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…
For those Jedi lovers out there, take note — after yesterday’s reveal of NES and GB carts for Limited Run Games’ Star Wars rereleases, they’ve now announced a Limited Collector’s Edition for the Game Boy game. This Friday at 10am & 6pm ET, grab a limited Collector's Edition for…
Rising from its Dracula-styled coffin baring fangs and a black widow’s peak, the Wii U unfurled its velveteen cape to reveal a firmware update in late June of the year of 2019, over two years after Switch Belmont sent it to sleep in March 2017. “I vake once more!” bellowed…
The Pokémon franchise is having a tremendous 2019 so far. Pokémon: Detective Pikachu is weeks away from its release, Pokémon GO is still GO-ing strong, the series’ 8th generation of monsters will be unleashed by the end of the year, and so much more. For fans who were bitten by…
The Heisei Era in Japan is coming to a close, as Emperor Akihito of Japan is set to abdicate on April 30th and bring in the new Reiwa Era. The Heisei Era began all the way back in 1989 with the death of Emperor Hirohito, and over the past 30…
Nintendo’s first decade in the video game industry brought many revolutionary ideas to the table. There was the introduction of the D-Pad, the genius marketing of the NES across the United States, early motion controls… How the company closed out that first ten years, however, changed things on an…
It may be hard to believe from an American or Japanese perspective, but for quite a few years Nintendo’s consoles played second fiddle to home computers across Europe in the ’80s and early ’90s , with the likes of the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amiga systems being popular with…
No doubt thanks to the presence of Simon and Richter Belmont (and much more) in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I’ve had an itch to dive back into the dark and haunted halls of Castlevania now more than ever. Thankfully, the upcoming Castlevania Anniversary Collection has just shared its full library…
Late last month, Sega confirmed ten games for the Sega Genesis Mini. Now, less than a month later, we’ve got another ten, and it has some absolute gems. Check out the new list from the official website: Landstalker Super Fantasy Zone Thunder Force III Shinobi III Contra: Hard Corps World…
Today, the Capcom UK Twitter account posted a video showing various arcade games reflected in the plastic of an arcade stick. We see classics such as Darkstalkers, Street Fighter II, Alien vs. Predator, Progear, and Giga Wing. The video says “A NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHES” and promised an announcement tomorrow at…
When Labo VR was announced, multiple comparisons were made to Nintendo’s first foray into “VR,” the Virtual Boy. Ahead of its time, the headset didn’t sell well, but it’s now fondly remembered and highly sought after among collectors. If you were ever wondering if Nintendo Labo VR would contain some…
Last month, what was once unthinkable happened – Final Fantasy VII launched on a Nintendo system. It was a game that revolutionized the industry in more ways than one, and as part of Square Enix’s “Inside” series, which previously covered Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon and Final Fantasy IX, we’ve got new…
It’s that time of month when we check to see what’s new on the NES Online app. We knew we’d be getting Punch-Out!!, Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, and Star Soldier — but there’s one more that snuck in the mix. Nintendo’s had a trend of SP versions sneaking…
Welcome back to the Wire Weekly, where I, Ben “Check out my character in #GranblueFantasy!” Fruzzetti, run through the week’s assortment of Nintendo news with what could charitably be referred to as wit, sarcasm, and personality. Ah, the beginning of April – when the jesters emerge for one day of…
Hot on the heels of Donkey Kong 3 releasing today, another arcade classic is heading to Switch courtesy of HAMSTER’s Arcade Archives. The time travelling airplane shoot’em up Time Pilot, originally brought to arcades in 1982 by Konami, was confirmed for a Switch release next week during a recent NicoNico…