Fire Emblem 101: How Nintendo’s strategy franchise became a flagship series before mobile
Nintendo is about to release its third mobile app, Fire Emblem: Heroes. So, what is Fire Emblem? For a long time, most U.S. gamers...
2016’s most overlooked games
You had plenty of amazing games to play in 2016, and that’s a problem because you probably missed out on some other amazing games...
Fire Emblem Fates sells 400K copies in the U.S. despite just 9 days on market
Nintendo has turned Fire Emblem into a hit franchise. The publisher revealed today that the strategy role-playing release sold 400,000 copies at physical retailers and...
Machine Zone’s Mobile Strike tops Far Cry: Primal in Super Bowl month ad spending
Machine Zone blew away the competition in the Mobile & Video Games category this month for TV advertising, with spending estimated at three times...
Fire Emblem: Fates’ sales cement Nintendo’s strategy series as a retail hit in the West
It took a few decades, but Fire Emblem is no longer one of Nintendo’s third-stringers. Fire Emblem: Fates, the latest entry in Nintendo’s tactical fantasy...
Fire Emblem makes you feel like a monster for choosing Conquest over Birthright
You don’t usually see the plural version of the word “fate.” That’s because it is counterintuitive to claim one person’s life has multiple, inevitable...
5 Fire Emblem: Fates tips to prepare you for a three-game adventure
Fire Emblem: Fates requires you to think. You need to do some of that thinking before you even start playing. The new tactical role-playing...
Fire Emblem: Fates’ branching paths help it escape Awakening’s shadow
Fire Emblem was always a series I liked but didn’t love until Fire Emblem: Awakening came out in 2013. It quickly became my favorite...
Bayonetta and Fire Emblem’s Corrin hit Smash Bros. on Wednesday
One cool witch is finally about to come to Super Smash Bros. Bayonetta and Corrin from the upcoming Fire Emblem Fates will go live...
Fire Emblem: Fates is a family tiff on an epic — and pricey — scale
The decisions you make will guide how you play through the most recent entry in the grid-based tactical-role-playing Fire Emblem series when it releases February 19 for $40 for the Nintendo 3DS (of course, you very well could end up paying $100 for the entire — as I’ll explain shortly).