Been itching to spend your hoard of Gold and Platinum My Nintendo points? Well, if you’re a Pikmin fan you’re in luck. Three new rewards have been added – the animated shorts directed by Shigeru Miyamoto for 3DS or Wii U and a Hey! Pikmin wallpaper. The two animated short…
In the run up to the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s first DLC pack, several of the game’s developers have been providing insight into the classic games and characters that are inspiring some of the new costumes on offer. This time around it’s Tingles turn, with a perspective…
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…
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…
Nintendo Wire and Amiibo News hold giveaways through social media on a regular basis. We’ve compiled a list of all the current giveaways to help keep everything organized for you. The list will be updated on a regular basis, so stop back here and check out all the fun Nintendo…
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…
The music within games has phenomenal power to move players. Carrying the action and accentuating your movements and memories, melodic pieces hold an undeniable role in making the experience something more. Bringing this to life takes many forms, but when paired to a full orchestra they take on a whole…
If you’ve been punching your way through ARMS like I have, you might be curious about the previously announced updates that are due to make their way to the game. The latest version of the game’s been detailed and comes along with two of those promised features. The first of…
