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During the most recent Nintendo Direct, Nintendo confirmed that N64 and Sega Genesis games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online. Retro games from those two platforms will be joining games from the NES and SNES that are already available ...

New Nintendo Direct dropping this week: Here’s when to tune in

Many Nintendo fans were hoping for a new Nintendo Direct during September, and it looks like that’s exactly what they’re going to get. Nintendo has announced a new Nintendo Direct presentation for later this week, and we’re going to ...

Pokemon Legends: Arceus reveals mystery Pokemon from creepy found footage trailer

Earlier this week, The Pokemon Company released a mysterious new trailer for Pokemon Legends: Arceus. The trailer was a head-scratcher for sure, as it was a found footage-style teaser that didn’t reveal much outside of what an unseen narrator ...

There’s bad news for a Nintendo Switch US price drop

Earlier this week, Nintendo revealed that it’s cutting the price on the standard Nintendo Switch in Europe. The company decided to drop the Switch’s price by around £20/€30, bringing it down to £259.99/€299.99 in Europe ahead of the Switch ...

Kingdom Hearts games are coming to Switch, but there’s a catch

Today’s Smash Bros Ultimate DLC fighter reveal was certainly packed with surprises. Not only did director Masahiro Sakurai confirm that Sora from Kingdom Hearts would be the final DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros Ultimate, but he also confirmed ...

Bayonetta 3 and Splatoon 3 trailers tease big changes afoot

Nintendo’s recently concluded Direct naturally had something for all types of gamers looking forward to spending their winter days with their beloved Switch consoles. Unsurprisingly, there was a ton of announcements dumped on the gaming giant’s fans, from upcoming ...

Nintendo leak claims Switch Online will get Game Boy titles in near future

If you own a Nintendo Switch or Switch Lite console and have a subscription to Nintendo’s online services, you have free access to an emulator packed with classic NES and Super Nintendo games. According to multiple new leaks, Nintendo ...

New Metroid Dread trailer is even more ominous than the last

One of the biggest surprises of Nintendo’s E3 was undoubtedly Metroid Dread. Fans have been waiting a long time for a new mainline Metroid game, and with Metroid Prime 4 nowhere in sight for the time being, Metroid Dread ...

Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase set for this week: When to tune in

From time to time, Nintendo likes to host Indie World Showcases, which are presentations focused entirely on upcoming indie games for the Nintendo Switch. Today, the company announced when the next Indie World Showcase will be happening, and it’s ...

Here’s another sealed copy of Super Mario Bros that sold for way too much

In the past month, we’ve seen a string of classic video games sell for ridiculous prices. First was a sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda that sold for $870,000 at auction. Then, a short time later, a sealed ...

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, and Legends: Arceus will all be missing a big feature

Earlier today, The Pokemon Company hosted a new Pokemon Presents event in which it revealed a lot of new details about Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Pokemon Shining Pearl, and Pokemon Legends: Arceus. The event showed off a lot of cool ...

At long last, Spelunky 1 and 2 get a Switch release date

We’ve known for a while now that Spelunky and its sequel, the aptly named Spelunky 2, were on the way to Switch, but with no specific release date confirmed. That all changed today when Spelunky developer Derek Yu announced ...

Metroid Dread trailer reveals combat details and survival horror elements

In the last Metroid Dread trailer, which arrived at the end of August, we finally got to see some new gameplay footage. Specifically, we got to see many of the abilities Samus will have at her disposal, but today ...

Fresh Pokemon Legends: Arceus trailer preps us for a whole new Pokemon game

While today’s Pokemon Presets event focused on a lot of different Pokemon games, the upcoming games for Switch got the lion’s share of attention. In addition to revealing new details about Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, The Pokemon ...

New Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl details revealed with special edition Switch Lite

As expected, today’s Pokemon Presents brought us some new details about Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, which are upcoming remakes of the fourth-generation Pokemon games. Today we got a look at some new gameplay footage from Pokemon Brilliant ...

Tetris Effect: Connected finally gets a Switch release date

There have been a lot of Tetris games released throughout the years, but one of the best is also one of the most recent: Tetris Effect. Tetris Effect is a trippy, colorful spin on the standard Tetris formula first ...

New Pokemon Unite update arrives this week, but don’t get too excited

There’s a new update for Pokemon Unite inbound, and while it does make some changes to the game, it won’t be as substantial as some players were hoping for. Indeed, it seems like a quiet week for Pokemon Unite, ...

Pokemon Unite’s next character may not be who you were expecting

Pokemon Unite is about to get its second post-launch Pokemon. Following the release of Gardevoir on July 28th, The Pokemon Company and Tencent announced today that the next character will be joining the roster later this week. Unfortunately, this ...

New Metroid Dread teaser isn’t your typical Nintendo trailer

Generally speaking, Nintendo games are colorful, happy affairs, and the trailers for those games reflect that with bright visuals and upbeat music. However, it’s becoming more and more clear that Metroid Dread is not that game. If its dark ...

Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase: How to watch today

Yesterday, Nintendo announced a new Indie World Showcase that will show off a slate of indie games headed to the Switch. The show will likely provide us with updates on indie games that have already been announced for the ...

RomUniverse ordered to destroy all of its pirated games

In 2018, Nintendo went on a legal rampage going after multiple websites that had pirated ROMs of classic Nintendo video games for people to download. One of those websites is called RomUniverse. That website was ordered by the court ...

Nintendo is reviving Big Brain Academy on Switch

It’s been a long, long time since we last heard from the Big Brain Academy series. It’s hardly a series at all, in fact, with only two releases to its name: the original Big Brain Academy on Nintendo DS, ...

Indie gem Loop Hero heads to Switch later this year

Earlier this year, Four Quarters and Devolver Digital made quite a splash with the release of the game Loop Hero. We should get ready for Loop Hero to make another splash because, during today’s Indie World Showcase, Nintendo announced ...

Latest Metroid Dread trailer shows off new gameplay and a surprising enemy

Ever since Metroid Dread was revealed at E3 2021, we’ve seen several trailers and teasers for the game. Most of those have been cinematic trailers, setting the stage for Metroid Dread without showing off any gameplay. Today we’re finally ...

Blastoise finally has a Pokemon Unite release date

Ever since Pokemon Unite launched, fans have been waiting for the release of Blastoise. The Pokemon has been featured in promotional artwork for the game, and Squirtle even appears in Pokemon Unite‘s tutorials, leading many fans to believe that ...

LEGO Super Mario 64 set is more than meets the eye

We’ve seen several different Super Mario LEGO sets launch over the past year or so, but none of them are quite like the Super Mario 64-themed set that was revealed today. The new set – officially called the LEGO ...

How to get Dada Zarude and Shiny Celebi in Pokemon Sword and Shield

It’s shaping up to be a big day for Pokemon fans. Not only did we catch wind of a new update heading to Pokemon Unite, but The Pokemon Company has also revealed the premiere date for the next Pokemon ...

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD trailer takes us back to the beginning

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is right around the corner, and Nintendo today delivered yet another new trailer for the game. The company has released a series of trailers for Skyward Sword HD that cover a number ...

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD trailer preps us to return to Skyloft

Following E3 2021, we know that Nintendo has quite a few major releases lined up for the Switch in the latter half of the year. One of those releases is right around the corner, as The Legend of Zelda: ...

How to claim Zeraora in Pokemon Unite

Pokemon Unite landed on Nintendo Switch this week, allowing players to go head-to-head in 5v5 battles similar to those found in MOBAs like League of Legends or Dota 2. While Pokemon Unite is a good amount more casual than ...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons update lands this week with a sweet promise

It’s been a while since we last heard from Nintendo on the matter of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but the company today broke its silence to announce a new update for the game. The update is arriving later this ...

Pokemon Unite finally gets a Nintendo Switch release date

We last checked in with Pokemon Unite in June, when The Pokemon Company revealed that the game would be releasing sometime this summer. Failing to get any more specific than that, we were left waiting for a precise release ...

Nintendo Switch has Wii in its sights as total sales surpass PS3

Nintendo has delivered the financial results for the first quarter of its 2021 fiscal year, and those results give us a look at how well the Switch is doing. Nintendo reported that the Switch managed to sell 4.45 million ...

Super Mario 64 cartridge sells at auction for record-breaking $1.5 million

On Friday, it was announced that a new game cartridge auction record had been set with the sale of The Legend of Zelda for NES at $870,000. Now, only two days later, that record has already been broken with ...

This is Pokemon Unite’s first post-launch new character

Pokemon Unite has been out for a little over a week, and already we’re getting the first post-launch character added to the roster. The Pokemon Company and Tencent announced today that Gardevoir will be joining the lineup of Pokemon ...

GameStop reveals the most pre-ordered games following E3 2021

While E3 2021 may have been a little hit or miss, there were definitely some big games revealed during the event’s four-day stretch. Now that E3 2021 has wrapped up, GameStop has revealed the 10 most pre-ordered games following ...

Switch OLED CPU and memory detailed, but don’t get too excited

It’s been a pretty big day for Nintendo, but also one with a fair amount of confusion as well. Nintendo announced the Nintendo Switch OLED earlier today, a new version of its Switch console that comes with a few ...

Deck-building roguelike Monster Train heads to Switch this month

Roguelikes are some of the most popular indie games around at the moment, and as the genre becomes more crowded, we’ve seen several different sub-genres sprout up. One sub-genre that’s proven to be very popular is the deck-building roguelike, ...

Wild price for sealed copy of The Legend of Zelda breaks auction records

Back in April, we told you about a sealed copy of the original Super Mario Bros. that fetched the hefty sum of $660,000 at auction. At the time, we wondered how long this record would stand, and as it ...

Netflix reportedly working on a new Pokemon series with a big surprise

For almost as long as there have been Pokemon video games, there’s been a Pokemon TV show. In fact, the Pokemon anime series debuted in the United States a few weeks before the first Pokemon games launched here, so ...

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