A couple of weeks back, First 4 Figures announced that it would be making an Isabelle statue for prospective buyers to grab. If you’re still in the market to show off your Animal Crossing love, you can currently pre-order the statue on the company’s website. While the initial announcement said…
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…
The 16th Splatoon 3 Splatfest theme has been revealed and it’s surprisingly dystopian. The citizens of Splatsville, and by extension Nintendo, want to know “what would you do at the world’s end?” The options given are keeping on doing the same ol’ stuff, fulfilling the remaining items on your bucket…
You know Yasunori Mitsuda, right? The beyond legendary composer of Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, most Xeno- games, and countless others. Well, in what is usually a fun, mildly goofy trivia fact, he also composed music for the original Mario Party: which, as it turns out, was a hellish experience. MP…
Halloween isn’t the only holiday involving spooky spirits worth celebrating — October 30th (yesterday) was the 30th anniversary of the release of the very first Shin Megami Tensei game in Japan on the SNES! The Shin Megami Tensei series, which began with the Japanese launch of Shin Megami Tensei…
Yesterday the Brazilian game development team at QUByte Interactive announced a bunch of projects, many of which are set to bring more obscure classic games to modern systems. Perhaps the most noteworthy of the bunch is none other than Glover, the bizarre Nintendo 64-era platformer from 1998. Judging by the…
Update (11/2/22): The N64 icons for Nintendo Switch Online members are now available for the West, as announced by Nintendo of America via Twitter: #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members! Redeem #MyNintendo Platinum Points to get icons from: ✅#SuperMario 64✅#Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards✅The Legend of #Zelda: Majora's Mask✅#N64 Hardware…
Sakurai may have made waves for Nintendo fans with Kirby but it’s Super Smash Bros. that shot the developer into the mainstream. The first game in the series, released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999, is the next game to be spotlit in Sakurai’s ongoing video series The video covers…
Fan tributes come in all shapes and sizes. Whether it’s a simple piece of fanart, a complex re-imagining featuring multiple animators, or anything in between, passion can bleed through the proverbial canvas to reconnect us with the art we love. And there may be no better example of that than…
It’s almost time to take to the skies as one of the Nintendo 64’s launch games is finally heading to the Nintendo Switch Online’s retro library! Pilotwings 64 was a launch game in Japan, North America, and Europe developed collaboratively between Nintendo EAD and the visual technology group Paradigm Simulation….
Masahiro Sakurai has released the latest video on his YouTube Channel, which chronicles his experiences directing Kirby Super Star for the SNES. The third and final 2D Kirby sidescroller he’d direct, the account is full of tidbits — from Shigeru Miyamoto asking him to implement multiplayer, which indirectly led to…
On September 24th, 1992, SNK launched its second fighting game series in the form of Art of Fighting. Originally pitched as a prequel to the iconic Fatal Fury, the game introduced genre elements like its drainable spirit gauge, graphical sprite scaling, and super attacks. To celebrate its recent anniversary, SNK…
Over the month of September Nintendo has been updating its Switch Online selection of icon elements with a variety of classic NES sprites and hardware images. With October fast approaching, the fourth, and presumably final, wave has landed. The games featured this time are Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Excitebike, and…
A fresh batch of Sega Genesis games have been added to Nintendo Switch Online’s library of classics, and this time around we’ve got a beloved Zelda-like, a quirky platformer, and an action packed sorcery simulator. Check out Beyond Oasis, Earthworm Jim, and Alisia Dragoon in the trailer below! …
Masahiro Sakurai’s latest project — a YouTube channel where he releases videos every couple of days exploring various aspects of making games — has been going well, with him releasing vids on everything from Risk vs. Reward in game design to lag to frame rates. One topic he’s begun to…
