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Aw! Look at that sweet, baby Pokémon. It’s so fluffy and has big puppy dog eyes. Of course, The Pokémon Company couldn’t just leave it at that. No, Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ cutest new Pokémon form for Zorua is powered by pure hatred of humans. Yes, that’s in the official description for Hisuian Zorua, released Tuesday by The Pokémon Company. Of […]
Read moreThe revelation that Sora, from Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts series, is the 82nd and final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter brings a bittersweet closure to a Smash community event from more than six years ago. Introducing Sora on Tuesday, Smash Bros. game director Masahiro Sakurai recalled this community poll, which ran from April to October of 2015. Fans voted in […]
Read moreNetEase Games has acquired Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio led by games design auteur Goichi “Suda51” Suda, and maker of games and franchises like No More Heroes, Killer7, and Lollipop Chainsaw. The two companies announced the acquisition via news release on Thursday. “As we all know, NetEase Games has developed many excellent games in the past, and I have long been […]
Read moreWario is a fashion icon. Even professional stylist Peter Nguyen of The Essential Man agrees it’s true. But one thing that Nguyen and I disagree on is Wario’s shoes. Sure, Nguyen is an expert in men’s fashion who knows more about clothes than I know about anything, and I’m an almost 30-year-old man who works in sweatpants daily. But my […]
Read moreMetroid fans have had to wait a very long time for a brand-new 2D Metroid game — 19 years, to be precise. And if they want to use Samus Aran’s iconic morph ball power in Metroid Dread, they’ll have to wait even longer. [Warning: The following contains mild spoilers for Metroid Dread.] The morph ball is almost always the very […]
Read moreOK, Nintendo — I think players are ready to forgive the developer for the dearth of Animal Crossing: New Horizons content over the past year. During the Animal Crossing Direct on Friday, Nintendo announced a ton of new content to bring players back to their islands — and the new cooking and food items look delicious. There’s so much to […]
Read moreSora is the latest and final addition to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s massive roster, and he may have been the hardest character to secure for the series. Masahiro Sakurai, the game director for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, wrote a column for Famitsu, the Japanese magazine, about the difficulty of including Sora in Smash. PushDustln and Kody NOKOLO on Twitter joined […]
Read moreMario Kart meets Final Fantasy in Chocobo GP, a new racer from Square Enix. The game will come to Nintendo Switch with a 2022 release window, as announced at a Nintendo Direct on Thursday. The racer looks like a standard kart game, except with its own Final Fantasy flair. You’ll be able to drift boost and use attacks to throw […]
Read moreBayonetta 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch in 2022, developer PlatinumGames and publisher Sega said following a four-minute gameplay trailer shown during Thursday’s Nintendo Direct. The trailer, as heavy with cinematics as it is with in-game footage, shows Bayonetta coming to the rescue against a kaiju-esque enemy who is overwhelming the local defense. Bayonetta and her trademark pistol-heels arrive on […]
Read moreSince the Nintendo Switch’s launch 2017, there’s been one consistent problem: Joy-Con drift. It’s persisted over the years and through different upgrades and models — and it seems that Nintendo’s new OLED model will likely see the same fate. Joy-Con drift is a problem of durability that occurs when joysticks “drift” or move without user input, causing a character to […]
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