Of all of the games to come out within the past decade, it’s undeniable that Hollow Knight was one of the most impactful even among bigger studio releases. Originally released in early 2017, Hollow Knight took the world by storm, and following that success, a sequel game called Hollow Knight:…
Welcome to the start of our Nintendo Wire Home Arcade series. To celebrate my 40th birthday and the 10 year anniversary of Nintendo Wire, I’m making a childhood dream come true: building the ultimate home arcade. Preparing the Space Fast forward to today, and I’ve set aside…
In a bit of news that probably isn’t too surprising for most people, Take-Two has decided it will be delaying Grand Theft Auto VI into 2026. The new release date for the game will be May 26th, 2026, after previously being scheduled for Fall 2025. In a statement to various…
Back in 2010, Marvelous Interactive released Harvest Moon DS: The Tale of Two Towns in Japan. A year later it was ported to the 3DS in North America, Europe and Australia, but that version of the farming sim oddly never made its way back to Japan. However, that’ll soon be…
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…
It’s time to get extra excited for the Halloween season! October’s bringing us a whole lot of spooky Pokéfun. TRICK-OR-TREAT GO! It’s not a total surprise, but we have confirmation that Pokémon GO will have a Halloween themed event later this month. No word if it will be a carbon…
By far the most substantial expansion to the remade Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga package is the “+ Bowser’s Minions” addition. Offering a whole new quest mode called Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser, the game shows how Bowser’s underlings ventured out to save their leader from the clutches of…
It’s a ‘choose your own wallpaper’ kind of day today: Super Mario Odyssey, My Nintendo Rewards and now Fire Emblem Heroes! Continuing the promise made after the Choose Your Legends voting event, we now have wallpapers for the male and female heroes that placed 8th overall in the poll. Robin,…
In celebration of Friday’s release of the SNES Classic and with October here — counting down to Mario Odyssey, with 25 days to go — we have some new rewards available over at My Nintendo! WALLPAPERS The standard 50 Platinum Point price is still here for the three new wallpapers….
It’s been a few months, but now that we’re a tad closer to Christmas, this news may be more exciting. Hallmark’s second part to its 2017 Keepsake Ornaments collection is on its way. Back in July, Mario was the first of three Nintendo ornaments debuting this year. And now you’ll…
It looks like you’ll be able to start your harvest before the end of 2017 after all. After Chucklefish’s CEO, Tiy, tweeted out that we’ll be getting some Stardew Valley news sometime today, the tease was almost immediately followed with an update on the official site and a followup tweet…
Video game golf has arguably been perfected ever since the days of the NES, with a generally accepted standard of three button presses: one to start your swing, another to lock in your power and a third to hit the ball square on. As a result, golf games have had…
In the lead up to the launch of Super Mario Odyssey we’ve seen a few mobile calendar wallpapers from the game’s Japanese Twitter account, with one for Bubblaine in August and another for Fossil Falls in September. Now October is here we’ve got another, this time focusing on one of…
Thanks to r/Splatoon, we now know Japan’s Splatfest. Leave the toilet paper behind, as this month’s ink smackdown is all about your battle style rather than… personal preferences with hanging toilet paper. From October 8th at 3:00 p.m. JT to October 9th at 3:00 p.m. JT, squids and kids alike…
Back in the golden age of gaming, before hand-holding tutorials, online wikis and internet forums reigned supreme, beating games was hard work. Players were largely at the mercy of their own wits when it came to exploring the labyrinths of Zebes or unearthing each legendary piece of the Triforce. It…
