After years of speculation and anticipation, publisher Forever Entertainment has finally announced that its House of the Dead 2 remake will finally be seeing the light of day this year. Revealed alongside a new trailer, the aptly titled “The House of the Dead 2: Remake” will be hitting Switch and…
The Switch 2 has had a heck of a media week, especially in Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Showcase (Abbreviated as CES) played host to a number of tech giants, including accessory developer Genki who brought mockups of the yet-to-be-revealed Nintendo Switch followup console. Genki in specific claimed this was…
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of leaks and speculation, with alleged images, specs, and rumors about the Nintendo Switch 2 dominating the gaming news cycle. Until Nintendo officially announces something about the much-anticipated console, this flurry of speculation is likely to continue. With that said, let’s continue…
Today, in news of the amusingly bizarre – a man has been arrested in Tokushima, Japan for the possession of ecstasy pills in the shape of everybody’s favorite greedy money guzzler, Wario. Huh. According to Kobe Customs, the design is actually growing in popularity, even popping up on the MDMA…
Later this year FuRyu will be bringing its 3DS JRPG The Alliance Alive to current gen systems, including the Nintendo Switch, with a new coat of paint. After announcing a Japanese release date of October 10 a few days ago, a new batch of screenshots and an audio-less video have…
For the first time since 2007, the Disaster Report series is heading west, as NIS America has announced it’ll be localizing the recently announced Switch port of Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories to North America in early 2020. Watch the announcement trailer below:
The Nintendo Switch eShop has updated with some details regarding Capcom’s upcoming standalone port of the original Devil May Cry, and it turns out the game will be landing very soon! The game is listed with a release date of June 24 in North America, June 25 in Europe and…
Summer’s about to officially kick off with the solstice on Friday, and you know what that means – time for your favorite gacha titles to shill out their hottest properties in swimsuits! The next sizzling banner from Fire Emblem Heroes contains OCs from the game’s Book II, largely hailing from…
It would be difficult to find a video game today that’s devoid of animals. Virtual constructions of domesticated pets, farm animals, anthropomorphic characters, imaginary creatures that borrow design elements real life animals — they’re everywhere. One of 2020’s most anticipated games features a menagerie of animals as neighbors, business owners,…
We all loved the Smash Bros. art from God of War’s art director earlier this year, and now there’s another fun Nintendo art mashup to admire! Adi Shankar, responsible for the Castlevania series on Netflix, created his unique take on Pokémon, releasing a video on YouTube today titled, “The End…
Luigi’s Mansion 3’s developers are back again in another interview to discuss the upcoming Nintendo Switch game, this time with Eurogamer.net. In their talk with Eurogamer’s Tom Phillips, game director Yoshihito Ikebata and developer Kensuke Tanabe discussed cut features, the possibly of Nintendo Labo support, how online play will function,…
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…
When we weren’t joyously absorbing everything Nintendo at this year’s E3, we were busy celebrating a few other key announcements. Among those was the fact that Final Fantasy VIII, the curiously missing entry in the series as far as eShop offerings go, was finally due for a remaster treatment. Thought…
For almost two years now Nintendo has been embroiled in a legal battle with MARI Mobility Development Co., Ltd., formerly known as MariCAR, for the latter’s service of offering customers the opportunity to drive around Japanese streets in go-karts while dressed as various Mario characters. Nintendo’s reasoning for the suit…
The battle royale we never knew we needed in our lives is hitting a new milestone. Tetris 99’s humble beginnings as a digital-only free-to-play title (with a Nintendo Switch Online membership), to a base online game with an offline-DLC pack, is now getting a physical version. Currently, this version is…
