During the Pokémon GO’s Season of Max Out (Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024 to Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024), Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokémon were added to the game. This mechanic is part of Pokémon’s Generation VIII (Pokémon Sword and Shield) where Pokémon transform into “giant” versions of themselves or even new larger…
At the end of Pokémon GO’s Season of Max Out, there’s a special global event that all Trainers can partake in. Not quite a GO Fest or Tour, the GO Wild Area event is pulling some inspiration from the Safari Zone, but with a spotlight on Electric- and Poison-type Pokémon….
At the end of Pokémon GO’s Season of Max Out, there’s a special global event that all Trainers can partake in. Not quite a GO Fest or Tour, the GO Wild Area event is pulling some inspiration from the Safari Zone, but with a spotlight on Electric- and Poison-type Pokémon….
Discover what makes Nintendo so special in today’s gaming world through Nintendo Inquirer’s N Factor series! “What do you love about Nintendo? The more I ask myself that question, the more complex my answer gets. I decided to use the term “N factor” to describe my feelings, because while it’s…
The first images of January’s issue of CoroCoro magazine in Japan have leaked, bringing us quite a bit of new Pokémon information, just in time for the 20th anniversary celebrations announcement! First up is a few pages regarding the Pokémon anime, with a few new details regarding the next movie,…
A new video just went up on the Japanese Nintendo account, opening with a look back at the number of amiibo released so far and some of the titles they can be used with. The opening leads to a reveal of a new amiibo based game. This will be the…
Yet another costume is headed (or, in this case, flying) to copies of Super Mario Maker worldwide, according to a tweet from Nintendo UK. The latest costume to be earned through Super Mario Maker’s recently-added Event Course feature pays tribute to Yasuhisa Yamamura, well-known as one of Nintendo’s oldest level…
Now that it’s resting proudly on my shelf, the Shovel Knight amiibo has become one of my favorites. The quality of the figure is remarkable, with the Blue Burrower standing proudly upon his unique base with shovel at the ready. Anyone concerned a third party character wouldn’t match the standard…
Coming in from the Inkopolis airwaves we’ve got the latest on a new Splatfest, with voting opening up tomorrow! Better get up to eighty-eight because the next battle’s all about time travel: would you rather head back to the past or blast ahead to the future? Whether you’re up for…
Another playable character reveal is slated for Pokkén Tournament, the Pokémon arcade fighting game headed to Wii U later this year. In the announcement tweet from the official Pokkén Tournament Twitter account, the new fighter is said to have the Japanese character “ra” in its name. User Akxareth on Smashboards…
You may remember just a little while back, a new costume based on the Sky Pop from the Game Boy’s Super Mario Land was leaked. We covered the leak, and at the time you could preview the unreleased costume in a custom stage, though it had a tendency to crash…
Back on Christmas Day, 2014, Wii U owners were treated to the classic NES launch game Duck Hunt via the Virtual Console. As the original game used the NES Zapper, Nintendo decided to emulate its functionality with the Wii Remote pointer. Now, more than a year later on January 7th,…
Nintendo has announced that early next week there will be an extended maintenance period for its online services. While the weekend won’t be touched, starting Monday, January 11th at 5:00 p.m. PST, the Nintendo Network will be down for at least ten hours. During this time “certain network services” such…
For those of you who’ve been waiting for any news about the almost mythical Etrian Odyssey V, today’s your day. After its announcement over a year ago in November of 2014, almost no other information has been released about it. Atlus, Etrian Odyssey’s development team, finally opened up about the…
In the future, when we look back at the state of Nintendo gaming in 2015, what will we remember? It was a diverse year of releases, with unusual spin-offs, small indie projects, and risky new IPs taking the forefront of Nintendo’s marketing. This is an undeniable shift compared to 2014’s…
