Anyone who has been keeping up with Nintendo news over the past year or so can attest that the lead-up to the Nintendo Switch 2 has been a wild ride. For the longest time fans were eagerly looking for any news or rumors related to the system, and any insider…
One of the most striking things about the design of the Switch 2 is how basic everything is. Gone are the days of New 3DS Faceplates or fun colors, and in is Nintendo’s era of functionality over personality… or so we thought. If a recent listing by AliExpress is anything…
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…
Does anyone like moving? Packing all your stuff up and shoving it into a truck, knowing you’re just going to have to un-shove it from that truck once you get to your new home is a massive source of stress, especially when you consider the fact that you have to…
Update: Pokémon Journeys is now available on Netflix. You can watch all 12 episodes today! The Pokémon anime has been a mainstay of kids TV stations ever since it started airing in North America and Europe during the late ’90s, but the times are finally changing as The Pokémon Company…
Well, this is probably a cross-over you didn’t see coming. Steins;Gate has been celebrating its 10th anniversary with announcements for a while now, such as Steins;Gate 0 Elite and a live-action adaptation of its time-travelling drama, but this latest reveal is quite the surprise. Hello Kitty is joining Okabe and…
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition isn’t just making the graphics even prettier – it’s also taking a second pass at the soundtrack. You can give a listen to the new remastered Colony 9 theme below, courtesy of Nintendo Europe. 🔊 Kick back and enjoy the remastered Colony 9 theme from…
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ version 1.2.0 update, which features new events and some returning familiar faces, is now available to download. In addition to what was revealed yesterday, Nintendo tweeted about some new additional items available at your local Nook Stop. Thanks to the April #AnimalCrossing: New Horizons update,…
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…
April has felt like it’s flown by, and we now have more statistics about March’s gaming sales and mobile purchases. Surprising no one, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been a juggernaut, breaking multiple sales records. The data that was made available didn’t include the digital sales of the game initially,…
Netflix’s Castlevania is one of the better video game adaptations we’ve seen hit the small (or large screen), and last month the series was greenlit for a fourth season. Today, Warren Ellis, the show’s credited writer, shared how much the series has grown and why we’re seeing another season. One…
Today marks an auspicious occasion for an anniversary with an inauspicious number: it’s the 13th anniversary of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl’s release in the US! The first two games in Generation IV, and also the first entries in the franchise to drop on the DS, Diamond & Pearl brought a…
Originally slated for Sunday, March 15th, Pokémon GO’s second 2020 Community Day event was going to focus on Abra. Then, everything changed when the coronavirus reached an awful pandemic level around the world. Niantic announced that the meetup would be on hold days before its scheduled start. Jump to now,…
Hopefully by now we all are aware of, and doing our best to follow, social distancing guidelines during this pandemic. If not, it seems Taiwan has a new way of promoting the idea, inspired by Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Essentially, the Taiwanese Ministry of Interior has used Animal Crossing: New…
The latest Mario Kart Tour event, its Trick Tour, is now underway. Check out the trailer below to see some of the action: The biggest difference between this and past tours is the courses: each course will feature its R/T track. That means each of the 12 Challenge…
