Niantic is bringing back the Sustainability Week event for Pokémon GO this year. For 2024, the event is focused more on hatching Pokémon from event 2 km Eggs. Luckily these Eggs will have a shiny hatching boost. Other than that, there aren’t any themed Wild Encounters or Raids. (For more…
Mother fans in Japan are in for a treat! Following the announcement of Mother 3’s arrival on Nintendo Switch Online in Japan (sigh), the Mother Project has unveiled an exciting lineup of all-new Mother 3 plushies to commemorate the occasion. According to the Mother Project webpage, the plushies…
The Splatoon 3 Spring Fest 2024 is set to go live tonight and to get fans excited, Nintendo has uploaded an amazingly cuddly-looking piece of promo art. A three-way Splatfest between Baby Chicks, Li’l Bunnies, and Bear Cubs, I’m not sure it even matters who wins at this point. This…
The year was 2005. The Wii was still only known as the Revolution. Halo 2 was the biggest game in the world. And everyone was gripped by Star Wars fever as Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was releasing that May. With a new Star Wars movie comes, of course,…
Party games need a particularly special sauce to be worthy of being a featured dish at a family game night or get-together with friends. This sauce has no name, yet its taste is undeniable – it has a full, robust flavor full of fun, with a chaotic nutty aroma that…
The theater can be a magical place, bringing wondrous characters and emotions to life for an audience that ranges from first time attendees to ever-present devotees. That’s partly why I was excited when Balan Wonderworld made its stage debut, with a theme and culture ripe for replication in video game…
At first glance Cozy Grove might look like an Animal Crossing clone. You play as a strikingly adorable character arriving on an island where you set up camp with a goal of interacting with and pleasing the locals, and you can decorate the island pretty much however you would like….
This is the second (conclusive) part of a review in progress. Read the first part for context before continuing. Previously, I spent a good deal of time singing praises of the first Bravely Default – warrentedly so, I hope. But I did slightly gloss over the game’s fatal flaw: namely,…
SNK has been busy on the eShop since the Switch’s launch. With Hamster they’ve brought a considerable amount of their titles via the Arcade Archives line, and more recently they’ve begun reviving their own handheld on Nintendo’s latest portable console. We’ve spotlighted some of the NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection releases…
Fans of the long-time Bokujō Monogatari farming-sim series already know how each new entry begins. You, the player, find yourself in possession of a dilapidated farm that needs more than just some TLC and have a town to explore full of new neighbors and new possibilities. Sure, there are some…
Few things can compare to the excitement of one of your favorite games coming to Nintendo Switch. The portability, the flexibility of play: the Switch is the perfect port machine. When I heard Apex Legends was on its way, I was a bit hesitant — I’m a mouse-and-keyboard kind of…
Few games can match Monster Hunter when it comes to their core loop. True, there’s that risk of saminess when you encounter familiar monsters in familiar ways, but that familiarity persists for a reason. The series is its own kind of phenomenon in Japan, with several imitators following with…
In today’s world of remasters and revivals, I might be most grateful for the love that Crash Bandicoot has gotten over the last couple of years. I considered myself lucky when the original trilogy ended up with a remaster, and even luckier that it turned out as great as it…
The original release of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was all the way back in 2012. The fantasy action-RPG featured a vast open world, a stellar soundtrack by Grant Kirkhope, and told the tale of a world whose inhabitants were cursed by fate itself to fail and die, with no hope…
A lot of platforming games have one level or section that manages to embed itself in the collective consciousness. This could be because of art style or music, but often it’s the sensation of playing through the stage itself that embeds into your memory and perks you up when it…
