Hot on the heels of the recent release of Magic The Gathering’s massive Final Fantasy crossover set, featuring cards representing characters, events, and places from each mainline Final Fantasy game, Wizards of the Coast has announced today that their video game crossover shenanigans are far from over with the reveal…
While Nintendo Switch 2 stock here in America seems to be mostly acceptable, that hasn’t been the case for other countries. In Japan, in particular, it seems that eager customers have not been able to acquire the console for the past month, which can be frustrating when you want to…
Last night, Nintendo announced that the previously revealed Super Mario Strikers would be heading to NSO’s GameCube app on July 3rd, 2025. As one of the first games announced for the service when Nintendo did its full Switch 2 unveiling, fans were wondering if we’d need to wait eons to…
Today’s Nintendo Direct will be the talk of the internet for quite awhile. As surprising as the big first party announcements so late in the Nintendo Switch’s lifespan are, the most interesting announcement came from Nintendo Switch Online. Starting today, Nintendo is adding a 17+ Mature rating section to the…
One of the bigger surprises during today’s Nintendo Direct was the news that Capcom has joined together with Marvel yet again to (re)license some of their arcade classics. For fighting game fans this is fantastic news and no doubt opens the floodgates for “MvC4 When” type discussions, but Capsule Computers…
Nintendo often forgoes family structure for its games and characters, but it’s brought us a fair share of great dads over the years. Each and every one has a part to play in his game and in our memories of the times we’ve spent playing them — some of us…
Thanks to the incredible efforts of The Video Game History Foundation, we may have just discovered Nintendo’s first-ever US commercial. In the early 80s before the NES was released and Nintendo became synonymous with the idea of video games, The Big N needed to go through different publishers and manufacturers…
A professional Super Mario 64 player has managed to finish the Wii Virtual Console version of the game without once pressing the jump button. The impressive feat, achieved by Twitch streamer Marbler from May 17th to May 21st, took 86 hours of game play to complete. YouTuber Bismuth has an…
2005’s Shadow the Hedgehog has gone down in infamy since it first released, being the game that allowed Sonic’s rival to wield guns and say some relatively light cursewords. It turns out it was almost much, much worse. Jason Griffith, the voice actor for both Sonic and Shadow at the…
Badges have been one of the defining features of Mario RPGs, and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is no exception. If anything it’s the defining standard with its mix of support, attack, and other options. Nestled into that “other” category are a pair of badges that outright change the look…
Two of the earliest video gaming pioneers are joining forces… Kind of. Atari and Intellivision waged one of the earliest console wars in the late ’70s and early ’80s but now, 45 years later, the former is buying the latter, in a manner of speaking. Specifically, Atari has purchased the…
The 2000s were a period of great change for Nintendo. The moderately successful Nintendo 64 made way for the floundering, but beloved, GameCube, while the Game Boy line of handhelds was retired in favor of the smash hit Nintendo DS family. Internally, the company also saw a change in presidency…
When discussing the most influential gaming systems of all time, one name that’s sure to come up in conversation is the Nintendo 64. Debuting in 1996, this innovative home console defined a generation of video games and the laundry list of beloved entries goes on and on. From titles like…
Just a few days ago, a set of four Mother 3 plushies went up for sale and sold out in less than a day! To our surprise, only three days after placing our order, they arrived to us in Wisconsin all the way from Japan! While we could have taken…
It’s hard to fathom it now, but 25 years ago, nobody expected Super Smash Bros. to become a phenomenon. Released towards the end of the N64’s lifecycle, Smash seemed like a fun enough idea that would come and go without much fuss. I don’t recall ever having debates with my…
