Birthdays can mean a lot of things for people – time with friends or family, treating yourself to something special, or just disconnecting from responsibilities. For Kirby it means cake, cake, and more cake. カービィさん、お誕生日おめでとうございます！今日はわれわれワドルディレポート隊が、カービィさんのためにケーキをご用意しました♪さぁ、カービィさん！みなさんへコメントをお願いします…って、わわわっ！？食べるのはまだ早いですよ～っ！！#カービィのハッピーバースデー pic.twitter.com/mVy2QldNbg — 星のカービィ (@Kirby_JP) April 26, 2024 Yes, April 27th marks Kirby’s 32nd birthday and…
LEGO and Animal Crossing is a match made in heaven, but there was one curious omission from the line when it launched earlier this year: K.K. Slider. How could one of the most iconic characters of modern gaming not be included alongside villagers like Julian and Bunnie? Who even are…
Pokémon GO’s quarterly Hatch Day event is back and this time Cleffa is being featured. Before the event kicks off, there will be some extra bonuses available during the aptly named Cleffa Hatch Day Extended Bonuses “event”. So with your Egg inventory cleared out, you’ll be ready to collect (and…
Mario Sports Superstars is approaching fast, so we’re continuing our brand new miniseries here at Nintendo Wire! Over the next few days, we’ll be covering each sport that will be included in the new game, choosing real world athletes and matching them up with their Mushroom Kingdom counterparts. Today, we’re…
Buried in this morning’s Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadow of Valentia Limited Edition announcement was some new information regarding how the upcoming Alm and Celica amiibo will function in the game, as well as a brief mention of the upcoming Corrin amiibo! Using the Alm and Celica amiibo will allow…
The latest look at Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia has made its way online and it stands out among the rest. Voiced over all the way through, it goes over the game’s back story, the main characters, Alm and Celica, and details their places between the warring kingdoms central…
UPDATE: Pre-orders for the Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Limited Edition are now up at GameStop! UPDATE: Nintendo UK has also announced a Limited Edition which includes everything in the North American version but also ads both the Alm and Celica amiibo. You can check out a video of…
Just a few hours back Atlus was teasing something related to Radiant Historia, telling fans to keep an eye out for this week’s issue of Famitsu to learn more. Now previews have come in for the magazine we know what the company is working on – a remake of the…
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…
Mario Sports Superstars is approaching fast, so we’re kicking off a brand new miniseries here at Nintendo Wire! Over the next five days, we’ll be covering each sport that will be included in the new game, choosing real world athletes and matching them up with their Mushroom Kingdom counterparts. Today,…
Fans of the long-running Capcom franchise Monster Hunter know full well at this point that cross-overs are par for the course. Now, the currently Japanese expanded version of Generations, Monster Hunter XX, is adding some items based on a beloved Sanrio character – Gudetama. Known for his lazy and disheartened…
If I’ve learned one thing from being in Japan it’s that cute things always have an edge over not-cute things. Nowhere is that more apparent than the Pokémon Center, where Pikachu is king only because Mimikyu keeps selling out immediately and can’t rightfully take over. While the standard size plushes…
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…
While the Switch era is well and truly underway there are still a few Nintendo 3DS games unaccounted for, at least in the west. One of these is the bizarre Miitopia, which lets you gather a bunch of Miis on a quest to stop a fiend from stealing faces. The…
Last week we learned that the once data-mined Original Cap Pikachu would be getting a distribution in Japan, via pre-bookings for the upcoming I Choose You movie. Now the Pokémon Company has shared a video of the cute little guy in action. Check it out: Unfortunately it’s only available in…
