In a recent interview with Famitsu Magazine, Retro Studios was asked a litany of questions regarding Metroid Prime 4: Beyond’s development. It’s a rather fascinating read, but one of the key details revealed during the interview was about 4: Beyond’s placement in the Metroid timeline. While hardly the most important…
Over the weekend, a rating for Pikmin 3 Deluxe on Nintendo Switch 2 popped up on the PEGI website. PEGI, or the Pan European Game Information association, is a board similar to the US’ ESA that provides ratings for games based on their content. While a rating on the website…
Raid Hour (also referred to as Legendary Raid Hour) started as an experiment in March 2019. Initially called Legendary Lunch Hour, Niantic set aside an hour on Wednesdays for Pokémon GO Trainers to find 5-Star (Legendary) Raids easier by increasing the appearance rates. After further testing, Raid Hour was renamed…
Daemon X Machina has been in the works for a while now, and after its Prototype Mission demo earlier this year the dev team invited those who played it to share their thoughts and suggestions. Today the results of some of those efforts have come to light, with a new…
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…
Prepare yourself, campers: Part 2 of the latest garden event has kicked off today! Sign on and you’ll find new flowers — red plumerias — to grow in your garden. Those will provide you with both yellow and white hermit crabs to give to Pascal. Helping out our otter friend…
Nintendo has done a pretty good job of detailing the various characters we’ll be seeing in Fire Emblem: Three Houses… at least, on its Japanese Twitter accounts (which we round up weekly in nice little featurettes you should check out). Now, with less than a month to go until release,…
Previously, several months before Studio MDHR’s masterful cartoon action-platformer Cuphead landed on Switch, the developers revealed they were working on a batch of DLC for the game, titled The Delicious Last Course. In the wake of the Switch release, we all assumed that the platform would receive said DLC whenever…
One of the things I miss most about living in Japan is just how many pop-up shops and cafés that come along. They bring cute food, free swag, and they take you just a little closer to something you love — what’s not to like? These aren’t exclusive to Japan…
Last year, Dragon Quest Builders was one of many well loved and welcomed port additions to the Nintendo Switch library. Whether you’ve been a longtime fan of the franchise or you just know about Slimes, you’ll no doubt enjoy this spinoff that lets you explore the world while having fun…
Shantae 5, the upcoming next title in the Shantae franchise of platforming games, will feature a “brand-new opening animation” done by Japanese animation studio Studio Trigger. Shantae 5’s developer, WayForward, announced the collaboration on Twitter, where it also shared a “sneak peek” at some production artwork of both Shantae and…
If you’re a member of the Fire Emblem Faithful, then you’re no doubt excited for this month’s long awaited release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses. You’re also probably staving that game off by playing Fire Emblem Heroes on your phone. Well, those two tightly-knit worlds are about to collide, as…
Last year the latest entry in the Layton series, Katrielle and the Millionaires’ Conspiracy, was ported to the Nintendo Switch in Japan. We were left waiting on the announcement of a western release, but now it’s been confirmed. Solve puzzles at home or on the go as #LAYTONSMYSTERYJOURNEY: Katrielle…
The 2003 GBA title Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town is getting remade for the Nintendo Switch, developer and publisher Marvelous Entertainment has announced via the latest issue of Famitsu. As Gematsu reports, the new remake will include the female protagonist from the re-release “More Friends of Mineral Town” and…
Games Done Quick has been going strong for nine years. It has expanded into multiple events and streams that celebrate the speedrunning community, but more importantly it’s always been known for raising money for charities. 2019’s Summer Games Done Quick concluded this weekend, and thanks to multiple donation hype trains,…
