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…
The Legend of Zelda’s 35th Anniversary is officially here, and first in line to celebrate is Masahiro Sakurai. Continuing his habit of recreating a game as best he can in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in order to celebrate their birthdays, he’s shared a recreation of the original NES Zelda’s final…
SNK has been adding many a guest character to the latest title in the Samurai Shodown series, ranging from Ubisoft’s For Honor and the company’s own The Last Blade. As part of the Japan Fighter Game Publishers Roundtable #2, though, they decided to rock fans with an even more unexpected…
One of the biggest surprises of the second Japan Fighting Game Publishers Roundtable came courtesy of Arika. Founded by the creators of Street Fighter II after they left Capcom, they would go on to develop the Street Fighter EX and eventually take those original characters and create their own game…
One of the biggest surprises out of this week’s Nintendo Direct had to have been the announcement of both Famicom Detective Club remakes getting localized. These NES era mysteries are exciting gets in their own right, but if you love your retro revivals or have been extremely curious about Ayumi…
As part of this year’s BlizzCon, Blizzard has decided to look back on their 30 year history in games and revive a trio of classics. While more known for the likes of Warcraft and Overwatch these days, the three included titles all made their mark on the Super Nintendo (despite…
The Overwatch 2 portion of BlizzConline has officially come to an end, and while a release date was completely MIA and story details were sparse, the rest of the game was detailed heavily and appears to be shaping into something very special. I went into the presentation expecting a run-of-the-mill…
Diablo II is coming to Nintendo Switch in the form of Diablo II: Resurrected, a “faithful remaster” of the original 2000 RPG hack-and-slash for PC and Mac. Diablo II: Resurrected will take the original 2D sprite-based game and update it with “full 3D physically-based rendering, dynamic lighting, revamped…
Street Fighter icons Ryu and Chun-Li will be joining the fray in Fortnite this weekend. Fortnite’s YouTube channel shared the news with a video calling back to the characters’ arcade origins. Ryu and Chun-Li are the third and fourth video game stars to join the game this season,…
It’s that time again for a new, weekly Super Mario Bros. 35 Special Battle! theme, and yet, this week we’re getting even more Super Mario Bros. 35 news. First, though, let’s hop down a warp pipe to the most pressing issue. From Thursday, February 18th, at 11 p.m. PT until…
This week’s Nintendo Direct introduced us to Square Enix’s HD-2D follow up to Octopath Traveler, tentatively titled “Project Triangle Strategy.” They wasted no time giving us a sample of this new project, with a demo going live after the Direct had finished, with the promise of a survey for feedback…
This April, Koei Tecmo will be bringing the “Mysterious” trilogy of Atelier games to the Switch with a Deluxe Pack. This includes the Switch debuts of the Atelier Sophie and Atelier Firis games, as well as an updated DX port of Atelier Lydie & Suelle. If you’ve been curious how…
Mario Golf: Super Rush was a highlight of this week’s Nintendo Direct, bringing back one of the original Mario sports to a home console for the first time since the GameCube. While many of the expected Mushroom Kingdom characters were shown (sporting spiffy new outfits for the links) during the…
