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Gunbrick: Reloaded is Nitrome at its best, packed with brain-teasing puzzles and designed with charming elegance and simplicity.

Another Animal Crossing Podcast Special We just can’t get enough of Animal Crossing: New Horizons so we’ve decided to dedicate another episode of the podcast to discuss the game. This…

It has never been a secret that geese are, to put it mildly, stubbornly persistent. While Scrooge may have had Tiny Tim go fetch him one for Christmas dinner, it…

Earlier this week, Nintendo invited me to try out the Switch Lite and after a few hours playing such games as The Witcher 3, Luigi’s Mansion and Daemon X Machina,…

First off, this should come as no surprise to anyone. Nintendo has always had a long and convoluted history of poorly crafted connectivity in their first-party titles, but this one…

In the final part of a three part series, we dive deep into Nintendo’s design choices for the unfortunate Wii U and record-breaking Switch.

The Pokémon Company International revealed details today about the Gigantamax phenomenon in the highly anticipated upcoming video games Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. 

In 2015, the Wii U’s Super Mario Maker made waves as the gold standard for commercial level creators. It offered quick and capable tools for realising two-dimensional Mario fantasies, backed…

With the release of Super Mario Maker 2, Nintendo Switch owners finally get to walk around in Shigeru Miyamoto’s shoes (metaphorically, of course), living out the game design fantasies of…

Muse Dash is a rhythm game that puts anime aesthetics and song variety above all else. Does it pay off? Click here for the full review!

With so many fantastic indie games readily available on the Nintendo Switch, it might seem like quite the statement to say that Cadence of Hyrule is already one of the…

At its best, ‘Cadence of Hyrule’ takes strengths from both influences, and succeeds according to both measuring sticks.

Ever since Pokémon X and Y introduced mega evolution, Pokémon has been looking for ways to change the battle system in the franchise. After Mega Evolution came Z-Moves in Pokémon…

What is the best Nintendo Console? It was in 1985 that Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System on North American shores and forever changed the video gaming industry; decades later,…

Saints Row: The Third stood out from the crowd eight years ago, but how does it hold up in its Switch re-release?

Picross S3 introduces a brilliant Color Picross mode to the series while also fine-tuning the core Picross experience.

Though not as pitch-perfect as its predecessor, ‘Steamworld Quest’ is an enjoyable romp through the Steamworld universe that continues Image & Form’s trend of exploring an under-explored genre, finding that genre’s procedural core, and elaborating upon it with singular style and imagination.

As the indie genre has grown, so has the tendency to overfill games with stories that either don’t match the game’s theme, or whose own self-importance is heavily overblown. Every…

Yesterday, Twitter user Wario64 broke the story that leaked Switch placeholders for Metroid Prime Trilogy and A Link to the Past appeared on the Best Buy website. While Trilogy has…

Last week, a rumor emerged from the Wall Street Journal [paywall] that Nintendo is planning to update the Switch with two new variants: an upgraded, “Pro” model and a smaller…