Early last month, RPG fans were shocked to discover that the fan-favorite title Octopath Traveler had been delisted from the Nintendo eShop out of nowhere. The game was a big hit among critics and fans of the genre worldwide, releasing initially as a Nintendo Switch exclusive before arriving on other…
Starting in January 2018, Community Day is a monthly event in Pokémon GO that shines the spotlight on a particular Pokémon. For one day each month, a Pokémon selected by Niantic will have its spawn rate increased during a block of hours. Also, the Shiny appearance rate for the starring…
G-MODE has slowly but surely been reviving its back catalog of games that were once exclusive to Japanese feature phones, including fairly big names. The latest? The Atlus developed Persona 3 prequel, Aigis: The First Mission. The game is an action RPG set in 1999, ten years before the events…
There are a lot of reasons to like the Nintendo Switch Lite, and one of those is just how well it pops aesthetically. While we’ve known of some accessories to come that’ll suit its smaller size, 8BitDo is upping their game by matching the look of the Lite instead. …
The marketing cycle for Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield has started to get a little more experimental lately – just recently we had a glitched Pokémon turn out to be Farfetch’d’s Galarian evolution, Sirfetch’d. You might want to strap in for the long haul with this latest scheme, though. The…
The next season of the Pokémon anime seems like it’s set to shake up the status quo a bit. As we learned at the start of the month, instead of focusing on a single new region (in this case Galar), it would feature all previous locales. Now, we may have…
As promised earlier this week, a lengthier Little Town Hero trailer has arrived, and it’s finally given us a better idea of the game’s story and characters. Not only that but we hear several new tunes from the game’s composers – Toby Fox (Undertale) and Hitomi Sato (Pokémon)!…
We all joke about where certain games will be ported next — you can play a version of Skyrim on your Amazon Echo, for chrissakes — but even then there are some oddball matchups. Case in point: you can now play the first level of Studio MDHR’s masterful old-timey platformer…
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…
Earlier this week Nintendo of France surprised Super Smash Bros. Ultimate players around the world by announcing that participants in its 2019-2020 European Team Cup tournaments would be unable to fight as Hero, despite fellow already-released DLC fighters such as Piranha Plant, Joker, and Banjo & Kazooie being playable. While…
Just in time for the first day of autumn this week, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has introduced a slew of Halloween themed events for campers! From a new garden event, to the start of October’s seasonal event, to new spooky terrains, you’ll have a whole bunch of options when it…
Not long after its initial reveal — and with less than a month until its release — Nintendo has dropped a new Ring Fit Adventure trailer that goes over the game in detail, this time with 100% plastic people presenting it. While the basic modes, exercises, and concepts are all…
Final Fantasy music is, on average, some of the best you can encounter in all of video games, so who wouldn’t want a collection of great tunes — especially from the recently remastered Final Fantasy VIII? Well, Squeenix has your back, as a FFVIII “Revival” soundtrack has been announced. Running…
An amiibo I wish I hadn’t missed out on was the Yarn Poochy. Such a good boy doesn’t deserve that kind of neglect, but that’s what happens when stock numbers are limited. Though Yarn Yoshi still shows up on store shelves, there’s no sign of Poochy. It’s not a perfect…
Last year My Hero Academia got its first big video game courtesy of Bandai Namco – the arena fighter My Hero One’s Justice. Now, in the most recent issue of Jump Magazine (via @Spytrue), it’s been announced that a follow-up is in the works. The game, which may be titled…
