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…
Here we go! Let’s take a look at the nominees for the 2024 Game Awards. While Nintendo doesn’t have an entry in the Game of the Year category this year, it currently holds three out of five nominees for Best Family Game, where the company has historically been the favorite…
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…
Farming sim adventures continue for Doraemon, Noby, and friends! Announced during today’s Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase, there will be a second game in the (now) Doraemon and Story of Seasons crossover series. DORAEMON STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of the Great Kingdom: Doraemon, Noby and their friends land…
Switch swashbucklers best prepare yourself as later this year it’ll be time to Return to Monkey Island. The long-awaited revival of the beloved LucasArts adventure series was announced for consoles and PC earlier this year but this is our confirmation of a Switch port, which will be the game’s console…
Update: On top of the standard edition, Bandai has revealed that Pac-Man World Re-Pac will also be receiving some special edition treatment with the Chrome Noir Chogokin Bundle that can be purchased directly through the Bandai Namco Store. Available for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One…
Out of the blue during today’s Nintendo Direct mini Square Enix shared an all-new game, the fantasy life simulator Harvestella. In Harvestella you’ll tend to crops and chat up townsfolk, but there’s plenty of exploration and combat to partake in too. Not to mention the Quietus, a downright sinister event…
Get ready to Jack In as the classic Game Boy Advance and DS RPG series Mega Man Battle Network is finally being brought back with a Legacy Collection port. The series of games, which takes place in an alternate universe where Mega Man is instead a computer program battling viruses…
The cake may be a lie, but the Portal Companion Collection is 100% true and coming later today on the Nintendo Switch! The game features both Portal 1 and Portal 2 in one head-scratching package. If you’ve never played Portal before, you owe it to yourself to check…
When three Persona games were announced for Xbox platforms earlier this month it was strange to see Switch missing from the line-up. Now we know Atlus and Sega were saving the announcement for today’s Nintendo Direct partner showcase! As confirmed in the presentation, Persona 5 Royal will release for the…
Nintendo’s back to spotlight its third party developers with a new Partner Showcase, which you can watch below: We’ll be sure to have articles focusing on the major releases so be sure to stick around!
Unexpectedly, Millenium Kitchen’s laidback Shin-chan game Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation – The Endless Seven-Day Journey is getting a western release this August from publisher Neos Corporation. Essentially the latest entry in the My Summer Vacation series, which has only had one prior localization in the form of…
Back in 2017, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was the subject of a fairly notable leak, spoiling the surprise but doubling the hype — that’s what happens when you call Peach a badass princess. Now history is repeating itself a bit, as it appears Ubisoft’s own storefront has leaked info…
A new character will soon be cutting onto the scene in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles as DLC. The former Demon Slayer Corp member Tengen Uzui will be sold as an individual fighter for the action-packed 3D brawler, coming in at 500 yen in Japan. As…
The classic Sonic the Hedgehog games are no stranger to getting the compilation treatment. Most Nintendo fans of a certain age will fondly remember Sonic Mega Collection with its amazing menu music, huge variety of games, and array of extras, and a few years before that there was Sonic Jam…
