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AC: New Horizons Meets Lifetime Sales Goal

If there’s one company benefiting from people staying inside and at home, it’s Nintendo. By no means is anyone happy that we’re dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, but Nintendo is showing impressive sales numbers nevertheless. A huge part of that is the…

Deadly Premonition 2 Release Date Announced

There are a lot of games I can’t really believe ever became Nintendo Switch exclusives. One example is Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, which really did a great job of making the originals feel like they had a current-gen successor. Now, the Deadly Premonition series…

Animal Crossing: New Horizons April Update Details

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has switched things up from past games by being a bit of a live service game, with new things and events being introduced as our real-time advances. Now, the last update wasn’t exactly the greatest with its controversial…

Super Mario Maker 2: World Maker Update Coming Soon

Out of nowhere, Nintendo surprised everyone with an announcement video for what will reportedly be Super Mario Maker 2‘s final major update. With that in mind, the major updates are going out with a bang. The video starts with introducing new major…

Animal Crossing Bunny Day Event is Maddening

The Bunny Day event in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is driving players mad with an overabundance of eggs everywhere. Like seriously, everywhere you fish, chop, and dig: eggs. There are a lot of fun items to craft and outfits to assemble with the Bunny…

Time-Skipping in Animal Crossing: Cheating or Convenience?

As the Animal Crossing franchise hits 20, I recall vast, fond memories of the Gamecube iteration, Wild World for the DS, and New Leaf for the 3DS. Whether it was running errands, grabbing a 200-bell cup of java at Brewster’s, or finding…

The Problems of Being the 2nd Player in New Horizons

Animal Crossing: New Horizons released last week, providing people a nice slice of life in the midst of this ongoing pandemic. However, after a few days of playing as the second player on the Switch, there’s a clear imbalance between the first…

Animal Crossing Reviewers Have Days Worth of Play

We all know Animal Crossing: New Horizons is coming this Friday. A lot of reviewers are listing they have hit serious play times already. A few popular reviewers in the gaming journalism world are reporting days worth of play ahead of the highly…

Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii) Impressions

It was my day off, so I decided to dig into a game that I bought during my trip to LVL UP: Donkey Kong Country Returns. I don’t think I’ve played a proper Donkey Kong Country before, and even if I did,…

La-Mulana 1+2 (Switch) Review

Looking at La-Mulana, the game seems as if it’s thirty-five years old. In actuality, the game released in 2005 to Japanese gamers who yearned for the Metroid-vania action of the SNES days. A successful Kickstarter delivered its sequel, and the two games still…