During Nintendo’s recent shareholder Q&A, CEO Shuntaro Furukawa was asked a question about how Nintendo shares its profits with its employees. Furukawa’s reply was reported to have been that staff had been given a 10-percent raise. It’s now been revealed, after a delayed official publication of the Q&A, that the…

The launch of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One marked a pivotal point in gaming’s history. Neck-and-neck by the end of the previous console generation, Sony and Microsoft approached the announcements and rollouts of their subsequent devices in very different ways. Sony was relentless in hammering Microsoft’s initial plan to…

One of my favorite Pokémon of all time is Beautifly, the swallowtail butterfly who debuted back in Ruby and Sapphire. She’s a mainstay of my team in every game I can find her in, and during a regular playthrough she tends to hold her own well enough. However, as I’ve…

The Switch 2’s big launch title, Mario Kart World, has sure shifted a lot of copies and consoles. In March 2026 Nintendo revealed the game had sold an extraordinary 14.7 million copies in its first nine months, so you’d imagine the Switch 2 company would be hearing the clamor and…

Metroid fans have been worrying about the sci-fi series’ future after last year’s Metroid Prime 4 appeared to sell poorly. But a fresh ratings board leak out of Brazil may have just confirmed a new sequel. A game with the title “Metroid Ravenous” recently appeared in a posting by the…

Once again, the people running a card game event are asking folks who attend to please shower and wear clean clothes so the whole place doesn’t smell terrible. As spotted by IGN, last week Chronos Games & Gifts, an indie card and game store located in Beaverton, Oregon, was forced…