With the Nintendo Switch 2 only being two months old at this point, it makes sense that there aren’t any color options available quite yet. Past Nintendo handhelds have had a myriad of special editions and colors to choose from, and while the Switch 2 will likely get some in…
Visitors to Japan this month will want to make a stop by McDonald’s if they’re big into Pokémon. As part of a special promotion starting on August 8th, 2025, McDonald’s Japan will be carrying a handful of new, exclusive Pokémon toys in Happy meals as well as the previously reported…
In a bit of surprising news today, RedOctane Games has announced its establishment as a new studio within Embracer Freemode. Those familiar with the Guitar Hero franchise will be keenly familiar with the name as Red Octane was the manufacturer of the famous guitar controllers for its namesake franchise. This…
Breaking news from the NPD sales report for September: people are still buying video games, and companies are still selling them. Who could have seen it coming? Jokes aside, the most notable item of the month is that the PlayStation 5 led in unit sales, snapping a streak by the…
Welcome to this week’s episode of Mii Weekly, a series where we feature headlines, impressions, and an assortment of variety segments all centered around Nintendo! In this episode we cover the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct — including release dates, new features, paid DLC, and much more.
As unbelievably successful as the Super Smash Bros. series is, it always amazes me how many games try to copy its style and fail in unique ways. While there are some successes, like Rivals of Aether, it feels like so many developers struggle to understand what makes Smash so much…
In 2018, FuRyu released Crystar for the PlayStation 4 in Japan and it saw a western release via Spike Chunsoft the following year. In the action RPG, you enter purgatory as a girl called Rei who is searching for her deceased younger sister. Throughout the game you utilize the power…
Next year the MMORPG Dragon Quest X will be getting an Offline remake of sorts for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and PC in Japan. While we’ve seen a couple of trailers for the game, we’ve finally gotten a good look at gameplay courtesy of a Japanese PlayStation stream. There’s a…
The upcoming sequel to the classic arcade action game Pocky & Rocky has been delayed, developer TENGO PROJECT has announced. The gorgeously animated Pocky & Rocky Reshrined was originally slated for a Fall 2021 release but will now come out in Spring 2022. “Various circumstances” were blamed for the delay….
Among all the features coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons on November 5th are a dozen new tracks from the islands’ top musical talent – K.K. Slider! These new songs will all be requestable once the major free content update arrives, and like all other K.K. songs can be added…
Update (10/21/21): Nintendo released Ver. 1.0.1 of Metroid Dread yesterday, which included a fix for the problem players experienced with the game crashing near the end of the journey. Here are the full 1.01. patch notes: Fixed an issue where, if a map marker is placed on a specific…
This morning’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct has ended, and with it came a load of information about the game’s final free major update. Aside from Brewster and The Roost, Kapp’n, new shops and characters at Harv’s Island, group stretching, island ordinances, cooking, and more are headed to the game….
Today’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct covered a number of updates that’ll be launching next month! Still, not everything made it into the over 20-minute long presentation. New Horizons is a big game and goes beyond the Nintendo Switch, after all. In fact, it’s one of the few Switch games…
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Ver. 2.0 update has been fully detailed, and as previously announced, Brewster and his coffee shop The Roost will be dropping with it. The Roost will be located in the museum (open 24 hours a day) and will be home to Brewster, the coffee-serving pigeon from…
The massive Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct not only covered the big Version 2.0 update that’ll be launching next month, but it also showed off another surprise. It’s back to work with Lottie and (new) friends in Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise. This is a paid DLC…
