The Nintendo Switch 2 is officially here, and while everyone’s off racing in Mario Kart World or hacking away in Cyberpunk 2077, I’m doing what I do best: opening amiibo! That’s right, four new Legend of Zelda amiibo just dropped: Yunobo, Tulin, Riju, and Sidon. Each one unlocks special gear…
When Nintendo unveiled the Switch 2 earlier this year and revealed its new GameChat feature, one of the key elements to making that whole thing work was a new webcam for the console. Plugged directly into the console via USB-C, the camera wasn’t anything special and didn’t require any additional…
In what is sure to be a devastating story for some, there have been various reports across social media of GameStop customers receiving their Nintendo Switch 2 units with staple holes in the screen due to the flimsy packaging used for the console. IGN reports that US GameStop customers found…
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…
It’s that time of month once again, when Nintendo tries to excite us with its rollout of NES titles paired with your Switch Online subscription. This month it’s a pair of solid picks and a couple of SP surprises, available now via an update to the service’s app. New…
Justice comes to all who err on the side of crime. It has been a known truth that one T. Yoshisaurus Munchakoopas, more colloquially known by the common nickname Yoshi, is a chronic tax dodger, avoiding audit after audit in a relentless and clever elusion of federal law. Part of…
Some games are incredibly easy to identify from across an arcade, and near that top of that list for me is Out Run. First released in 1986, the sit down cab and bright design mimicked its in-game ride and captured a certain, special feel immediately. Once you started playing it…
Nintendo Switch Online’s NES game library has been contentious to say the least since the service launched back in September, with a slow drip feed of iconic titles gradually filling up the library. If a new datamine is anything to go by, though, the service could be getting a…
Welcome to Timeline, Nintendo Wire’s new series that explores the history of Nintendo’s most famous characters! In our debut episode, we take a look at the plumber himself, Mario! Support us on Patreon.
