The year of wild collaborations continues! Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble has revealed two new collaborations, featuring the iconic Kaiju Godzilla and the digital diva Hatsune Miku. Both collabs will be available on November 26th as a part of the big 2.0 update. While the update itself is free, Godzilla…
The history of the Fire Emblem franchise is one fraught with a lot of obscurity and uncertainty. With the franchise nearly being canceled entirely prior to the release of Fire Emblem: Awakening, it has been quite a winding path to get to where it is now. Despite these troubles, the…
Nintendo Switch Online is back with new icons, this time themed to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Celebrating the Shiny Rayquaza Tera Raid Battle event that will kick off in a few weeks, the icons are meant to get players excited for the battles ahead! In the meantime, you can enjoy…
In a surprising turn, one of fighting games’ biggest cult hits is getting a new entry later this year. Melty Blood has been around since 2002, based on fellow doujin game darling, Type-Moon’s Tsukihime visual novel. French Bread, the group that developed Melty Blood, would go on to both continue…
Last month we learned Playtonic had set their googly sights on publishing via their new Playtonic Friends label. Now we’re pleased to see that their first endeavor will be none other than Slime-San developer Fabraz’ Demon Turf! When it was first announced, Demon Turf caught my eye thanks…
This weekend my Switch friend activity was honing in on one title. Monster Hunter Rise is here and it’s looking to be a popular (and critically acclaimed) pick up. Don’t take just my word for it, as Capcom has shared that for launch weekend they’ve shipped 4 million copies of…
Over the weekend, Koei Tecmo held a panel for the upcoming anime spin-off from its magical girl RPG Blue Reflection. It wasn’t all anime, though, as part of the showcase revealed two video games. One, Blue Reflection Sun, was confirmed for mobile devices and PC, while the second is bound…
Welcome to Mii Weekly with Hero TJ! This show features headlines, impressions, and an assortment of variety segments all centered around Nintendo. In this edition, we cover the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Monster Hunter Rise amiibo, the looming disappearance of Mario, and a new Pikmin smart phone…
It’s the end of another week full of Nintendo news! Make sure you’re up to date on what’s going on in the Nintendo universe by checking out this week’s top stories. This week’s top stories The Resident Evil movie reboot’s title has been revealed as Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon…
It’s been an entire year since Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched on Nintendo Switch, and still many of us on the Nintendo Wire team are regularly revisiting our islands. This is in no small part due to Nintendo consistently providing free updates to the game, injecting new content to keep…
Earlier this week we brought you the news from Famitsu that the mobile RPG Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey would be getting retooled for a Switch and PS4 release under the new name Astria Ascending. Today, as part of the latest ID@Xbox showcase, we got a few more platforms announced and our…
Poor Balan just can’t seem to catch a break. In what should be a joyous day for platformer fanatics, Sonic creator Yuji Naka’s all-new adventure Balan Wonderworld launches today, bringing along with it even more bad news following the panned reception to the January demo. Publisher Square Enix has confirmed…
Monster Hunter Rise is here, and with it come three brand new amiibo! This trio of figures all have unique unlocks for the game, but those aren’t the only amiibo features in Rise. Read on to find out what you can tap in and where to make the most…
Since last year we’ve been bringing updates on ININ Games’ efforts to port the cancelled 1993 Westone arcade game Clockwork Aquario to modern systems. Now, we have our first teaser trailer for the game, showing its vibrant world and characters in action. Clockwork Aquario will launch for the…
Cris Tales is still a few months away, but as part of yesterday’s Future Games Show a new trailer arrived. Focusing on its core cast of characters, it’s a great show of this classically inspired RPG’s unique visual presentation. A new blog post was also shared, detailing not…
