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…
Splatoon has quickly become one of Nintendo’s most popular franchises, with three games being released so far, a plethora of merchandise and collabs under its belt, and numerous mangas available to the masses over the years. Nintendo of Japan has now revealed that a new app featuring the Splatoon manga…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
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…
It’s official! Nintendo has announced the latest Nintendo Direct is coming this Tuesday, June 28th, and it’s a Mini Partner Showcase. A new #NintendoDirectMini: Partner Showcase is on the way! Watch on-demand via our YouTube channel beginning Tuesday, June 28 at 6am PT for roughly 25 minutes of info…
Most localizers in the game industry aren’t well known, or at best are simply in-house for the wider developer/publisher, but the Shibuya-based 8-4 has made a name for itself over the years with some truly top-notch translations. With classics like Tales of Vesperia, NieR Automata, and Undertale under their belt,…
Lip sync has always been a tricky business in the world of video games. We’re not even that far past the point where games had portions without synced lips at all — anybody remember Kingdom Hearts 1? Or heck, even Xenoblade Chronicles the first, which saved any lip syncing for…
