26 years ago today the Game Boy Color released in Japan. The Big N’s handheld might be little, but it packs a punch in the market of gaming when you look at the combined sales of the Game Boy and Game Boy Color. With 118.69 million units sold worldwide between…
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…
Some lucky buyers have been able to get their hands on copies of Mario & Luigi: Brothership early and it confirms a few details about the game that Nintendo hasn’t discussed. The biggest factoid is that Brothership marks another major Nintendo release that utilizes Unreal Engine. While this normally wouldn’t…
26 years ago today the Game Boy Color released in Japan. The Big N’s handheld might be little, but it packs a punch in the market of gaming when you look at the combined sales of the Game Boy and Game Boy Color. With 118.69 million units sold worldwide between…
Can I get a “Guh-Huh!” Nintendo of America has just announced that the Nintendo 64 platformer Banjo-Tooie is coming to Nintendo Switch Online on October 25th. But unlike other games on the platform, this one comes with an upgrade! By some sort of retro miracle, Nintendo has announced that Banjo-Tooie…
With the recent announcement of a Nintendo Switch Online playtest program, many have been speculating what new feature will be coming to the Switch in the not-so-distant future. The obvious guess is that Nintendo is considering adding a catalog of GameCube games to NSO, letting players relive the sixth console…
Exactly one year ago today, Analogue — a company known for creating beautiful (and expensive) recreations of classic gaming hardware like the Analogue Pocket and Super NT — teased something big for Nintendo 64 fans. At the time, not much was revealed beyond a teaser image and the promise of…
To commemorate Sonic Adventure’s 25th anniversary (at least in the US), Limited Run Games is now selling a bunch of different merchandise based on not only Sonic’s first 3D outing but Sega’s final home console. Everyone loves the Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure was the premiere game for it, so why…
Over the past 18 hours, news of an extensive hack targeting Pokémon developer Game Freak has been spreading across social media like wildfire. While the full extent of the breach was unclear last night, a clearer picture of the massive scope of the data leak emerged this morning. Nintendo Wire…
If you asked anyone to name the all-time greats of classic video games, undoubtedly one of the first answers you’ll hear is Tetris. This simple, yet complex game formula has lived on for decades and has been nearly perfected by truly devoted fans. As time goes on and players hone…
Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the original Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game for PS1. A landmark extreme sports game that not only redefined the genre but transcended gaming’s then-niche audience, THPS became a mega-hit overnight and catapulted its starring man into the stratosphere (as well as the friends he…
Back in the ’90s, Nintendo, Sega, and Sony were locked in what is now commonly referred to as “The Console Wars”—a fierce rivalry between gaming giants that played out through advertisements, lawsuits, and even, in one instance, a public feud in front of Congress over video game violence. While Nintendo,…
There are many reasons to celebrate what Nintendo is doing in the gaming industry from both a creative and hardware perspective (especially when it comes to pricing), and the best place to do so right now is at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, Japan. The museum is an entire building…
It often feels like Nintendo and I have grown up together. For instance, Super Mario Bros. was released on the Famicom on September 13th, 1985—just six days before I was born, on September 19th, 1985. My family and friends like to joke that I couldn’t wait to enter the world…
Editor’s Note – Nostalgia is a powerful thing, isn’t it? While Nintendo Wire typically doesn’t cover PlayStation news, this morning’s announcement was filled with so much nostalgia that we just had to talk about it. While we’re all still reeling from the $700 sticker price for the PS5 Pro,…
