Over the past few months, Nintendo has quietly restocked numerous hard-to-find amiibo at various retailers across the U.S. However, tracking them down isn’t always easy—many are retail exclusives, online-only, or available solely through Nintendo’s online store. But fear not, fellow collectors! We’ve compiled a full list of every amiibo you…
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…
This week’s Nintendo Music update gives us music from an iconic Super Nintendo game: Super Mario World! One of the most critically acclaimed games from the SNES era and most beloved Mario games, Super Mario World released back in 1990. Super Mario World is a direct sequel to Super Mario…
Well, we asked for it. For years and years now, fans and critics alike have all but begged Nintendo to do something new and different with the “Zelda formula.” We, the loyal audience, corporately decided that while this is undoubtedly one of the greatest video game franchises of all time,…
It’s April 1st in Japan, which means the goofsters and gaffsters are about to have their field day. Japanese companies are known for pulling out all the stops for their gags on April Fools’, and Nintendo is no exception, as it’s just “announced” a new Fire Emblem for the Switch…
Update: GameXplain has just released a video showing a side by side comparison of the game running pre and post patch. It appears that the update does in fact resolve some of the frame rate issues found in certain parts of the game. You can check out the video below….
Another returning gameplay element has been confirmed for the imminent Splatoon 2: re-rolling abilities. As your gear’s secondary abilities are randomized once you obtain them, if you aren’t a fan you can re-roll. In the original game this was done by talking to the sea urchin Spyke, while in Splatoon…
Welcome to the Daily 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…
Nintendo Switch game Super Bomberman R will be receiving a set of free downloadable content in the future, developer Konami has revealed. The news was announced during a Konami-sponsored live episode of The Game Theorists through the teaser below: Further details regarding the DLC, including availability dates, have not…
Snake Pass has only been available on the Switch for two days now and it’s already receiving its first update. Players took to message boards and Reddit to complain of annoying buzzing coming from the Joy-Cons while playing the game. The newly released 1.1 update resolved this issue so you…
This week in the Nintendo eShop: Chase McCain cleans the streets of Lego City, Metal Slugs launch a coup d’état on Switch, and Pikmin rally on the Wii U Virtual Console. Some truly fantastic indie games are on sale for the next week! Both SteamWorld titles (Dig and Heist) join…
So you’ve defeated massive enemies, scaled the tallest mountains in Hyrule and even met a God! What’s next for the Hylian adventurer who’s done everything? It’s time for Link to put up his feet and relax with a home of his very own! A side-quest called “Hylian Homeowner” exists in…
Over the past weekend Atlus had a stream for revealing upcoming games, with one of the surprise announcements being an updated 3DS port of the 2009 DS release Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. Now Famitsu has released the first images of the game, which we’ve collated below: For comparisons…
Welcome to the Daily 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…
The addition of Specter of Torment for most versions of Shovel Knight will be coming soon — and for the edition that already has that mode, the Switch version, there’s a new update (3.0A). Besides some bug fixes and unspecified text tweaks, the game can now be played in 1080p…
