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…
Doom and I have been on quite the journey together. I remember when I was ten years old, watching my dad play the groundbreaking original title on his Compaq desktop and being floored at what I saw. Up until that moment, video games had been colorful, cheerful and two-dimensional affairs…
Nintendo’s PR has released this week’s list of eShop downloads, and unceremoniously nestled in with all of the indie downloads is Hulu. If the app does indeed launch later today, that’ll make it the first major video streaming service to hit the system in North America. This should hopefully open…
Hot on the heels of Square Enix’s revelation that Switch game development is ramping up, another big Japanese company has shared its plans for Nintendo’s little hybrid. Marvelous, the developers of Story of Seasons, several Fate games, Senran Kagura and more besides, has stated in its latest financial results (via…
As announced earlier in the week, Breath of the Wild’s latest patch has dropped for the Nintendo Switch and Wii U versions, containing not only support for the Champion amiibo but also the free Xenoblade Chronicles 2 quest and Rex outfit. For those holding out hope that the Champion’s Ballad…
Just as the last of the Halloween goodies are thrown into the clearance section, retailers are ramping up for the craziness that is Black Friday. The mega shopping day that’s expanded into Cyber Monday, starting on Thanksgiving day, and even kicking off just as we turn our calendars to November…
Now that I’ve completed all I set out to do in Super Mario Odyssey, I’ve fallen back onto Fire Emblem Warriors pretty hard. Having dabbled in Story and History plenty for our review of the game, it’s settled into the trademark Musou repetition rhythm of unlocking more maps and challenges…
Being the start of November, most companies are releasing their earnings reports for the first few months of the fiscal year, with the latest gaming company being Square Enix. The Wall Street Journal’s Takashi Mochizuki has provided us with an immediate translation of the company’s earning briefing, and it has…
Biff, that yellow fellow with a head growth he should really have checked out, has managed to stumble onto quite a find. Looks likes ARMS is getting a new arena, hidden deep in the forest and forgotten by time. 本日は史跡観光のレポートをお届けします！夏休みのカフェストリートのレポートではカメラを壊すという失態を演じましたが…今回は頑張ります！ さて、森の奥深くに眠るこの遺跡…ARMS協会の設立よりもはるか以前から、"のびーる"格闘が開催されてきた、神聖な格闘場らしいですよ！ pic.twitter.com/ZFIbUnsCVc — ARMS（アームズ） (@ARMS_Cobutter) November 8, 2017 …
Grezzo is hiring! The developer in Japan is also having some fun with its latest job recruitment and it’s leaving us “legend” fans wondering. Enticing prospective programmers and designers, Grezzo is wording its current hiring spree as “let’s make a legend together.” With a quick glance at Wikipedia, it’s easy…
I’m a big fan of Xenoblade Chronicles, and pretty darn excited for Xenoblade Chronicles 2’s release in just a few weeks. And while I’ve noticed some parallels between the games in the past couple months, today’s Direct highlighted plot points that seem to have a direct correlation with some from…
After an absolutely stellar year of releases, Nintendo has one last game to release at the beginning of December: Xenoblade Chronicles 2. And since that’s less than a month off now, it’s only natural that a Direct starring the massive RPG would air. Here’s everything that happened during the Xenoblade…
One of the first bits of news to come out of today’s Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Direct was that much like Fire Emblem Warriors, dual audio will be an available option via a free download. While the first Xenoblade Chronicles featured a primarily British voice cast that’s become highly quotable in…
