As promised a few weeks ago, Nintendo has announced a new Direct focusing on Nintendo Switch games! The show will air at 7 a.m. PT and be sure to check back here for all the updates. Join us for a #NintendoDirect livestream focused on #NintendoSwitch games coming in the…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
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…
Oh, how I’ve missed the big, stupid noses of Snowboard Kids. These fan favorites from the N64 days are known for that signature aesthetic and unique twists on familiar kart racing gameplay, but they’ve got another thing going — their soundtracks! In the absence of any news on re-releases (or…
Is it time for the crystal comeback? The Pixel Remasters of Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV, V, and VI, which all released on Steam earlier this year, appear to be headed to both PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, with listings on the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB, the rating…
Hobonichi – Shigesato Itoi’s company for news, merchandise, and some very well known book planners – is adding some EarthBound related merch that will debut soon at select storefronts across Japan. First is a selection of refrigerator magnets sold separately: Ness, Dr. Saturn, the Ultimate Chimera, and the Worthless Protoplasm….
Recently Square Enix has been embracing YouTube as a platform for official soundtrack downloads, though most of those are purely just the music. This latest project, however, is tying the iconic tunes to video footage. The Video Soundtrack series only includes a few Final Fantasy I tracks right now, namely…
The SNES era was a golden age of RPGs for Square, with titans like Chrono Trigger, Live A Live, and Super Mario RPG pushing the boundaries of video game storytelling during the medium’s adolescence. And of course the series at the forefront of this was the legendary Final Fantasy franchise,…
If you are a ’80s or ’90s kid, chances are you know a thing or two about Tiger Electronics and the famous Tiger Handhelds. They were cheap, they were hard to play, but gosh darn it, we loved them — I did, at least. For those of you out of…
The quarterly report for the first half of the fiscal year continues, as Nintendo has published a summary of a recent investor Q&A with head honchos of the company, from President Shuntaro Furukawa to Director Shinya Takahashi. One of the questions asked dealt with previous software being playable on current…
Few games are more cult classic this point than Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the DS mystery adventure game by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi. Despite a huge amount of love from basically everyone who’s ever played it, the game has lied dormant since its release year of 2010 — until…
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…
