Here we go! Let’s take a look at the nominees for the 2024 Game Awards. While Nintendo doesn’t have an entry in the Game of the Year category this year, it currently holds three out of five nominees for Best Family Game, where the company has historically been the favorite…
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…
One of the most common talking points among video game circles is often the music that accompanies them. Yet for every award-winning soundtrack, there’s a handful of tracks that live on for more amusing reasons. Perhaps the most well-known song of this caliber is the notorious “DK Rap” from Donkey…
Though Kirby’s next adventure is nearly here, there’s still a lot to learn about the Forgotten Land he’s washed up in. A new clip shared by Nintendo of Europe shows off Treasure Road, a strange series of challenges designed to both test and reward our floaty hero. Have you…
The final wave of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie marketing is in full force now, with this latest drop being a new single from the French artist Stéphane Legar titled “Speed Life”. At the moment it’s unclear if the song will play in the movie at all, or if it’ll…
Now two weeks out from its release, it’s been announced by the official Triangle Strategy Twitter account that game has sold nearly 800,000 copies worldwide. To celebrate, they’ve also tweeted a new piece of art from the game’s character designer, Naoki Ikushima, featuring Anna, Benedict, and Decimal, one of the…
If I may put on my best infomercial voice — has this ever happened to you? You pull out your keys to open your door or start your car and then sigh due to the lack of colorful keychains adorning it. “If only I had ones that replicated the box…
It was a great surprise yesterday when, after a detailed showcase in a PlayStation 5 State of Play, the website for Hogwarts Legacy, the upcoming Harry Potter adventure game, showed that the title is coming to Nintendo Switch. A surprise that just formed a little pit in my stomach. Not…
The spirit of humankind is something else. Our lives are so ephemeral, so fragile in the grand scheme of the universe, and yet we spend them on endeavors that at a glance seem utterly frivolous. Take this intrepid The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild player, /u/ThornyFox, who —…
Today, Fire Emblem Heroes is receiving its next update featuring more characters and a story chapter based on one of Japan’s exclusive Super Famicom titles. The mobile game will be globally expanding with new content featuring characters from the final Fire Emblem game to be released on Nintendo’s 16-bit system,…
Update (3/29/22): The new Kirby plushes are now up for pre-order at Play-Asia! And remember, you can save 5% on orders over $20 when you use the code WIREDEALS at checkout. In one week Kirby’s discovering a whole new world of adventure! Maybe you’ve tried the demo,…
Remember the short animation focused on Barry’s adventure that was released not long after the launch of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl? For any fan who missed out on the animated web series Pokémon Evolutions, do yourselves a favor and watch it before revisiting its fifth episode with this…
As the winter comes to a close, the spring season is just getting started. To celebrate the upcoming launch of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, My Nintendo is fittingly celebrating the pink puff’s next major entry with a (spring) breeze of potential happiness for some lucky Kirby fans. Until this…
If you’ve bought it individually, or are a Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscriber, you can download the first wave of Mario Kart 8’s Booster Course DLC today! Consisting of two cups with tracks from Mario Kart Tour, 64, and more besides, it’s the first of six waves. Check out…
June is traditionally The Month for big game news, but that tradition’s future becomes increasingly uncertain each year. E3 2022 will once again be hosted online only, and now EA’s EA Play event — which it’s been doing since 2016 — is cancelled entirely. According to what an EA spokesperson…
