Hot off the heels of the Celebi event that took place at Pokémon GO Fest in Chicago last month, those of us who weren’t lucky enough to attend the massive festival are now eligible to snag a Celebi of our very own in the latest Special Research Task released yesterday….
Welcome back to Echo Location, where we shout our picks for Echo Fighters into the wide open gorge of the internet in the hopes that Masahiro Sakurai hears the reverbs on the other side. (If you don’t get that metaphor, don’t worry — I don’t either.) Last time we kicked…
This week marks Gamescom 2018 in Germany and Nintendo’s brought a few new toys for attendees to see up close — specifically the first wave of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate amiibo, featuring Inkling, Ridley, and returning fighter Wolf; and the upcoming Octoling triple pack. Have a look at some shots…
Later this month, Sega is releasing feature-packed versions of its classic games on the Nintendo Switch under the Sega Ages banner. Now, thanks to a Nintendo Dream interview with producer/director Rieko Kodama and supervisor Yousuke Okunari, translated via Nintendo Everything, we know a few more specifics regarding the project. First…
If you were a fan of Rare’s Nintendo 64 shooters you didn’t have many options as the genre evolved during the GameCube era. One little franchise, however, kept the dream alive – TimeSplitters. Developed by Free Radical, a studio put together by former Rare employee David Doak, if featured similar…
Sega as a company has always fascinated me. From the hardware race of the ’90s to their extensive catalogue of properties, they’re right up there with Nintendo in a lot of ways. In the latest issue of Edge, Sega’s chief creative officer Toshihiro Nagoshi shared a lot of history from…
Late last month, Nintendo filed to sue against two ROM websites — LoveROMs and LoveRETRO — seeking $150,000 per copyright infringement and $2 million for each trademark infringement. Considering the number of Nintendo developed and published ROMs hosted on the site (let alone all the games that are on Nintendo…
We’ve known half of the Switch Online Service NES lineup for a while now, and likewise that various games would receive new features. I got most excited for online Dr. Mario, but according to Nintendo of Europe, it sounds like Nintendo’s bringing online to more than just head-to-head titles. …
King K. Rool’s recent introduction to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has brought some new details about Donkey Kong Country into the spotlight. The title was originally going to look something like, “Donkey Kong’s Monkey Mayhem.” King K. Rool first had the title of Kommander, before being promoted by the time…
If given the opportunity to launch something into the stratosphere, to dance among the stars ever so briefly in a show of humanity’s potential, what would you send? If your answer was “the greatest SNES RPG ever made whose localized title makes for good wordplay in that particular instance,” then…
After watching the opening scene in the latest Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct, we wanted to see what Luigi would look like in the original Super Castlevania IV. Here’s what our 16-bit vision of the two games together looks like in our newest video, courtesy of the ever talented pixel…
The only thing more Legendary than the Zelda series itself is just how much it invites discussion, debate, and borderline academic research. It took years and years before we had any kind of official breakdown of how the series progresses from game to game, with only hints and direct sequels…
Ever since the Nintendo Switch’s intuitive dual Joy-Con multiplayer was revealed I’m sure plenty of Windjammers fans have wanted to see the 1994 gem make its way to the system. It seems like modern-day publisher Dotemu has noticed too. Check out this latest trailer: While we don’t have…
Cower before the might of nostalgia, ye puny contemporary gamers — NPD sales for the month of June have been released, and while they contain some tepidly interesting points (Mario Tennis Aces was the best-selling game of the month, and had the highest initial sales of any tennis game ever),…
Evo 2018 is this weekend, and for fighting game fans there’s plenty to see on stream. The official scheduling is now available, and while in my experiences games can sometimes run a little long or their time slots shift slightly, it’s still one of the best resources for knowing when…