With just under a week till the launch of Super Mario Odyssey, you can get pumped up for the game with the iconic vocal theme that surprised us all at E3 2017: Jump Up, Super Star. A portion of the jazzy jam is available to download for free on the…
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…
Bust out those Link Cables (for the nostalgia factor, of course): Multiple version-exclusive Pokémon have been revealed for the upcoming 3DS games Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, according to a tweet from Serebii.net. The tweet claims the source of the information to be a Japanese flyer, which shows several…
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…
Back at Evo 2017 in July of this year, Arc System Works surprised esports fans with a dream-come-true crossover title that mashes together BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth and RWBY into one 2v2 2D fighter. Back then we didn’t have confirmed platforms for the game, but now it’s…
It looks like big changes are heading to Pokémon GO soon. Dataminers have dived deep into the game’s most recent patch, uncovering several intriguing details. Pokémon GO Hub, The Silph Road and Serebii are reporting that the “cry” audio files from all Gen III Pokémon (Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald) have been discovered alongside…
Splatoon 2’s latest North American Splatfest has come to a close, with the fierce face-off between vampires and werewolves causing countless squid kids to be splatted across the region. Unfortunately for fans of the furry midnight howlers, vampirism has emerged victorious, with an overwhelming 3-0 lead. That said,…
While it’s definitely not the most fondly remembered Sonic game from the early ’90s, Sonic 3D Blast for the Genesis and Saturn saw Sega take the speedy hedgehog in an entirely different direction. Played from an isometric perspective and swapping fast movement for deliberate exploration, it definitely divides opinion to…
EarthBound is a weird, retro game, and even when it was contemporary back in 1994 it hearkened back to pop culture days of old – which means it’s only fitting that the game’s soundtrack is getting a vinyl issue. Ship to Shore PhoneCo. in association with Sony Music Entertainment is…