Mario Kart World, the brand-new entry in the Mario Kart series and the first new console title in a decade, is racing its way onto Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5th, 2025 as one of the console’s launch titles. We’ve learned a lot about the new game ever since it…
With the Switch 2 dominating headlines this month, you’d think Nintendo might be ready to leave the original Switch in the past. Thankfully, that isn’t the case, and Switch Online subscribers will be able to play a trio of “new” classic titles. Available starting today, April 11th, 2025, the Sega…
I love to review games that are a perfect fit for the console I’m playing them on, as if they were made with the console in mind. Rift of The NecroDancer is one such game. I first saw it revealed as a Nintendo Switch release, so I have always thought…
As an evolution of the classic Sonic leg of the wider Sonic The Hedgehog franchise, Sonic Superstars features the classic era quartet of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy. But after he was absent from the modern Sonic Frontiers, fans of Shadow the Hedgehog are getting restless, and Shacknews – in…
Not even gonna bother with lead in for this one. Just watch this: the wacko boingo #TearsOfTheKingdom pic.twitter.com/V25CfvIA33 — Jamie ▴ (@linkkling) June 18, 2023 Yup, that’s Link taking off like a rocket-fueled jet plane from the ground level of Hyrule using nothing but a Star Fragment and…
Last week during the Xbox Game Showcase, Sega and Atlus revealed the rumored Persona 3 remake in the form of Persona 3 Reload, and a few days later the game was confirmed for PlayStation and PC, leaving Switch players without an announcement. That could be changing, though. Up until now…
It was recently discovered that striking stakes in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom produces a pitch, and different lengths of stake (and attachment of other stakes to them) changes the sound. With this in mind, it’s possible to create contraptions that play musical phrases. And scores of…
Just after Sonic Superstars was announced earlier this week we got the news that subscribers to the associated newsletter would eventually receive a free DLC code for another outfit for Amy Rose based on her modern appearance. Now, thanks to an update on the official site, we know what it’ll…
For North American Fire Emblem fans, the Blazing Blade no doubt carries a great deal of significance. As our first localized title in the series, so much of the western perspective of Fire Emblem (at least until Awakening) came courtesy of Eliwood, Lyn, and Hector’s campaign. Now that game is…
One of the things Sonic fans are most persnickety about is game physics. It may seem nitpicky to outsiders, but how the Blue Blur controls and runs is extremely important to how the game feels to play. And in what will be a sigh of relief to many, Sonic Mania…
Calculators are deceptively simple devices, built from base blocks of binary sequences in 0s and 1s. They look complicated at the basest levels, but really it’s just about determining whether certain functions are a “yes” or “no.” And user c7fab has built a version of a calculator using The Legend…
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals releases in about a month’s time, and the game’s director Sean Krankel sat down with Nintendo Everything to discuss coming back to the series after several years away, the game’s structure, and more. Developed over the course of three plus years, Oxenfree II takes place in…
If you’ve been holding off on buying some heavy hitters on your Nintendo Switch then now might be the time as the Hyper Max Sale is giving a bunch of games a digital discount via the eShop. Don’t let the very ’80s branding fool you – there are plenty of…
In mid-June 2017, Nintendo dropped a bombshell reveal that they were developing Metroid Prime 4 with the help of Bandai Namco. A couple years later, they announced that development had to be restarted, now handing the reigns over to Retro Studios, who developed the original trilogy back in the naughts….
Dead Cells is a massively successful indie game, recently crossing the ten million copies milestone – and soon, it will receive an honor very few independent titles have received: an animated adaptation. Made by Bobbypills, the same studio that animated the game’s trailers, the series is set to…
