Ask any Mario Kart fan what they fear most, and the answer will undoubtedly be the infamous Spiny Shell. This iconic item first debuted in Mario Kart 64, and ever since then it has been terrorizing Mario Kart fans with its tenacity to destroy the first place racer. It has…
While Bayonetta 3 marked the end of the franchise and its heroine, that wasn’t exactly the original plan for the series. In a new video shared on his YouTube channel, series creator Hideki Kamiya explained that if he had remained at developer PlatinumGames, he would have liked to continue the…
Nintendo Music has updated with new tracks from Pokémon Sword and Shield this week. With a runtime of four hours and 43 minutes and a whopping 138 tracks, Sword and Shield’s soundtrack is likely to satisfy Pokémon fans! Check out the full tracklist below: Title Screen Exhibition Match Postwick…
A mainstay of Nintendo’s handhelds ever since the Game Boy Advance has been the Mario & Luigi RPG series, developed by the team over at AlphaDream. Sadly, we may never see it continue, as the studio declared bankruptcy earlier today. The reasons cited for the shuttering are sluggish revenues combined…
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…
Among the many items on Poké-fanatics’ list of “things that would be super cool to have in a Pokémon game” is a Gym leader for every type — the idea of breaking the mold of eight or so type masters in favor of utilizing the whole spectrum of Pokémon flavors…
The Disney Tsum Tsum Festival Bundle will release in Japan in just nine days, on October 10th. After only getting glimpses of the contents inside previously, we now have a look at what the bundle’s box will look like. Featuring the game logo and familiar pink and purple color scheme,…
GameInformer’s cover stories are always an event, usually focusing on the biggest games of the year. November’s issue is no exception, as the magazine and website prepare for an avalanche of Pokémon Sword & Shield news. Our November cover story is Pokémon Sword and Shield! To celebrate, we not…
It’s officially October, and that means in less than a month I’ll be rolling around with Aiai and the rest once again in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD. The return of Monkey Ball has been a long time coming — and to hold you over ’til its release, Sega’s…
With Dragalia’s first anniversary celebrations finally underway, SensorTower is taking a look at how it’s fared financially in the first year of its life. With the bevy of mobile offerings that Nintendo now has on the table, Dragalia is currently sitting pretty as the company’s third-highest grossing app. To date,…
In a little over a month Mario, Sonic, and all the rest will be putting themselves to the test on a world stage once again. Ahead of that though, we’ve gotten a chance to check out the full game and are sharing both its opening cutscene and first minutes of…
If you’re heading to New York Comic-Con soon, you can expect zombies, robots, monster hunting, and more from one of the premier gaming third-parties out there — Capcom has unveiled its plans for the expo, which include hands-on demos for Project Resistance, Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy…
Something enigmatic is being teased the wide world of Pokémon GO — the app’s official Twitter account has tweeted distorted visuals of new characters, stating they’re restored images after a recent hacking attempt by Team Rocket. Professor Willow has started to recover files from the corrupted folder, and he’s…
Link’s Awakening has already seen great commercial success, and more positive numbers just keep coming in. Dengeki reported that in Japan, Link’s Awakening has sold about 140,000 copies, which is 60% of the game’s initial shipment. Historically, Zelda games aren’t as popular in Japan compared to other territories, so it’s…
Next year fighting game fans will have a new game to add to their collections with Under Night In-Birth’s latest update, arriving on Switch and PlayStation 4. Aksys Games has announced that they’ll be offering up a collector’s edition for the game, currently available via their online shop. The collector’s…
