As the weather continues to warm up as spring arrives in full, there are plenty of people looking to enjoy their time in the sun. For the Pokémon fans out there, there’s no better way to do so than by enjoying the Alola region’s tropical weather and colorful scenery. If…
It feels like eons since a Madden game has last graced a Nintendo console, but EA is finally going to change that this year. Recently announced as part of the slate of titles heading to the Switch 2 this year, Madden 26 will be available on Nintendo’s latest console alongside…
With Switch 2 pre-orders finally live for the US and Canada, you now have the chance to fork over money to Nintendo for the chance to play the next generation of Switch hardware. Fun! If you want to utilize the full feature set of the Nintendo Switch 2, you’ll need…
During the last Smash Direct, Director Masahiro Sakurai made note of just how much Castlevania music was coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It’s an unprecedented amount for a third party series, but it’s absolutely deserved. This week via Smash Blog we get to hear another of these renditions, and…
The latest Pokémon movie is a month away from its English language debut. And it’s starring not just Ash, but a whole group of new characters who each have their own, unique relationships with Pokémon that’ll be shown over the course of the movie. See what draws them all together…
It’s not a secret that I am the world’s biggest Luigi’s Mansion fan: I’ve been playing the game every October since it launched in 2001, and I still manage to write about the game several times a year right here on Nintendo Wire. Back in March, my not-so-secret hopes were…
Animal Crossing, the lovely life sim that Nintendo fans adore, has been around in Japan longer than the US thanks to debuting not on the GameCube, but the N64. Doubutsu no Mori, or Animal Forest (as it’s known over there) was present at Spaceworld 2000 — a full two years…
One of the Switch’s best games is almost a year old, and to mark the occasion Nintendo’s rolling out multiple events based on Super Mario Odyssey. According to a Japanese page for the game, Mario’s big vacation of an adventure will be adding pixel Luigi and Captain Toad to the…
Adding to the list of great games making their way to Switch, Cellar Door Games has announced two more for fans to be tempted by. Joining the eShop on November 6th, both Rogue Legacy and Full Metal Furies will bring their pixels to a Nintendo system for the first time….
When Sega announced its Sega Ages program, which is slowly but surely bringing classic games from their back catalog to the Switch, it was hinted that Sega Dreamcast games would eventually be part of the line-up. Personally, I wasn’t too confident in it coming to fruition, but it turns out…
In our current days of datamines and news leaks, I really do miss one of my favorite sources of ambiguous gaming information: players’ guides. While guides were usually reliable as far as finishing a game went, they’d sometimes contain misinformation or facts that just weren’t in the final game. It…
Jack is back! And this time he needs your help catching fish in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp’s Halloween themed fishing tournament titled “Candied Catches.” You’re tasked with catching a bunch of fish at Lost Lure Creek and handing them over to the pumpkin-headed host of the event so he can…
If you’re into rogue-likes then you already have quite a few options on the Nintendo Switch eShop, but one major modern indie that’s missing is notable for its absence. Thankfully, that’ll soon be changing, as Rogue Legacy will be heading to the system on November 6th, according to a digital…
Get ready to dunk some disks as the classic NeoGeo sports game Windjammers has arrived on Switch! While the game is already oozing with plenty of early ’90s charm, the new publishers over at DotEmu have put out an aggressively retro trailer to mark the launch. Check it out: …
Over the past few weeks Level 5 has been hyping up the return of a cancelled game, with many speculating as to what it could be. Surprisingly, according to the latest issue of Famitsu, it’s the rather grim PSP horror RPG Ushiro. Given that the game is set in a…
