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…
This past week has been filled with debates surrounding a certain blue hedgehog’s live action movie debut. First, IGN gave us a look at Sonic’s design in silhouette, highlighting some more “human” proportions and sending the internet into a frenzy. After that, we got a leaked poster showing off his…
Back in July, we learned that 2019’s animated Pokémon movie would tackle Mewtwo once more, with the title Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution. Now, months later, we’ve gotten our first look (via Serebii), and it’s a close up of the cloned Pokémon within its test tube. It seems like this is…
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…
A couple of days ago, a motion poster for next year’s Sonic the Hedgehog movie was released, and the internet took the blue blur’s new and unusually proportioned anatomy about as well as you’d expect. Last night the discussion only got deeper, as a leaked poster appeared online (via Resetera)…
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…
Has this ever happened to you? You go to one of your hip millennial rooftop parties, Switch smugly in bag, ready to bust it out and play some Super Mario Party. When suddenly, as you boot the system up from sleep mode, you realize to your dismay that you accidentally…
Are your ready for your Monday morning dose of cuteness? I got you covered! The newly announced Eevee Tamagotchi will be released into the wild in Japan within a few short weeks from now. We’ve already had the pleasure of seeing promo images of the two variants, and now we’re…
We go hands-on with the Conker and Banjo-Kazooie Totaku figures! Do they stack up to amiibo? Find out: Watch the Great Mighty Poo do his thing!
Detective Pikachu isn’t the only movie releasing next year that’s putting beloved ’90s video game characters into the real world – Sonic the Hedgehog is getting the same treatment. But where Detective Pikachu mostly went down well with fans, this new look for the blue blur might be a bit…
Today is a busy day for WayForward and Shantae fans! Between Shantae sashaying once again onto the Switch, thanks to Limited Run Games, she’s also transforming into a soundtrack set. Fangamer is taking the music from Shantae’s first game on the Game Boy Color, composed by Jake “virt” Kaufman, and…
Build-A-Bear is continuing to celebrate this festive season by bringing Nintendo fans a delightful array of plushes to its stores and online shop. Including both past and new releases, this batch is sure to bring smiles to the faces of all who have been waiting to add favorite characters to…
We go hands-on with the wireless GameCube controller from PowerA. Is this controller the ultimate option for Smash Bros Ultimate? Find out by watching below! You can pick up the PowerA Wireless GameCube controller on Amazon.
