Natsume announces River City: Rival Showdown localization

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, 3DS

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement that River City: Knights of Justice would be getting localized, Natsume has revealed that another game in the franchise is heading west. This time it’s something a bit more familiar – River City: Rival Showdown. Called Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari SP in Japan, the…

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Pokémon.com interviews designer POLYGRAPH

Categories: News, Merchandise

The Pokémon151 Collection finally came to the North American Pokémon Center within the last few months. The t-shirt series was first launched in 2008, but only for Japan. The line’s designer, Polygraph, was interviewed about its process and how certain Pokémon were picked. Contacted in 2007, Polygraph was given the…

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Nintendo Wiretap (5/29/17)

Categories: News, 3DS, Switch

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…

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Rumor: Pokkén Tournament Switchbound?

Categories: News, Switch

Serebii reported in its daily news roundup a very interesting possibility. From the site: “Earlier today, the Japanese retailer Sinobi listed a new arcade stick for the Nintendo Switch in their listings. In this listing, it mentioned that the stick can be used in fighting games such as Pokkén. They…

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Splatoon 2 shows off another new enemy: the Octoreverser

Categories: News, Switch

The Octarians have certainly improved their defenses and offenses during the last two years. (By the way, Splatoon, “Happy Squidversary!” — as you just turned two over the weekend.) Today, Japan’s Splatoon Twitter account is introducing the Octoreverser. This baddie spits out “Rolling Gallium” — a bundle of metal tubes/rods…

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River City: Knights of Justice announced for western 3DS release

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, 3DS

Recently, video game publisher Natsume has been working through the localization of games in the Kunio-Kun/River City franchise. Following last year’s River City: Tokyo Rumble, the company is set to tackle something a bit more fantastical for the Nintendo 3DS in the near future. River City: Knights of Justice, released…

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