The beat-em-up genre tends to stay in its lane. Its tried-and-true arcade format has rarely been deviated from or added onto. There have been some recent attempts at modernizing the genre such as Xbox Game Studios’ live service brawler Towerborne or the open nature of WayForward’s River City Girls games….
If you can believe it, a second Animal Crossing-like knock-off game has appeared on the PlayStation store recently. Dubbed “Anime Village Online,” the sole screenshot available for the game looks not only heavily inspired by Animal Crossing, but almost like an HD mod for New Horizons. Spotted by Redditor YellowFlower69,…
Switch Online subscribers are in for a treat this month. As announced by Nintendo last night, the Super Nintendo App is going to receive a trio of new games for October 2025. One of those is the western debut of Mario & Wario, the 1993 puzzle game developed by Game…
Over the course of the past year or so, fans of the Dragon Quest series have had it very good. While Dragon Quest XII still seems to be a ways away, the wait has been totally fine thanks to all of the amazing remakes to tide us over. Not only…
In what may be the biggest surprise of today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, the Virtual Boy was revealed as the next system to join the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. A physical accessory is required to play the games, in which users can insert their Nintendo Switch 1 or Switch…
In a rather unique take on the Pokémon license, Nintendo announced the spinoff title “Pokémon Pokopia” for Nintendo Switch 2 that practically looks like an Animal Crossing version of the critter collector. Players assume the role of a Ditto that has copied the appearance of a human and takes to…
Hot off the heels of the announcement that Final Fantasy VII Remake is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on January 22nd, Square Enix just kicked it up a notch by revealing that all three parts of the Remake trilogy will be making their way to Switch 2 in the future!…
Closing today’s stellar Nintendo Direct was something both surprising and rightfully expected. Of course the Nintendo Switch 2 would get an all-new Fire Emblem. For all that’s new in this reveal, you might notice a few familiar elements, and at least one returning character… Yes, that appears to…
Nintendo has announced a brand-new 2D platformer starring Yoshi for Nintendo Switch 2. Rounding out the Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary segment in today’s Nintendo Direct presentation was the reveal of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. When a talking book called Mister Encyclopedia (Mr. E for short) falls from the…
Update: Both the Mario and Rosalina amiibo are available to pre-order at Walmart, Amazon, and Best Buy Walmart Amazon Best Buy Nintendo is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Super Mario series in a big way, and just like we saw with the 30th, amiibo aren’t being left out!…
Update: Both Kirby Air Riders amiibo are available to pre-order now at Walmart. $49.99 each! What a day to be an amiibo fan! During this morning’s Nintendo Direct, we got TONS of amiibo news, including some of the most unique figures we’ve ever reported on here at Nintendo Wire! …
To kick off today’s Nintendo Direct stream, Nintendo not only brought up the 40th anniversary of the Super Mario Bros. brand, it unveiled the title for the next Mario film from Illumination Pictures. While this would have been a truly outstanding surprise, there was a leak yesterday where Old Spice…
During today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo kicked off festivities for Super Mario’s 40th anniversary by not only revealing the title for the next Mario movie, but a compilation pack of both Galaxy games for Switch. As the title would suggest, this combo pack includes both of the Galaxy games and…
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Are we about to learn about a Super Mario Galaxy movie? A web domain created by NBCUniversal is suggesting that the upcoming sequel to the Super Mario Bros. Movie may be titled Super Mario Galaxy. As shared by BlueSky user Wario64, web domain “supermariogalaxy.movie” was registered on September 3rd by…
