In one of the final Kickstarter updates before Hollow Knight: Silksong releases (which is still a bizarre sensation to be writing), developer Team Cherry has revealed that the native Switch 2 version of Silksong will be a free upgrade for owners of the Switch port. Since the Kickstarter launched well…
While Capcom has not officially confirmed or denied it yet, a new rumor suggests that Resident Evil Requiem will release on the Nintendo Switch 2 next year. This bit of speculation comes from Dusk Golem, a Resident Evil community member who tends to be correct with predictions and rumors. As…
If you thought some of those bigger Lego sets could be expensive, you’ve seen nothing yet. The Legoleak subreddit reports in a new post that when the first official Pokémon Lego sets release next year, one will be priced at a whopping $650. Set to include 6,838 pieces, the set…
The Super Mario Bros. Movie finally got a proper trailer in November, and while it was stuffed with tons of references and absolutely lovely animation, it missed the one thing we were all looking for – nostalgic low-poly fidelity. Fortunately, artist and animator KingBobGaming has given us what we crave,…
If you’re around my age (give or take a few years), you might have grown up with the Kirby: Right Back At Ya anime on TV. A weekly show where Dedede tried to clobbah that there Kirby with an assortment of monsters, it featured original characters, tie-in to the games…
Out of the blue a new update has dropped for Nintendo Switch Online’s Sega Genesis app, bringing with it four new retro games! The selection is quite the eclectic one, but perhaps the biggest game of the bunch is Columns. This puzzler can be seen as Sega’s answer to Tetris…
The Wonder Boy/Monster World franchise has had a great time on Switch, from remasters of classic titles to an all-new entry. Now it’s set to get a retro love letter as Bliss Games is bringing a bunch of games together from many different platforms. The Wonder Boy Anniversary…
Hoist a sail and set out to sea to save your sister – The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is 20 years old today, having released on December 13th, 2002 in Japan. The third 3D Zelda game made, and the first on a console besides the N64, the game…
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…
