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  • 0 / July 7th, 2025 / Abbie Maxwell

    Blurred Footage Reveals Donkey Kong 64 & Smash Bros. May Be Headed to Nintendo Switch Online


  • 0 / June 30th, 2025 / Peter Glagowski

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  • 0 / June 27th, 2025 / Peter Glagowski

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  • 0 / May 29th, 2025 / Jason Ganos

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    The Nintendo 64 is one of the most beloved consoles Nintendo has ever released. Ever since it made its way to the Nintendo Switch Online service, fans have been eagerly awaiting the addition of more and more iconic games to the library. Now almost four years later, the total list…

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    July 7th, 2025

  • Pokémon GO Raid Hour for Wednesday, July 9th, 2025

    Raid Hour (also referred to as Legendary Raid Hour) started as an experiment in March 2019. Initially called Legendary Lunch Hour, Niantic set aside an hour on Wednesdays for Pokémon GO Trainers to find 5-Star (Legendary) Raids easier by increasing the appearance rates. After further testing, Raid Hour was renamed…

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  • Pokémon GO Spotlight Hour for Tuesday, July 8th, 2025

    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,…

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May 29th, 2023 0

Square Enix announces new Dragon Quest Monsters game for Switch

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Retro, Switch

The very first Dragon Quest Monsters spin-off game hit the Game Boy Color in Japan way back in 1998, meaning this September the series will be celebrating its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Square Enix has shared a new video that runs down all of the games that make…

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May 25th, 2023 0

Check out the world’s smallest GameCube, built to be the size of a Game Boy cartridge

Author: Amelia Fruzzetti
Categories: News, Retro

Console modding is always fun, fine-tuned, and fascinating, and we have a really bite-sized (but extremely dense) example here: a tiny GameCube, dubbed the GameCube Nano, built with actual Nintendo hardware and laborious care.     Made by Macho Nacho Productions, the console utilizes the GameCube tech found in a…

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May 22nd, 2023 0

Zelda leads finally weigh in on pressing question: Which Link is the smelliest?

Author: Amelia Fruzzetti
Categories: News, Retro, Switch

Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma and Tears of the Kingdom director Hidemaro Fujibayashi have been making the interview rounds lately, discussing all manner of burning question about the Zelda series, the making of their new game, and more. But now in a Wired interview they answer the most important query…

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May 19th, 2023 0

Sakurai discusses the creation of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and why he doesn’t think the series gels with online play particularly well

Author: Amelia Fruzzetti
Categories: News, Retro

As part of his continued series of videos on making games, Sakurai took time to discuss the creation of Super Smash Bros. Brawl in depth. He was approached by Satoru Iwata to make the game just after the reveal of the Wii in 2005, when Sakurai had just become an…

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May 19th, 2023 0

Three more Super Mario Advance titles heading to Nintendo Switch Online

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Retro, Switch

The Game Boy Advance library available to Nintendo Switch Expansion Pack subscribers will be getting another update next week and it’s bringing with it some familiar favorites. While you have the option to play their originals on Switch already via the NES and SNES libraries, the Super Mario Advance versions…

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May 17th, 2023 0

Super Mario Sunshine logo’s vacationing spot discovered

Author: Amelia Fruzzetti
Categories: News, Retro

You remember the Super Mario Sunshine logo, right? A classic display of GameCube-era color and bubbliness, with the sun-shaped O, palm tree, and rainbow squiggle underneath the title; as far as GameCube title graphics go it’s a top tenner for sure. Anyway, we long assumed that the nice blue-aqua background…

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May 15th, 2023 0

Reggie Fils-Aimé uses Mother’s Day to recycle Mother 3 jab in increasingly tired running joke

Author: Amelia Fruzzetti
Categories: News, Retro

It was almost nine years ago now – Nintendo’s E3 2014 Robot Chicken sketch was rolling along when a random strawman annoying reporter pleads “Come on, Reggie, give us Mother 3!” at which point then-Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aimé replies “how about this instead?” and powers up with a Fire Flower…

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May 10th, 2023 0

Binder full of original 1999 Pokémon Trading Cards appraised on Antiques Roadshow

Author: Amelia Fruzzetti
Categories: News, Retro

We’ve all dreamed of holding onto our original Pokémon cards from the late ’90s to the present day before selling them for big bucks, but now we get to see that play out in reality – Antiques Roadshow, PBS bastion of hunting around America for rare items, recently appraised a…

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May 2nd, 2023 0

Lesser known CD-i title Zelda’s Adventure gets faithful Game Boy fan remake

Author: Amelia Fruzzetti
Categories: News, Retro

Thanks in large part to a burgeoning genre of early Youtube video, Zelda CD-i titles have become iconically infamous to entire generations of fans – or at least, two of them did. The nightmarish animation of Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon is burned into the…

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April 27th, 2023 0

Mother project reveals EarthBound yo-yo, skateboard, and other “street” products

Author: Amelia Fruzzetti
Categories: News, Merchandise, Retro

EarthBound is a game infused with a very particular depiction of youth culture, being a 90’s Japanese game that pastiches 50’s Americana. And now some of that flavor bleeds into real life – for this year’s “Pleasure of Life” exhibition run by Hobonichi, the company will be revealing a lineup…

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April 27th, 2023 0

Masahiro Sakurai shares Kirby’s Dreamland Development Secrets to celebrate his 100th video

Author: Jason Ganos
Categories: News, Retro

As a Nintendo fan for over 30 years, the story of Kirby has become one of my all-time favorite Nintendo tales. The little pink puffball has been on countless adventures over several decades, from his debut on the Game Boy classic Kirby’s Dream Land to more unconventional titles like Tilt…

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April 24th, 2023 0

Beautiful Kirby’s Dreamland 2 rom hack adds a world of color to the Game Boy classic

Author: Jason Ganos
Categories: News, Retro

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…

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