always been that way. Video game consoles have their origins from arcade machines, and the transition they made to end up in people’s living rooms was thanks in large part to systems…
As part of today’s financial report for Nintendo, company president Shuntaro Furukawa noted that Nintendo will be considering a price adjustment to the Switch 2 depending on how the situation of President Trump’s tariffs evolves in the coming months. With nobody sure of what the impact will be when Trump’s…
One of the most iconic items in The Legend of Zelda is the Hylian Shield, something Link nearly always ends up wielding by a game’s end. Often it’s something you’ve had all along, or given to you as part of the game’s progression, but not always. Sometimes you have to…
We’ve seen a pretty great lineup of Pokémon ambassadors in Japan over the years. From Geodude, to Slowpoke, to Sandshrew — they’ve all made an impact in the country for a variety of events. The newest ambassador appointee will once again serve a great purpose in true Pokémon theme and…
Pokémon GO Fest 2021 is now over, but thanks to the ticket holders around the world completing at least 24 global challenges, three bonus events have been unlocked. These three Ultra Unlock events are available to all players and today the official Pokémon GO blog published details for the first…
The long-awaited Pokémon MOBA game Pokémon Unite has finally been released for Nintendo Switch, and a new launch trailer is here to accompany it. The trailer is overacting at its finest, but it does give a decent overview of how matches play out, as well as tease the upcoming mobile…
We’re wishing a happy 21st birthday to Waluigi today! Celebrate the WAAAH-nderful occasion by watching our visual timeline of our favorite man in purple:
July 19th marked the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy X. While Square Enix did not throw a massive shebang for their beloved entry in the series, a new two-disc vinyl set featuring a selection of the game’s soundtrack has been unveiled by the company and will be releasing this fall….
Atlus is leaning hard on Shin Megami Tensei V, and I’m here for it. This is the first mainline entry in the series to come after the massive windfall from Persona 5 and its spinoffs, with daily YouTube uploads focused on demons and regular news coming both in the west…
If your arcade roots run deep or you just can’t get enough of cute, hand drawn visuals then there’s an old friend flying onto Switch that’s just dying to meet you. Be sure to bring some sweets though… Cotton Reboot! is available now on both Switch and PlayStation…
There are plenty of ways to experience the Kingdom Hearts series at this point, albeit not on Switch (unless you want to experience the whole saga through music). One method you may not be aware of, though, is the light novel adaptations. The books, written by Tomoco Kanemaki, cover everything…
It’s a dead man’s party in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate this weekend, with skeletons rising from their graves to dance macabre all over the Spirit Board. It’s not just the delightfully decomposed that’re invited either, with any one sporting skeleton motifs or brandishing bones getting in on the skinless soiree….
It’s time at last for Nintendo to give us more bang for our bucks when it comes to Switch Online. I mean, who doesn’t love getting more Super Nintendo Classics on a semi-regular basis? Surely there’ll be one of Nintendo’s own 16-bit masterpieces among the set, right…? Naturally,…
The infamous Nintendo “gigaleak” isn’t a constant presence. Instead, it finds its way onto the internet in chunks, often bringing plenty of insight into the company’s past that has hitherto remained sealed behind closed doors. For preservationists, however, it’s something of a boon to see so much video game history…
