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…
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…
Good news, Snake Pass fans! Sumo Digital has released a new video celebrating the game’s sale, which is currently underway on the Switch eShop, offering a cool 40% discount until July 4th. The trailer does a bit more than announce a sale! The last several seconds of the video show…
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…
Kotaku recently sat down with Masahiro Higuchi from Intelligent Systems and Yosuke Hayashi from Koei Tecmo to talk about the upcoming Fire Emblem Warriors. While the chat was relatively short and bereft of anything shocking, it did reveal a couple new bits of info. Hayashi reaffirmed that the game would…
We knew it was coming: Nintendo of Japan has revealed its own take on the SNES Classic Edition. The Nintendo Classic Mini Super Famicom takes on a different visual design to the US version, with a more rounded shape and four colored buttons instead of the purple and gray for…
When the SNES Classic was announced just this morning, the question on everybody’s lips (besides “Where’s Chrono Trigger?”) was whether they’d be able to get a hold of the blasted thing. The NES Classic was notoriously underproduced and hard to find, but it appears Nintendo is taking steps to make…
Nintendo has revealed that the SNES Classic Edition will be hitting stores on September 29th, and it’s coming with 21 SNES games for the suggested retail price of $79.99. 20 of those games are classic titles released on the SNES back in its heyday, with the likes of A Link…
This August, Japanese Nintendo Switch owners will get their hands on Monster Hunter XX. A port of the 3DS game that released in Japan back on March 18th, which is itself an enhanced version of Generations, it promises to upgrade visuals but have much of the same content. Now, thanks…
