Trainers looking to have Black Kyurem or White Kyurem on their team will get an opportunity defeat them in Raids and collect Fusion Energy in the Kyurem Fusion Raid Day event. Alongside these fused forms of Kyurem, Reshiram and Zekrom will also be available to challenge in Raids. Now, check…
If you’ll remember from last month following The Game Awards, developer Larian Studios made headlines after CEO Swen Vincke stated the company was using generative AI in the planning process for its games. Vincke then tried to clarify his statements, which wound up making them worse. Now, in a Reddit…
With Spring 2026 fast approaching, Capcom is readying players for the upcoming arrival of Alex as a DLC fighter. Announced last year when Season three was unveiled, Alex hails from Street Fighter 3 and has become a fan-favorite over the years for his ability to mix grappler gameplay with a…
The speed-running staple that is Games Done Quick usually convenes twice a year to earn money for several charities, but following the devastating Hurricane Harvey the group has banded together for a mini-marathon to support the Houston Food Bank. Not only that but various pieces of merch from…
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…
Sorry North America, while the faux-retro Nintendo Power covers being distributed at PAX West are definitely awesome, the UK is getting something even more substantial to celebrate the SNES Classic Edition. The country’s Retro Gamer magazine has decided to bring back the much-beloved Super Play magazine for a one-off pack-in…
Fans of shovelry, make space on your shelves! Tonight, three new amiibo were revealed from Yacht Club Games’ unstoppable throwback platformer. Plague Knight, Specter Knight and King Knight will all receive the toys-to-life treatment when they release as a triple pack sometime next year. You can take a look at…
As stellar a lineup as it already has, Star Fox 2 is easily the star of the Super NES Classic show. The long-lost game will finally be available, and with less than a month until its heavily delayed release, Nintendo’s uploaded a digital instruction manual fans can click through 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 &…
