With Pokémon GO’s GO Wild Area event over and the Season of Max out about to end, there’s one more event Niantic has planned. To send off the season, more Galar region Pokémon debut and some return in Raids. (For more details about the Season of Max Out, you can…
Just a few weeks back, we learned from a VGC interview that Sega was planning on releasing a new Virtua Fighter game. While the hope was that it would be a proper Virtua Fighter 6, it turns out that the masters over at Sega AM2 don’t know how to go…
We’re officially less than a month away from the launch of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Paramount has just dropped our best look at the film yet! The latest trailer, running over two minutes long, is packed with a Chao Garden-themed restaurant, a Pokémon joke, and Shadow wielding a freaking…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Tank Troopers rolls out, Bob gets incepted, and persons of lordly caliber invade Wii U Virtual Consoles. I hope you’ve been diligently saving up some Gil, as a small Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary sale breaks up the recent dry spell plaguing the eShop over…
When one thinks of the best 2D Zelda game, the competition is generally considered to be quite limited. A Link to the Past reigns supreme as the favorite of the franchise for many, and while there are significant factions that dig the poignant surreal nature of Link’s Awakening or the…
Grab your best wisecracking donkey pal: Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber invades North American Wii U Virtual Consoles tomorrow! Much like a certain swamp dwelling green giant, this third entry in the beloved Ogre Battle series has many layers of personality and charm hidden beneath its monstrously intimidating…
Ah, Valentine’s Day once again, and that means love is in the air. In the wide worlds of Nintendo there’ve been plenty of examples: be they platonic, friendly, romantic, or so ill defined that we’re still trying to figure exactly what the relationships are. But hey, that’s alright, and we…
Recently, Nintendo revealed two new features for its upcoming multiplayer shooter Splatoon 2: a spectator mode and wired LAN battles. At a glance, these appear to be just a couple more friendly features for the upcoming title, ones that had a slight bent towards more local gameplay with friends. But…
With the year still being so fresh there’s something on many people’s minds: Time. Is there enough to stand by our New Year resolutions? Will the unknown future be better than the present? Could things have been done differently in the past? Questions that no one really has an answer…
I was very, very young when I first laid eyes upon The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I had gone over to my neighbor’s house for reasons I can’t remember, and watched as he pulled out a N64 with the cartridge already inside. He casually tossed me the strategy…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Azure Striker Gunvolt gets animated, Parascientific Escape has a second premonition, and Donkey Kong throws a tantrum in a toy factory. Where’s good ‘ol Atlus when you need them? The cobwebs and tumbleweeds continue to build up in the eShop’s discount aisle this week….
UPDATE: Adi Shankar, producer of movies like Dredd and The Grey, went on record last year saying he was working with Fred Seibert of Frederator Studios on a “Super violent Castlevania mini-series.” Should be an amazing show! Konami’s hit video game series Castlevania is making its way to Netflix later…
Non-3DS Ambassadors rejoice! 2004’s old school inspired puzzler Mario vs Donkey Kong finally winds up on North American Wii U Virtual Consoles! Spiritual successor to 1994’s Game Boy masterpiece, Mario vs Donkey Kong casts players once again as the world’s most negligent plumber in pursuit of something other than repairing…
Link’s Awakening is without a doubt the most surreal, whimsical and influential entry in the entire Zelda franchise. It’s also one of the more grossly underappreciated ones, ironically overshadowed and sandwiched smack dab in the middle of what many consider to be the green-garbed hero’s most legendary 2D and 3D…
Fans of classic Japanese strategy RPGs rejoice! Ogre Battle 64 is heading to the Wii U eShop in Europe this Thursday. The third main entry in the Ogre franchise that started on the SNES, developed by the Quest Corporation, Ogre Battle 64 casts you as the up-and-coming captain Magnus Gallant…
