Nintendo Switch Online is back with new icons, this time themed to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Celebrating the Shiny Rayquaza Tera Raid Battle event that will kick off in a few weeks, the icons are meant to get players excited for the battles ahead! In the meantime, you can enjoy…
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…
As time marches ever forward, I’m beginning to have this bizarre sensation of writing retrospectives for films, games, and consoles that I was alive for the launch of. Released on November 18th, 2001, in the US, the Nintendo GameCube came at an exciting time for the games industry. Even to…
Capcom has a lot to celebrate today as its expansion for the latest Monster Hunter installment has gone above and beyond in terms of sales. That’s right, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has exceeded 5 million units sold worldwide, taking into account both physical and digital copies. This, of course, comes…
The Pokémon Company and Game Freak have confirmed the next batch of Tera Raids heading to the Paldea region and the first is bringing back a Kalosian fan-favorite. Scarlet and Violet players will be able to tackle a seven-star raid featuring Froakie’s final evolution, Greninja, between January 27-30 and February…
About a month and a half after Splatoon 3’s first big seasonal update, we’re seeing smaller fry – Ver. 2.1.0 of the game releases tomorrow, bringing a slate of balance tweaks and bug fixes. Most of the balancing consists of buffs to weapons like the Aerospray or the Splattershot Nova,…
It’s a few days before FE Engage comes out, and as is liable to happen in these situations, a cracked ROM of the game has leaked online. If you’re concerned about spoilers, be cautious around hashtags and other areas of the internet. The leak has let us know, however, that…
Fire Emblem Engage releases this Friday, and Nintendo has begun releasing an Ask The Developer roundtable interview with the minds behind the title. The first portion of the interview released today, and while interesting info is sprinkled throughout (such as them making protagonist Alear too vulnerable in early drafts to…
The NPD has arrived with more sales figures, this time for December and thus the entirety of 2022. Let’s take a look at those December figures first, though. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is back in the top 10 at position no. 8, while newcomer Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion…
I’ll likely never forget the first time I played Persona 4 Golden, chipping away day-by-day on my PlayStation Vita over the August of 2012, forever entrenching it in my mind as a playable summer vacation. For the longest time I considered it the biggest and best reason to buy Sony’s…
Persona is a smash hit blockbuster nowadays, but it wasn’t always that way. Once a humble spinoff of the Shin Megami Tensei series, the first couple games were more conventional (if well regarded) RPGs – and then 2006 brought Persona 3, a title that catapulted the series into the spotlight….
Persona 3 Portable, like most Persona games after it, has multiple endings. Unlike the games that follow, it’s pretty simple to figure out how to achieve it, but just in case you need some assistance this handy guide is here to help you out. Endgame spoilers for Persona 3…
Excited for Fire Emblem Engage? What if you play Fire Emblem Heroes too? Well, in addition to a recently revealed banner of Engage characters added to Heroes, you can also get some Heroes goodies for Engage through My Nintendo. And the process is pretty simple! Link Fire Emblem Heroes…
Octopath Traveler II is releasing in about a month’s time, and like any RPG worth its salt, it’s set to have an amazing soundtrack. But rather than just take their word for it that composer Yasunori Nishiki will follow up his work on the first game with similar greatness, you…
Persona 4 was one of my favorite games. It was the summer of 2014. I’d just graduated high school, and in a few months would be moving away from my hometown for the first time in my life. It was a time of anxiety, transition, and uncertainty. What kind of…
