If you’re a Mario fan from the Wii era, you likely at least know of Fortune Street. A monopoly style virtual board game where you navigate themed boards and invest in property in hopes of reaching your financial goal, the game was a unique title even by Mario spinoff standards, and one of the few…
As of the time we’re writing this, there are two Nintendo franchises represented at Super Nintendo World. There’s the Mario series, which was the main focus when the theme park was revealed back in [year]… Plus, the Donkey Kong Country series, which got an expansion themed around it in [year]. That’s all there is so…
When it comes to 2D platformers on Nintendo systems, one of the most beloved ones of them all is Wario Land 4. A 2001 GBA instalment in the Wario Land series, the title has our titular antihero exploring a mysterious golden pyramid in an attempt to find as much treasure as possible. It’s an incredibly…
Earlier this year, Nintendo officially revealed the Switch 2. In that presentation, they showed the system itself (plus a bit of the new Mario Kart game), and promised that they’d release more info about it in a few months’ time. But now we know exactly when that will be. Why? Because over on the Nintendo…
Well, it seems the inevitable has happened. Nintendo has asked the team behind the Lost in Hyrule film to stop working on the project, and the film has therefore been cancelled. It’s an unfortunate situation for Zelda fans, and one which leaves them without the excellent fan film hinted at in the reveal trailer. Sadly,…
When Mario & Luigi: Brothership was released last year, fans were a bit worried about its sales. After all, the first week’s sales in Japan seemed pretty low, with the game coming in lower than the likes of Super Mario RPG or Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. As a result, there was a sense…
As anyone with more than a passing familiarity of the original Donkey Kong arcade game knows, it’s not usually possible to progress past the girder stage on level 22. That’s because the game gives you so little time that Mario dies in a matter of seconds, and the odds of actually making it up to…
A few days ago, Pokémon TCG Pocket added trading to the game. Now players could trade for missing Pokémon at long last, and the game functionally worked a bit more like the original series as a result of that. Unfortunately, while the concept was good on paper, the execution was… underwhelming to say the least.…
A couple of weeks ago, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD was released for the Nintendo Switch. Developed by Forever Entertainment and based on the 3DS version of the game, the title aimed to be the ‘definitive’ way to play the game, mixing the frame rate and wide screen visuals of the console game with the…
With the huge success of Celeste, there was a lot of excitement about Earthblade, its developers next game. Another 2D platformer/adventure game set in a beautiful interconnected world, the title had you play as Névoa in their attempt to explore a ruined Earth and piece together its past. It was a fantastic looking game, and…