What better time than a Thursday evening to get some surprise Nintendo news? Nintendo has just shadow-dropped the Game Boy’s Donkey Kong Land on the Nintendo Switch Online service. Grab a vine and join the thrills in the Land of Kong. Donkey Kong Land is now available to play…
The games that started it all are finally making their way to Nintendo Switch. RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, a port of RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and 2, will be released on December 5th, courtesy of Atari. Tycoon Classic combines elements of both games, allowing players to build to their heart’s content. The…
Well folks, the time is here! Black Friday has arrived… on Thursday, naturally. Down below you’ll find Nintendo Wire’s list of fantastic deals on a variety of items all related to gaming in one way or another, ones that we’ve specially handpicked just for you this holiday season! Make sure…
The first thing most people will notice about the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is how expansive the game is, and how little hand-holding there seems to be. You can go anywhere, find important items in the most inconspicuous spots, and even rush straight to the final…
E3 is an event that’s gone through many fluctuations in the past. There have been good years and bad ones, for both specific companies and the industry as a whole, but the expo is always treated with a sort of reverence about it. No other gaming event draws the same…
If you’re a fan of video games and you’ve spent much time on Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media network over the past couple of days, you’ve probably noticed a recurring theme. Amidst the discussion of a reimagined God of War, a teaser from Kojima productions, and more VR…
During this year’s E3, Bloomberg interviewed Nintendo of America COO Reggie Fils-Aime about the prospects of virtual reality gaming. While he didn’t come across as particularly hostile toward the budding technology, as he has in the past, he made it clear that it will be awhile before Nintendo will consider…
An interview with Pierre-Paul Trepanier, CEO of Nintendo of Canada, has appeared in an article from Canadian media outlet LaPresse.ca today that sheds some light on when we can expect to hear more about Nintendo’s next console, NX. It roughly translates to: “We decided to focus on Zelda,” he said,…
Yesterday, we were treated to a lot of gameplay footage from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but very little was said about its use of the Wii U Game Pad. If you were worried it would be a requirement, worry no more, as we now know that…
Zelda fans have been asking for a more free-form entry in the series for a long time now. 2013’s The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds on 3DS offered more freedom than the series has seen in years, allowing players to tackle dungeons in any order they chose, by…
We’ve been hearing for a long time now how the next Legend of Zelda, which we now know as Breath of the Wild, would take the series back to the drawing board in terms of structure and gameplay. Up until this week, we’ve been left to our imaginations to wonder…
Today was certainly jam-packed full of new information courtesy of Nintendo! From the large number of features confirmed for the next Legend of Zelda, to the first ever E3 showcase of an in-development Pokémon game, not to mention lots of new amiibo, there was plenty for fans to sink their…
With every new Zelda title comes new speculation, and fans everywhere are wondering where The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will take place in the official Zelda timeline. Based on footage shown at E3 so far, all signs as of yet indicate that Zelda is returning to the…
The new Zelda game, subtitled Breath of the Wild, was shown at Nintendo’s E3 presentation earlier today, and a lot of interesting tidbits of information about the game were revealed. Among all the awesome new features, the demo opened with a female voice saying, “wake up, Link.” This marks the…
New gameplay footage of the upcoming Zelda game, Breath of the Wild, has been shown in a demo with Bill Trinen and Aonuma during the Treehouse Live event! Breath of the Wild was created because Aonuma wanted to break the convention of the Zelda series (however Link does start by…
