RPGs to the left of me, cavemen to the right.

Hope you took last week off to sort through the backlog, because especially in North America it's another busy week. The 3DS, having not released an RPG for three months in North America which represents a lull this year, launched 7th Dragon III Code: VfD on Tuesday and will bring Monster Hunter Generations... Read more...

An official Nintendo Entertainment System with HDMI? What a time to be alive.

Nintendo will be releasing new hardware this November, but not what most expected.

The classic Nintendo Entertainment System will be reissued on November 11 in North America and Europe, with a suggested US MSRP of $59.99 (Australia $99.99). It will be a smaller version of the system that will come... Read more...

Update: Trainer account issue FIXED.

Pokémon Go can be updated to version 1.0.1 for iOS users today, hopefully solving the frequent crashes players have experienced.

The update focuses on stability improvements for trainers using an Apple device:

And Nintendo sees maybe 15% of that benefit.

A mobile intelligence group has confirmed that within a week, Niantic's Pokémon Go is the most adopted mobile game in US history.

SurveyMonkey Intelligence released the report estimating that the game is on track to surpass the likes of Snapchat in terms of mobile US userbase, and has already... Read more...

One for a big game, one for the size of the discount

Two big sales will be hitting Europe with their eShop update tomorrow.

To coincide with the launch of Pokémon Go in Europe, the Virtual Console releases of Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow will be 30% off from 14 - 28 July - for a sale price of €6.99.

Also coming with tomorrow's update is a massive... Read more...

The opening salvo includes three of the system's big guns.

North America's Virtual Console is adding another system back from the Wii.

TurboGrafx-16 titles, first revealed in ESRB ratings a few months ago, will come to the Wii U's Virtual Console tomorrow with the releases of Bonk's Adventure, R-Type and New Adventure Island. Much like the Wii pricing,... Read more...

The bear will provide thrills, chills, and faints.

A new trailer and this month's edition of Japan's CoroCoro magazine have revealed two more Pokémon to debut in Sun and Moon this November.

The two debutants are named Kiteruguma and Mimikkyu in Japanese. Kiteruguma is a large Normal/Fighting type who resembles a red panda, with the new ability... Read more...

Niantic's founder reveals his plans for the future of the game.

Trading has been confirmed as a planned feature of Pokémon Go, coming "fairly soon in the future" according to Niantic founder, John Hanke. In interviews with Game Informer and Business Insider, Hanke elaborated on the future improvements coming to the game.

He agreed that trading has always... Read more...

Some might call this week a cooldown.

This week represents a sea of calm in between the mass of insanity of the last couple of weeks and next week's double shot of the Year of the 3DS RPG. We have a small eShop collection from RCMADIAX that has both ice (SKEASY) and fire (VOLCANO), but no Knuckles. There's also a little fighting game imported from Europe in Steel Lords... but that's it.

Methods of obtaining it include moving to New Zealand. Now live for our US visitors!

Pokémon Go is beginning its worldwide launch for iOS and Android.

iOS users in New Zealand can currently download the application from the local app store, while international users can create a New Zealand app store account for the free app or wait as it moves its way west. The application is showing live on Google Play but shows no eligible devices outside of NZ/Australia - though the .apk (Android app file) is in the wild.

Atlus/Sega returns to an old friend for European distribution.

Following a split from NIS America, Atlus and Sega have formed a new publishing partnership for physical games in Europe.

Deep Silver has reached an agreement to publish "Atlus and Sega titles" in Europe, beginning with Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse and PlayStation title Persona 5. The announcement was tweeted out this morning, and a follow up announcement from Atlus confirmed 7th Dragon III: Code VfD will reach Europe.

The most expensive reward in Gold? New Super Luigi U.

The My Nintendo rewards refresh has brought along a few changes as well as some additional offers for those celebrating summer birthdays.

The new rewards turned over on July 1 and include discounts on Earthbound Beginnings, Fire Emblem Awakening, Kid Icarus Uprising and Mario Kart 8 for gold coins... Read more...

The physical pack is published by some folks who know a bit about platforming.

Inti Creates will be dropping a sequel to an eShop hit at the end of September, and a boxed copy will come along for the ride.

At the company's AnimeExpo panel, Inti announced that Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 would release in North America on September 30 in both digital and a physical format. The eShop release will be US$14.99, while a combo package of the first two ASG titles will release the same day for US$29.99.

The ex-CING developed mystery comes west from Aksys

Aksys has announced their latest eShop title at this year's Anime Expo, and it's a familiar name for DS adventure fans.

During a swath of announcements at their AX panel, the company announced they had picked up the Arc System Works-published -Chase- Mikaiketsu Jiken Sousaka ~Tooi Kioku~ announced in March for localization. -CHASE- Cold Case Investigations ~Distant Memories~ will release digitally this fall.

A shocking collection, to be sure. Now with English names and abilities!

The Pokémon Company has released a new trailer showing off seven new Pokémon.

An announcement was originally scheduled to air tomorrow but leaked out, prompting the early release. The new Pokémon have the following Japanese names: