Just last September, Splatoon 3 celebrated its two-year anniversary in a spectacular sendoff with the Grand Festival. This celebration also marked the effective ending of the game, with new monthly Splatfest themes coming to a close. While the new content has slowed down, it hasn’t stopped entirely, as the seasonal…
For older Nintendo fans, Space World 2000 is one of the most pivotal moments in the company’s history. The event where Nintendo not only unveiled the GameCube to the public but showcased Super Mario 128 and some ridiculously high-quality 3D renders for a Legend of Zelda prototype, Space World 2000…
Across Nintendo’s vast reach, Mario has quite a few unique games under his belt. While most people tend to focus on the main series entries, there’s many games that fly under the radar for one reason or another. One such oft-forgotten title is Super Mario Run. This mobile-exclusive platformer doesn’t…
One of my all-time favorite trends in the retro gaming scene over the past few years has to be colorization rom hacks of some of my favorite Game Boy games. Just in the past few years, games like Super Mario Land, Pokémon, and countless others have been lovingly enhanced to…
4/20 is a day with a multitude of very dank meanings, but in the world of video games, it’s the anniversary of some very notable and influential titles indeed – which is to say, it’s once again Fire Mother-kami day, wherein we celebrate the anniversaries of Fire Emblem, Mother 3,…
Few Nintendo characters are as obscure as Foreman Spike, the fellow from Wrecking Crew who hasn’t made another appearance in the sprawling multiverse of Mario crossovers in the past three-plus decades – but he’s returning at last on a very big stage, with a small role in the Super Mario…
The Final Fantasy franchise holds a special place in the hearts of gamers worldwide. What began as a passion project by a dedicated team of developers at SquareSoft in Japan has grown into a billion dollar franchise with 16 numbered entries and a plethora of spinoffs, ranging from kart racing…
It’s that time of the month where the rumor mill churns, and the speculation this time is certainly eyebrow-raising – a Famiboards poster has claimed that a remaster of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is headed to Nintendo Switch. The self-described hobby journalist (who in their own account has…
Nostalgia is the greatest graphics filter of all, but sometimes a head-to-head comparison can illuminate the real sharper image – such is the case with this head-to-head graphical comparison for Pokémon Stadium on the N64 vs. the Switch, courtesy of GameXplain: In general, the Switch image is brighter…
Few video game movie adaptations have become as much of a punchline as 1993’s Super Mario Bros., a maelstrom of bad decisions involving fights on set, harried rewrites, drunken actors, and just a general lack of cinematic anything. Nintendo and Mario franchise creator Shigeru Miyamoto weren’t really involved in that…
In a bold move, Dolphin – the well-known emulator of GameCube and Wii hardware – is headed to massive gaming platform Steam. Its release on the platform has a target release date of Q2, and will be free to download, as it is on non-Steam platforms (PC, Mac, Linux, Android). …
When you walk away, you don’t hear me say “it’s Kingdom Hearts 21st anniversary.” Actually, you do, because it is! The first Kingdom Hearts game debuted on the PlayStation 2 in Japan 21 years ago, on March 28th, 2002. Today marks 21 years of Kingdom Hearts! Thank you all…
Sonic and pinball have been interlinked practically since the very beginning, with the blue blur’s ability to roll up into a ball being a perfect match for being flung around with flippers and bumpers. The Sega Genesis’ Sonic Spinball was the first game to focus entirely on that concept, however,…
2023 is shaping up to be a big year for the Mega Man Battle Network series, with all of the original entries getting their own Legacy Collection in just a matter of weeks on April 14th. There’s something else worth celebrating before that big launch day, though. The original Battle…
Gaming archaeologists are always digging up cool and interesting finds, and a particularly old discovery has been made today – a prototype map from Super Mario World all the way from 1989, initially found as part of the Nintendo “gigaleak” of 2020 and freshly de-corrupted by codfish1002: Super Mario…
