Yesterday’s reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2 told us that Nintendo has a new console on the horizon. That’s not meant to be a punchline, either: the reveal only told us that a new console is happening. There was a glimpse of a new Mario Kart and astute viewers can…
For the last few years, when rumors of a Switch successor would pop up, it was always labelled as the Switch 2. Nobody knew what it was actually going to be called, but Switch 2 was a quick shorthand for saying “Nintendo’s next console” or “the successor to the Nintendo…
After the surprise drop of a Switch 2 reveal teaser, the internet was set ablaze with the information that the Switch successor is actually real and is coming sometime this year. Since it would be incredibly silly to unveil the new console and not give any information, the teaser ended…
According to Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ head developers, the game could have a plan in place for content updates for the next two to three years. The information comes from a new interview with CNET, in which CNET asked game director Aya Kyogoku and producer Hisashi Nogami if the game…
The K.K. Slider album redraw art challenge has continued to thrive on social media. From all genres and decades, chances are you can find your favorite album and/or musical artist undergoing an Animal Crossing adaptation. Here’s another sampling of redraws that we would love to see in-game and even hanging…
It seems Lord of the Rings actor Elijah Wood is the latest star to have given in to the temptation that is Animal Crossing: New Horizons — and it appears he’s an observer of island etiquette, to boot! According to Twitter user Jessica Kovalick, Wood arrived on her island after direct…
Be it the long wait for a new entry, the popularity of the Nintendo Switch, or the current state of the world, Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to see high sales in its native country, Japan. Now a month on shelves, according to Famitsu (and provided by Gematsu), the game…
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,…
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…
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…
Yesterday we learned about a handful of upcoming events in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, among them the return of Rover for May Day. We got a glimpse of the special May Day Tour we’ll be able to embark on where our favorite rail-riding cat will be — though based on…
Over the weekend, a new art challenge began to circulate around Twitter. Slowly but surely, my feed was seeing artists taking various album covers and putting an Animal Crossing twist on them. This meme was inevitable to appear after New Horizons’ release, as K.K. Slider returns in Animal Crossing’s latest…
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has kept the attention of players from around the world since the day it released in March, and thanks to its multiplayer functionality and the creative minds of those running their islands, we’ve been seeing a number of really innovative ways to keep the experience fresh….
