Yesterday afternoon we witnessed a devastating loss to the video games industry. In another round of layoffs that seems to happen every week, WB Games announced it would be closing three studios. These were Player First Games (Multiversus), WB San Diego (which had not yet announced its game), and Monolith…
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…
It’s very bizarre to hear executives from Microsoft talking about the Nintendo Switch 2, but ever since the company’s pivot to multi-platform development took hold, we’ve been hearing more and more from Team Green about games on other platforms. During the Official Xbox Podcast yesterday, Xbox Games Studio head Craig…
There’s no telling what wonders can come along when you’re caught in a dream — this new line of mini Pokémon figures wants to make its way to yours. The Pikachu’s Night Parade collection of blind boxes is offering up ten different ways Pikachu gets ready for some sweet dreams,…
Splatoon’s sea creature style is full of little elements that pull everything together and make the games truly unique, with one of those being Inkling smartphones having more of a squid shape to them. Does it make sense? Not really — we don’t talk into tiny people-shaped computers. But it’s…
Last month Square Enix confirmed that the Switch-exclusive JRPG Octopath Traveler would be getting its own concert in Japan, complete with some cute accompanying artwork, and now we have some more details (via Siliconera). The concert will be heading to the Olympus Hall Hachioji in Tokyo on July 28th, under…
Welcome back to the Wire Weekly, where I, Amelia “Check out my character in #GranblueFantasy!” Fruzzetti, run through the week’s assortment of Nintendo news with what could charitably be referred to as wit, sarcasm, and personality. Ah, the beginning of April – when the jesters emerge for one day of…
The North American Pokémon Center has been slowly adding more and more plushes to its Sitting Cuties collection over the past few months. Starting last November, we saw the likes of Pikachu, Eevee, Golduck, Shellder, and others made available at the PC, and now we’re seeing even more beloved characters…
The Pokémon Company showed off more cards from the special Pokémon: Detective Pikachu TCG expansion just last month. Using art showcasing the film’s renders, we were able to see a few teases of cards, as well as the cards that could be obtained through in-store promo events. Bulbasaur, Psyduck, and…
You can pre-order the Final Fantasy IX Bring Arts: Zidane Tribal & Garnet Til Alexandros XVII figures for $154.99 at Play-Asia when using the code NINWIRE at checkout. Hot off the heels of Final Fantasy IX’s recent ports to the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One, Square Enix has given us…
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…
With the Switch’s current setup for online play, chatting with friends during Splatoon 2 requires an application on your phone, a device that can just as easily call your friends on its own. If you’d prefer an option more in line with what you’re used to, PDP has utilized the…
If you haven’t started prepping for the release of the Detective Pikachu movie, now’s your perfect opportunity to do just that. The Pokémon Company is bringing you some of the first Ryme City themed apparel we’ve seen for the upcoming film, with a few other knickknacks joining the merch lineup….
It’s no secret that Kirby’s Dream Land 2 and its animal friends make for one of my favorite games in the series, and anytime it gets some focus I’m there to sing its praises. March saw Kirby riding in on Rick the hamster, but for April he’s taking to the…
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu has been aiming for a worldwide release. Slowly, but surely, more countries are being added to its May 10th premiere. For China, Ryan Reynolds announced that the film will be available in theaters there and fans were treated to a new poster and trailer. Shared on Weibo,…
