Niantic is bringing back the Sustainability Week event for Pokémon GO this year. For 2024, the event is focused more on hatching Pokémon from event 2 km Eggs. Luckily these Eggs will have a shiny hatching boost. Other than that, there aren’t any themed Wild Encounters or Raids. (For more…
Mother fans in Japan are in for a treat! Following the announcement of Mother 3’s arrival on Nintendo Switch Online in Japan (sigh), the Mother Project has unveiled an exciting lineup of all-new Mother 3 plushies to commemorate the occasion. According to the Mother Project webpage, the plushies…
The Splatoon 3 Spring Fest 2024 is set to go live tonight and to get fans excited, Nintendo has uploaded an amazingly cuddly-looking piece of promo art. A three-way Splatfest between Baby Chicks, Li’l Bunnies, and Bear Cubs, I’m not sure it even matters who wins at this point. This…
Inkopolis Square is still the busy hub of activity in Splatoon 2 and it’s definitely preparing for the next big update to the game, right along with the Octo Expansion. While North America and the UK will have to wait until next month for another Splatfest, that doesn’t mean there’s…
We’re back at courtside with the next pair of character styles for Mario Tennis Aces. Last time we learned about All-Around and Technical types, aka the likes of Mario and Peach. It’s time for a different batch of Mushroom Kingdom mainstays to grab their racquets and show us what they…
Ever since Billy Mitchell’s records for Donkey Kong were questioned and then subsequently removed, fans have wondered about Steve Wiebe’s thoughts on the saga. The protagonist in “King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” — who has been referred to as the “David to Billy Mitchell’s Goliath” — has finally commented…
Hero TJ and Dark TJ prepare for one last epic battle to settle it all before Smash Bros. releases for the Nintendo Switch. Heroes will be corrupted, villains will be redeemed. Which side will you choose?
Last spring, a free-to-play Kirby game on 3DS managed to absorb way more of my time than it should have — and here we are celebrating a whole year of Team Kirby Clash Deluxe. The RPG-inspired subgame from Planet Robobot became a mobile game-esque title, putting a quartet of Kirbys…
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 Switch might be sweeping you up off your feet with all its shiny, new indie games — but that doesn’t mean the 3DS isn’t still around to peak your interest every now and then. Up for grabs right now are three free new designs you can decorate your 3DS…
Earlier this week, game developer Flyhigh Works gave fans insight on Kamiko’s success on Nintendo Switch and briefly hinted at its popular Fairune series heading to the hybrid system in the near future — and now it looks like we have a few more details about the latter of the…
For a few months now we’ve known Sega Fes 2018 was coming, but outside of updates on the likes of Valkyria Chronicles 4 we weren’t expecting much in the way of significant news, at least on an international scale. A fresh tweet from Sega of America and Europe, however, has…
Out of the blue, Sega has not only announced but also released Football Manager Touch 2018 on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The football (a.k.a. soccer) management sim has been hugely popular for decades now, and the Touch version of the 2018 installment isn’t too far off from its PC counterpart….
Among the Sonic Mania Plus and Sonic Racing announcements during last month’s SXSW Sonic stream, a new pair of Sonic the Hedgehog-themed shoes was announced, in collaboration with Puma. At the time they were all obscured by pixels, but now they we have a good look at them thanks to…
Bandai Namco will soon be expanding its impressive repertoire of licensed anime games with its first major console title based on the popular My Hero Academia franchise, subtitled One’s Justice. While we’ve known about the game for a while now, and the fact it’ll be heading to Switch, we’ve only…
