Like a handful of current and former colleagues here at Nintendo Wire, I know exactly where I was the morning of June 13th, 2017. Packed into a hotel room turned office, we’re watching Nintendo’s digital Spotlight presentation, typing up news articles and getting excited for our favorites — I got…
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…
In a new interview posted by Video Games Chronicle today, Scott Amos (head of studio) and Will Kerslake (game director) of Crystal Dynamics sat down with the outlet to discuss why it decided to return to the original Tomb Raider game after 30 years. While the obvious answer is that…
Donkey Kong Bananza has beaten out Nintendo’s own Mario Kart World and been awarded Best Family Game of the year at The Game Awards 2025. The creative and destructive monkey mayhem of Bananza has won over the hearts, and wallets, of early Nintendo Switch 2 adopters this year. Bananza…
New week, new music update! On tap for this week, Yoshi’s Crafted World! Released in 2019, Crafted World is the spiritual successor to Woolly World, with the art style focusing on every element in the world being crafted out of different materials. Developers Good-Feel wanted the levels to look like…
In the latest trailer for Capcom’s upcoming action RPG Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, we get a look at the main objective players will be tackling in the game: habitat restoration. As the description reads, “it’s your duty to save endangered monster species from extinction. Through Habitat Restoration, save…
Despite announcing two new additions to Nintendo Switch Online yesterday morning, Nintendo surprised everyone last night by announcing that Wario World would be joining the NSO GameCube app. Instead of releasing in a week, Wario World is actually available right now, and that’s great. The platformer was one of the…
Almost like clockwork, the leaks from tonight’s Game Awards event are starting to leak out in full force. While many were expecting some form of Tomb Raider announcement, it seems the next game in Eidos Montreal’s reboot Tomb Raider timeline will be a remake of the original game. Titled “Tomb…
It’s hard to believe the holiday season is here once again, and I’m sure many of you have a Nintendo Switch 2 on your own wish list or your kids’. Lucky for you, this is one of the best times to snag a Switch 2, along with games and accessories,…
Geoff Keighley is probably fuming over how many leaks have been coming from The Game Awards 2025, but yet another game has seemingly leaked ahead of the show tomorrow. Per a new report from MP1st, it looks as if a new Divinity game is set to be revealed during tomorrow’s…
Surprising just about everyone, Nintendo announced this morning that two more N64 games would be joining its lineup of classic games available to Switch Online subscribers. Available as part of the “Expansion Pack” tier starting December 17th, 2025, players will soon be able to replay Rayman 2: The Great Escape…
A scrapped DLC pack for the Nintendo Switch version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, which developer Aspyr promised in 2022, was blocked from release by Disney’s legal team. The Restored Content pack was originally released by a modding group for the PC version of the game….
With all the leaks going around this morning, there may not be much of anything to reveal at this year’s Game Awards. In a listing on European ratings board PEGI’s website, an entry for “Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced” has been spotted, lending credence to the long held rumor that…
It’s basically a running gag at this point, but Bethesda has ported Skyrim to yet another console. In a surprise launch this morning, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition is now available on Nintendo Switch 2 in an enhanced form. The original game released on Switch all the way…
After reporting about GameStop accidentally leaking information regarding Resident Evil Requiem’s DLC, I figured we wouldn’t hear anything else about the game until The Game Awards on Thursday. Turns out, Sony had other plans, as a placeholder image when preloading Capcom’s latest installment in the classic survival horror series on…
