In this week’s Nintendo Music update, Super Mario Bros 2’s soundtrack has been added! This is one of the shorter soundtracks on the service, with a total of 14 tracks. It should be noted that this is not the soundtrack for The Lost Levels; this is the soundtrack for the…
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…
Over the weekend, a controversy was starting to brew concerning retro game publisher Retro-Bit. As spotted by Time Extension, game translator Krokodyl posted on their personal blog a series of photos that compared official Retro-Bit releases to previous fan translations for not only text but the specific font of the…
The Ditto in Disguise plush series has existed for quite some time, but now Trainers and collectors alike have ten new options to add to their pocket monster displays. These beady-eyed creatures are both adorable and slightly unnerving, and somehow both these qualities provide enough reason to add new plush…
The first pieces of Nintendo’s E3 swag have been unveiled and they’re a My Nintendo exclusive. Prior to Nintendo’s Direct and Treehouse Live streams, they’re taking over The Theater at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 8th. A limited amount of seating is available to the general…
As we previously reported in March, Dark Horse announced they would be localizing of The Art of Super Mario Odyssey. Returning to Polygon again for the exclusive, we now have a small glimpse into the book’s English version with four page-spread previews. Translated entries dedicated to Mario, the…
Preparing for an avalanche of E3 announcements, GameStop is almost ready for the onslaught of pre-orders that will follow Nintendo’s E3 Direct. Over the weekend, Sabi (known as PolarPanda in the Smashboards and Resetera Nintendo communities) was sent images of GameStop’s internal inventory system by an employee of the retailer….
Funko has released a more official image of the Sonic the Hedgehog Pop cereal through social media. You can pre-order it for $7.99 at GameStop today. Have a look! View this post on Instagram Coming Soon: @GameStop Exclusive Sonic the Hedgehog Pop! Cereal! https://www.funko.com/blog/article/30148395054/coming-soon-gamestop-exclusive-sonic-the-hedgehog-pop-cereal A post shared by Funko…
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…
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…
Over the last 23 years (approximately), the Pokémon franchise has branched out from its Game Boy beginnings and into the world of trading card games. There have been a plethora of changes in all aspects of making, distributing, and playing the card game during that time. Playing a part in…
Welcome back to the Wire Weekly, where I, Ben “gotta catch some of ‘em” Fruzzetti, run through the week’s assortment of Nintendo news with what could charitably be referred to as wit, sarcasm, and personality. There are a number of companies and properties that I’m pretty sure have the potential…
Pokémon has been around for a long time now and might be one of the most recognized things to come out of Japan the world over. But when you go further back you find an even greater breadth of cultural wealth, and the latest array of Pokémon Center goods is…
Previously we saw Splatoon 2 get a set of Octo Expansion Mem Cakes via gacha machines. With how many there are in the game, it was clear we’d see more down the line, and now’s the time to look back fondly and think of which you want most of all….
After Mewtwo’s central role in Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, it’s no surprise that we’re seeing more merchandise appear with the Psychic-type in the spotlight. The Pokémon Center’s delivering a few new products sporting the Legendary with a “splashy silhouette” in a graffiti-style print showing off the lab-created ‘mon. The striking purple…
