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…
In an award that effectively amounts to “Most Hype,” The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has won the Most Anticipated Game award for the 2022 Game Awards. The Legend of #Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is coming in 2023. What are your favorite The Legend of Zelda:…
Can I get a “Woomy!”? This year’s The Game Awards spanned 31 categories and a variety of them sported Nintendo nominees. For the sales juggernaut that is Splatoon 3, it managed to secure two nominations. One for Best Family Game, and the other for Best Multiplayer Game. Well, the adorable…
Fire Emblem Engage is still over a month away from release, but we already have a glimpse at the game’s downloadable content. Whether you find the announcement of such content before release palatable or not depends on the person, but we have details on the first wave of the Expansion…
About a year and a half ago, Extremely OK Games – developers of Towerfall and Celeste – announced their next project, titled Earthblade. And now we have our first glimpse of the the game, courtesy of a reveal trailer at The Game Awards 2022: From the youtube description:…
The Game Awards proper got off to a hell of a start, revealing the followup to Supergiant Games’ (under)earth shattering rogue-like Hades. How do they follow up a game of that caliber, with beloved characters and impeccable gameplay? Well… with a direct sequel, naturally! Hades II looks to be all…
It’s time again for The Game Awards, where fans and industry members come together to celebrate the last year of releases and herald what’s to come. Nintendo’s received quite a few nominations across the categories, though a look at Best Family Game shows them effectively omnipresent. Beating out Splatoon 3,…
Raid Battles made the jump from Pokémon’s Generation VIII (Sword and Shield) to Generation IX (Scarlet and Violet). While similar, the big difference this time around is the Terastal phenomenon, where Pokémon’s type can change to one of the 18 different types available in-game. Not to mention, Pokémon will receive…
Another Dragon Quest spinoff is about to make the Nintendo Switch its home, and this time around it’s starring everyone’s favorite thief from Dragon Quest XI, Erik, along with his sister Mia. Set in a time before the events of Dragon Quest XI, Dragon Quest Treasures starts with a young…
The Nintendo Switch has smashed yet another sales record – overtaking the titanic PlayStation 4 to become the fourth best-selling video game console of all-time worldwide. The news comes from VGChartz, who calculates that the console’s Black Friday week sales of just under 1.3 million bring the console’s lifetime total…
The latest update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has arrived, adding eight new tracks including 3DS Rainbow Road, DS Peach Gardens, and more besides. It turns out that’s not all, though, as an all new menu option has appeared! As Eurogamer reports, an item selection menu has been added. This…
XSEED has announced that the quirky story-focused game Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories will be bringing its retro vibes to Switch next March. The game takes you to Hog Town, a sweet little place filled with eccentric animals, which hides a tale of crime and corruption. Check out the debut trailer…
The legal drama that is the Microsoft-Activision merger is entering a fever pitch as we approach the Spring 2023 deadline to approve the deal. Sony has been putting up a fight, citing the potential loss of Call of Duty on PlayStation, but Microsoft has invoked an unexpected but not too…
