Author: Brian Shea

This week on All Things Nintendo, Brian gives a bit more information about the upcoming transition of the show to its independent format starting next week before Kyle Hilliard joins to cover news surrounding the Zelda movie, the third Sonic movie, and plenty more. Then, the two editors talk about their impressions from playing Splatoon…

Once a tentpole franchise in the popular run-and-gun subgenre of action games, Contra has experienced a stark downturn in recent decades. Konami’s (mostly) side-scrolling shooter franchise has often gone long stretches without a release, and the games that have come out in recent years range from middling to downright bad. With Contra: Operation Galuga, Konami…

The Marvel Universe is expansive and chockful of some of pop culture’s greatest heroes. NetEase Games is taking the word “hero” literally and placing the characters from Marvel in a free-to-play 6v6 hero shooter. Marvel Rivals promises to bring the most popular and iconic superheroes and supervillains to the arena with destructible environments, unique Team-Up…

This week on All Things Nintendo, we give our impressions of several recent releases. The headliner of this episode is Kyle Hilliard’s review of Princess Peach: Showtime, but Brian also has impressions of Contra: Operation Galuga and qomp2. And, of course, we’ll catch up on all the latest news out of the world of Nintendo.…

This week on All Things Nintendo, we dive into all the news from the last week, including the Mario Day announcements. Then, in the main segment, Brian and Wes deliver their pitches for the plot of the newly announced second animated movie set in the world of Super Mario Bros. If you’d like to follow…

In 2023, Sega Sammy Holdings acquired Rovio, subsequently making the famed Angry Birds developer a subsidiary of Sega Europe. While Sega’s Japanese social media account shared a photo of a Red statue standing alongside Sega’s other mascots (see below), we haven’t seen the acquisition impact the games to this point. That changed today, as Sega…

In the early 2000s, tennis video games were everywhere. Whether you were talking mass-appeal titles like Virtua Tennis and Mario Tennis or more niche, lower-budget games like Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament and Hard Hitter Tennis, the market was absolutely flooded with choices. One of the most beloved of this era was 2003’s Top Spin,…

The beloved GameCube RPG, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, finally has a release date for Switch. Announced during September 2023’s Nintendo Direct, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is regarded by many as the pinnacle of Mario’s RPG outings, and since today is Mario Day, Nintendo took the opportunity to let fans know when they’d be…

To close out its Mario Day announcements video, where we learned about a new movie set in the world of Super Mario Bros, as well as the release dates of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, Nintendo revealed that three classic Mario spin-offs are arriving on Nintendo Switch Online this week.…

Coming off last year’s overwhelming success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo and Illumination have announced that work has begun on a second movie set in the world of Super Mario Bros. The announcement, made by Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri, states that this film will arrive in theaters in the United…