The Legend of Zelda 30th Anniversary Celebration on My Nintendo December 12, 2016

Nintendo has officially announced that their My Nintendo loyalty rewards website is offering Legend of Zelda rewards to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the franchise!  The best part is you can get this exclusive digital content right now for your Nintendo 3DS!

The My Nintendo website acts a lot like the now-defunct Club Nintendo, which offered rewards for buying Nintendo titles online or at retail.  My Nintendo rewards Wii U, Smartphone and 3DS players for completing weekly challenges and purchasing new games digitally.  The rewards you can earn range from exclusive games, themes, discounts, and more!

For this celebration, Legend of Zelda fans will be able to redeem their platinum points for an exclusive 30th Anniversary 3DS theme and 3D video downloads of recorded performances from The Legend of Zelda‘s soundtrack!  New users will also be happy to see The Legend of Zelda Picross game and My Nintendo Link Theme are still available as well!

The Legend of Zelda is available on multiple platforms including the NES, Game Boy Advance, Wii, 3DS, Wii U, and the new NES Classic Edition!

Halo 5: Guardians Free Content Update 10 Released December 8, 2016

Players who boot up their Xbox One systems will find a pretty hefty patch ready to download when they start their copy of Halo 5: Guardians.

A whole new slew of features have been added in this patch including new armor customizations, new Forge content, and the new ability to gift Gold REQ Packs!

That’s right, players now have the opportunity to gift Gold REQ packs to other players, and to show how it works every player who patches their game will be given a free Gold REQ Pack they can give to anyone they want!  Just be aware that with the exception of the initial giftable Gold Pack, only Gold Packs purchased with actual money can be gifted to other players.

The new update will download automatically the next time you start your game and will weigh in at over 7GB, even if you had the previously most recent update installed.

Halo 5: Guardians is out now exclusively on the Xbox One.

First Live Nintendo Switch Gameplay December 8, 2016

Last night, Jimmy Fallon was planning to host a live preview of the new iOS title Super Mario Run on The Tonight Show, and while he did get to demo that game, Reggie Fils-Amie surprised him with the very first live demo of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Switch!

And if that’s not awesome enough, here’s footage of the father of Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto, performing the Super Mario Bros theme with The Roots.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is coming in 2017 to the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Wii U.

DOOM Free Update 5 Released December 8, 2016

A massive free patch for DOOM has just been released on the Xbox One, PC and PS4. The new patch adds in a lot of incredible features including infernal run and the much requested bot support!

Just be aware this is a massive update. Even if you had the most recent title update for the game previously installed, you could be looking at a 15GB download for this patch on the Xbox One.

As has become the tradition, the new patch heralds the announcement of a Double XP multiplayer weekend!  It’s already started so log in now and start ranking up.

DOOM is out now for PC, Xbox One and PS4.

Assassin’s Creed III Free On PC This Month December 8, 2016

Since it was first announced at E3 this year, the Club Ubi website has offered a PC game for free every month for the past seven months, and now that promotion is drawing to a close.  This week, Ubisoft has begun to offer the final free PC game through their Club Ubi promotion, the multiplatform hit Assassin’s Creed III.

If you want to get Assassin’s Creed III for free on PC, you only need a Ubisoft account and the Uplay client installed on your PC to play.  Simply log in at the Club Ubi website and tell it you want the free game.  Once you’ve done that, Assassin’s Creed III should show up in the games library of your Uplay client within no time.  As with all games offered through Club Ubi, as long as you redeem your game during the free promotion it will perminantly stay on your Uplay account.

This month will ring in the end of the Club Ubi giveaways, but this has been a great promotion.  Make sure to get your game as soon as you can, because its only going to be offered for a month!

Assassin’s Creed III is out now on PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii U.

Major Pokémon Go Update Coming 12/12 December 7, 2016

The developers over at Niantic have made two enormous announcements in the past few days. The first is that a new update for Pokémon Go is being slowly phased through the Android and iOS versions of the application.  The biggest inclusion of this new update is the ability to transfer multiple Pokémon at once, opposed to one at a time.

Next, wireless provider Sprint has announced an official partnership with the application, and intend to turn their Sprint stores into official Pokéstops and Gyms.  I’m sure lots of Sprint users will be happy to hear that the next time they need to head to a Sprint store.

The next announcement is going to be a big one so make sure you’re sitting down before you read it.  The official Pokémon twitter feed has announced that all new Pokémon are going to be added to Pokémon Go on 12/12!  While they did not add any more information than that, many have speculated this may mean the one hundred new Pokémon created for Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver are going to be added to Pokémon Go in just a few days!

Lots of great news!  If you haven’t been playing a lot recently, now might be a good time to log back into the app and catching up on everything before the new version comes out!

Pokémon Go is out now for Android and iOS devices. It is free to download.

The Last of Us Part II PlayStation Experience 2016 Panel December 3, 2016

It was first announced just a few hours ago and now everyone has questions about the latest game from Naughty Dog, The Last of Us Part II.  So sit down and enjoy this forty minute panel with game director Neil Druckman and the actors behind the game’s iconic characters, Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson.

The Last of Us Part II is coming exclusively to the PS4.

Resident Evil 7 Demo Patched for PSVR December 3, 2016

The Resident Evil 7 demo that has been quietly occupying your PlayStation 4’s hard drive has just gotten a lot better. The Resident Evil 7 Beginning Hour demo has just received a 1.5GB update, adding new features to the game including native support for the PSVR headset.

If you don’t have the Resident Evil 7 demo on your PS4 you can still download the latest version from the PlayStation Network for free.

Resident Evil 7 is coming in 2017 to PS4.

PaRappa the Rapper Coming to PS4 December 3, 2016

Sony has officially announced that the iconic PS1 title PaRappa the Rapper is being ported to the PlayStation 4 with updated graphics.  In fact PS4 Pro owners will be happy to know the game will be playable in native 4K on that platform.

PaRappa the Rapper on PS4 is getting a free demo released on PlayStation Network later today!

The Last of Us Part II Announced December 3, 2016

The Last of Us stands as one of the highest rated games on the PS3 and developer Naughty Dog has held back any news on a potential sequel, saying there was only a 50-50 chance it would happen.  Fans of the game have waited with nervous anticipation for quite some time, but today I’m proud to announce that wait is over.

Joel and Ellie are back.

The Last of Us Part II is coming exclusive to PS4.