With the way collecting has skyrocketed over the years, it should come as no surprise that Pokémon cards can equal big bucks. Thieves know this well, of course, and two men in Japan were recently arrested on suspicion of stealing 539 Pokémon cards from a …Read more »
January 31 shall henceforth be known as Final Fantasy VII Day. Cue the victory music! The proclamation of this new and awesome holiday comes from the Japan Anniversary Society, which is in the business of, y’know, looking up and declaring significant anniversaries. January 31, 1997 …Read more »
It’s been a long run of nearly a full decade, but service is finally coming to an end for the Love Live! School Idol Festival mobile game. The game first went live in Japan on April 15, 2013 before going global on May 12, 2014, …Read more »
If you're looking for your new simulation obsession, get ready to set aside some time and plenty of fuzzy feelings for Cuddly Forest Friends, which is on the way to Nintendo Switch on February 2. Pre-orders are officially live now, so let's take a closer …Read more »
With the release of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the number of Pokémon out in the wild across various regions is now over 1,000! In fact, there are 1,008 Pokémon in total, and the official Pokémon YouTube channel went so far as to create a video …Read more »
The Japanese company Gameage R&I, which does market research and consulting about the video game industry, decided to hold a survey to find out which Pokémon games have gotten played the most in their home country. 2,604 people were brought into the survey, all of them between …Read more »
It's time to turn the entertainment industry on its head with a side of romance in Lover Pretend, the latest visual novel from publisher Aksys Games! Help Chiyuki dream big in her adventure on Nintendo Switch, now available to order in both a standard and …Read more »
Last month we got word that Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka had been arrested for allegedly being involved in an insider trading scandal with other former Square Enix employees. That charge concerned buying shares in developer Aiming once they learned they would be working …Read more »
In two weeks, on December 13, the remastered game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion will become available to play on PlayStation 5, PlayStation4, Switch, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. Ahead of this Square Enix has uploaded two launch trailers, one in Japanese …Read more »
Things aren’t looking great for Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka at the moment. The game developer has been arrested by the Special Investigation Department of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office as part of an insider scandal trailer involving Square Enix and the Dragon …Read more »
Fans of the Tales RPG series will soon get to relive the timeless adventure of Tales of Symphonia thanks to the upcoming remastered version, and we now have a release date. Bandai Namco Entertainment America announced plans to bring the enhanced version to PlayStation 4, …Read more »
Nintendo is best known as a video game company, but President Shuntaro Furukawa indicated in a recent online presentation that the company is very interested in expanding. And they hope their expansions will bring more people to their video games. The upcoming Super Mario Bros. …Read more »
Since November 6, 2022 was the in-universe day that the Sword Art Online game launched—eventually trapping 10,000 players in its life or death adventure—a bunch of announcements have been timed for this week. In addition to the new film, a new game titled Sword Art …Read more »
We’re a little over a week away from the global launch of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, which hits Nintendo Switch on November 18. The Official Pokémon YouTube Channel took the opportunity to come through with a new trailer showing off more of the land of …Read more »
A new Black Clover mobile game was previously announced for sometime in 2022, but the latest update has it moving further back into the new year. While there’s no concrete date, a teaser website launched for Black Clover Mobile: Rise of the Wizard King, which …Read more »
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