June 2020

Nintendo of America has after some time decided to publish a statement regarding the Black Lives Matter campaign on racial equality. We shared this statement with our followers on our social media channels earlier today but I realise not all of you use social media, so you may have missed it. I also realise that…

The newest edition of Weekly Famitsu magazine is available and contained within it is this week’s most wanted charts for Nintendo platforms. There’s understandably no change at the top at the moment for the long-awaited The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, but if Nintendo decides to announce the Super Mario 35th Anniversary…

Details surrounding Nintendo’s 80th annual General Meeting of Shareholders have surfaced on the official Nintendo Japan website and, as expected, there are some strict rules in place due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Nintendo has also confirmed that it will be taking place on June 26th at their headquarters in Kyoto. As well as the meeting…

The “huge scoop” from Famitsu is a new cloud gaming service for Japanese arcades which SEGA is currently working on under the resource and development development division. It is called Fog Gaming and could be revolutionary for the arcade industry. Here’s what we know so far: Fog Gaming would repurpose arcades across Japan as part…

SEGA has been busy today celebrating its 60th anniversary and has announced that it is releasing another retro system. This time it is the Game Gear Micro and it has only been announced for Japan at present. It is scheduled to be released on 6th October and is launching in black, blue, red, and yellow…

On June 3rd, 1960, Service Games, or SEGA for short, was founded by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart. Although the company is known for video games and its 90s rivalry with Nintendo, SEGA didn’t enter the video game business until the 80s, 20 years after it was founded. SEGA has been celebrating their anniversary on…

Another month means another new load of fish and bugs to catch for Blathers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. June sees the addition of sharks for those players in the Northern Hemisphere; they’re easily distinguishable with their fins that poke out of the water. No rush, though, they’ll be around for longer than a month….

If you’re in the UK and you’re yet to place a pre-order for the upcoming Nintendo Switch exclusive title Paper Mario: The Orgimai King, then you may just want to head on over to GAME’s website to do so. The UK games retailer is offering customers a couple of bonus items: a Mario Origami sheet…

SEGA has recently patented a special touch screen controller which according to the patent listed here “…generates a game image of an object disposed in a virtual game space; and a touch panel connected to the controller…” It’s not entirely clear if this related to the “revolutionary” SEGA scoop that will feature in this week’s…