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…
A modified version of the global Pokémon Horizons: The Series Celebration event returns this season for Trainers in India and Indonesia. For this month-long event, Trainers will get another chance to catch Pikachu wearing Cap’s hat via surprise encounters and catch reward encounters from Field Research tasks. (For more details…
The sci-fi JRPG sequel Phantasy Star II is beloved by many Sega Genesis fans who played it back in 1990, and its iconic soundtrack by Tokuhiko Uwabo likely plays a large part in its lasting legacy. If you’ve found yourself humming the Step Up theme then you might be interested…
It feels like every couple of months we hear about some long-forgotten game having its hood peeled off to reveal untold secrets, and every time it’s just the coolest thing imaginable. Such is the case with Super Punch-Out!!, originally released in 1994, which just had two huge secrets revealed by…
The World Ends With You remains one of the finest titles on the DS, using the handheld hardware in creative ways while delivering a superb soundtrack and stylish world when it was released 15 years ago. That legacy was continued last year with NEO: The World Ends With You, and…
All eyes are likely on the N64 corner of the Nintendo Switch Online library, but every now and then the SNES side still gets a little something worth celebrating. No, it’s not Super Mario RPG, but it’s a game (two games, in fact!) that puzzle fans and Dream Land denizens…
Remember the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connector? The little USB dongle you’d attach to a computer to hook your Wii and/or DS up to the internet in lieu of a wireless router? There’s a nonzero percent chance that somebody reading this article wasn’t even born until after it became discontinued; that’s how…
According to Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb, a remaster of the Nintendo 64 release of Goldeneye 007 is stuck in release limbo due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Goldeneye is still in limbo because of the war. 1 v 100's team lead left Microsoft. I don't know what…
A couple months back, we reported on animator RwanLink showcasing a project dubbed “Zelda Ocarina of Time Next-Gen” wherein he recreates various locales from the game with super high fidelity graphics in Unreal Engine 5. And despite our pleas to Nintendo to Hire This Man, This Man remains Unhired, and…
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has been out for only a couple weeks, but it’s already crossed an impressive threshold — it’s shipped over 3 million copies, marking a great success for an expansion for an already successful game. Three Lords, three million copies of #Sunbreak shipped! Thank you all…
Fangamer has announced that its catalog of Rare throwback products has once again expanded with new merchandise. Surprisingly, rather than just a handful of original Banjo-Kazooie and Conker items, the company’s collaborative catalog of products is seeing additions from Rare’s golden age Nintendo days. Below, viewers can check out Fangamer’s…
Get those sound stones ready to absorb some of the wonderful moments from Shigesato Itoi’s cult classic game. Hobonichi will be releasing eight dioramas based on EarthBound (Mother 2) in Japan this August. Below, viewers can get a look at the multi-layered papercraft products fans of Ness and the gang’s…
Nintendo has announced the next game addition to its Nintendo 64 library and it’s the beloved puzzler Pokémon Puzzle League. Featuring plenty of clips from the early years of the anime plus instrumentals of classic vocal tracks, it’s definitely a time capsule of the era it released. Panel…
Rejoice, those who were kids (or young at heart) in the late ’00s! After abruptly becoming inaccessible in March due to what Nintendo vaguely described as “maintenance,” the Wii Shop Channel and DSi Shop are both up and operational! … And mostly functionless, as nobody’s been able to buy anything…
