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…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
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…
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In early June, the first home console entry in the Yo-Kai Watch series will finally launch in Japan for the Nintendo Switch. While we’ve already seen quite a bit of gameplay, this latest trailer is the full opening cinematic that’ll presumably play before you start the game, and it highlights…
Yesterday saw the release of Nintendo’s Fiscal Year 2018 results, and late last night President Furukawa and other Nintendo execs sat down with investors for a presentation and Q&A. While the latter usually takes a while to be translated and uploaded, we have all of the slides from the former,…
After previously submitting a request to the Chinese government, Nintendo has officially announced its partnership with Chinese conglomerate Tencent to sell the Switch in China. In a very short PR release on its website, Nintendo stated (translated from Japanese) that “Nintendo Co., Ltd. is announcing that a collaboration is in…
Back in the days of the 3DS, BoxBoy! was a surprising delight developed by the wonderful people over at HAL Laboratory. Spanning three games, Qbby adventured through hundreds of puzzles using his ability to spawn boxes from his body. The last entry in the series was titled Bye-Bye BoxBoy!,…
Nintendo’s serving up another chance to try one of its online titles for free this weekend. Mario Tennis Aces will be hosting another Special Online Demo, giving players a chance to enter online singles tournament matches and earn a reward or two for the full game. Haven’t hit the…
You all ready for the hottest Ink and Octo duo to take the stage and make some noise?! Nintendo has uploaded a little something for all you fans of Splatoon 2 and cephalopod-based idol duos — a recording of the Off the Hook concert from this year’s live Tokaigi gaming…
It turns out the Switch is getting a Persona game, but it’s probably not the one you were expecting. Titled Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, another game from Koei Tecmo and Omega Force, with the trappings of the “musou”, or Warriors, genre. Check out the first trailer: …
Recent months have been buzzing with speculation regarding new Nintendo Switch hardware models, namely an upgrade similar to the 3DS’ “New” line and a more miniature version of the hardware. CEO Shuntaro Furukawa, however, may have thrown cold water on the speculation during a Q&A session earlier today. As Takashi…
As April winds down, it’s once again time for Nintendo to bring investors up-to-speed with another financial report, this time covering the entire 2018 Fiscal Year ending March 2019. In terms of hardware, there wasn’t a huge budge from the January report, as the Switch went from 32.27 million units…
Last night it was confirmed that Super Mario Maker 2 would be launching worldwide on June 28th, 2019, and this morning Nintendo of Europe confirmed the news via its Twitter account, with a cute new clip showing a full Super Mario 3D World level. #SuperMarioMaker 2 comes to #NintendoSwitch…
