For the longest time, video game movies tended to fall flat among the general audience. Those well-versed in gaming would often find them cheesy, yet they were too niche to be a big success with those who weren’t. In recent years, however, that sentiment has changed, particularly when The Super…
With the recent announcement that Ōkami 2 will finally see the light of day, it seems that series creator Hideki Kamiya is now able to more freely talk about the origins of everyone’s favorite sun goddess. In a post on Twitter, Kamiya divulged some new information regarding where the concept…
I consider myself to be a pretty big fighting game fan. I’ve been actively following the genre since I first played Tekken on PlayStation as a child. Since 2017, however, my console of choice has been the Nintendo Switch and, as a fighting gamer, things haven’t been too hot. While…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder has arrived! As with its predecessors in the 2D Mario Bros. series, Wonder is packed with hidden items and secret areas within each level. Some of these are more challenging to discover than others. Rolla Koopa Derby isn’t too tricky overall, but finding the first Wonder…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder has arrived! As with its predecessors in the 2D Mario Bros. series, Wonder is packed with hidden items and secret areas within each level. Some of these are more challenging to discover than others. The Stage Here Come the Hoppos isn’t super tricky, but you could…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder has arrived! As with its predecessors in the 2D Mario Bros. series, Wonder is packed with hidden items and secret areas within each level. Some of these are more challenging to discover than others. The Stage Bull Rush Coming Through is another one of those difficult…
Now that Super Mario Bros. Wonder is here, Nintendo’s starting to roll out the merch for fans in a few ways. Some pre-order bonuses are available and now we’ve got this keychain as a fun option for those of us here in North America. Available as a double keychain, the…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder has arrived! As with its predecessors in the 2D Mario Bros. series, Wonder is packed with hidden items and secret areas within each level. Some of these are more challenging to discover than others. I encountered my first set of challenges when attempting the level Angry…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is finally here! Like with previous entries in the 2D Mario Bros. series, this game give players the options to choose between a wide variety of characters! Check out our handy guide below for everything you need to know before you select a character. Who…
A few days ago, modders who got their hands on Super Mario Bros. Wonder early (via illicit methods) edited the Talking Flowers to say foul words instead of their usual family-friendly comments. Well, Nintendo hasn’t taken kindly to such cheap and crude chicanery, and has stricken down the videos showing…
Update (1/4/24): You can pre-order the Elephant Mario plushie over at Play-Asia for $21.99. And remember, save 5% with the code NWIRE23 at checkout! (Note: Nintendo Wire is an affiliate partner of Play-Asia.) With the imminent release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, there’s only one question on our minds…
We’re no stranger to the beauty of PowerA accessories for Nintendo Switch, that’s for sure. From their wide variety of controllers to cases and Joy-Con grips, their attention to detail for players’ love of characters from beloved series knows no end. That surely applies to this product we recently got…
Unlike previous entries in 2D Super Mario titles, all of Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s playable characters (with the exception of Yoshi and Nabbit who don’t take damage) will play exactly the same. Shocker, I know! That’s not to say there will be no special abilities at all. Instead, Wonder introduces…
Well here’s something unusual – the very first glimpse we ever got at the Nintendo Switch back seven years ago in October 2016 is no longer available. The video has been taken off their YouTube page, presumably made private. Why would they do this? Some think it’s a banal matter…
Talking Flowers are one of the most novel touches about Super Mario Bros. Wonder, but the story of how they came to be is pretty wild. According to new portions of the Ask the Developers interview on the game, it all started when Producer Takashi Tezuka, always full of ambitious…
