With less than a month to go until launch, it looks like the marketing for Pokémon Sword & Shield is starting to ramp up. Hot on the heels of the new Gigantomax form confirmations earlier today, The Pokémon Company has announced a new web app that’ll let you look at…
Developer Hamster’s Arcade Archives label continues to bring classic arcade games big and small to the Nintendo Switch, and this next addition might be one that’s quite unexpected. Tomorrow, October 17, Vs. Castlevania will be dropping on the eShop. While it’s fundamentally based on the NES original, the difficulty is…
The latest Pokémon Sword & Shield trailer is here and it’s brought with it confirmation of this morning’s Gigantamax leak and more! Give it a watch below: It’s also confirmed on the official website that while you can get the Gigantamax Pikachu and Eevee easily by having Let’s…
Despite the crazy, camping out days during amiibo releases, every so often certain amiibo become hard to find a few months after their initial releases. Luckily, Nintendo has been reprinting select figures, with a nice focus on characters connected to the Super Smash Bros. line. This week we were treated…
Editor’s Note: The following article was written to have a satirical and jealous sounding tone. As game collectors ourselves, the Nintendo Wire team has nothing but respect and admiration for Mr. Monteiro’s amazing achievement. This one’s sure to make collectors and completionists alike tenuous for completely different reasons — Antonio Romero…
2019’s Made In Asia convention took place this last weekend in Brussels. Celebrating manga, anime, video games, and more, it sounds like it was an excellent venue for Nintendo to partake in. Thanks to Gaming Boulevard, a video showcasing Young Link, Pichu, Daisy, and Ken’s amiibo is now up for…
This is going to be EPIC! We test out all of the compatible amiibo in Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn in our latest video. Have a watch:
The latest Japanese trailer for Yoshi’s Crafted World has just landed, and alongside new gameplay footage we also get a look at the amiibo functionality within the game! Like we reported earlier, tapping a supported amiibo in Yoshi’s Crafted World unlocks a crafted, cardboard costume for Yoshi to…
We take a look at the past highs and recent lows when it comes to the excitement behind amiibo collecting in this new mini episode of the Nintendo Newscast. Have a watch:
Reggie Fils-Aimé’s announcement of retiring from Nintendo came as a shock to most of us. Sadness, heartbroken, a slew of different emotions were elicited from a simple tweet. Why, though? It’s because Reggie became our friend over the years. 15 years ago, the gaming scene was different. Sure, that’s 15…
Welcome to the Nintendo 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 a…
Say it ain’t so! Sorry, Shovel Knight fans, you’ll have to wait a tad longer before the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Shovel Knight Showdown, and/or the Treasure Trove amiibo 3-pack can be added to your gaming collection. Shared in a blog post over the…
A couple of days ago we brought you the news that the third wave of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate amiibo, consisting of Young Link, Ken, and Daisy, would be arriving in North America on April 12th, 2019. Now, the same date has been confirmed for Europe. More Super #SmashBros…
Here at Nintendo Wire, we always are pondering about amiibo support and functionality in upcoming Nintendo games. I even mentioned the idea when I covered what new tidbits we saw for Yoshi’s Crafted World in yesterday’s Nintendo Direct. Perhaps the amiibo overlords heard me and decided to give us a…