In the realm of retro gaming, a key principle many live by is the idea of the preservation of history. After all, the very nature of the hobby is appreciating that which has been lost to time, and not just games, but hardware itself. This naturally extends to the iconic…
There have been more than a few truly amazing Lego Nintendo sets over the last few years, and it looks like Nintendo and Lego are continuing their partnership into 2025, with Nintendo of America announcing a brand-new Lego set coming this October. This new set will be the second of…
Drip, drip, drip. For a company with a freaking plumber as its mascot, there sure has been a lot of leaks about the Nintendo Switch 2 lately. So far, we’ve allegedly seen the dock, the Joy-Con, the Joy-Con magnetic rail system, the motherboard, the kickstand, and even a supposed replica…
Pokémon developer Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori recently spoke with Eurogamer to discuss Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield’s development. Ohmori, the Pokémon series’ game director, and Masuda, lead producer on many Pokémon games, talked topics such as fan favorite Pokémon like Sirfetch’d and Wooloo, Sword and Shield connectivity…
Atlus has announced it’ll be holding the first information live stream for upcoming “Warriors”-game spin-off Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers next month. The live stream is set for November 4th, 2019 at 20:00 JST (3:00 a.m. PST/6:00 a.m. EST) and will reportedly feature the first live gameplay of Persona…
Early next month, the official Mario & Sonic tie-in for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be released, once again mashing together the universes of plumber and hedgehog with some real world sports and quirkier events. If you’ve been eager to try it out, a demo is now available via…
Nintendo UK has released a new Pokémon Sword & Shield commercial that, rather than focus on the games themselves, instead takes us on a trip down memory lane. From the original Game Boy sprites through to the aliased 3DS models, it’s all about showing the series’ progress. Give it a…
Musou spin-off of Persona 5 for Nintendo Switch, Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, has received both a release date and a brand-new trailer showing off our best look at gameplay yet. The trailer gives us a taste of Persona 5 Scramble’s story elements, music, animated cutscenes, and gameplay, and…
Can you believe it? We’re only one short week away from the third installment in the Luigi’s Mansion series. It seems like only yesterday I was playing the original on the GameCube all those years ago. Ahhhh, good times. Good times… Sorry about that. You caught me reminiscing. Anyway! To…
During a recent discussion (which saw the announcement of creator Suda51 and Swery collaborating on a horror game titled Hotel Barcelona), some information for the previously revealed No More Heroes III was given. While it’s nothing overly in depth, it does provide a look at two bosses returning to (presumably)…
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 a…
The quirky hospital management sim Two Point Hospital is going to need a little longer on the operating table before it’s ready for its Nintendo Switch launch, developer Two Point Studios has announced. Originally scheduled for a late 2019 release, the game is now slated for the more general first-half-of-2020…
Given their status as Nintendo Switch Online’s premiere titles, it was inevitable that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Tetris 99 would cross paths eventually, and now it’s happening. As announced by the Japanese Smash Bros. Twitter account, the tetriminos will be dropping onto the Spirit Board as part of the…
Fatal Frame isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to Nintendo, but the spirit photography series is still a part of the family — if the Yuri Kozukata Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Smash Ultimate is anything to go by. Her game, Fatal Frame: Maiden…
Lucas Pope made a name for himself with 2013’s Papers, Please; a dour dystopic experience where you play as an immigration officer charged with checking those who cross the border to an authoritarian nation. Pope’s previous work was concerned with putting faces and names to the masses that cross the…
