Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

In what seems to be a mysterious new rollout for an unspecified project, earlier this week Nintendo released a Pixar-style animated short film on its official YouTube channel titled “Close to You” ...

This morning, Nintendo posted a nearly four-minute animated short titled “Close to You.” In it, a baby watches as their toys are moved around by some unseen force. Nintendo provided no context or ...

Nintendo used its Nintendo Today app to solve the mystery of what was going on in the “Close to You” animated short, as it turns out that video was a Pikmin cartoon. It turns out the “entity” moving ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Kirstin is a long-time fan of Nintendo, anime, manga and trading card games. Although her tastes in video games spread far and wide an early interest in Nintendo has lead to a life-long love of seeing ...

The Pikmin franchise is among Nintendo's most beloved, which is a testament to the lovable absurdity of the company's first-party outings. The series stands out from most best-selling AAA games in ...