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…
Another day, another interview. The press tour for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu is still going strong. Fielding questions from entertainment news outlets and film aficionados, the Pokémon Company is starting to publish their pieces with Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, and Ryan Reynolds. Interviewing Justice and Kathryn together, the pair were asked…
Mortal Kombat 11 is like a perfect distillation of the modern AAA game industry. It’s a tug of war between game designers, artists, producers, and distributors. While the gameplay is the best it’s ever been, almost everything that happens when there isn’t a health bar on screen feels like it…
This year has two major video game movies coming out – Detective Pikachu, which seems to have won a lot of people over, lands in under two weeks, while Sonic the Hedgehog’s live action hybrid has been baffling fans with leaks for months now. It looks like the wait is…
There’s been a bit of concern and consternation over some of Splatoon 2’s latest gear. While the game has drowned fans in free updates and equipment in the past, this latest batch (born via a fan contest with Japanese magazine and Pokémon infomine CoroCoro) has some squid kids in a…
For anybody looking to spruce up their phone, tablet, or desktop with some rectangular goodness, My Nintendo is here to provide you with some hip new BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! wallpapers. Each one costs the typical 50 Platinum Points. Of course, if those aren’t your speed, there are other My Nintendo…
Even though Super Mario Maker 2 is right around the corner, we’ve yet to really get a good look at its full suite of options. Thankfully, a new ad spotted in Japan features several never-before-seen screenshots. Let’s take a look, courtesy of higashi042 on Resetera: Right click and open in…
Giga Wrecker, Game Freak’s latest video game experiment outside of the world of Pokémon, will finally hit Switch later this week, and it’s gotten a new launch trailer to mark the occasion. Check out the adventures of the new heroine Reika below: Giga Wrecker Alt. launches May 2nd…
The latest Pokémon Center goods collaboration is here, and this time it’s a visually striking array of products courtesy of manga illustrator Yusuke Murata. Murata is best known for his work on Eyeshield 21 and, more recently, the popular hit One-Punch Man. That background is in full force here, with…
Every day’s worth celebrating in Dream Land, but April 27th might be the most important of them all. It was on this day 27 years ago that Kirby first came into the world, debuting on the Game Boy and bringing his unique brand of platforming through a game that anyone…
While the cast of Persona Q was already massive, its follow-up is going all-out by not only including the casts of Persona 3 and 4 but also the full batch of Phantom Thieves from 5 and even Persona 3 Portable’s female main character. The latest trailer for the localization focuses…
Welcome back to the Wire Weekly, where I, Ben “remember Miitomo?” Fruzzetti, run through the week’s assortment of Nintendo news with what could charitably be referred to as wit, sarcasm, and personality. It’s the most wonderful time of the (financial) year — when a bunch of corporate suits in Kyoto…
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…
