Heritage Auctions’s Comics & Comic Art Auction event brought in some serious money and broke records. And we have Pokémon to thank for that. The Pokémon First Edition Base Set Sealed Booster Box (released in 1999) sold for a whopping $408,000, and that’s put it …Read more »
It’s been a long time since fans got treated to a Pokémon Snap game, but it’s finally happening again, this time on Nintendo Switch. Following up on the initial announcement, The Pokémon Company International officially lined up the release of New Pokémon Snap for April …Read more »
Japan’s recent State of Emergency declaration, which expanded and also includes Osaka and additional areas as of January 13, means that Universal Studios Japan and other parks must abide by the rules. That also means that the planned February 4 opening of Super Nintendo World …Read more »
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury will become available on Nintendo Switch on February 12, and Nintendo has released a video to give us a glimpse. For the first half of the video things look pretty happy, and then it gets ominous. “Bowser has …Read more »
Is life bringing you down lately? Got the COVID blues? Hey, at least you’re not a grown man who got arrested for making fake popsicle sticks. Okay, the sticks themselves weren’t fake, the writing on them was. Here’s the deal: there’s a famous brand of …Read more »
With the PlayStation 5 out and in the hands of at least a few people, it’s the beginning of the end for PlayStation 4. That certainly seems to be the case with Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia’s latest move, which has the company ending production …Read more »
You never know which one of your seemingly wasteful hobbies will eventually turn around and earn you some much-needed scratch. In the case of Caleb King—a college student studying at the University of North Georgia—his vice was Pokémon cards growing up, and now they’re going …Read more »
For a few years Nintendo and Mari Mobility Development Inc. have been duking it out (legally). Mari Mobility Development Inc. owns MariCar, a Mario-Kart-esque tourist attraction in Tokyo and Osaka where you used to be able to wear Nintendo outfits while driving. Nintendo’s initial fears, …Read more »
A couple weeks ago, we reported that Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama had started his own independent video game studio, Bokeh. Now Toyama has revealed a few details about that studio’s first game. It doesn’t have a title yet, but it does have a concept: …Read more »
Sephiroth arrives in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tomorrow. Ahead of the highly anticipated addition, Nintendo released a YouTube video — “Mr. Sakurai Presents ‘Sephiroth.'” Mr. Sakurai being Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the Super Smash Bros. franchise. “I think he might be one of the …Read more »
Super Mario Bros. creator Shigeru Miyamoto has always been at the heart of Nintendo’s legacy as a game developer, so it’s only fitting that he be the first to offer a tour of the Super Nintendo World theme park. It’s quite the spirited tour, too, …Read more »
It’s that time of year: time for Fate/Grand Order to launch its Christmas event and give another Heroic Spirit a chance to play Santa! The tradition has been part of the game since its very first holiday event, and doesn’t appear to show signs of stopping. …Read more »
As was the case with this year’s list of popular buzzwords in Japan, Animal Crossing and Demon Slayer have also been listed among 2020’s top Google trends. Google breaks down the most searched terms every year, and Japan’s definitely had some crossover with the rest …Read more »
Final Fantasy VII Remake was nominated for six awards at the 2020 Game Awards, and we learned yesterday that it won two of them: Best Role-Playing Game and Best Score and Music. The Last of Us Part II nabbed Game of the Year, Best Game …Read more »
Nintendo promised that a new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character reveal would go down during tonight’s The Game Awards 2020, and boy did they deliver. The latest addition to the roster is on the way to give Cloud from Final Fantasy VII a real …Read more »
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