With how popular Shantae has become over the years, it’s surprising to learn that one of the games in the series was actually cancelled over 20 years ago. Despite that, Wayforward didn’t give up and would revive the project many years later to create a long-lost interquel for the series….
While home consoles are a widespread and ubiquitous part of the greater video game industry now, it hasn’t always been that way. Video game consoles have their origins from arcade machines, and the transition they made to end up in people’s living rooms was thanks in large part to systems…
As part of today’s financial report for Nintendo, company president Shuntaro Furukawa noted that Nintendo will be considering a price adjustment to the Switch 2 depending on how the situation of President Trump’s tariffs evolves in the coming months. With nobody sure of what the impact will be when Trump’s…
The days of licensed games just aren’t what they used to be. Back in my day every blockbuster movie had an awful tie-in pumped out on the Wii like tepid meat sludge and we loved(?) it. But the move to mobile for the market means you just don’t see the…
Splatoon 3 is still running hot off the block, with an update coming only a week after the game came out and now a second one coming before the end of the month. Splatoon 3 ver. 1.1.2 drops tomorrow, and the patch notes are already up on Nintendo’s Japan website,…
Everyone seems to be having a fun time with Splatoon 3, and, thanks to a new app update, you can show your friends just how much time you’ve sunk into perfecting your in-game fit right from your home screen. The Nintendo Switch Online app has been updated to version 2.3.0,…
The Pokémon Company is currently holding a showcase of the Pokémon World Ecological Society and as part of the show it’s revealed an all new Diglett form from the Paldea region… Or is it? As Serebii.net reports, the Ecological Society concludes that it’s a new Pokémon altogether. We’ll just have…
The world of games criticism (and even casual discussion of the medium) is filled with “-likes.” Roguelikes, Soulslikes… we call Metroidvanias Metroidvanias because we had two examples to pick from instead of just one. Even first person shooters were once upon a time simply called “DOOM Clones.” The reasoning for…
Over the month of September Nintendo has been updating its Switch Online selection of icon elements with a variety of classic NES sprites and hardware images. With October fast approaching, the fourth, and presumably final, wave has landed. The games featured this time are Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Excitebike, and…
Back in June Capcom Fighting Collection released, bringing a bunch of classic arcade brawlers, and one puzzle game, to Switch. We thought it was quite fun in our review, and now it’s been given a major update! While there aren’t any huge additions, a lot of small tweaks have been…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before — a cozy, wholesome simulator game where you get off a train and live in a town full of cute cartoon animal people. Okay, maybe not the most original premise in the world, but Hokko Life from Team 17 fleshes out the…
The long-awaited The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero has finally gotten an official English release over a decade on from its original 2010 Japanese launch, with the game arriving on Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC from today. Set in the Crossbell region, the game follows a different cast of…
In recent years the publisher eastasiasoft has been making an effort to release a number of games outside of its titular region, with both the Xuan-Yuan Sword and Sword and Fairy RPG series in particular standing out. Today, the company made a batch of announcements for Switch ports, including two…
It’s a natural course for fan projects to name themselves as sequels to the franchises they’re based upon. How many Star Wars home films back in the day were named Episode VII decades before Disney actually made that a real thing? It’s not a surprise then that Nintendo fan and…
Healthy news on the squiddy sales front — Splatoon 3, the big Nintendo release of the month, is still going strong in the UK, where for the third week in a row it’s been the top selling boxed retail game. This is a sign of presumed longevity for the title,…
