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…
Nintendo of America has confirmed its latest batch of NES games coming to Nintendo Switch Online. This time, Kid Icarus and StarTropics are joining the lineup! Check out the trailer below to see the titles in action: Kid Icarus and StarTropics are coming to #NintendoSwitchOnline – Nintendo Entertainment System!…
Smash Bros. and Kirby godfather Masahiro Sakurai is no stranger to spilling his guts — whether it be a light joke, a game development decision, or a candid remark about his own working health. While Japan as a nation is known to have a work culture that could be considered…
If games are the lifeblood of any system, then accessories are the cute band-aids you try and tell yourself you don’t need. Sure, they have a function, but what you’re here for is to personalize and look good doing it. So maybe you’re all set with some Splatoon pouch or…
I never thought I’d be saying this, but soon you’ll be able to play Turok: Dinosaur Hunter on your Switch. An N64 staple of my and plenty of other households released 22 years ago today, this fps full of outlandish weaponry and enemy dinosaurs is getting re-released in an enhanced…
Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy! is launching later this month and Square Enix isn’t just letting it out into the wilds with no fanfare. Instead, the company is partnering with North American confectionary chain Dippin’ Dots for a sweepstakes and a batch of new flavors. The sweepstakes have two prize…
Indie publisher Alliance has announced that the action-horror platformer Overwhelm, originally released on PC in June 2018, will be heading to Switch on April 4th, 2019, complete with an exclusive co-op mode. The game is run-based, with one hit kills and three lives per attempt. The game’s unique hook is…
Bandai Namco has been releasing a steady stream of anime-licensed games on the Nintendo Switch ever since the launch window, and now one of the biggest franchises has been given a release date for North America and Europe – Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition. The game is slated…
While the Nintendo rumor mill perpetually churns at about mach-5, few have got it to chug along as much as the recent talk of Microsoft bringing their Xbox Game Pass service to Switch. With the highlight of a couple particular games — namely Ori and the Blind Forest and Cuphead…
If you have any interest in trying out Daemon X Machina before it launches later this year, it looks like this week is your last chance. The Prototype Missions demo is slated to be removed from the Switch eShop on March 11th. The demo launched last month after the Nintendo…
Journalism is never an easy task, as it takes a conscious amount of digging and a fine-tuned sense of perception to detect what’s verifiable and what’s not. But sometimes you just forget to do the proper research, as was the case with La Voz de Michoacán, a newspaper for the…
As Nintendo fans we’re pretty used to the Direct cycle at this point, but every now and then another company gets in on hosting a similar type of event to hold us over ’til the next big Nintendo presentation. Today NIS America announced they’ll be hosting their 2019 Showcase next…
Looking for a place to vacation on spring break? Why don’t you bring your Nintendo Switch along and check out Camp Crystal Lake! Too bad there’s no Friday the 13th on 2019’s calendar… unless you count the horror game ‘Friday the 13th: The Game’ releasing this spring for the Switch….
