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…
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…
It’s very bizarre to hear executives from Microsoft talking about the Nintendo Switch 2, but ever since the company’s pivot to multi-platform development took hold, we’ve been hearing more and more from Team Green about games on other platforms. During the Official Xbox Podcast yesterday, Xbox Games Studio head Craig…
There is perhaps nothing in the history of the Big N quite as enduring as EarthBound fans begging Nintendo of America for Mother 3, the GBA masterpiece that is at once a heartrending conclusion to the Mother trilogy and a treatise on the goodness of humanity. The requests have been…
Want to party like it’s 1999? Well, Huggins & Scott Auctions may have a particularly niche form of nostalgia to deliver directly to you, if you have the cash — an extremely rare and unopened 1st Edition Limited Printing Base Set Booster Box for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. The…
It’s Waluigi Time! Welcome to Timeline, Nintendo Wire’s latest series, exploring the history of Nintendo’s most famous characters! On today’s episode we take a look at Waluigi! Support us on Patreon.
Despite being a Square Enix franchise with relatively few entries, the Mana series is one of the company’s most popular, with its games being ported to and remade on many different systems over the years. It looks like the trend will only continue, with Square Enix trademarking Final Fantasy Adventure,…
Nintendo of America has just announced that the latest batch of NES games coming to Nintendo Switch Online is on the way. Starting on February 13th, subscribers of the service can play Super Mario Bros. 2 and Kirby’s Adventure! Super Mario Bros. 2 and Kirby’s Adventure are coming to…
Our latest de-make has been unlocked! To celebrate the upcoming launch of Kingdom Hearts III, we de-made the opening to the Nintendo 3DS hit, Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance.
The original Smash is… how many years old?! Wow, the time sure does fly. Super Smash Bros. is what you might call a game whose legacy precedes itself. Most people, Nintendo fans or not, have either played Smash or at least know what it is. It’s a game that is…
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…
Although playing Diablo on a Nintendo handheld is a reality with Diablo III on Switch, it’s interesting to know now that we could have, at one point, had a Pokémon-inspired spinoff on Game Boy a decade and a half ago. Variety posted a fascinating article about a pet project by…
January 21st, 1999. On this day in Japan, Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64 was released, and while the series would need another installment to really take off, the way people think about Nintendo and its characters would be forever changed. With only eight All Stars in its starting…
Just this week, the original Super Smash Bros. and the series itself turned 20 years old, making it the perfect time to look back and reflect on that everything the series has brought fans, myself included. I’ve been playing the games since the very beginning — I even remember renting…
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…
