3D collectathon platformers occupy the same lane for me as comfort food or an AC/DC album. They’re reliable, and no matter how much time passes, I can always return to them and feel familiarity. Of course, the best 3D platformers that leave their mark on history end up feeling more…
Hamster Corporation has announced that the classic Namco arcade game Air Combat 22 will be heading to its Arcade Archives series for modern platforms. As the sequel to the industry defining Air Combat, Air Combat 22 expanded the gameplay by allowing players to select different aircraft to carry out their…
Limited Run Games is back with a brand-new lineup of merchandise based on a classic Sega title. To honor the 25th anniversary of Jet Set Radio, you can now get a whole slew of shirts, plushes, trading cards, and keychains to show your love for Beat and the crew. While…
First spotted on shelves and in bins at the Pokémon World Championships a few weekends ago, we’re now finding that the Pokémon Center has added some “new” plushes and squishable pillows to its site. First up, we have Lycanroc in its Midnight and Midday forms. For $22.99 each you can…
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…
If you thought Retroism’s Unholy Night: The Darkness Hunter’s SNES cartridge would be the last working game for the system made and/or shipped in 2017, then get ready to shake away your disbelief. Are you prepared to throw down some Street Fighter II? Not the version that came out for the…
We’re only a little over two weeks away from the launch of Metroid: Samus Returns on the Nintendo 3DS and fans of good, old-fashioned 2D Metroid titles couldn’t be more excited. It looks like Nintendo is trying to get the hype train up to speed as it has sent the…
If you needed any extra incentive to pick up the special edition of Metroid: Samus Returns, this might entice you — the game’s cover is reversible, and the flip side bears the cover and blurbs of the original Metroid II: Return of Samus for the Game Boy. The Metroid:…
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…
Pokémon Centers in Japan have finally released new information on how they’ll be celebrating Halloween this year. As we reported earlier, thanks to Pokémon Trainer Jaxson Tapp’s sleuthing, Mimikyu is getting so much love that it’s the Pokémon of choice that will be distributed to copies of Pokémon Sun &…
Take note, audiophiles — the soundtrack to Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is getting a physical release in Japan this October, and it comes packaged with some excellent goodies. The release includes: Five discs (four audio, one data) containing over five hours of music, including tracks from the base…
In celebration of the upcoming SNES Classic, Nintendo has released images of three new “covers” of the classic – and sorely missed – gaming magazine Nintendo Power. The covers, featuring Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and the never-before-released Star Fox 2, all feature…
As the latest Pokémon movie is the 20th, the Pokémon Company decided to make it a celebration of the franchise’s roots, with a few tweaks. The movie is a retelling of the very first season of the anime but Brock and Misty are not nearly as prevalent, instead Ash 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…
If the standard selection of Joy-Cons isn’t doing it for you, or you wish that your Switch had a custom back plate, rather than the standard black one, you’re in luck! Myriann, a seller on AliExpress, is currently selling a number of differently colored shells for both the main Switch…
