Nintendo Wiretap (11/20/17)

Categories: 3DS, Merchandise, Mobile, News, Switch

  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…

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Review: Rocket League on Nintendo Switch

Author: Jaxson Tapp
Categories: Switch, Reviews

Rocket League has been one of my most anticipated Switch releases this year. The demolition derby/soccer-hybrid has been a smash hit since its release back in 2015, and it doesn’t show any signs of stopping. Psyonix porting Rocket League to Switch, with the help of Panic Button, was a no-brainer,…

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Happy 5th Birthday, Wii U

Categories: Wii U, Features

For the last year, and then some, it’s been “Nintendo Switch” this or “Nintendo’s next console” that. There was hype building alongside rumors being thrown around constantly, with mock ups of the enigmatic system, including 3D printed ones, being put together to fool the masses. The fervor was there for…

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Detective Pikachu movie adds Justice Smith

Categories: News, 3DS

Originally planned to be out this year, Legendary Entertainment’s film based on the Great Detective Pikachu game is still in pre-production and is now sharing news of its first actor casted for the live-action movie. Justice Smith, an up-and-coming actor who will be on movie screens next year in Jurassic…

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Review: Skyrim on Nintendo Switch

Author: Jason Ganos
Categories: Reviews, News, Switch

Disclaimer: Due to the fact that Skyrim has made its rounds to other major consoles over the years, we spent the majority of the review below primarily focusing on how it performs on the Nintendo Switch and what this version offers in comparison to other console versions. For those of…

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Nintendo Wiretap (11/15/17)

Categories: 3DS, Merchandise, Mobile, News, Switch

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…

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Hollow Knight’s Switch version delayed into early 2018

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Switch

2017 was already a great year for Metroidvania’s on Nintendo Systems, with Samus Returning, Axiom Verging, and many more besides. No doubt many fans of the genre have been waiting for a certain little bug to make the leap over to Nintendo’s Switch before the year wraps up, but unfortunately…

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Review: Ittle Dew 2+

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: Switch, Reviews

In recent years, more and more indie games have begun to take heavy inspiration from the Legend of Zelda franchise, each with its own twists on the formula. Binding of Isaac marries the first NES game’s dungeons with a roguelike randomizer, while Oceanhorn takes things isometric. Ludosity’s Ittle Dew, meanwhile,…

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Review: VVVVVV

Author: Ricky Berg
Categories: Switch, Reviews

It’s been seven years since VVVVVV first came out and in that time it’s been released on several platforms, including the 3DS and even smartphones. Yet in all these years I somehow managed to not play it. It was the type of game I’d always hear mentioned among other unquestionably…

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