Pokémon TCG Pocket is pretty much all I can think about right now. The new card collecting app recently passed the 10 million download threshold and it’s now been estimated to have earned about $3 million per day, making $12 million in just four days since launch. According to mobilegamer,…
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…
Everyone loves a random video game story involving celebrities and rapper Doja Cat gave us one heck of a Halloween story. Fans of Conker’s Bad Fur Day will likely remember the copious amounts of vulgarity and titillation the game provided, but I don’t think anyone ever thought some 23 years…
Well, this is probably a cross-over you didn’t see coming. Steins;Gate has been celebrating its 10th anniversary with announcements for a while now, such as Steins;Gate 0 Elite and a live-action adaptation of its time-travelling drama, but this latest reveal is quite the surprise. Hello Kitty is joining Okabe and…
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition isn’t just making the graphics even prettier – it’s also taking a second pass at the soundtrack. You can give a listen to the new remastered Colony 9 theme below, courtesy of Nintendo Europe. 🔊 Kick back and enjoy the remastered Colony 9 theme from…
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ version 1.2.0 update, which features new events and some returning familiar faces, is now available to download. In addition to what was revealed yesterday, Nintendo tweeted about some new additional items available at your local Nook Stop. Thanks to the April #AnimalCrossing: New Horizons update,…
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…
April has felt like it’s flown by, and we now have more statistics about March’s gaming sales and mobile purchases. Surprising no one, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been a juggernaut, breaking multiple sales records. The data that was made available didn’t include the digital sales of the game initially,…
Netflix’s Castlevania is one of the better video game adaptations we’ve seen hit the small (or large screen), and last month the series was greenlit for a fourth season. Today, Warren Ellis, the show’s credited writer, shared how much the series has grown and why we’re seeing another season. One…
Today marks an auspicious occasion for an anniversary with an inauspicious number: it’s the 13th anniversary of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl’s release in the US! The first two games in Generation IV, and also the first entries in the franchise to drop on the DS, Diamond & Pearl brought a…
Originally slated for Sunday, March 15th, Pokémon GO’s second 2020 Community Day event was going to focus on Abra. Then, everything changed when the coronavirus reached an awful pandemic level around the world. Niantic announced that the meetup would be on hold days before its scheduled start. Jump to now,…
Hopefully by now we all are aware of, and doing our best to follow, social distancing guidelines during this pandemic. If not, it seems Taiwan has a new way of promoting the idea, inspired by Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Essentially, the Taiwanese Ministry of Interior has used Animal Crossing: New…
The latest Mario Kart Tour event, its Trick Tour, is now underway. Check out the trailer below to see some of the action: The biggest difference between this and past tours is the courses: each course will feature its R/T track. That means each of the 12 Challenge…
Reported by Japanese Nintendo, the Joy-Con family is getting downsized. According to Japan’s Nintendo site, the accessories page lists that the Gray, Red, and Neon Yellow Joy-Con have ended production (“生産終了”). This might be due to a variety of factors — transferring production to new Joy-Con designs, possibly the demand…
April might be nearing to a close already, but that’s not stopping My Nintendo from sharing some calendar wallpapers for the month! So if you’re looking for another design to dress your devices with, you have some new choices. At this point in time, with only a few more days…
