The Splatoon 3 Spring Fest 2024 is set to go live tonight and to get fans excited, Nintendo has uploaded an amazingly cuddly-looking piece of promo art. A three-way Splatfest between Baby Chicks, Li’l Bunnies, and Bear Cubs, I’m not sure it even matters who wins at this point. This…
Those looking forward to Super Nintendo World Japan’s upcoming “Donkey Kong Country” addition this Spring will need to make new plans: the park expansion has been delayed until late 2024. In a post on the official Universal Studios Japan Twitter account, the company confirmed that the opening has been pushed…
If you’re a gigantic fan of the Animal Crossing series, you’ll want to mark May 2, 2024, on your calendars. First 4 Figures, purveyors of all manner of outstanding statues, will be releasing a new Isabelle statue for fans to fawn over. Available in two variants, pre-orders will open on…
The famously-Kickstarted Shovel Knight is returning to the crowd-funding platform — this time in the form of a miniatures board game, Shovel Knight: Dungeon Duels. Shovel Knight: Dungeon Duels is a one-to-four-player “competitive side-scrolling board game” produced by Panda Cult Games in “close cooperation with Yacht Club Games.” From the…
For Sonic’s 10th anniversary, we saw a huge push for the original release of Sonic Adventure 2. For Sonic’s 20th, we got the critically acclaimed Sonic Generations, that celebrated the history of the blue blur. Now, in two years time in 2021, we’ll be celebrating the franchise’s 30th anniversary, and…
While Nintendo’s E3 Direct was packed to the gills with announcements that people had been anticipating, there were a couple of notable absences – one of which happens to be Platinum Games’ Bayonetta 3, announced all the way back in December 2017 with essentially no footage shown since then. But…
And now, for another thrilling edition of “financial nobody but shareholders should really care much about” — The Pokémon Company made a net profit of 124 million US dollars last fiscal year, up 50% from 2017. The 2018 fiscal year was strong likely due to a combination of Pokémon GO’s…
The Nintendo Switch just got the latest experimental game from Game Freak, the creators of Pokémon. It’s a pretty big departure from the monster catching series, being a puzzle-platformer meets Metroidvania set in a post-apocalyptic world. In a recent PlayStation Blog post, game director Masayuki Onoue has discussed the origins…
May! May is the fifth page on the calendar, and it’s my second favorite month of the year. (March is first, if you were wondering.) There’s no major first party title coming from Nintendo in May, so the indies and third parties are really carrying the load for these…
The Heisei Era in Japan is coming to a close, as Emperor Akihito of Japan is set to abdicate on April 30th and bring in the new Reiwa Era. The Heisei Era began all the way back in 1989 with the death of Emperor Hirohito, and over the past 30…
The Nintendo Switch is quickly becoming a safe haven for survival horror junkies, with games like Friday the 13th, Dead by Daylight, and a slew of Resident Evil games crawling onto the portable system later this year. Fortunately the scares don’t stop there, as indie title Darkwood creeps forth from…
March 19th, 1994. On this day in Japan, legendary bounty hunter Samus Aran embarked on one of her most memorable missions to date. Even now 25 years later, the SNES classic Super Metroid ranks high amongst the franchise’s finest, not to mention the greatest and most influential games of our…
Happy Mar10 Day! To celebrate our favorite plumber (or second favorite, if you favor Luigi), we’re ranking the Top 10 Super Mario games of all-time. Before we get started, keep in mind that we’re only counting the games focusing on platforming, so, my apologies to any Super Mario RPG fans…
Say it ain’t so! Sorry, Shovel Knight fans, you’ll have to wait a tad longer before the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Shovel Knight Showdown, and/or the Treasure Trove amiibo 3-pack can be added to your gaming collection. Shared in a blog post over the…
Gaming goes through many different phases. I’d say that we can generally widdle down each of these phases into the confines of one year. For example, 2018 was the year of the single-player, 2017 was the year of the lootbox, etc. One year, however, flies under the radar as one…
