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Nintendo of America announced today that a Direct will air on 9/23! Wait! Thats tomorrow! There will be an all-new Nintendo Direct tomorrow (9/23) at 5:00pm central. On twitter, Nintendo of America said that the Direct will be “roughly 40 minutes of information focused mainly on #NintendoSwitch games launching this winter.” We know that Metroid Dread, Mario Party, Pokémon, Advance Wars, and Big Brain Academy are coming soon. So those games will get some spotlight time most likely. There are…

Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a 2.5D action/adventure puzzle platformer thats coming to the Nintendo Switch and other platforms soon. You can even pre-order the game! Check out the latest trailer for the game below. Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan will be coming to the Nintendo Switch and other platforms on October 5th! The game is available for pre-order right now. Graphics wise, Rainbow Billy looks a little bit like Cuphead and a little bit…

Nintendo announced today that there would be an IndieWorld Showcase video on 8/11. Hey thats tomorrow! We have the details below. An IndieWorld Showcase will air tomorrow at 11am central. According to Nintendo it will be “roughly 20 minutes of information on upcoming indie games heading to #NintendoSwitch.” No details were provided on what indie games will be shown. Judging by previous IndieWorld Showcases, it will be a mix of new announcements and updates on titles we’ve seen before. There…

Psychonauts 2 is coming out this month. Let me repeat that in all caps: PSYCHONAUTS 2 IS COMING OUT THIS MONTH. Yes that was necessary. The Psychonauts are coming back and you should be excited. Let’s talk about Psychonauts 2. I never thought there would be a Psychonauts 2. I remember playing Psychonauts on the orignal Xbox and loving it. It was a super fun and really weird platformer. It was like Tim Burton decided to make a video game.…

Psychonauts 2 is finally coming out next month! A new trailer was released today for the game. Check that out below, along with the story description and some thoughts on the game. Psychonauts 2 is coming out on August 25th for Xbox systems, the Microsoft store, STEAM, PS4, PS5, and more. The first game was originally released for the first Xbox and PS2. That game can be found on the PS4 and other systems now. In Psychonauts 1, Raz and…

E3 2021 is over! Was it the best E3 ever? Nope. Was it fun? Yep. But, who won? Did anyone win? Let’s talk about who the “winner” of E3 is! E3 2021 was alright. It wasn’t the best E3 ever. It wasn’t even the best game related event this year (those State of Plays and the Dragon Quest event rocked) but it did offer some surprises and delightful games. Xbox and Nintendo did good. Ubisoft and Square Enix were not…

Summer Game Fest, the Geoff Keighley pre-E3 event, happened today. I watched it all and now I have some thoughts on it. I thought that Summer Game Fest would never end. The Geoff Keighley event lasted a long time and after that was an indie game focused Day of the Devs event. Let’s talk about the main Summer Game Fest event first. Geoff Keighley is the host of the Game of Awards an also the host of Summer Game Fest.…

Nintendo of America announced their E3 plans today! Let’s take a look and talk about it some. Nintendo will have an E3 Direct on June 15th at 11:00am central time. Following that they will have a Nintendo Treehouse Live. The Direct will be about 40 minutes long, focused on games ” mostly releasing in 2021″. and the Treehouse will last for about three hours! Whew. 40 minutes for a Nintendo Direct is pretty long. You have to especially consider how…

We still have a few weeks to go but I figured, hey, why not start my crazy E3 predictions!? Today I’ll throw out some never-will-this-happen Nintendo E3 predictions, next week will be Sony, and right before E3 I’ll talk about Microsoft and third parties. Let’s a goooooo! Nintendo has not officially announced their E3 plans yet (unless they do and I have to rewrite this). So I am going to guess their plans… On the Thursday or Friday before E3…

I didn’t play Monster World back in the day and so I have no nostalgia for the series at all. I do, however, love platformers. I also really love action/adventure Metroidvanas. Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World is all these things. So is it any good? Should you check it out? Here is our review of Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World for the Nintendo Switch! Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World is an action/adventure platformer. It stars a girl…