Over the course of the past couple years or so, the Super Mario Bros. series has seen quite a bit of change. When Charles Martinet stepped down from his role as the voice of Mario, that took many fans by surprise. That wouldn’t be the last of the well-known Mario…
Last November, we ran an op/ed speculating about the performance improvements the Nintendo Switch 2 could bring to the vast library of Switch 1 games. While some have gotten native ports or Switch 2-specific updates, it would be impossible for Nintendo and every other publisher to update all 5,987 games…
As people discovered yesterday, the newly released Nintendo Switch 2 is compatible with a variety of generic USB webcams for use with GameChat. That’s great for people who already have a webcam in their possession and don’t want to shell out for Nintendo’s official camera. What if you wanted to…
After an odd week of teasing and denying Diablo for the Nintendo Switch, Eurogamer says that sources close to the project have confirmed to them that, yes, Diablo III is in fact coming to the system. On February 28, Blizzard tweeted out a short video of a Diablo nightlight being…
Scribblenauts Showdown is now available on the Nintendo Switch! Check out the launch trailer below to see the game in action!
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…
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…
Pokémon Day may be over, there’s still something to look forward to for Pokémon fans: the new Pikachu 3DS game. Detective Pikachu, who isn’t a typical Pikachu in any way, will soon be sleuthing his way onto Nintendo’s handheld. Originally planned to be an episodic game, the complete Detective Pikachu…
UPDATE: You can now use your My Nintendo Gold Points on the Nintendo Switch eShop. 100 Gold Points will net you $1 off. You can see the full announcement here. Well, it finally happened. After almost a year of fan outcry, Nintendo has finally confirmed that My Nintendo points…
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…
The Super Mario Encyclopedia is set to join the ranks of Hyrule Historia and plenty of artbooks as the next, great Nintendo book from Dark Horse Publishing. We were already excited, but for collectors things just got a lot more tempting. Check out the newly revealed limited edition: The Question…
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）…
I’ve been playing the new Kirby Star Allies demo again and again since it dropped yesterday. Fun as it is, it’s only a small taste of what’s to come in Kirby’s latest adventure, though thankfully, Nintendo’s given us another quick peek. These two, short trailers share some of the game’s…
It’s always great to see your main take a win, and that’s how I’m feeling with the results of the latest ARMS Party Crash. I’ve been a Mechanica fan since her reveal and even with Byte & Barq’s teamwork they just couldn’t topple this robot-riding wunderkind. Give it up…
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will be the Nintendo debut of several of these long-running characters, and for those excited about the crossover combat cavalcade you can get an early peek at where they stand amongst each other in the eyes of fans. Over 77 thousand people voted for their favorite…
