After years of speculation and anticipation, publisher Forever Entertainment has finally announced that its House of the Dead 2 remake will finally be seeing the light of day this year. Revealed alongside a new trailer, the aptly titled “The House of the Dead 2: Remake” will be hitting Switch and…
The Switch 2 has had a heck of a media week, especially in Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Showcase (Abbreviated as CES) played host to a number of tech giants, including accessory developer Genki who brought mockups of the yet-to-be-revealed Nintendo Switch followup console. Genki in specific claimed this was…
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of leaks and speculation, with alleged images, specs, and rumors about the Nintendo Switch 2 dominating the gaming news cycle. Until Nintendo officially announces something about the much-anticipated console, this flurry of speculation is likely to continue. With that said, let’s continue…
Warning: Turn around like a Rowlet if you haven’t played Pokemon Sun & Moon — there are some spoilers for those below. Pokemon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon look to be pushing plot above all else in their pre-release. Where Sun & Moon told a story about the formation of…
We’re only a few days away from the launch of Fire Emblem Warriors for the Nintendo Switch and New 3DS. To build up the hype, Nintendo of America has just released a launch trailer featuring several of the game’s cutscenes. We also get confirmation that a downloadable Japanese language pack…
Dust off your construction caps and tighten your overalls, all ye Mushroom Kingdom faithful: a special surprise is creeping up the Warp Pipe in Super Mario Maker. Plucky plumbers can currently experience a piece of Nintendo history by leaping through the finals course featured in this year’s Nintendo World Championships….
Famitsu, the venerable, 31-year old Japanese gaming magazine, has awarded a score of 39/40 to Super Mario Odyssey in its latest issue. The individual scores from each reviewer broke down to 10/10/9/10. For comparison’s sake, here are the scores for every previous 3D Mario game from Famitsu: Super Mario 64:…
Fans of Advance Wars rejoice, as a game heavily influenced by its turn-based tactics is releasing for the Nintendo Switch next month. Developed by Japanese indie studio Area 35, Tiny Metal features grid-based battles with a dynamic 3D camera swooping in and out of the action. In Tiny Metal you…
Update: The Apple Watch App Store has confirmed that Generation 3 Pokémon will be spawning during the Halloween event in Pokémon GO. A witch hat Pikachu will also be appearing. Thanks to jir9 on Reddit for making the discovery! It looks like big changes are heading to Pokémon GO soon….
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…
Get ready for another round of Shiny Pokémon, Trainers! Starting on October 23rd, GameStop and EB Games locations around North America will be distributing codes for a Shiny Silvally to add to your copy of Pokémon Sun or Moon. Shiny Silvally will come equipped with the RKS System Ability and…
One of the biggest surprises during the latest Nintendo Direct was the announcement of two Bethesda shooters coming to Switch: last year’s DOOM and the upcoming Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Today, Nintendo of America tweeted out a release date for the port of DOOM, and you won’t have to…
Last Friday we brought you the news that Atlus was advertising Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux with a fake Metroidvania-styled game featuring the franchise’s iconic “Jack” demons. Back then we speculated that it was too polished to be purely fake and it turns out we were right, as Atlus…
While they’re not quite as iconic as the creatures themselves or the simplistic gym badges, Evolutionary Stones are still a staple of the Pokémon franchise, even if they’re rarely merchandised the same way. Thankfully Bandai will soon be changing that, with the announcement of a fancy set of the Thunder,…
Way back in July of last year, hot on the heels of Pokémon GO’s release, Legendary Entertainment announced that it would be adapting the still-unlocalized Detective Pikachu for the big screen. Now, over a year later, things seem to be finally progressing. Omega Underground reports that the film is set…
