Just this morning during Pokémon Presents, The Pokémon Company officially revealed a new game in development! Titled Pokémon Champions, the game will be released on both the Nintendo Switch family of systems, along with iOS and Android devices. Pokémon Champions focuses on battling, including past gimmicks such as Mega Evolution…
Happy Pokémon Day, everyone! Today is a special day for Pokémon fans around the world, and what better way to celebrate than with a brand-new Pokémon Presents showcase? Expect exciting announcements, thrilling reveals, and plenty of Pokémon goodness as we dive into what’s next for the franchise. Be sure to…
Yesterday afternoon we witnessed a devastating loss to the video games industry. In another round of layoffs that seems to happen every week, WB Games announced it would be closing three studios. These were Player First Games (Multiversus), WB San Diego (which had not yet announced its game), and Monolith…
Happy May, Nintendo Wire readers! Just last month, we started the tradition of providing our loyal readers with free wallpapers for their desktops and mobile devices as a thank you for being so supportive and all-around wonderful. We’re back this month to deliver you a new wallpaper design, and we…
Welcome to the Nintendo Wiretap: Weekend Edition! 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,…
Using more innocent facades to smuggle illicit goods is in the very nature of contraband, but it’s not everyday that those facades are old Famicom carts, and that the smuggled goods are dozens of spiders crammed inside said carts. But that’s exactly what happened the other day at the airport…
Happy Mother’s Day! Welcome to the Community Question Block! In celebration of all of the women that have made an impact on our lives, we wanted to ask you: Who is your favorite Nintendo Mom? From Pokémon to Metroid, moms make up a big part of the Nintendo universe, and…
All the way back in July of last year, we reported that the lovable Pokémon Magikarp received his very own song in Japan. Now, nearly a year later, the Pokémon Company in North America has a newly translated and redubbed version of that same song for your listening pleasure. Check…
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…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Minecraft builds a home on the Switch, Cooking Mama returns to digital 3DS kitchens, and Elliot Quest reimagines one of Link’s most overshadowed adventures. It’s a pretty slow week for new Nintendo releases, with not much new in the sales department to brag about…
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…
Famitsu’s readers came together to vote on the top 20 action games of all-time recently, and a few of many Nintendo fans’ favorites made the list — in pretty high places, too. Coming in at the number one spot on the list was 1985’s Super Mario Bros. for the Famicom….
Nintendo’s Treehouse blog has released another post on Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Titled “Schooled by Old-School Combat,” it details many of features and differences that make Echoes stand apart from other entries in the series. That said, the writer is an admitted newer FE fan, one of the…
With Spring 2017 in full swing, it’s no secret that Kirby’s 25th birthday is being celebrated just about everywhere in the world this season. We’ve seen a number of events take place recently; from plenty of new, celebratory Kirby products hitting stores around Japan to the Kirby Orchestra concert opening…
Late last week, a year-long project reached a fantastic milestone: Ben Heck brought the Super CD to life. After tinkering on and off with it over the last year, Ben and his team used a full month to push forward to get the system working. In his latest video, Ben…
