This morning, Nintendo hosted a short, six-minute Pokémon-themed Nintendo Direct starring Tsunekazu Ishihara. During the Direct, it was mostly retrospective on the games as a whole instead of a bunch of announcements, but they did unveil the seventh generation of Pokémon. This holiday season, Nintendo, Game Freak and the Pokémon Company will release Pokémon Sun […]
Next Saturday, or at least midnight EST on the 20th, Splatoon will be doing its second licensed Splatfest. This time, 90s kids get personal: Pokémon Red or Blue? This Splatfest will happen worldwide, but like other Splatfests, it only groups players within their region. Japan is based on Pokémon Red and Green, which were the […]
The Pokémon Company is now in full gear to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pokémon. Nintendo has recently announced bundles of the 3DS family of systems decked out with Pokémon goodness. North America is getting the smaller New Nintendo 3DS with preinstalled copies of Pokémon Red and Blue Versions alongside Charizard and Blastoise faceplates, Japan […]
From the looks of things, you should preorder the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD bundle while you can, because that Wolf Link amiibo may be unlocking a bit of new content. While it hasn’t been confirmed by Nintendo, Amazon France may have leaked that the Wolf Link amiibo unlocks a brand new dungeon called […]
Today was the last Nintendo Direct-style presentation for Super Smash Bros. for 3DS & Wii U. Despite announcing Cloud last month as the closer to Nintendo’s most recent Direct, they had more up their sleeve this month to finish the year and boy they did with a banger. First off is the announcement of a […]
Two years after the release of Pokémon X and Y, The Pokémon Company has finally announced the last mythical Pokémon for a future release: Volcanion. https://youtu.be/uLkwAhDMPtQ Volcanion is very unique – it can use steam of its attacks due to its exclusive Fire/Water-typing. It will be available for owners of Pokémon X, Y, Omega Ruby and […]
One of the most requested games for the Wii U has finally been granted. Today, Nintendo and Mojang announced that Minecraft: Wii U Edition will be hitting the console, and very shortly. The game will be available next Thursday, December 17th. It is the only console version published by Mojang themselves, and Microsoft is publishing […]
Last year, The Game Awards debuted. And while the show was rough and was a bit too long, I didn’t hate it. And I hoped that next year’s show would be even better. And for the most part The Game Awards this year was a much better show, but not perfect. The show kicked off […]
Today Nintendo put on their first Nintendo Direct since their former President Satoru Iwata died last July. Nintendo of America’s president Reggie Fis-Aime and Treehouse veteran Bill Trinen hosted the American Direct, which we will cover today. After Reggie expressed his gratitude to everyone about the well wishes of Iwata’s passing, he got straight to […]
Nintendo uploaded a video on their YouTube page detailing a new update hitting Super Mario Maker next week. The first thing added to the creation suite was our #1 complaint about it, no checkpoints. Now by shaking the pointer arrows, you can add a checkpoint flag. Now players can resume mid-stage if they lose a […]
