Funny story. I was picking up a preorder of Shadow the Hedgehog for the GameCube when I saw that the game store was releasing Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King early. Square-Enix didn’t want the game to get buried launching the same day as the Xbox 360. I ended up picking it up […]
A week removed from the Nintendo Switch event, we’re giving a Fire Emblem-themed Nintendo Direct focusing on some new titles hitting the Nintendo Switch as well as Nintendo 3DS and mobile devices. We already knew about Fire Emblem Warriors, the collaboration between Nintendo and Koei Tecmo that is succeeding the popular Hyrule Warriors, but we’re […]
We had the weekend to consume all the Switch information Nintendo gave us despite having more questions than answers for some of us. The basics if you missed our recap of last Thursday’s presentation from Japan are that the console is out on March 3rd for $299.99. There’s also two SKUs to get with the […]
Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima hosted a big event in Japan detailing the Nintendo Switch and its game lineup. Because it’s a ton of info, we’ll be rapid firing these news with details with each bullet point. Kimishima didn’t hold the big console details until the end, as it begins with launch facts: – Switch will […]
Super Mario Run is a big deal because it means Nintendo is seeing mobile gaming as an appetizer to having them buy Nintendo systems for the main course. At the same time, the game has to be good to incise those users in the first place. Mario has always been better at than than a […]
Since February, The Pokémon Company started the twentieth anniversary celebration of the Pokémon franchise. While I thought it was going to be a few small events during the month, it ended up being a giveaway of all the mythical Pokémon, a Super Bowl commercial, several big releases of the trading card game, the Nintendo 3DS […]
This week at the Game Awards, Nintendo showed off the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild… twice! They unveiled a new trailer in the pre-show and about five minutes of gameplay during the actual show. When the show ended, the winner of the Most Anticipated Game award seemed to ask more questions than to […]
