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…
Official high school and college esports leagues have exploded in popularity in the last few years, and now Nintendo has teamed with PlayVS to bring some of their games to high schools around the country. In a press release, Nintendo announced that the partnership with PlayVS will bring Super Smash…
We’ve known for a while that the base roster of Samurai Warriors 5 would be 27 characters, both new and returning. Turns out that number isn’t quite correct, as 10 other characters will be playable at launch, but they won’t be quite as fleshed out as that original batch. These…
Hot on the heels of Bloomberg’s recent report, the floodgates are opening for Nintendo Switch rumors, leaks, and speculation. These latest updates come from two sources. The first is Amazon Mexico. As reported by Nintendeal, two dummy ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers) have been made for a “New Nintendo Switch…
Later this year the beat ’em up comeback Streets of Rage 4 will be getting the Mr. X Nightmare DLC pack, which is set to add new modes, moves, characters, and more. So far on the new roster front we’ve seen Estel and Max Thunder, and now it’s time for…
Another month, another million. Monster Hunter Rise has just gotten a big boost courtesy of its 3.0 content update, but that’s not the only thing about the game that’s grown. Capcom has shared that the (at present) Switch exclusive has now sold over 7 million copies. Based on known data,…
There’s a case for Sonic the Hedgehog being the most ported game ever, rolling around at the speed of sound on anything Sega can get their mascot on. That classic has already made multiple runs on Switch, such as the lovely Sega Ages version, but one more can’t hurt, right?…
Today’s Sonic Central stream was 12 minutes of announcement-packed news for Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog. We saw a teaser for a new Sonic Team game debuting in 2022, the confirmation of Sonic Colors: Ultimate, a two-episode animation short series titled Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps, Sonic and friends appearing…
It has been quite a day for the Sonic faithful. The fastest thing alive is now set to appear in multiple new animated series, have a number of cameos in various games, and star in an all-new Sonic Team title sometime next year – and that’s just the tip of…
Have you still not charted your way through the land of the spirits in Thunder Lotus Games’ award-winning management sim Spiritfarer? For those who have been waiting to take the role of a digital ferrymaster to the deceased, the opportunity to go physical will soon arrive. Spiritfarer is finally receiving…
It’s been over a month since Dead by Daylight’s upcoming Resident Evil DLC was announced, though we’ve had very little to go on regarding its content besides the new, chapter-exclusive Umbrella Charm item seen in the initial teaser. Publisher Behaviour Interactive has now loosened its barricades on the survival horror…
The wait for summertime is nearly over, and thankfully, so is the wait for the incredibly adorable co-op post office puzzler from Sold Out and Stonewheat & Sons, KeyWe! Announced in a new trailer, the frontrunner for cutest game of the summer will finally land in our mailboxes on August…
Nintendo LABO may be dead to many, including Nintendo themselves, but that hasn’t stopped dedicated enthusiasts from pushing its creation software to its absolute limits. YouTuber Mr Tiffles! is one such enthusiast who has gone so far as to recreate the combat mechanics from the 2016 reboot of the Doom…
