You might not think much horrific can come out of Nintendo's innocent Animal Crossing same, but that hasn't stopped one horror director from making it truly terrifying.

After almost two years, Nintendo’s first Direct finally landed online. Full of small announcements and surprises, the only thing missing from the show was a reveal date for The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD and an Advance Wars revival. While that lack of news made for a moist night as I cried myself to sleep, the rest of the stream wasn’t too bad!

To the surprise of nobody, Nintendo just recorded one of its best financial quarters of all time. Thanks to a perfect storm of being told to stay home, a pandemic, and idiots buying up all the toilet paper, the Big N has done what scientists refer to as chufftacular numbers. The earnings results for its Q3 FY3/2021 (October to December 2020 ) pointed out a 37.3% year-on-year increase in revenue, which in money-terms works out to 1,404 billion yen. That’s a lot of yen.

HADES WAS ROBBED! Sorry I just had to get that out of my system. Critical Hit’s favourite game of the year may have only won two top nods at the Game Awards last night, but it was admittedly up against the stiffest of competition last night. In a year that saw no shortage of excellence, Naughty Dog’s tale of post-apocalyptic …

What was the best game of 2020? Which game excelled in multiple fields, combined them all together, and let loose a ferocious flurry of blows to your expectations? The answer this year was obvious

We’ll be the first to admit that Nintendo had a fairly slow year in 2020 but that doesn’t mean that some absolute bangers weren’t released. The Switch is still one of our favourite consoles even in a year where next-gen has properly begun because you can’t really put one of those behemoths in your pocket and play it on the …

While the rest of the world is having a no-good terrible awful year, Nintendo’s doing better than ever in the hardware and software sales department. The Big N has just posted the results of its first quarter for the financial year of 2021, which has technically made them enough money to afford: A LITTLE BIT OF THE BUBBLY.

I know it’s not exactly an explosive headline but the ability to leap into the sea and cool off in the Summer heat is just about the most exciting thing one can do in Animal Crossing right now.