Alongside the myriad of announcements this morning from the Switch 2 Direct was the confirmation that certain Nintendo Switch titles would be getting enhanced Nintendo Switch 2 Editions. First up for the enhancement process are two of the Switch’s biggest titles, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and…
Not revealed in today’s Direct, Nintendo has a new wrinkle in store for publishers that opt to sell physical games without the physical component. For anyone looking to sell a “key-in-a-box,” Nintendo has a brand-new option: the Switch 2 Game-Key card. As the name suggests, this will be a Switch…
Mario Kart World, the newest entry in the Mario Kart franchise and the first new console game in over a decade, races on to Switch 2 in just two months! First teased back in January for the Switch 2 reveal, Mario Kart World was the first trailer shown off in…
Not only are The Simpsons arguably America’s favorite animated family ever, the iconic franchise spawned what may be one of the greatest licensed video games ever in 2003 with the launch of The Simpsons: Hit & Run. You need only look at the widespread outcry for a remaster, the endless…
There are very few items from Pokémon lore as memorable as the one million yen bike from Pokémon Red and Blue. It was iconic, it was fast, it was super expensive. Luckily for you (if you’re in Japan at least), The Pokémon Company has announced that it’s giving out ONE…
Namco is one of the oldest video game companies around, producing some of the most iconic arcade games of the medium’s golden age. Although it’s now joined at the hip with Bandai, the company still celebrates that legacy, and now it’s opened up its artwork vault to share some history….
It’s no secret that I have a huge soft spot for the Nintendo 64, and even now, nearly 25 years later, I get excited anytime I find something new or unusual discovered or created for the console. Whether it’s the recently uncovered Dinosaur Planet beta build, or a speedun of…
Frogger is a game you should probably never play in reality with cars, logs, alligators, and lily pads, but soon a brave lineup of competitors will be jumping into the arcade game’s gameplay with Wipeout-style courses. Konami’s globally iconic arcade game has been known to be receiving a reality-based series…
Supergiant Games’ Hades continues to bring in awards and recognition, unquestionably standing as the game of 2020 from an accolades standpoint. It represents years of hard work from those developers, artists, and creators; but you can trace the lines even further back. Just as the tweet below states, “Proper story’s…
Fans of the Earthbound (MOTHER) series, a new clip of Earthbound 64 is available for all to view thanks to Twitter user @realZen64! Check out the trailer below that made for Nintendo’s own tradeshow, Space World 1997. Zen acquired the trailer and others by winning a Yahoo! Japan…
It’s time at last for Nintendo to give us more bang for our bucks when it comes to Switch Online. I mean, who doesn’t love getting more Super Nintendo Classics on a semi-regular basis? Surely there’ll be one of Nintendo’s own 16-bit masterpieces among the set, right…? Naturally,…
The infamous Nintendo “gigaleak” isn’t a constant presence. Instead, it finds its way onto the internet in chunks, often bringing plenty of insight into the company’s past that has hitherto remained sealed behind closed doors. For preservationists, however, it’s something of a boon to see so much video game history…
In another show of video game history selling for massive totals, perhaps the rarest e-Reader card ever has made its way to eBay. The card in question is related to a promotional giveaway from E3 2002 and features our favorite pink, puffy, and powerful hero – Kirby! As detailed by…
Xbox and Nintendo sure have gotten along nicely as of late, huh? We got Smash characters from Rare, Microsoft published titles on the Switch, and now, though a series of AMAZING tweets, we can see their totally understandable love for Nintendo’s best little console ever, the GameCube! When asked about…
Just days after the anniversary of Satoru Iwata’s passing, some previously unavailable Mother 3 interviews have been scanned, translated, and shared. These efforts come from Kody Nokolo and can be found in full on Mother Forever, who are no strangers to Mother 3’s earliest years. The three interviews are dated…
