Got a new How-To video for you Pokémon Trainers out there. As far as I know, as of the time this article is being posted, we aren’t able to import Pokémon caught in Pokémon Go into Pokémon Home. However, there is another way you can get some of your Pokémon Go crew into your Nintendo Switch, so keep reading.
You’ll need three things:
Nintendo Switch
Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu or Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee
BlueTooth-enabled Smartphone with Pokémon Go installed.
Make your way to Fuscia City and watch this video.
Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee is out now exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
Welcome Back to Preorder Stories, where Maniac features some of his favorite preorder campaigns between 2003 and 2013. Today, we’re going to take you back to 2004. Before Irrational Games became known for the revolutionary Bioshock games, they had developed the first ever superhero based PC game that was actually good, Freedom Force.
Inspired by the Silver Age of Comics, Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich saw their return of the original superhero team Freedom Force as they are transported into World War II. With the help of the era’s heroes, they must stop a megalomaniacal tyrant from taking over all of time. As the game ramped up to release, Irrational teamed up with developer BioWare (known at the time for Neverwinter Nights and Knights of the Old Republic) to promote the game’s official preorder campaign. Let’s take a look at it shall we?
After the game’s release, Irrational Games was sold to 2K, and went on to release Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite. Sadly, to this day the cliffhanger left at the end has not been resolved.
Freedom Force vs The Third Reich is out now exclusively for the PC.
Welcome back to Preorder Stories where we talk about some of the most interesting preorder campaigns over the past two decades. Today, we will be sharing a campaign for a game that cemented me as a person who would play games on console, Metal Gear Solid.
In 2006, Konami planned to rerelease the 2004 classic Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater with a ton of new features including multiplayer. Anyone who preordered the game would receive a special bonus DVD, Metal Gear Saga Vol 1 which would include documentaries about making of the franchise and a copy of the highly coveted first trailer for Metal Gear Solid 4. Let’s take a closer look at it!
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistance is out for the PS2. An HD remaster (that’s missing features of the original game) is out for PS3 and Xbox 360.
Preorder Stories is back, where our host tells the stories about some of the coolest preorder events, and shows up close some of the coolest goodies that were offered for putting money down on a game.
Maniac first played Command & Conquer 3 at a local LAN Center. It turned out Best Buy was still taking preorders of the game…weeks AFTER it came out. Let’s find out how Maniac got the preorder goodies for this classic RTS.
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is out now for the PC.
We are back with a new episode of Preorder Stories, where our host Maniac talks about some of the coolest and most unique preorder games in history. Today, we’ll be talking about BioWare’s original PC opus, Neverwinter Nights.
Neverwinter Nights was one of the first PC titles we can recall that had a launch price of $60 US, but gamers were not concerned about it. BioWare had already created some of the best PC RPGs of its day and expectations for this game were high. To preorder, Best Buy offered an empty box campaign (similar to what they would later offer for DOOM 3) for $10 US. However, they weren’t going to be selling you an empty box, or a box full of stuff you had no interest in. If you preordered Neverwinter Nights you would get more than exclusive box and poster, you would get a CD-ROM loaded with some incredible goodies. Let’s take a closer look.
BioWare would later go on to create Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect, two games that proved complex PC RPGs could work on a console. Maybe we will talk about them again in a future video.
Neverwinter Nights is out now exclusively for the PC.
Welcome back to Preorder Stories, where we highlight some of the most unique and coolest preorder incentives in gaming history.
Back in 2003, the very first Star Wars: Battlefront game was released on the PC. People who preordered it online received an action figure in its packaging I have not been able to find much information about. Take a look and see if you recognize it.
I know we missed our chance to post this on May the Fourth, but to me every day is Star Wars Day.
Star Wars: Battlefront is out on multiple platforms.
The common wisdom in gaming these days is DON’T preorder. The reasoning behind this wisdom is due to the wave of recent releases that lack quality, stability or even fun. However, there was a time when preordering was actually a good thing. Between 2004 and 2018, there were tons of awesome reasons to preorder a game, and (unlike the inconsistent times we find ourselves in) preordering meant you would actually be guaranteed to get that game and possibly a special extra surprise.
Welcome to an entirely new series for GameXcess.net, Preorder Stories! We’re going to show some of the coolest and most unique preorder items from our collection and share them with all of you.
Today’s video we will be talking about the PC classic DOOM 3, one of the most anticipated releases of its time. Did you know that three major retailers offered the game for preorder, and to entice players, each one offered a different high quality pewter figurine to anyone who was able to get one? Let’s take a closer look at what was being offered and what it took to get one.
More Preorder Stories are coming! Be sure to post a comment below if you like the series and want to see more episodes!
DOOM 3 is out now on multiple platforms including the PC.
Long time readers of this site may already be familiar with this story, but I decided the time was right to devote an entire video to telling it.
Back when Gears of War was just being released, my friend and I were in the market to buy some new top of the line HDTVs to take advantage of the game’s (at the time) incredible graphics. The store my friend worked at had a policy where customers could bring their existing equipment into the store to see how well it would work on a new television. We decided to take them up on that generous offer and brought a 360 and the game. You won’t believe what the store’s employees asked us to do next.
Gears of War is out now for the Xbox 360, PC and Xbox One.
It is now time for the fifth and final chapter of The Book of Apocalypse as written by The Gord. Brace yourself for the aftermath of The Gord’s plan to restore what was rightfully his.
That concludes our week of reading from the Acts of Gord, but there are plenty more books and chapters available that we haven’t read yet. If you’d like to read the Book of Apocalypse for yourself, or any of the other Books of The Gord, you can read the entire Acts of Gord here.
Welcome back to our dramatic reading of Acts of Gord’s Book of Apocalypse. The Gord, now aware of the nefarious plot to take his Game Store away from him, executes a plan to restore what is rightfully his. Be forewarned, Maniac will get a little emotional reading this one.
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