After years of speculation we finally have word from Nintendo’s President Furukawa that the company is working on a successor to the Nintendo Switch. The news comes in the form of a very simple tweet that confirms the new hardware will be announced within the fiscal year ending March, 2025….
When comparing to the past few years, it’s fair to say that 2024 has been quite slow in terms of Nintendo content. Most of the year’s lineup has been ports and remakes, so needless to say, when rumors start to circle about new games on the horizon, it’s exciting. Notably,…
Raid Hour (also referred to as Legendary Raid Hour) started as an experiment in March 2019. Initially called Legendary Lunch Hour, Niantic set aside an hour on Wednesdays for Pokémon GO Trainers to find 5-Star (Legendary) Raids easier by increasing the appearance rates. After further testing, Raid Hour was renamed…
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Another fiscal year has come and gone for Nintendo and the company’s investor website has been updated with some new documentation. Considering last year’s reports announced the March 2017 release of the Switch (then known as the NX) and a Breath of the Wild focused E3 2016, the PDFs this…
A new trailer and website update have given some insight to the upcoming strategy card game Culdcept Revolt. While we’ve known the game exists as a hybrid TCG-board game sort of style, not much has been revealed about its world and characters ’til now. The plot concerns a walled off…
Future remakes of games in the Fire Emblem series may see a return to the “Echoes” subtitle, according to an unknown developer of the upcoming Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. The quote comes from a translated line from a scan of an interview, made available through user Kirokan on…
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Starter Pokémon are some of the most likely to make an impression on their trainer. More than any other Pokémon, they tend to grow alongside you — the game developers know this, which is why a lot of care goes into the Pokémons’ designs. Pokémon Sun & Moon’s trio of…
Welcome to the Daily Wiretap! Each day the team here at Nintendo Wire works tirelessly to bring you the best, most relevant late-breaking Nintendo news this side of the Mushroom Kingdom. To help make ingesting all these meaty stories easier than Kirby hopped up on Miracle Fruit, we’ve compiled…
Over the weekend it was announced via its official Twitter that Bravely Second has now reached a new sales milestone. Since it released in Japan two years ago, the RPG sequel has managed sell 700,000 copies. This was one of my favorite franchises to come out of the 3DS, so…
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Nintendo of America has just released a new five minute video showcasing the ins and outs of the upcoming Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Not only do we get a whole lot of details on the gameplay itself, we also get several minutes of new English voice acting. Check…
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A new pair of Fire Emblem Echoes themes have hit the Japanese eShop. There’s one each for Alm and Celica, showing them prominently along with a scrolling line up of the characters that will join them throughout the game’s story. Smash Bros. fans might recognize the music playing for Celica’s…
