Happy New Year, Nintendo fans! To celebrate 2025, the amazing team at LEGO has launched an exciting collection of Nintendo-themed LEGO sets, and they’re available now! From Animal Crossing and Mario Kart to the iconic Great Deku Tree, these sets are ready to bring your favorite games to life. Check…
Never put it past dedicated modding communities to make older consoles run on a wide range of hardware. Once we started to get into 3D consoles, the desire to play older games on newer hardware increased and it was up to fan communities to make that wish a reality. While…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
Fly high — the Pokémon Center is adding some downright luxurious pure nickel-free sterling silver necklaces of the Kanto legendary birds for a pretty penny each. The designs for Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres are each quite lovely and sparkling, painted over with bright colors. Produced in collaboration with…
Life imitates art (which is to say, depositing Pokémon in and out of PCs) more each day: Pokémon HOME will be updating soon to Ver 2.0, which will add two-way transfer compatibility for Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, and Legends: Arceus. These games will join Sword/Shield and the one-way transfer support…
The Wholesome Direct has become one of my most anticipated pieces of counter-programming in the video game news space. Sure, the heavy hitters with their swords and guns are fun, but sometimes you just want to sit down and chill out with a cool frog. Now we know when the…
There’s not long now till Sonic Origins brings together the classic Sonic the Hedgehog games together in a new collection with plenty of bells and whistles. If you’ve been eager to see more, a recent segment on Rulicon, a South Korean stream, showcased a few key parts of the game….
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…
Fall Guys is at last heading to Nintendo Switch on June 21st while also becoming free-to-play for all players across all platforms. The news was announced during this morning’s “The Big Announcement” stream, a nearly 30-minute video detailing the upcoming updates headed to Fall Guys (which seems to have also…
Here at Nintendo Wire, we like to think we know a little bit about de-makes. While the de-makes we’ve made have been visual concepts only, some fans take it a step further and create playable experiences for retro systems. This time, the physics puzzler Portal has been completely recreated and…
Tantalus Media is an Australian developer that’s worked on many ports, including The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD for the Wii U and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD for the Nintendo Switch. Recently, Tantalus CEO Tom Crago sat down with the Fragments of Silicon podcast to discuss…
The Pokémon Company’s partnership with Mega Construx has led to three more sets and if you’re a fan of Eevee or Kanto, you’re in luck. The first set we’ll spotlight is based on Kanto. While it’s unfortunately not a recreation of any game location, it features Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander, and…
Square Enix has been making some just… wonderful decisions lately. Selling Tomb Raider, Deux Ex, and basically all their Western studios for a fire sale price of $300 million? Genius. Planning to invest that money heavily in the blockchain, even after the crypto market crashed last week and 99% of…
As the first Mythical Pokémon, Mew has become iconic over the years, so it’s no surprise the Japanese jewelry company K.Uno is releasing a new ring with the 151st critter as part of its U-Treasure line. The half eternity ring features a Mew that appears to be flying around the…
As promised during the recent Digital Event, we’re getting detailed looks at new skills coming to Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. Specifically, we have videos for three weapons that each showcase new Silkbind Attacks as well as possibilities from the Switch Skill Swap system. Sword & Shield Switch…
