In November 2006, Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess as a Wii launch title and a month later as the GameCube’s swan song. For many Nintendo fans, it was a “hardcore” introduction to motion controls while Wii Sports attracted the casual audience and the rest was history with that. Controlling with the Wiimote and Nunchuk […]
In the first Nintendo Direct of 2016, Nintendo updated their plans for the Spring and Summer to include more games, and detail those we haven’t seen in some time. And the first game listed is their heavy-hitter for the quarter: Star Fox. Star Fox Zero – Stages now have teleporters to create alternate paths – […]
This morning, Nintendo hosted a short, six-minute Pokémon-themed Nintendo Direct starring Tsunekazu Ishihara. During the Direct, it was mostly retrospective on the games as a whole instead of a bunch of announcements, but they did unveil the seventh generation of Pokémon. This holiday season, Nintendo, Game Freak and the Pokémon Company will release Pokémon Sun […]
Next Saturday, or at least midnight EST on the 20th, Splatoon will be doing its second licensed Splatfest. This time, 90s kids get personal: Pokémon Red or Blue? This Splatfest will happen worldwide, but like other Splatfests, it only groups players within their region. Japan is based on Pokémon Red and Green, which were the […]
In 2004, Nintendo released Metroid: Zero Mission, which is still arguably one of the greatest remakes of all-time. This was how a remake should be done being faithful to the original while feeling like a modern 2D Metroid at the time with save and map stations, upgrades introduced in Super Metroid & Fusion, multiple difficulties and new […]
Well, we all knew it had to happen eventually. On February 2, 2016, Warner Bros Games released the trailer for Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The trailer is a complete shot-for-shot recreation of the original The Force Awakens trailer, with lots of Lego’s trademark cutesy humor tossed in for good measure. Awe, poor whiny […]
Funny enough, it was January 2013 where we first saw the game that would eventually be called Xenoblade Chronicles X, and nearly three years later, we finally see the end result. The successor to one of Nintendo’s highest rated games and one of the highest rated JRPGs of all time: Xenoblade Chronicles. There are high […]
