Raid Hour (also referred to as Legendary Raid Hour) started as an experiment in March 2019. Initially called Legendary Lunch Hour, Niantic set aside an hour on Wednesdays for Pokémon GO Trainers to find 5-Star (Legendary) Raids easier by increasing the appearance rates. After further testing, Raid Hour was renamed…
Calling all Persona fans! Get your wallets ready because First4Figures, the company responsible for numerous high-quality gaming statues, has just unveiled their upcoming Joker statue from Persona 5. JOKER PREORDERS OPEN IN 8 DAYS! Show me your true form! Feast your eyes on Joker in all his glory! Tomorrow,…
It’s Cyber Monday! That means retailers around the USA are putting deep discounts on select Nintendo Switch games, consoles, and accessories! Check out some of our favorites below. Disclaimer: Nintendo Wire is a Best Buy, Amazon, and Play-Asia Affiliate and may receive commission when you purchase a product using…
Thanks to Sonic Superstars being a 3D game it is much easier to add cosmetic items for the characters. We’ve already seen skins for Lego, modern Amy Rose’s dress, the original concept art rabbit, and more besides. While this newly spotted set of skins doesn’t change the characters too significantly,…
As soon as gameplay from Unicorn Overlord showed up on screen during today’s Nintendo Direct a certain subset of players will have immediately pegged it as a Vanillaware game, with its gorgeous animation and environments repping their signature style. The studio, previously known for Odin Sphere, Muramasa: The Demon Blade,…
Today’s Nintendo Direct featured a brand-new trailer for WarioWare: Move It!, showcasing several of its over 200 microgames and its central “Forms” gameplay mechanic. Each microgame in Move It! requires a specific pose, called a “Form,” to complete, like “Ba-KAW” Form in a pecking microgame and “Fashionista” in…
Nintendo announced during today’s Nintendo Direct that the upcoming remaster of Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon will launch on Switch in Summer 2024. A new trailer for the game was also showcased, revealing its official title as Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD — making it uniform across regions after North America received…
Another Code: Two Memories (known as Trace Memory in North America) was a 2005 DS title and point and click adventure that utilized the budding DS’s touchscreen technology to tell an evocative narrative. While little known outside of minute cameos in Super Smash Bros., the title and its even more…
After a long wait, we finally have our first look at the upcoming Noah and Mio amiibo from Xenoblade Chronicles III! According to Nintendo, the two amiibo will be sold as a two-pack and will release on January 19th. Each amiibo will unlock multiple armor sets in the…
Long has Princess Peach been consigned to either damsel in distress or co-star, but no longer – Princess Peach returns to the top star role in Princess Peach: Showtime!, an action-platformer set in an overtaken theater. While Peach is attending a stage play, the Sparkle Theater is overtaken…
Diddy Kong, Funky Kong, Pauline, and Peachette have been announced as the final new playable drivers heading to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as part of its Booster Course Pass DLC. Aside from the four new racers, Booster Course Pass Wave 6 will also include Wii Daisy Circuit alongside seven other…
Construction of the previously announced public gallery of Nintendo’s history, now officially named the Nintendo Museum, will be completed by March 2024. The gallery will be housed within the Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant in Kyoto, Japan. Originally dedicated to manufacturing of Hanafuda and playing cards when built in 1969, it…
Twenty years later, the most storied Mario RPG of all time is coming back – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is being remade for the Nintendo Switch. Now let me scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! The remake features fully updated graphics with new lighting and detail more akin to recent Paper…
Today’s Nintendo Direct had plenty of Mario announcements but right at the top of the show was a remake of the classic Game Boy Advance puzzle platformer, Mario vs. Donkey Kong. Functionally a follow-up to the very underappreciated Donkey Kong ’94 for the Game Boy, Mario vs. Donkey Kong saw…
It’s been a long wait, but we finally have a release date for two of the most sought after amiibo! That’s right, the Zelda and Ganondorf amiibo from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom officially drop on November 3rd! Zelda and Ganondorf amiibo coming November 3rd! pic.twitter.com/gzg4gtjBM7…
