ARMS to receive 5.2 update tomorrow

Categories: Switch, News

Nintendo’s newest fighting IP for the Switch, ARMS, will be receiving an update tomorrow, bringing the game to version 5.2. The news came via a tweet from the official Japanese ARMS Twitter account: ニュースが飛び込んできました!なんと明日、Ver.5.2を配信予定です! ARMS協会広報室のセキュリティが厳しくなったようで、今回ワタクシにはほとんど内部情報が回ってきていません…あ、そういえばARMSラボの知り合いが「実験に成功した」とか言ってたような… pic.twitter.com/OjIuksfKEM — ARMS(アームズ) (@ARMS_Cobutter) March 6, 2018 While it is unknown what changes the 5.2…

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ESA to meet with White House officials this week to discuss relation between video games, gun violence

Categories: News

The Entertainment Software Association, a U.S. organization representing a coalition of video game developers and publishers, will meet with White House officials this week in order to discuss the role of violent video games in America’s gun violence epidemic. Last week during a press briefing Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders…

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Nintendo Wiretap (3/5/18)

Author: Jason Ganos
Categories: News, Mobile, Switch

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…

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Flowers bloom eternal in latest Japanese Splatfest results

Author: Ricky Berg
Categories: News, Switch

Springtime festival season has a clear winner thanks to those squid kids of Inkopolis Square. Over in Japan their latest Splatfest asked whether fans prefer Flowers or Dumplings, both a straightforward question and representation of a proverb. Well, the results are in!   フェスの開催が告げられた。お題は「どっちを選ぶ? 花 vs 団子」。期間は3月3日(土)15:00~3月4日(日)15:00。「花より団子」は、風流よりも実益を重んじるという意味の諺だ。美しい花を愛でるか、ごちそうに舌鼓を打つか。あなたが重視するのはどっち? pic.twitter.com/qg3vd1KELJ — Splatoon(スプラトゥーン)…

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Mario is officially a plumber again

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News

Last year the very foundation of our global society was shaken to its very core by a shocking revelation – Mario was no longer a plumber. The news came from an edited Nintendo of Japan hub site for the video game icon, where his 30-year occupation was said to be…

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