Trainers looking to get a head start on the Cleffa Hatch Day event can clear out their Egg stash thanks to a hatch distance bonus happening before the event. This Cleffa Hatch Day Extended Bonuses “event” will also add some Field Research tasks into the mix. (For more details about…
Thanks to the efforts of the Video Game History Foundation, another bit of Nintendo history has been preserved and released online. Yesterday, Frank Cifaldi (founder and director of VGHF) uploaded the ROM data for a prototype cartridge of the original Legend of Zelda on NES. Twitter user MrTalida then dug…
As part of the typical Nintendo hype cycle, the company has uploaded a new trailer that gives fans an overview of what to expect with Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It’s kind of funny to start with the narrator being surprised Mario is made of paper considering we’ve had six…
We’ve seen plenty merch dedicated to Pokémon Sword & Shield’s starters in the last few months. Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble are celebrated through plushes, key chains, apparel, and a whole lot of other items — and the game isn’t even out yet! Now it finally looks like we’ll be seeing…
Now that Halloween is very much past us (a whole DAY), we can move on to the big holidays that are coming up. The Pokémon Center is now stocked to the brim with seasonal products that range from plushes (yay!), apparel, and decor. Even better, it looks like some of…
The famous virtual pet known as Tamagotchi is no stranger to collaborations. Most recently, we’ve seen toy maker and producer Bandai Namco team up with Pokémon to give collectors truly adorable Eevee themed Tamas in Japan, and before that the pets received treatment from other popular brands — namely Sanrio…
The next Pokémon anime season is set to break new ground for the series, with the plan being to showcase every single region explored thus far, rather than focus solely on the brand-new Galar region. If you’ve been curious how it’ll look in motion you’re in luck, as the Pokémon…
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…
As if the sting couldn’t get any stronger since Japan’s My Nintendo program introduced a plethora of physical rewards for their members recently… You know, those Luigi’s Mansion 3, Link’s Awakening, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses goods… The rewards program is now offering a whole lineup of physical items for…
Rejoice Yuzo Koshiro fans, as the soundtracks to Atlus’ dungeon-crawling series Etrian Odyssey are now available to stream via Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Music. There’s everything from the original Etrian Odyssey to the Mystery Dungeon spin-offs, and you can even give the tangentially related 7th Dragon III Code: VFD…
The retro Rare trio that is the Battletoads has finally gotten some new merchandise courtesy of Fangamer, and it’s available to purchase today. The merchandise includes a stylish t-shirt, a plush cling of Rash to hang from whatever you want to hang a rad ’90s amphibian from, and an enamal…
Heya pals, you look like you might be having a bad time. We’ve found a little something that’ll help those troubles though, for fans and first-timers of Undertale alike. Sold by Best Buy, this bundle pairs a digital copy of the game with a plush of Sans himself. Everyone’s favorite…
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…
It’s officially been ten years since Bayonetta launched on October 29th, 2009 in Japan for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. In the years since the series has found a new home on Nintendo consoles, with the titular witch herself joining the ranks of Super Smash Bros. on two occasions….
Pokémon merchandise may be ubiquitous today but in the early days of the franchise it was harder to come by, and there were some genuinely rare products that soon became highly sought after artefacts. The Trading Card Game in particular has quite a few of these legendary items, like the…
