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‘The Toys that Built America’ is a documentary series that covers the origins of many iconic toys and games and the companies that produced them and a trailer for the newest season (posted above) promises a spotlight on Nintendo Games.

Below is a description for the series.

While there have been episodes covering Nintendo in the past, the above clip promises a look at the origins of the The Legend of Zelda series including the famous story of Miyamoto’s childhood adventures that inspired the games.

The series is premiering Sunday, October 15th on the History Channel but it is currently unknown when the episodes based on Nintendo games will air.

Hello and welcome back to GoNintendo’s Smash Character Review series, where we look at Smash Ultimate’s massive roster and see how will the characters have held up. Today, in honor of the 25th anniversary of Pokémon Yellow, we’ll be taking a look at the Pokémon fittingly numbered 25 in the Poékdex – Pikachu!

What is there to say about Pikachu that hasn’t already been said? Despite not having a major role in the original release of Red and Blue thanks to some genius marketing tactics and a universally appealing design, Pikachu was pushed to be the mascot of the entire series. You would be hard-pressed to find a Pokémon product with no relation to Pikachu whatsoever so it makes sense that he would be the first Pocket Monster considered to join the world of Smash.

How does the electric mouse Pokémon fair today however? Well, that’s the question we intend to answer. As always, we suggest checking out our first article in this series for a breakdown of how the grading system works. With all that out of the way let’s get started!

With every new game release there comes pre-order bonuses and the return of Super Mario RPG is no different!

GameStop have announced their exclusive pre-order bonus for Super Mario RPG, a button set featuring the game’s main characters and logo.

If this offer entices you follow the link below to pre-order your copy!

While we already know the characters coming in Mortal Kombat 1’s first Kombat Pack new datamined info seems to point to what characters we could see in future DLC Packs.

If you want to see the list of character click on but if you want to remain unspoiled turn away.

Final Exerion, an updated version of the 1983 arcade shooter ‘Exerion’, is coming to Switch September 21st.

Developed by City Connection and HappyMeal, this version features enhanced graphics, online ranking, and English Language Support.

You can watch a Japanese Trailer for the game above or check out the official overview down below.

Wildbus Studio’s Newest Game ‘Freak Crossing’ is making it’s way to Nintendo Switch on September 28th!

Freak Crossing is an M-Rated take on cozy life-sims like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, an adventure game utilizing cartoonish graphics to discuss heavier themes. The game features multiple endings but only one save slot so your choices matter to seeing how things shake out for your village.

You can check out a trailer for the game above read a description of the game down below.

Following the release of the original game earlier this year Cyber Citizen Shockman 2: A New Menace makes it’s way to Nintendo Switch September 22nd.

The TurboGrafx-16 game will be available on the eShop for $5.99. You can check out the game’s trailer above or read a description for the game down below.

Hogwarts Legacy has been out for other systems for a while now but the devs keep sharing new videos highlighting the detail put into the game and hyping up the game’s Switch release.

The latest video entitled “From Page to Play” highlights several passages from books across the series and how they were used to inform the developers design of the game’s world. Accompanying this tour through the world of wizardry is calming narration of the many passages that inspired the team.

Hogwarts Legacy release on Nintendo Switch November 14th, 2023.

oiCabie and QUByte Interactive are partnering up for the release of Bem Feito on Nintendo Switch.

Inspired by spooky creepypasta and ARG stories, Bem Feito is being positioned as a re-release of a fictional life sim game released in 1999 on a fictional console called the JOGAROTO. If you can’t tell from the above trailer and below overview the game is being promoted in a very tongue in cheek way.

While we don’t know when the game will release (or re-release as it were) we will keep you up to date for news as it develops.

The Omega Strikers Twitter/X account has shared details for the upcoming micropatch which is now live.

It seems the focus of this patch was to nerf Kazan and buff Finii, you can read the full details below.

Nintendo Treehouse Live’s segment on Super Mario Bros. Wonder has just ended and now the entire 22 minute gameplay video has been shared on Nintendo’s YouTube channel.

There isn’t really much new that wasn’t previously shown off in yesterday’s direct but if you want to see gameplay of wonder’s frantic multiplayer you can check it out at the link above!

Super Mario Bros. Wonder releases on October 20th for the Nintendo Switch family of Systems.

Jack Jeanne came to Switch on June 15th, 2023. Following the game’s release, Aksys Games is sharing a series of character trailers. Today brings us a look at Soshiro Yonaga, who you can learn about in the video above.

Soshiro Yonaga enrolled at Univeil Drama School hoping to play male roles, but he was told to portray female roles (Jeanne) instead. He knows Kisa’s secret and how she got into Univeil.

Competition at the school is fierce and the rivalries are real! Will Kisa be able to forge powerful bonds with her male classmates while competing against them? Will she be cast in the lead role in the final performance at the end of the year all while keeping her secret?

Modus Games have dropped a new trailer for Paleo Pines, a new dinosaur raising simulation game! This trailer showcases reactions to the game’s Steam demo from a variety of streamers so while the demo is unfortunately not out on Switch you can see how players from all over connected with the dinos.

You won’t have to wait too much longer though as the game releases on September 26th for Switch and all other platforms! You can read a description of the above trailer and the game itself sown below!

We previously reported that The Pokémon Company has been becoming more strict with hacked Pokémon in the competitive scene and that doesn’t seem like it’s goign to change anytime soon. As a new report from Kurt, the creator of popular hacking tool PKHeX, shows that almost 50% of VGC 2023 rental teams contained hacked Pokémon.

According to the data roughly 17% of World Championships teams had hacked Pokémon on them, possibly even the 2023 champ Shohei Kimura.

To be clear, just because these Pokémon were hacked does not mean they were stronger than competitors. More often than not players hack Pokémon to save the time of grinding and raising the Pokémon themselves.

Some will even trade with someone else to build teams and are left unaware if the Pokémon they received was built legally or not.

If you want a full breakdown of the data we highly suggest checking out Kurt’s thread above.

Hello and welcome back to GoNintendo’s Smash Character Review series, where we look at Smash Ultimate’s massive roster and see how will the characters have held up. Today, in honor of the release of Pikmin 4, we’re covering the first and only Pikmin character in the series Olimar! Oh, and Alph is here too, I guess.

Yes, one of the 3 new leads of Pikmin 3 joins the roster as one of Olimar’s alternate costumes. This means that the two explorers share the same move set so we’ll only really be discussing Alph when he’s relevant like in the aesthetics section for example.

Unlike past characters we’ve covered there isn’t really much to say about Olimar’s inclusion in Smash Bros. – Pikmin was a new I.P. released on GameCube and spearheaded by Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, so his inclusion in Smash Bros. Brawl was practically a given.

As for Alph, considering Pikmin 3 was one of the bigger known entities on Wii U pre-release, it would make sense that he would join the Smash Bros. 4 roster. According to internal data it seems that Alph was originally conceived as a clone/echo fighter for Olimar but just became one of his alts.

We highly recommend checking out our Mario review if this is the first of these reviews you read and want a break down on how the scoring works.

It should be noted that similar to Link, we will only be grading Olimar and Alph based on how they represent the games that were out at the time of Smash Ultimate’s release. This means we won’t be docking points for lacking references to Pikmin 4.

With all that said let’s see what Olimar, Alph and the colorful Pikmin are hiding underneath the surface.