Just last September, Splatoon 3 celebrated its two-year anniversary in a spectacular sendoff with the Grand Festival. This celebration also marked the effective ending of the game, with new monthly Splatfest themes coming to a close. While the new content has slowed down, it hasn’t stopped entirely, as the seasonal…
For older Nintendo fans, Space World 2000 is one of the most pivotal moments in the company’s history. The event where Nintendo not only unveiled the GameCube to the public but showcased Super Mario 128 and some ridiculously high-quality 3D renders for a Legend of Zelda prototype, Space World 2000…
Across Nintendo’s vast reach, Mario has quite a few unique games under his belt. While most people tend to focus on the main series entries, there’s many games that fly under the radar for one reason or another. One such oft-forgotten title is Super Mario Run. This mobile-exclusive platformer doesn’t…
With Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition set to release this spring, it’s got the entire Nintendo Wire team once again thinking about how much we all love the roster of characters attached to it. That being said, as Zelda fans we’re also always going to be hungry for more, and now…
The Smash scene continues to receive some support from the top, as for the third year in a row, Nintendo has become a sponsor of the Genesis series of Smash tournaments in Northern California, specifically this weekend’s Genesis 5. As usual, the exact details of this sponsorship are unknown, but…
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…
1080° Snowboarding, a classic for the N64, is undergoing a revival (of the trademark kind) in Europe. The game is turning 20 years old next month, so you could argue that something might be planned for this anniversary. If you do a little research though, you’d find that the process…
For as long as collectors exist, so will those who yearn for the holy grails of collections. And yes, this applies even when it comes to game collections. So is the case with a user from the AssemblerGames forums who goes by the name of bowser22, who claims they have…
It should come as no surprise that fans yearning for the days of yesteryear were thrilled to find that the highly beloved Nintendo Power was coming back — even if it was in a different form. Instead of the physical representation of the magazine, Nintendo decided to give us something…
The champagne’s run dry, the balloons are deflated on the floor and all our ears are still ringing: New Year’s has come and gone and it’s time to get 2018 off and running. While it’s sad to see the holidays fade away, it’s not something even video games can avoid….
At the start of this month we reported on the surprising news that the Chinese version of the Nvidia Shield would get some exclusive HD Wii and GameCube ports. Now, via the official Chinese site, we’ve gotten our first glimpse of the games in action, and it reveals a few…
It’s no question that 2017 was incredibly strong for Nintendo. With a new system, Game of the Year awards left and right, new expeditions outside of video games and much more, 2017 won’t be forgotten by Nintendo fans. There were a lot of surprises from this year that shocked the…
The Game Boy is a system with countless great games, with Nintendo’s ever-lasting mascot Mario featuring in more than a few of them. One of the most memorable is Super Mario Land 2, which followed up the rather bizarre first game with a more traditional adventure. Unfortunately, as it’s a…
Back in October Atlus surprised Shin Megami Tensei fans with a free little downloadable Windows game via the company’s official blog. In it, you play as the iconic Jack Bros. through a short Metroidvania adventure. Since launch, Twitter-user Brento-Bento made an English fan-patch, though the game is reasonably playable without…
Super Mario Odyssey is the latest title that Beta64 is tackling — scouring footage all the way back to last year’s Nintendo Switch announcement to exploring the press playthroughs of searching New Donk City and Tostarena. There are hours of before and after comparisons out there already, and in this…
