What better time than a Thursday evening to get some surprise Nintendo news? Nintendo has just shadow-dropped the Game Boy’s Donkey Kong Land on the Nintendo Switch Online service. Grab a vine and join the thrills in the Land of Kong. Donkey Kong Land is now available to play…
The games that started it all are finally making their way to Nintendo Switch. RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, a port of RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and 2, will be released on December 5th, courtesy of Atari. Tycoon Classic combines elements of both games, allowing players to build to their heart’s content. The…
Well folks, the time is here! Black Friday has arrived… on Thursday, naturally. Down below you’ll find Nintendo Wire’s list of fantastic deals on a variety of items all related to gaming in one way or another, ones that we’ve specially handpicked just for you this holiday season! Make sure…
We’re all excited for the Nintendo Direct today, but some of us are perhaps a little less normal about it than others. Case in point – someone (presumably a student) sent a professor at California State University an email asking them to cancel class because of a “once-in-a-lifetime event” and…
Cooking has never been so cute! Kirby and Waddle Dee are firing up the grill and doing some cozy dining in this new set of mini dioramas from manufacturer Re-ment. ★画像初公開★【星のカービィ はらぺこカービィキッチン】カービィやワドルディと一緒にクッキング♪5月29日発売予定。全8種。#カービィ #キッチン pic.twitter.com/3j8KYKj3bE — 株式会社リーメント公式 (@rement_official) February 8, 2023 There are eight different mini sets full of different…
Recently, the price of so-called “AAA” games for the latest generation of consoles (the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X) received a general across the board price bump of $10. Nintendo, meanwhile, has continued its $59.99 price point for first party Switch titles as promised, even offering raises to its…
With Tales of Symphonia Remastered releasing in just a week’s time, Bandai Namco has fully its anime adaptation of the Sylvarant arc for free via YouTube. The anime was originally released in 2007 as four OVAs and we previously showcased episodes 1, 2, and 3. You can watch the fourth…
Get excited as Nintendo is back with another full-length Nintendo Direct! The 40-minute show will be livestreamed at 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET today, February 8th, 2023 and it’s set to focus on games releasing in the first half of 2023. You can catch it live below! We’ll…
It’s that time again, folks – Nintendo is here to bring out the big guns. F Zero is coming back from the grave! We’re seeing another Kid Icarus! Mother 3 is finally! Getting! Localized! All of your dreams are coming through, no matter how implausible they may be! And if…
Nintendo announced today, alongside their quarterly finance report, that they would be hiking their staff’s base pay by 10%, despite lowering their profit forecast and forecasted hardware and software sales for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023. This base pay adjustment likely comes as a response to calls from…
Fire Emblem as a franchise has had a zigazag of quality over the past decade or so. After stylistically bland DS remakes of some of the series’ earliest games (one of which didn’t even make it out of Japan) came Fire Emblem: Awakening, a game so good it literally changed…
Sales projections from the past couple months seemed to show it, but now we know for certain – the Nintendo Switch is officially the third best-selling console of all-time, with 122.55 million units sold by the end of 2022, as reported by Nintendo itself. That means it’s surpassed both the…
The pink puffball rides again – beloved platformer icon Kirby is getting a brand-new monthly manga beginning in March. Simply titled “Hoshi no Kirby”/”Kirby of the Stars” (the Japanese title for the Kirby series), it’ll be penned by mangaka Minori Katou (primarily an author of shoujo romance manga, as well…
Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude, heroes of Fire Emblem Three Houses, return in Fire Emblem Engage as the Emblem of Rivals, who will assist your army in its quest – if you’ve bought the Expansion Pass. The three lords of Fódlan are the first DLC Emblem in the game, and quite…
Update (2/7/23): Exciting news, EarthBound fans! After the initial wave sold out almost instantly last year in May, the Hobonichi Mother Project has just announced that the four character plushes — Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo — will all be re-released in a few days, on February 14th. And once…
