With how popular Shantae has become over the years, it’s surprising to learn that one of the games in the series was actually cancelled over 20 years ago. Despite that, Wayforward didn’t give up and would revive the project many years later to create a long-lost interquel for the series….
While home consoles are a widespread and ubiquitous part of the greater video game industry now, it hasn’t always been that way. Video game consoles have their origins from arcade machines, and the transition they made to end up in people’s living rooms was thanks in large part to systems…
As part of today’s financial report for Nintendo, company president Shuntaro Furukawa noted that Nintendo will be considering a price adjustment to the Switch 2 depending on how the situation of President Trump’s tariffs evolves in the coming months. With nobody sure of what the impact will be when Trump’s…
Just a few days ago, it was announced via Famitsu that the 3DS JRPG The Alliance Alive would be getting a HD port to the Nintendo Switch. Now, the game has an official website in Japan, which has given us our first look at the game running on the system….
There’s no denying that last year’s Octopath Traveler was a success for Square Enix, and the promise of more JRPG goodness came from the dev team. Yet nobody expected we’d see the follow-up so soon – though there’s good reason why, as the newly announced Octopath Traveler: Tairiku no Hasha…
The latest Japanese trailer for Yoshi’s Crafted World has just landed, and alongside new gameplay footage we also get a look at the amiibo functionality within the game! Like we reported earlier, tapping a supported amiibo in Yoshi’s Crafted World unlocks a crafted, cardboard costume for Yoshi to…
Pokémon games are pretty popular, in the grand scheme of things. I mean, you know, not to like, religious levels, but hey, they seem to do well. So it’s not a huge shock to discover that the total revenue from mobile games in the franchise tops $2.5 billion — which…
This year’s E3 has been looking a bit barren on multiple fronts. First Sony announced they’d be missing the show for the first time in their history, and then today we get news that EA won’t be hosting a press conference. What happened to the conference of years past? Where…
GRIS was one of the most beautiful games of last year (and all-time), and has already proven a major success for developer Nomada Studio. And now if you own the game, there’s a little bonus — a new “Undone” update that adds unused concept art and music tracks. GRIS…
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon still ranks as one of the best dark horse releases of 2018. It came to be as a stretch goal for the Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Kickstarter, bringing Classic-vania action to Switch and other platforms. A year has passed since its release, and it’s…
Conventions are nerd nirvana. Comic books, anime and manga, video games, film and tv shows — these yearly gatherings celebrate a slew of fandoms and announce what’s coming next. Nintendo participates in a few each year, and with Emerald City Comic-Con taking place in Seattle, Nintendo’s appearance is a given….
Towards the top of the year the Humble Store debuted Switch and 3DS titles, leading off with a whole heap of Nintendo published games that’s grown since then. Now it looks like a few more publishers are supporting the sales platform, with 2K, Curve Digital, and Humble’s own published titles…
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 year after the game made its debut on Steam, Azure Saga: Pathfinder is heading to the Nintendo Switch eShop with a Deluxe Edition. Developed by MassHive Media, the game is heavily inspired by classic ’90s Japanese RPGs, with puzzle-laden isometric maps and turn based combat, though it’s presented with…
Last month we got word of a patch planned for Wargroove, one of our favorite games of this year and a must have for strategy fans. Focusing on a mix of planned fixes and community feedback, the update dropped yesterday and looks to make an already great and accessible game…
