With how popular Shantae has become over the years, it’s surprising to learn that one of the games in the series was actually cancelled over 20 years ago. Despite that, Wayforward didn’t give up and would revive the project many years later to create a long-lost interquel for the series….
While home consoles are a widespread and ubiquitous part of the greater video game industry now, it hasn’t always been that way. Video game consoles have their origins from arcade machines, and the transition they made to end up in people’s living rooms was thanks in large part to systems…
As part of today’s financial report for Nintendo, company president Shuntaro Furukawa noted that Nintendo will be considering a price adjustment to the Switch 2 depending on how the situation of President Trump’s tariffs evolves in the coming months. With nobody sure of what the impact will be when Trump’s…
After a week of voting and a bit of waiting, the results of Fire Emblem Heroes’ Find & Vote campaign are in. Half of the winners are about exactly what I expected, while the other half feels a bit like a surprise. Have a look and see how your own…
A couple of days ago we brought you the news that the third wave of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate amiibo, consisting of Young Link, Ken, and Daisy, would be arriving in North America on April 12th, 2019. Now, the same date has been confirmed for Europe. More Super #SmashBros…
A super surprise from last year’s The Game Awards, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 was shown off in yesterday’s Nintendo Direct. Hot of the heels of Super Mario Maker 2’s reveal, we were treated to a few more details about this Switch exclusive. Characters absent from December’s trailer made brief appearances…
The course of love ne’er runs smooth, but the one thing perhaps more tumultuous is the history of a 130 year old Japanese company. Nintendo has been a beloved manufacturer of video games for around four decades now, true, but there’s a whole 90 years of history from before they…
Happy Valentine’s Day! … Or Single’s Awareness Day… Or go for the weird and celebrate National Ferris Wheel Day. Yes, it’s real. A certain town in Unova is probably having a field day with the crossover. No matter how you feel about Valentine’s Day, it’s always lovely to see our…
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is coming to the Nintendo Switch with a fresh look. We compare the Game Boy classic and the updated version, and we see just how true to the source material it will be! Support us on Patreon.
Gaming goes through many different phases. I’d say that we can generally widdle down each of these phases into the confines of one year. For example, 2018 was the year of the single-player, 2017 was the year of the lootbox, etc. One year, however, flies under the radar as one…
Here at Nintendo Wire, we always are pondering about amiibo support and functionality in upcoming Nintendo games. I even mentioned the idea when I covered what new tidbits we saw for Yoshi’s Crafted World in yesterday’s Nintendo Direct. Perhaps the amiibo overlords heard me and decided to give us a…
The Direct is over and done but one last surprise was waiting to make itself known. Team Cherry has announced and revealed not a DLC expansion for their debut game, but a fully fledged sequel starring Hornet instead. See for yourself in the first look at Hollow Knight: Silksong Everything…
Not only has Nintendo shown off loads of brand new amiibo today, but we also got release dates for some upcoming amiibo! According to the Nintendo of America Twitter account, Daisy, Young Link, and Ken are releasing on April 12th in North America. There are even more Super Smash…
A typical game of hide-and-seek has somehow transformed into a horror thriller thanks to Behaviour Interactive. Welcome to Dead By Daylight, an online multiplayer game where you are the hunter or become the hunted. Previously available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, today’s Nintendo Direct showed that it’s sneaking…
It was a dense, packed Nintendo Direct today, but one of the most richly detailed portions was on Fire Emblem: Three Houses. After previously only getting glimpses of the game at E3 last year, we have a lot of info to unpack on the 16th entry in the stories franchise,…
