It’s very likely that this wasn’t the Direct presentation that you were expecting to be announced this week, but Nintendo has announced that a Pokemon Direct will be occurring on January 9th at 9:30am Eastern Time. The Direct will be “roughly 20 minutes long” and contain “new Pokemon information”. Obviously, Nintendo tweeted the Direct announcement,…
Nioh fans, I just wanted to provide a message of gratitude on behalf of Team Ninja and myself to all of the folks who played our Nioh 2 Open Beta last month. It was a tremendous learning experience for us as we carefully examined you guys playing the demo. We really appreciate the massive amount…
Platinum Games has announced today that they’ve partnered with Tencent and have received vital capital investment from the Chinese company. This will allow the teams to follow their ambitions including possibly moving into self publishing. Platinum Games will continue to remain independent. Here’s the full statement from the company: We would like to announce we…
You may recall that, last summer, Nintendo decided to raise Super Mario Maker 2‘s level upload limit from 32 to 64. When this happened, Nintendo said that the limit would be raised “one more time”, but they never said when that would happen. Well, 6 months have passed, and the level upload limit has just…
For the first time this year, Nintendo has filed applications for some trademarks in Japan. This time, it is for Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Splatoon & The Legend Of Zelda. The reason behind the trademark filings is, apparently, for merchandising reasons. The Pikmin trademark was for “approximately 200 purposes related to merchandising”, and the other 3…
Nintendo of America has announced this afternoon that there will be an open online tournament for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. The event begins on January 17th and the top players in the tournament could win 2500 My Nintendo Gold Points. Here’s all the details direct from Nintendo. Start your engines and race into the new…
Welcome to 2020! We’re kicking things off this year with a slightly late Players’ Choice poll for the final month of the last decade. A bit of a slower month, but not without its stars: Untitled Goose Game was a hoot (a honk?) at holiday parties worldwide, Arise: A Simple Story wove a beautiful tale…
It’s been three years since Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE blossomed in the West. Back then, the JRPG – a dual blend of Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem franchises – was hailed by critics as one of the best titles to grace the Wii U console, with many fans and critics alike requesting it to…
Digitimes is reporting today that Nintendo is busy preparing a revised Nintendo Switch system with an aim to make it available to consumers sometime this summer. The site says that production on the new unit will begin this quarter and will be released mid 2020, that’s according to sources from the related upstream supply chain….
The UK video game software charts are now with us and Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch has gotten off to a good start. It’s safe to say the last Brain Training game on the Nintendo 3DS was a flop as it didn’t even manage to break the top 40, however the latest entry…