Niantic will be attending DreamHack Melbourne and they’ll be hosting a little in-person Pokémon GO event in the area. Pokémon Trainers can visit Melbourne & Olympic Parks for some extra bonuses, Field Research tasks, and the return of the You, Me, and Pikachu! Timed Research. Trainers looking to add Unown…
Trainers looking to get a head start on the Cleffa Hatch Day event can clear out their Egg stash thanks to a hatch distance bonus happening before the event. This Cleffa Hatch Day Extended Bonuses “event” will also add some Field Research tasks into the mix. (For more details about…
Thanks to the efforts of the Video Game History Foundation, another bit of Nintendo history has been preserved and released online. Yesterday, Frank Cifaldi (founder and director of VGHF) uploaded the ROM data for a prototype cartridge of the original Legend of Zelda on NES. Twitter user MrTalida then dug…
In probably the weirdest news we’ve seen concerning Pokémon GO to date, it has come to light that the mobile AR game played a role in last year’s lead-up to the U.S. political election. Yes. Laugh or say it isn’t so, but Alphabet (the parent company of Google, YouTube and…
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…
It’s time for the (roughly) monthly Fire Emblem Heroes update, and this one is quite nice indeed, adding a new feature and a host of quality of life improvements to the tactical mobile title. The full details are as follows: The Sacred Seal Forge (available after clearing a one-map story…
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…
It’s a ‘choose your own wallpaper’ kind of day today: Super Mario Odyssey, My Nintendo Rewards and now Fire Emblem Heroes! Continuing the promise made after the Choose Your Legends voting event, we now have wallpapers for the male and female heroes that placed 8th overall in the poll. Robin,…
In celebration of Friday’s release of the SNES Classic and with October here — counting down to Mario Odyssey, with 25 days to go — we have some new rewards available over at My Nintendo! WALLPAPERS The standard 50 Platinum Point price is still here for the three new wallpapers….
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…
Surprise! Princess Daisy is playable once you finish off Area 30 in Remix 10, so we sprinted forth and grinded our way to the castle she was lost in. It’s here that we rescue Daisy, as well as see what she can do in Remix 10 and Toad Rally! Here’s…
So much for releasing on Friday. Earlier this morning, Super Mario Run’s newest mode Remix 10 became available. Thanks to being a bit of a night owl, I quickly updated the game around 3:00 a.m. PT so I could give it a try. Yup, that early — I was…
Oops? Scheduled for tomorrow, Super Mario Run’s latest update that’s all about Remix 10 couldn’t wait. Taking off at high speeds, you can find the download under the updates tab in Apple’s App Store or checking it out on Google Play. Not only that, but the $4.99 discount price for…
October means Halloween, which – like many holidays co-opted from pagan traditions – has a certain element of song to it. Rather than provide some more conventional spooky delights, Fire Emblem Heroes has instead opted to focus on the arts of song and dance, as a new seasonal banner features…
Enjoying Pokémon GO’s latest event? Unfortunately, some players were unable to log in yesterday, which resulted in them losing out on gathering all the Stardust they could carry and more while hatching 2KM eggs at lightning fast speed. Niantic solved the issue last night and announced that the Equinox event…
