Every month, Niantic spotlights a Pokémon for Pokémon GO’s Research Breakthrough encounter. This feature was added to the game in April 2018 as part of the Field Research system. Essentially a quest system, Trainers can acquire Field Research tasks by logging in daily and/or spinning PokéStops (one task per PokéStop…
With the Switch 2 unveiling happening in just mere days, it seems likely that developers would already be creating games for Nintendo’s upcoming platform. Nintendo obviously wants people to upgrade ASAP, so why would it hold back dev kits? A rumor last week (from Insider Gaming) stated that Nintendo is…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
Just a few days ago Nintendo held its final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct, where they also revealed that demo events up until launch will let you play the full roster. A couple of such events have since taken place, and we’ve gotten a good luck at a fair number…
While the Switch has been killing it on the video game front since launch, it is missing quite a few multimedia applications that’d really make it shine. Thankfully, one of the biggest omissions may finally be getting rectified next week – YouTube. The official Nintendo website is referencing a YouTube…
This year we saw Toys“R”Us shut its doors. The idea of being a Toys”R”Us kid would soon become a thing of the past and we thought we’d face our first holiday shopping season without the toy giant. After closing hundreds of stores, ending thousands of peoples’ jobs, and liquidating products…
As the year begins to wind down, it becomes more and more evident how one of its first releases — Matt Thorson’s platforming pinnacle Celeste — is going down in the annals of gaming history. And no small part of that is Lena Raine’s masterful soundtrack, which utilizes retro MIDI…
Brie Larson — star of the upcoming Captain Marvel movie — is apparently a fan of gaming’s most accomplished bounty hunter. The actress dressed up as Samus in her Zero Suit for Halloween, prompting one user to sigh that this would be the closest we’d ever get to a Metroid…
The phrase “sweet dreams” gets thrown around plenty, and who could be sweeter than Kirby? Round, pink, almost always blushing, and apparently the only Nintendo character able to outrun the apocalypse. If you’re concerned with your own potential dissolution from reality and consciousness, or just want to be extra well…
In the midst of all the news coming out of yesterday’s Nintendo Direct, the world within Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp experienced some exciting happenings. The game’s first year anniversary is practically here, and all the animals — including all of our very favorites, like Isabelle — want to show us…
Next week Switch owners will be able to go on an adorable adventure with classic Final Fantasy characters in World of Final Fantasy Maxima, and while we already know most of the essentials, Square Enix and the Japanese games press have released some new images and videos highlighting the 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…
If you want to pick up a Nintendo 3DS system these days you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to designs, and now a new color scheme is entering the arena. Target’s Black Friday advertising shows a Nintendo 2DS system bundled with the 3DS version of Super Mario Maker, and…
Smash wasn’t the only upcoming Nintendo game getting the spotlight yesterday – Treehouse: Live also dedicated some time to 2019’s Yoshi’s Crafted World. While we didn’t get a release date, several unknowns were cleared up as the crew played through two and a half levels. For starters, while the flipping…
Mario Segale, a Washington real estate developer and the namesake of Super Mario, has passed away at the age of 84. According to video game legend, back in the early ’80s when Nintendo of America was just getting off the ground, Segale was the landlord for one of their Tukwila…
