It’s still surreal to know that a live-action Legend of Zelda movie is being produced by Sony Pictures. With Nintendo and Sony being strong rivals in the console space, it’s almost as if we’re living in a bizarro world where cats and dogs live in absolute harmony. However strange the…
Have you ever wanted to sit on a giant beanbag Pokémon? No? Well, you might change your mind with these new additions to The Pokémon Center’s online store. Three new very large beanbag chairs are now available for pre-order and they include designs based on Jigglypuff, Gengar, and Lechonk. Lechonk,…
Starting in January 2018, Community Day is a monthly event in Pokémon GO that shines the spotlight on a particular Pokémon. For one day each month, a Pokémon selected by Niantic will have its spawn rate increased during a block of hours. Also, the Shiny appearance rate for the starring…
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…
A new interview between Splatoon 2 developers and video game news source Glixel has unveiled another mode headed to the game when it launches next month: “League Battle.” The mode pits groups of players together in two-hour long play sessions to duke it out to see which group can earn…
Get ready, Kirby fans, because the next expanded sub-game from our favorite pink puff is coming soon. Kirby’s Blowout Blast, announced earlier this year, looks to be a blown up version of the Kirby 3D Rumble game from Planet Robobot. You can start gearing up for 3D environments and puzzling…
The Friday prior to E3 I found myself undergoing the daily life of a Southern California resident: traveling through various freeways that, once said aloud, sounds like I’m making a fast food order for a party of ten. The CD selection of the morning consisted of me switching between Nintendo…
Indigo era fans, prepare your wallets! It’s been fun watching the first season of the Pokémon anime on various streaming platforms, but if you’ve been waiting to view it in HD then the Pokémon Company has your back, adding the first season to Google Play, iTunes or Amazon where you…
There are plenty of interesting behind-the-scenes stories from Nintendo but few are quite as legendary as the what-could-have-been saga surrounding Star Fox 2. Essentially completed back in the mid ’90s, the follow-up was shelved after the Sega Saturn and PlayStation were unveiled, making the SNES’ 3D solution look somewhat antiquated…
From Shovel Knight and Wonder Boy to the Blue Blur’s triumphant return to blast processing, Nintendo’s new portable console is quickly becoming the go-to place for gaming’s most hallowed mascots and fans of old school platforming. Not to be left in the dust, the pharaoh of this retro renaissance, WayForward,…
Writer Jeff Grubb from VentureBeat played Rocket League for Nintendo Switch behind the scenes at E3. He was also able to pick Psyonix’s Jeremy Dunham’s brain about the transition to the system. Rocket League was initially built on Unreal Engine 3. From the outside, making the jump to Unreal Engine…
Ever Oasis was released this past Friday for the 3DS and if you find yourself smitten with the game then you’ll want to see what Play Nintendo has! Similar to amiibo dioramas, a free papercraft activity of building your own oasis with various characters from the game is available. All…
Looking to get your paws on the Super Nintendo Classic Edition (also known as the SNES Mini)? Pre-orders aren’t officially available as of yet (in the US at least), but you can check out all the placeholders that have gone up so far in our list below. Make sure to…
The notes for Minecraft’s latest update on the Switch and the Wii U have been made available over at the Minecraft Forum today. A bunch of changes will be made to the game with this patch, all of which are listed below. And if you’ve been experiencing any problems while…
In a new Zelda blog post detailing some of the content in the first DLC pack for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, art director Satoru Takizawa highlighted some facts about the wearable Midna helmet, as well as some background information on Midna’s creation. Takizawa says that the…
