Tag: nintendo

REVIEW: Monster Hunter Rise (2021)

andrewrodriguez | May 11, 2021 | 0

It’s no well-kept secret that many of gaming’s biggest franchises have come out of Japan. From Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda to Pokémon and Resident Evil, video game hits and Japanese developers have become concomitant, and it’s well-earned. But some franchises take longer to build up s...

Nintendo Direct – February 2021 Super Smash Bros. DLC Fighter Pyra/Mythra

andrewrodriguez | Feb 17, 2021 | 2

A new challenger has appeared! Each new fighter announcement for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate is always an event unto itself. The level of anticipation that leads up to the official announcement for the next addition to the party fighter’s roster cannot be overstated. And usually, so long as ...

Nintendo Direct – February 2021 Skyward Sword Remaster

andrewrodriguez | Feb 17, 2021 | 7

Few video game series reach the same lauded status and notoriety that has become concomitant with Nintendo’s in-house IPs. Fewer still are as renowned as the Legend of Zelda franchise. 2021 is the 35th Anniversary year for the storied epic, and longtime Hyrule Historians have been speculating ...

Mega Evolution Making a Comeback?

andrewrodriguez | Oct 10, 2020 | 4

With the advent of the Crown Tundra DLC expansion dropping on October 22nd, many Pokémon from the National PokeDex are returning to the games. Of these returning Pocket Monsters, a significant number are those who had Mega Evolutions in the past two generations of the games (XY and Sun & Moon/U...

REVIEW: Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl (2020)

Spike | Jul 25, 2020 | 3

It’s been twenty-five years since Mallrats hit the movie theaters in the United States, bombing spectacularly at the box office. After the success of Clerks, that didn’t stop the film from getting a huge cult following from the home video version, which made it a celebrated and highly qu...

Legendary Gamer Gus Rodríguez Passes Away at Age 59

Spike | Apr 13, 2020 | 0

Gus Rodríguez, who remained active in the world of gaming from the late ’80s until his final days of battling cancer, lost the game against this awful disease. The Latin American gamer was not well known in the Anglosphere, but his career was unprecedented, unlocking a mythical status that wi...