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Pokémon Devs Are Working On A Mysterious New Action-Adventure Codenamed Project Bloom
9.5.2023
What in the world? Longtime Pokémon maker GameFreak just announced something completely unrelated that will be published by Take-Two’s Private Division label. Codenamed Project Bloom, it’s in early development and billed as an action adventure game and…that’s basically all we know about it.Read more
Nintendo's Aggressive Efforts To Squash Tears Of The Kingdom Leaks Are Having Unintended Side Effects
9.5.2023
Nintendo is not messing around when it comes to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leaks. In fact it’s so aggro right now, it seems to have unintentionally snagged innocent content creators simply sharing official footage in its copyright clampdown. God of War writer and streamer Alanah...
Nintendo Says Don’t Expect A New Switch This Year Either
9.5.2023
Fans eager for a successor to the Switch will have to wait a bit longer. Nintendo confirmed that no Switch 2 or Switch Pro is expected in the coming months during its latest earnings call. 2024 could finally be the year we see what new console the company’s been working on, but in the meantime...
Tragic Nintendo Unboxing Story Has A Happy Ending
9.5.2023
In August 2022 we told the very sad story of a serious Nintendo collector who, having thought he’d got hold of some very special old playing cards, had in fact got hold of two hunks of worthless cardboard.Read more
Disney Speedstorm Players Beg Devs To Nerf Monsters Inc.’s Mike Wazowski
8.5.2023
On the colorful, cartoonish race tracks of Gameloft’s free-to-play kart racer, Disney Speedstorm, one monster has become a menace. One monster can’t be stopped. That monster is Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. And while fans want this green little speed ball nerfed, Gameloft has no plans to do...
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3's Final Needle Drop Had Its Songwriter In Tears, Too
8.5.2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 punctuated the ending to arguably one of Marvel’s best trilogy films (don’t @ me) with an emotionally gratifying final needle drop that had its titular characters, the fans, and even the musician behind the song ugly-crying with happiness. Minor spoilers ahead.Read...
Nintendo Seemingly Goes After Switch Emulation Following Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Leak
8.5.2023
When The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom began leaking online, Nintendo initially fought back with standard copyright takedowns of screenshots, video streams, and entire Discord servers hosting links to pirated versions of the game. Now it appears to be ramping up the offensive, going after...
Catch-Up On Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Before The Sequel In Under Seven Minutes
8.5.2023
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is only a few more days away. The special edition consoles have shipped. The leaks are out there. And the digital version of the game has begun pre-loading on every Switch. The only thing left? Trying to remember what the hell happened in the first game...
One Of The First Nintendo GameCubes Has Been Found
5.5.2023
For long-time Nintendo fans and video game historians there have been few public events as memorable as Space World 2000, the show that first revealed the GameCube—and its library of games, and a divisive Zelda demo—to the world.Read more
Final Fantasy XVI Banned In Saudi Arabia
5.5.2023
Final Fantasy XVI won’t be available for PlayStation 5 owners residing in Saudi Arabia come June 22 because Square Enix’s highly anticipated action-RPG has been banned there for some currently vague reasons. Read more
The Destiny 2 Season Pass Price Is Going Up
4.5.2023
Destiny 2’s next season is right around the corner, and as always there are a ton of changes coming to the MMO shooter. Bungie outlined a bunch of them in a new blog post, including that it’s raising the price of season passes from $10 to $12. It’s a small amount in the scheme of things that...
Not Even Starfield Will Get People To Trade Their PS5s For Series X/S, Says Xbox Boss
4.5.2023
In 2023, digital sales account for the majority of video games sold. But this wasn’t always the case. In fact, this really didn’t start until the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 era of gaming. And according to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, losing to Sony in that generation has put Xbox at...
Ex-Nintendo Of America President Memes On Zelda Leaks
4.5.2023
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leaked earlier this week, and some players have been scrambling to try and play the Switch game ahead of its May 12 release date. While Nintendo hasn’t officially acknowledged the situation, someone who used to work there has, and probably not in the...
The Online Pokémon Trading Card Game Apocalypse Is Coming In June
3.5.2023
The Pokémon Company is officially migrating its online trading card ecosystem to its new app, Pokémon Trading Card Game Live, on June 8. This means if you’ve been playing the digital card game on Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, which has been the platform for official online play since 2011...
Everything We’re Learning About Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom From The Leaks
2.5.2023
The entirety of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom recently leaked online over a week ahead of the game’s May 12 release date. Now some players are making their way through it and streaming their journey for all to see while hackers comb through the game’s files for more clues. As a result...
The Advance Wars Remake Is Tactically Satisfying But Narratively Toothless
2.5.2023
I’m not a prude about war games, but real war is so horrifying that I always need some abstraction to get into it. The outlandish outfit designs in Fire Emblem and the cat ears in Arknights create a bit of cognitive distance from the harsh realities of armed conflict I learned about in school...
Worst Zelda Game Gets New Life As Fan-Made Game Boy Demake
2.5.2023
Back in the 1990s, Philips tried to break into the video game market with its doomed-to-fail, multimedia set-top box standard called CD-i. Many brands and models of CD-i players were released but all of them were flops and mostly forgotten in 2023. However, Philips did acquire the rights to develop...
Sheesh, The Full Super Mario Bros. Movie Keeps Popping Up On Twitter
1.5.2023
With Twitter struggling since Elon Musk was forced to buy the social media platform in October 2022, folks on the decaying Bird App have taken to posting entire films online thanks to the site’s stark lack of content moderation and safety, including the Chris Pratt-led The Super Mario Bros....
Fans Freak Out As Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Leaks Two Weeks Early
1.5.2023
Over a week ahead of schedule, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is now out in the wild. After months of dissecting every little leak they could find about the game, , some fans are now descending upon footage of how it starts in search of new information while others try to avoid spoilers...
Japanese Store Is Banning Adults From Buying Pokémon Cards
1.5.2023
In the wake of Pokémon cards totally selling out in Japan, it appears that one trading card store in the country’s Akihabara district has adopted some drastic measures: Bar adults from buying cards so kids can enjoy the hobby.Read more