Happy New Year, Nintendo fans! To celebrate 2025, the amazing team at LEGO has launched an exciting collection of Nintendo-themed LEGO sets, and they’re available now! From Animal Crossing and Mario Kart to the iconic Great Deku Tree, these sets are ready to bring your favorite games to life. Check…
Never put it past dedicated modding communities to make older consoles run on a wide range of hardware. Once we started to get into 3D consoles, the desire to play older games on newer hardware increased and it was up to fan communities to make that wish a reality. While…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
Earlier this year two very similar games released on competing platforms. For Nintendo’s Switch and Wii U arrived the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the latest entry in a long-running franchise that takes place in a wide-open world overtaken by nature. Meanwhile, Sony’s PlayStation 4 was treated to…
Over the past few weeks, there have been rumblings of something called the “Switch tax.” Games like Puyo Puyo Tetris and Rime are $10 more expensive than their PS4 and Xbox One counterparts. The cost of production was cited as a possible reason for this hike, but many Nintendo fans…
Everyone knows that an up and coming Inkling needs to look as fresh as possible at all times. Luckily, the clothing options in Inkopolis have just grown today as a new line called Tatakicensaki has just been revealed. The official Splatoon 2 Twitter account in Japan just uploaded our first…
Warning! If you don’t want to be spoiled about Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, turn back now… for not even going back in time will save you here. In their latest video, GameXplain showcases Duma’s Ordeals, the amiibo dungeon that unlocks once you scan Alm’s amiibo into your game….
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…
Qbby’s amiibo transformations from Bye-Bye BoxBoy! have an official paper craft download on Play Nintendo! Kirby, King Dedede, Waddle Dee and Meta Knight can now be assembled and stacked on your shelves (next to a Qbby amiibo if you have him). Don’t have a Qbby amiibo, yet you’re a fan…
Ready some trash talk and pump up your Reeboks: Saber Interactive’s retro-inspired b-baller NBA Playgrounds dribbles onto the Nintendo Switch today! Celebrate this bobbleheaded homage to arcade classics NBA Jam and NBA Street with a brand new launch trailer below: Planning on a pick-up game of high-flying 2-on-2…
Nintendo’s Treehouse blog has released another post on Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Titled “Schooled by Old-School Combat,” it details many of features and differences that make Echoes stand apart from other entries in the series. That said, the writer is an admitted newer FE fan, one of the…
Brian Shea recently interviewed Writer and Comms Director Andy Robinson from Playtonic Games about Yooka-Laylee’s post-launch. The game’s release brought along an array of review scores. Our sister site, PlayStation Wire, gave it an 8.7, whereas Polygon issued it a 5.5 and IGN deemed it worthy of a 7. Andy…
In a recent interview with Japanese magazine Nikkei Trendy, Zelda Producer and Manager Eiji Aonuma explained how the concept of open air came to be in Breath of the Wild and why its integration into the series was important for future titles. After moving the series from 2D to 3D…
With Spring 2017 in full swing, it’s no secret that Kirby’s 25th birthday is being celebrated just about everywhere in the world this season. We’ve seen a number of events take place recently; from plenty of new, celebratory Kirby products hitting stores around Japan to the Kirby Orchestra concert opening…
Late last week, a year-long project reached a fantastic milestone: Ben Heck brought the Super CD to life. After tinkering on and off with it over the last year, Ben and his team used a full month to push forward to get the system working. In his latest video, Ben…
