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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…

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Remaster Selling Well

Numbers from this past week’s sales of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX are in, and they look pretty high for this Game Boy Advance remaster. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game. To be honest, I thought this might hurt…

On Its 3rd Birthday, The Switch is in a Weird Spot

People are gearing up for the PS5 and Xbox Series X this holiday. As everyone looks to the future of console gaming, one can’t forget Nintendo’s highly successful home-handheld hybrid, the Switch. The Switch turns 3 today, and to be honest, a…

Nintendo, Please Stop with the Subscription Services

While Nintendo has brought a lot of new ideas to the field, it is also a company that’s been infamously behind on a lot of modern trends that almost every company has already adopted. Typically, the company is criticized for the state…

Nintendo Switch Airport Lounges Coming to U.S.

A huge complaint about Nintendo during the Wii U days, among many, many other things, was their marketing. We didn’t really see many ads for the console, and we essentially knew nothing about the product. Well, the Switch era is garnishing a…

Super Mario Strikers for Switch Needs to Happen

I think for a long time, I always saw the Mario sports titles as second-tier. Growing up, I’d always gravitate towards the Super Mario Sunshine and New Super Mario Bros. experiences over the other titles which simply featured Mario characters. Now, in my mid-twenties, I…

Ocarina of Time World Speedrun Records Get Smashed

AGDQ may be over, but the pursuit of speedruns never stops. Even in seemingly stagnant scenes, speedrunning is vibrant, and yesterday, a seemingly untouchable record was finally topped. Yesterday, the world record for the Nintendo 64 version of The Legend of Zelda:…

E3 Still Matters, Even If Things Are Changing

As reported here at Phenixx Gaming and literally every other gaming news outlet, Sony is officially out for E3 2020. Is E3 dead in the water? Not even close. I’m not the type to go out to events like this, so I…

Nintendo Plans to Further Develop AR Peripherals

Something I found incredible as a child was the Game Boy Advance e-Reader. Funny enough, we use the term e-Reader for something very different today. Before people read books on digital devices, the Nintendo e-Reader allowed you to scan cards into its…

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX Impressions

The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series developed by Chunsoft/Spike Chunsoft and published by Nintendo, has been a popular Pokemon spin-off, mixing Pokemon with the “Mystery Dungeon” style of roguelike games. In particular, Explorers of Darkness and Time have generally been acclaimed to be…