As the weather continues to warm up as spring arrives in full, there are plenty of people looking to enjoy their time in the sun. For the Pokémon fans out there, there’s no better way to do so than by enjoying the Alola region’s tropical weather and colorful scenery. If…
It feels like eons since a Madden game has last graced a Nintendo console, but EA is finally going to change that this year. Recently announced as part of the slate of titles heading to the Switch 2 this year, Madden 26 will be available on Nintendo’s latest console alongside…
With Switch 2 pre-orders finally live for the US and Canada, you now have the chance to fork over money to Nintendo for the chance to play the next generation of Switch hardware. Fun! If you want to utilize the full feature set of the Nintendo Switch 2, you’ll need…
Got some My Nintendo Platinum Points burning a hole in your virtual pocket? You may be in luck. The North American My Nintendo program has just released a brand new Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers wallpaper set for the low price of 50 Platinum Points. The wallpaper is available…
Japan’s ARMS Twitter account can’t be stopped — not that I’d want them too. The game’s looking more and more interesting with each passing day, and the updates from it are reminding me just a bit of the days of the Smash Bros. Dojo updates in Brawl’s pre-release. Today brought…
Amazon Japan has updated its site with several brand new Switch cases featuring art from Mario Kart, Splatoon, ARMS and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. These cases appear to be manufactured by Nintendo itself and not a third party like HORI or PDP. The smaller cases run…
Welcome to the Daily 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…
Current Technology Fellow Genyo Takeda has announced his retirement from Nintendo, to go into effect this June. Takeda has had a hand in plenty parts of Nintendo’s history, such as being the main man behind the original Punch-Out!! games as well as Star Tropics. While these are both fantastic in…
Over the weekend we brought you the news that the latest Japanese arcade edition of Taiko Drum Master would be getting some Nintendo collaborations, with the Legend of Zelda and Kirby franchises in particular. Now some footage of the Breath of the Wild medley players can drum along to has…
Another fiscal year has come and gone for Nintendo and the company’s investor website has been updated with some new documentation. Considering last year’s reports announced the March 2017 release of the Switch (then known as the NX) and a Breath of the Wild focused E3 2016, the PDFs this…
Nintendo has announced via the official Nintendo Mobile YouTube channel that it will be hosting a Fire Emblem Heroes livestream starting tomorrow, April 27th, at 11:30 p.m. EST. The event will last ten minutes and will “deliver the latest information about Fire Emblem Heroes.” No word yet on what will…
It’s three years away, but just the idea of a Nintendo-centric world coming to Universal Studios theme parks has me counting down to 2020. That all became just a little more real; thanks to some recent photos we now know that construction has officially begun! Walls have gone up in…
A new trailer and website update have given some insight to the upcoming strategy card game Culdcept Revolt. While we’ve known the game exists as a hybrid TCG-board game sort of style, not much has been revealed about its world and characters ’til now. The plot concerns a walled off…
Developer Nicalis took to Twitter to announce that along with Cave Story+’s release on the Switch this June, “a few unannounced goodies” would also be included with the game. Also featuring an image of an old school looking instruction booklet, the tweet has raised the hype level for the nostalgia-driven…
Future remakes of games in the Fire Emblem series may see a return to the “Echoes” subtitle, according to an unknown developer of the upcoming Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. The quote comes from a translated line from a scan of an interview, made available through user Kirokan on…
