Nintendo of Japan has revealed that, effective immediately, they will cease repair requests on all New Nintendo 3DS LL(XL here in the States) and Nintendo 2DS systems. If you remember, repair requests on New Nintendo 3DS systems ended in August 2024. The reason for ending repairs is due…
Having been nearly six years since the release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses for the Nintendo Switch, the game has maintained a surprisingly devoted following in that time. Case in point, Good Smile’s Pop Up Parade line of figures is now featuring Sylvain Jose Gautier of the Blue Lions house….
Over on Twitter, account Brick Built Blogs has posted a first-look image at the upcoming Lego Mario Kart set. Made with 1972 pieces and costing a whopping $169.99, the set is a recreation of Mario and the basic kart available at the start of practically every Mario Kart game. Reportedly,…
Today Sega’s begun a little followup to their previous, Sonic based animation project. Sonic Mania Adventures may be over, but its music is coming back through a series of remixes courtesy of longtime composer for the series Jun Senoue, and Mania’s own composer Tee Lopes. They’re collaborating to take tracks…
The Switch just continues to sell, and it now sits at 10.5 million units sold in the US according to the latest NPD report. In 2018, consumers bought 5.6 million Switch consoles in the US, which is up 16% from 2017. The Switch was the best-selling hardware of the year,…
When it released last week, Travis Strikes Again opened with the game’s reveal trailer back from 2017. This unveiled the return of No More Heroes really well back when the game was first announced, but with a new update it’s been replaced with something a little more unique. Now you’re…
This week’s Indie Highlights from Nintendo of Europe gave us a great look at some upcoming Nintendo Switch indie titles. Today, we’re featuring Forager, Inmost, and Double Kick Heroes, three very unique games I can’t wait to get my hands on. Forager Looking part Zelda, part Harvest Moon, with notes…
UPDATE: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s in-built news feed has confirmed that Update 2.0.0 will release within the week! If reports are to be believed, we could see Super Smash Bros. Ultimate update to version 2.0.0 by next Thursday. According to SSBUBot, a news bot created by known Splatoon dataminer OatmealDome,…
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…
With the Detective Pikachu movie release date creeping closer, it’s no shock that we’re suddenly seeing merchandise celebrating the film’s namesake pop up from different toy companies. Most recently, Banpresto unveiled its adorably fuzzy products of the electrifying mouse sleuth in the form of plushes, cushions, and coin cases. …
Those, like me, who are eagerly awaiting Mortal Kombat’s gorious (it’s like glorious, but gory) return to Nintendo consoles might need to wait just a little longer if rumors are to be believed. The Switch version of Mortal Kombat 11, which has not been publicly shown yet, was announced at…
Nintendo is quite fond of the “shadow drop” – releasing games on the eShop immediately after or even during a live-stream. Today’s Indie Highlights were no exception, with three games launching digitally as they were announced. First up is Unruly Heroes, the fluidly animated action platformer that can be played…
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate smashes through another milestone! The game has set a new record for a new launch month dollar sales record for a platform exclusive in all of video game history, beating out the long-standing champion, Halo: Reach. The info was shared by US Video Game Industry Analyst…
Out of all the announcements that made up today’s Indie Highlights reel, none were more surprising than CrossCode, at least if you’ve been following the game’s developers. Fans have been wishing for a port for some time, but the developers at Radical Fish Games expressed the difficulty of porting the…
We’ve known that Image & Form Games have been working on a new SteamWorld game for some time now, but we didn’t know what direction it’d take. The last time the studio diverged from the tried-and-true Dig formula we got the turn-based side scrolling strategy focused SteamWorld Heist, and this…
