Anyone who has been keeping up with Nintendo news over the past year or so can attest that the lead-up to the Nintendo Switch 2 has been a wild ride. For the longest time fans were eagerly looking for any news or rumors related to the system, and any insider…
One of the most striking things about the design of the Switch 2 is how basic everything is. Gone are the days of New 3DS Faceplates or fun colors, and in is Nintendo’s era of functionality over personality… or so we thought. If a recent listing by AliExpress is anything…
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…
Nintendo’s never been shy about revisiting its library, though usually this applies to the home console front. With the exception of Pokémon, handheld heroes are sometimes out of luck when it comes to seeing their favorites return. Thankfully, there are exceptions, and just in time for the Switch Lite launch…
Welcome to Timeline, Nintendo Wire’s latest series, exploring the history of Nintendo’s most famous characters! Come with us as we take look at everyone’s favorite silent protagonist, Link.
With today’s release of Dragon Quest XI S on Nintendo Switch, the team behind the game feels they finally fulfilled their promise to the late, great Satoru Iwata. In the most recent livestream for Dragon Quest XI S, as translated by NintendoSoup, the developers said that Iwata told them that…
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…
The most recent update to Pokémon GO may have revealed a little more than it cared to. Dataminers who looked into the latest details were able to discover references to Galar and Galarian Formes for the mobile game. Much like Alolan Formes before them, this could mean that we’ll see…
Today’s the day when Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition finally arrives on Switch, bringing a lengthy RPG from a legendary series to Nintendo fans and those who just gotta play on the go. You’ll meet plenty of people across Erdrea, but none will…
It’s time to strum those guitar strings to the beat of the Pokémon theme song, as a whole bunch of musical themed goods are making their way to Japan Pokémon Center stores in a couple of weeks. That’s right: Pikachu, Zeraora, and other familiar ‘mon are hitting the stage in…
In just over a month, we’ll be back to rolling with Aiai and the rest of Super Monkey Ball’s cast, and it looks like they’re bringing one more friend along. According to the game’s XBox achievement list, specifically the Way Past Cool achievement, Sonic the Hedgehog could be rolling his…
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. …
Shantae and the Seven Sirens is here! At least… on Apple’s new streaming games platform, Apple Arcade, in an episodic format. However, the game’s still headed to Nintendo Switch systems later this year, and we’ve managed to capture at least 45 minutes of footage from the Apple Arcade version of the game…
When Dragalia Lost was announced, I, like many other Nintendo fans, was skeptical that it would see any modicum of success. It was a brand new IP under Nintendo’s umbrella, and in the mobile market. Say what you will about Nintendo’s other mobile games up to that point, but at…
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…
