The year of wild collaborations continues! Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble has revealed two new collaborations, featuring the iconic Kaiju Godzilla and the digital diva Hatsune Miku. Both collabs will be available on November 26th as a part of the big 2.0 update. While the update itself is free, Godzilla…
The history of the Fire Emblem franchise is one fraught with a lot of obscurity and uncertainty. With the franchise nearly being canceled entirely prior to the release of Fire Emblem: Awakening, it has been quite a winding path to get to where it is now. Despite these troubles, the…
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…
Ahh LEGO Star Wars, the OG of licensed LEGO games. When the original LEGO Star Wars dropped in 2005, its success ushered in an entire genre of licensed games that has had largely the same formula between plenty of the world’s most popular franchises. How fitting it is, then, that…
We’re just a matter of days away from the HD remaster of Chrono Cross in the Radical Dreamers Edition. To mark the occasion, Square Enix has released a new piece of artwork from the game’s original character designer Nobuteru Yuuki. The image focuses on the game’s sizeable cast, even if…
Update (Thursday, April 7th, 2022 at 2:45 p.m. PT): Gallery Nucleus is now requiring advance registration to attend the opening night reception on Saturday, April 16th, 2022 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. via Eventbrite. Registration is free. We’re less than two weeks away from the Nintendo Switch release of…
Kirby and the Forgotten Land has graced our lives for a week now, and has already made its mark in franchise history. Famitsu has shared the game’s launch numbers in Japan, reaching a strong 380,000 and taking the top spot for the week. That’s fantastic, but it’s when you look…
Last month was full of exciting new games from Nintendo and other publishers and developers, so much that we have a number of noteworthy recommendations for your consideration. Whether you’re in the market for some racing fun, strategic role-playing, or something more relaxing like farm simulation, there are plenty of…
A few days ago a trio of games made their way to the NES and SNES selections available to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. Alongside them came two more sneaky additions in the form of SP versions for Super Mario World and Super Punch-Out!! Like previous SP releases, these are essentially…
Today’s New Game Plus expo had plenty of announcements but the one that caught my eye was Samurai Bringer from developer ALPHAWING Inc. and publisher Playism. While games mimicing the visual styles of older consoles are nothing new, Samurai Bringer goes for the oft-underrepresented aesthetic of the DS, with chunky…
One of the most inventive RPGs of the PlayStation era is finally coming back as NIS has announced a port of Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure as part of Prinny Presents NIS Classics Vol. 3. As a rare example of a video game attempting the musical genre, Rhapsody is filled to…
During today’s New Game+ Expo, Inti Creates debuted new info on the upcoming third installment in their flagship 2D action series, Azure Striker Gunvolt 3. A new video, featuring an intro from Action Supervisor/Executive Producer Keiji Inafune, as well as plenty of gameplay, also debuted. Featuring two main,…
If you’ve ever played Zelda and wanted something similar with more of a sci-fi bent to its world and narrative then you may want to check out XEL. The upcoming top-down action adventure game has protagonist Reid explore the titular world to uncover truths about her past while solving time-bending…
Have you been venturing across the continent of Norzelia with Serenoa and Frederica over the last few weeks wondering how Square Enix and Artdink crafted such a gorgeous world to explore? Leave it to Digital Foundry to, of course, provide everything you want to know about the technical specifications of…
The brothers are back — not the Italian gentlemen, of course, but the snow brothers Nick and Tom! Clear River Games has released a new gameplay trailer for Snow Bros. Nick & Tom Special for Nintendo Switch. Below, viewers can get a better look at the upcoming classic arcade game…
