It’s still surreal to know that a live-action Legend of Zelda movie is being produced by Sony Pictures. With Nintendo and Sony being strong rivals in the console space, it’s almost as if we’re living in a bizarro world where cats and dogs live in absolute harmony. However strange the…
Have you ever wanted to sit on a giant beanbag Pokémon? No? Well, you might change your mind with these new additions to The Pokémon Center’s online store. Three new very large beanbag chairs are now available for pre-order and they include designs based on Jigglypuff, Gengar, and Lechonk. Lechonk,…
Starting in January 2018, Community Day is a monthly event in Pokémon GO that shines the spotlight on a particular Pokémon. For one day each month, a Pokémon selected by Niantic will have its spawn rate increased during a block of hours. Also, the Shiny appearance rate for the starring…
When Fire Emblem: Three Houses launches tomorrow, it reportedly won’t come with a “Lunatic” difficulty option straight out the box: Instead, it’ll be added to the game via a post-launch update. This news comes from Nintendo Everything, which gleaned the information from a translated Famitsu interview with Fire Emblem: Three Houses’…
Pokémon series director and producer Junichi Masuda has said that for a hypothetical Pokémon Snap 2 to be made, it would need to have a “very unique twist.” The topic of Pokémon Snap 2 was brought up at the end of an interview with Masuda by GameCentral, which was mostly…
Platforming game Cuphead is heading to the small screen through a new Netflix animated series called The Cuphead Show! The news was announced via a tweet from game developer Studio MDHR, as well as an article from The Hollywood Reporter. Coming to you in full color and cine-sound, it’s…The Cuphead…
The Dr. Mario puzzle series hasn’t had a new entry since 2013, when Luigi acquired his doctorate and opened his own virus-crushing medical practice on the Wii U. Six years later we’ll be introduced to Dr. Peach, Dr. Toad, Dr. Bowser, and more thanks to the mobile game interpretation –…
Welcome back to the Wire Weekly, where I, Ben “Spaghetti-Arms” Fruzzetti, run through the week’s assortment of Nintendo news with what could charitably be referred to as wit, sarcasm, and personality. We begin with a saucy account of corporate promiscuity, as it’s been announced that Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have…
Rising from its Dracula-styled coffin baring fangs and a black widow’s peak, the Wii U unfurled its velveteen cape to reveal a firmware update in late June of the year of 2019, over two years after Switch Belmont sent it to sleep in March 2017. “I vake once more!” bellowed…
For almost two years now Nintendo has been embroiled in a legal battle with MARI Mobility Development Co., Ltd., formerly known as MariCAR, for the latter’s service of offering customers the opportunity to drive around Japanese streets in go-karts while dressed as various Mario characters. Nintendo’s reasoning for the suit…
The announcement of not one but two iterations — the SNES original and an upcoming remake — of Trials of Mana was a big surprise during E3. Long known by its Japanese title Seiken Densetsu 3, the entry had never seen a release in the West in its nearly 25…
When Travis Touchdown reappeared in 2017, the working title of “Travis Strikes Again” had fans wondering if this would be No More Heroes 3. It turned out that Travis Strikes Again would be a side-step in the series – taking place within the No More Heroes universe, but no “3”…
Once again Limited Run has used E3 as an opportunity to announce its next lot of physical editions, and it’s not just current-gen consoles that’ll be getting a piece of the pie. But let’s cover those first… For Switch we’ll be seeing Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Rogue Legacy,…
I remember the day well. It was the first week of April, 2011, in high school drama class — freshman year. We were slacking off between one of Mr. McKillip’s improv games when I noticed a classmate had a shiny new toy. It had a metallic aqua casing, a slick…
Mattel and Nintendo have been busy exploring Mario Kart merchandise options recently. From speciality themed Hot Wheels metal cars fashioned after Super Mario characters to recreating Mario Kart with the Hot Wheels Ai system, Mattel isn’t hitting the final lap yet — it’s only gaining speed. Appearing at the…
