Anyone who has been keeping up with Nintendo news over the past year or so can attest that the lead-up to the Nintendo Switch 2 has been a wild ride. For the longest time fans were eagerly looking for any news or rumors related to the system, and any insider…
One of the most striking things about the design of the Switch 2 is how basic everything is. Gone are the days of New 3DS Faceplates or fun colors, and in is Nintendo’s era of functionality over personality… or so we thought. If a recent listing by AliExpress is anything…
Raid Hour (also referred to as Legendary Raid Hour) started as an experiment in March 2019. Initially called Legendary Lunch Hour, Niantic set aside an hour on Wednesdays for Pokémon GO Trainers to find 5-Star (Legendary) Raids easier by increasing the appearance rates. After further testing, Raid Hour was renamed…
If you are planning on going digital-only with your Nintendo Switch games you’re in luck, as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the next major first party release, won’t be taking up too much storage space. According to the image posted alongside the game’s Amazon Germany listing, it’ll require 6.75GB of room….
Welcome to the Daily Wiretap: Weekend Edition! 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,…
For any of you completionists out there, or anyone who’s just a really big fan of The Binding of Isaac, developer Nicalis has got something on the way. According to a tweet that went out from the company’s official Twitter account today, The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ is getting a…
For you Overwatch fans who are desperate for the ability to play the game on the go (me included), Blizzard has some… lukewarm news for you. Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has recently been cited as saying that Blizzard is open to the idea of a Switch port, however, he’s not…
Snake Pass, the first game to run on Unreal Engine 4 for the Switch, was apparently surprisingly easy to get running on the handheld platform. GamerPros recently sat down with the creator of Snake Pass, Seb Liese, for an in depth interview about the game. During the interview, Liese mentioned…
Earlier in the week, the Japanese publisher Nikkei published a lengthy interview with the CEO of Square Enix, Yosuke Matsuda. In the interview, the Switch was discussed, and Matsuda had quite a bit to say on his opinion about the console. Matsuda goes on to say: “Our developers with a…
The North American Mario Kart 8 Deluxe website is now open and includes images and trailers of the upcoming title. Keep in mind, this is only a teaser site and a full version is said to be coming soon. While the site is rather bare bones at the moment,…
For those of you who are finally burnt out on Breath of the Wild are looking for something easy and fun to kick back with, we’ve got some good news for you. Nintendo has just announced that Jackbox Party Pack 3 is coming to the Switch on April 13th! If…
If you asked me what the least likely game we’d be seeing released just a short three months ago, I would have told you: “A brand new SNES game.” Yet, here we are, and Unholy Night: The Darkness Hunter, a new SNES fighting game from some ex-SNK staffers just went…
Niantic has to be feeling pretty good after all the praise Pokémon GO has received since it launched last summer. Another of these was added to the list, as it took home the British Academy of Film, Television and Arts Game Award for “Best Mobile and Handheld Game”. In a…
Alongside the announcement of Marshadow yesterday, a new trailer for the 20th Pokémon movie has been released. The trailer opens with Ash marveling at Ho-Oh, followed by a few scenes from the early days of Ash’s journey with Pikachu. It also introduces new companions for Ash, as well as a…
Thanks to hacking and data mining, we’ve known about the mythical Pokémon Marshadow — a cute, fluffy Fighting-Ghost-type — since sometime around the release of Sun & Moon. Now the powers that be have seen it fit to officially cast off the veil that had already been torn away months…
