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…
During today’s Indie Showcase video, via Nintendo of Europe, we saw plenty of big announcements, but one in particular will get sandbox game fans excited. Terraria is finally heading to Switch in 2019! Terraria was announced for Switch way back in February 2017, so it’s nice to see a release…
Windjammers, a classic NeoGeo arcade hit about extreme frisbee sports, will be getting a surprise sequel from DotEmu, as shown in today’s surprise Indie Highlight video from Nintendo of Europe. The trailer shows no gameplay, but shows an animated short of two Windjammers (that’s what I’ll call them)…
A new Indie Highlights video has been uploaded by Nintendo of Europe just in time for Gamescom and two games in particular will be appearing very soon indeed. First up is Prison Architect: Nintendo Switch Edition, which was revealed and released at the same time! This new port is a…
There were teases throughout this morning and now it’s official – a fresh Nindies Showcase (of sorts) is here! Check it out below, and keep checking back for more coverage throughout the day.
The promised time has come — just as the first Choose Your Legends heroes for Fire Emblem Heroes were revealed in late August last year, so too will the second slate of Fire Emblem champions be revealed tomorrow, August 20th, at 8:30 p.m. PST, in a special FEH Channel broadcast…
Welcome to Speedrun Sunday: that sadistic time of the week when we dare to challenge both your D-pad’s durability and sanity’s stamina with the ultimate test in video game bragging rights. Hot off the rocket powered kicks of our Mega Man VII challenge comes yet another ruthless run that’s sure to…
We’d already seen the three traditional starters get the Mega Evolution treatment in Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! & Eevee! but now we’ve gotten a look at two more. After the lack of focus in Gen VII it’s great to see Mega Kangaskhan and Mega Gyarados come back, especially the former…
Later this month, Sega is releasing feature-packed versions of its classic games on the Nintendo Switch under the Sega Ages banner. Now, thanks to a Nintendo Dream interview with producer/director Rieko Kodama and supervisor Yousuke Okunari, translated via Nintendo Everything, we know a few more specifics regarding the project. First…
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 lot of work goes into starting a business. You have to have standards, goals, something the people want, and the support of colleagues and customers alike. Against all odds, Wario’s managed to get all of these within his grasp and for 15 years has been selling us microgames under…
Dragon Ball FighterZ launches for Nintendo Switch on September 28th in North America, which means its DLC characters will be coming along with it. The newest character, revealed at EVO 2018, will be Cooler, Frieza’s brother. According to Gematsu, the latest V-Jump revealed that Cooler will launch in “late September,”…
The work of a voice actor brings a new, fuller sense of life to characters we know and enjoy. To shape their personality by performance, and in some cases, more fully embody an established work. Today we are sad to learn that Unshō Ishizuka, most recognizable to Nintendo friends as…
