After years of speculation we finally have word from Nintendo’s President Furukawa that the company is working on a successor to the Nintendo Switch. The news comes in the form of a very simple tweet that confirms the new hardware will be announced within the fiscal year ending March, 2025….
When comparing to the past few years, it’s fair to say that 2024 has been quite slow in terms of Nintendo content. Most of the year’s lineup has been ports and remakes, so needless to say, when rumors start to circle about new games on the horizon, it’s exciting. Notably,…
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…
It’s that wonderful time in July where EVO, the greatest fighting game tournament in the world, graces us with some good punchin’. For the third year in a row, there were not one, but two Smash games with fierce competitions — both the aged-like-fine-wine Melee and the fresher Smash for…
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…
Welcome to the Daily 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…
It’s no use pretending you don’t love this brand new Silver the Hedgehog statue from First 4 Figures. The new pose of everyone’s favorite time traveling hedgehog features Silver using his psychokinetic powers to bend metal bars to create a way forward, as seen countless times in the legendary Sonic…
The day was July 12th, 2009. In Antioch, California, on the east end of the Bay Area, hundreds of people had huddled in the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds to play Super Smash Bros. At the time, it was the largest Melee tourney ever held, and in grand finals lay two…
You can find the Nintendo Switch placeholder page at Amazon here. Pre-orders are expected to go live after the event. Refresh the page to see the latest updates. 9:06 p.m. PST: Show’s over, folks! The presentation has ended. Thanks for sticking with us! 9:05 p.m. PST: Breath of the Wild…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Buddy & Me swoops onto Wii U, Pokémon Ranger draws circles around Wii U Virtual Consoles, and Metroid Prime: Blast Ball makes a surprise appearance in the 3DS eShop. There’s a massive Sega sale happening in the eShop all this week celebrating the 25th…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Dragon Fantasy soars onto 3DS and Wii U, Rynn’s Adventure makes its Nintendo console debut, and a double dose of StarTropics hits the Wii U Virtual Console. Another week, another Atlus sale! I hope you saved enough ental because Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium…
