Opinion: Legends Z-A’s Xenoblade-Style Battles Are Pokémon’s Most Exciting Evolution In Years
What? Pokémon is evolving! I’m going to go out on a limb here and say something crazy: I like the look of Pokémon Legends: Z-A. I reckon I have about five minutes before the torches are lit and an angry…
Random: These Hugging Pokémon Plushies Are Some Of The Cutest We’ve Seen In A While
Cubone used Hug. There’s nothing quite like a cute Pokémon plush to bring a smile to the face, is there? Well, this new range arriving in Japan’s Pokémon Centers next week might just be the cutest of the bunch (thanks,…
“The Answer Was Always No” – Ex-Nintendo Employee On Zelda Movie Pitches
Even if Steven Spielberg were involved. With the news in 2023 that Nintendo would be working on an official Legend of Zelda movie in collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment, you can bet that we had to scoop our jaws from…
Monolith Soft Adds Final Fantasy Cutscene Artist To Its Ranks, So What’s It Cooking For Switch 2?
The future is bright(er). If our hopes of some Monolith Soft Switch 2 goodness weren’t already high enough, today, they reached a new peak as we learned that the team has added a fresh cutscene director to its ranks with…
“I Felt Totally Overwhelmed” – Balatro Dev Releases Development Timeline
From inception to launch. Balatro developer LocalThunk has released a complete timeline of the game’s development, from its inception in 2021 to its eventual launch on 20th February 2024. You can read the whole thing on LocalThunk’s website, but the…
Mini Review: Mainframes (Switch) – A Fun But Frustrating PC-Inspired Platformer
No doomscrolling here. Mainframes presents an intriguing premise: What if your PC desktop was its own game world? Taking on the role of a cute, anthropomorphic floppy disk called, uh, Floppy, you set off on a journey through multiple ‘biomes’…
Switch Emulator ‘NxEmu’ Is Back And Hopes To Avoid Nintendo’s Wrath
Heh, good luck. Nintendo has been absolutely relentless when it comes to Switch emulators, and for good reason: the company recently confirmed that the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with the vast majority of Switch titles, so naturally, it…
Review: Donkey Kong (GB) – One Of The Game Boy’s Very Best
It’s on with the King of the Kongs. This review was originally published in June 2011. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of the game in the Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy library. In 1994, Nintendo had…
Random: Link Goes Full Master Chief In This Ocarina Of Time X Halo Mash-Up Mod
It’s me, John Zelda. Ever since it landed its PC port, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has been granted some pretty wild mods. We’ve seen TOTK abilities like Ultrahand and Fuse make the jump to the N64 classic,…
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 Has Been Butchered For The Switch Remake
Pop shuvit up your… Our sheer elation when Activision announced Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 for Switch has sadly bailed in light of news that the fourth entry will be subject to some pretty seismic changes. In short,…