Review: Doom for Nintendo Switch

Author: Jason Ganos
Categories: Reviews, Switch

Doom and I have been on quite the journey together. I remember when I was ten years old, watching my dad play the groundbreaking original title on his Compaq desktop and being floored at what I saw. Up until that moment, video games had been colorful, cheerful and two-dimensional affairs…

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Super Mario Run update available for iPhone X

Author: Lauren Ganos
Categories: News, Mobile

The iPhone X releases today and along with it comes an all new update for Super Mario Run on iOS devices. This particular update widens the gameplay screen to fall in line with the X’s larger screen that extends to the very edges of the device. So if you’ve been…

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Nintendo Wiretap (11/1/17)

  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: Super Mario Odyssey

Categories: Reviews, Switch

I was ten years old when Super Mario 64 first revolutionized 3D gaming as we know it. Leaping onto North American shores two weeks before my birthday, I vividly remember tearing into that plastic, snatching out the cart and sitting glued to my parent’s television for hours on end, slack-jawed…

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Nintendo Wiretap (10/30/17)

  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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First impressions: Super Mario Odyssey

Author: Ricky Berg
Categories: Switch, Features

120 has been a significant number in more wide open Mario games. It’s the total number of Power Stars and Shine Sprites in both Mario 64 and Sunshine — a nice round number after a couple full adventures. In Super Mario Odyssey, it’s just a passing total on the way…

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World End Syndrome announced for Switch by Arc System Works

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Switch

The Nintendo Switch continues to a bastion of niche games, with the latest obscure announcement being World End Syndrome from Arc System Works, via Famitsu (thanks Gematsu for the translations.) We still know very little of the game, which is described as a “love adventure game” where the protagonist has…

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