Review – Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Categories: Switch, Reviews

If there was ever a series that was impossible to describe to someone that had never played it, it’s Animal Crossing. Wikipedia describes it as a “social simulation” series, an off-shoot of the life simulation genre made popular by games like The Sims, but trying to sell someone on a…

Read More

Nintendo Switch gets a pinball peripheral

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Switch

The Nintendo Switch’s portability and simplistic design allows it to easily support games that feature a vertically oriented “TATE” mode. For the most part this works well with arcade ports, but it also means pinball tables can be more faithfully replicated, something games like Pinball FX3, Star Wars Pinball, The…

Read More

Playtonic announces updates for both Yooka-Laylee and Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair

Author: Ricky Berg
Categories: News, Switch

Ever diligent and eternally googly eyed, the folks at Playtonic have just announced a pagie-turner of an update for both the original Yooka-Laylee and its side-scrolling followup, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. For one, they’re making the Impossible Lair itself a little more… possible. They’ve added a state change feature,…

Read More

Animal Crossing: New Horizons dialogue hints at Brewster, new shops coming to game

Categories: News, Switch

Players of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have begun noticing villagers mentioning characters and features not in the game, like Brewster — the coffee shop-running pigeon from past Animal Crossing games — and additional shops. Twitter user @sliceofcy shared an interaction they had with villager Clay on their island. “I’m still…

Read More

Mythical Pokémon Zarude’s signature move revealed

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Switch

Back in February, The Pokémon Company revealed a new mythical Pokémon that’s heading to Sword & Shield – Zarude, the Dark/Grass “rogue monkey”. Now we’ve gotten a closer look at its signature move, Jungle Healing, via the official website. The move, which Zarude doesn’t learn until it reaches Level 90,…

Read More

The Curious Case of Cooking Mama: Cookstar

Categories: News, Switch

The Cooking Mama series has been a fun adventure with cooking minigames utilizing the features of the Nintendo DS, 3DS, and Wii. Even expanding into other subjects — gardening, crafting, camping, and babysitting – the series has a dedicated fanbase. Sure, games in the series aren’t winning high school on…

Read More