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…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
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…
If you’ve built yourself a Labo VR headset and are wanting to dive into more games with it, then you’re in luck, as Unity has announced through Famitsu (via Siliconera) that support for the peripheral has been added to its engine. That means game developers who use Unity can select…
Team Sonic Racing launched worldwide last week, and we’re happy to report that the game is already doing incredibly well in the UK. It charted number one on the UK sales charts, the first Sonic game to do so in the last 11 years. It’s great to see the Blue…
So there’s going to be a Pokémon Press Conference tomorrow evening. Neat! Except we have no idea what the presentation will consist of. The easy guess would be Sword/Shield news, but that’s coming in a Direct next week, so that seems incredibly unlikely, if not impossible. But what else could…
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…
In the days of the NES, some games could grab players almost immediately. Many of these came from Nintendo, but it’s when things were from outside the house of Mario that they got interesting. Standing at the head of these was a gothic horror inspired series that captured the fright…
Well, this is a surprise! Just a few days ahead of E3, Nintendo will be streaming a Pokémon Sword & Shield-specific Direct on June 5th. There’ll be roughly 15 minutes of new information, and we’ll be sure to bring you coverage live as it happens! Tune in on June…
If you’ve been looking for an extremely anime third person shooter to dive into, then you might want to keep an eye on Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Complete, which is heading to Switch in Japan later this year. Taking place in the Gun Gale Online setting of the popular…
Sonic is the fastest thing alive, but every so often he gets behind the wheel to give the rest of his friends a fighting chance. The latest entry in Sonic’s karting adventures, Team Sonic Racing, has a few noteworthy issues, but it’s overall a worthy successor to Sumo Digital’s previous…
The titular Three Houses of the Switch’s upcoming Fire Emblem have each gotten a new student this last week, showing Nintendo’s dedication to rolling out trios for the game and the various personalities you’ll be teaching. Unlike previous weeks, no characters from outside the Academy’s houses were revealed, meaning fans…
Welcome back to the Wire Weekly, where I, Ben “spent $25 on an ultra rare jpeg of a rapping bear once” Fruzzetti, run through the week’s assortment of Nintendo news with what could charitably be referred to as wit, sarcasm, and personality. Ah, gacha games. The perpetual source of my…
While the Star Ocean series got its start on the Super Nintendo like so many other JRPGs, it has been absent from Nintendo’s platforms for quite some time – until now. Square Enix has announced that the Star Ocean: First Departure R will be heading to Switch, though there are…
My Nintendo’s presence hasn’t completely filled the hole that Club Nintendo left behind. For some regions, physical goods have returned, causing us nerds to stare longingly at these exclusives. Adding more stationery-centric goods, this new batch from the Japanese My Nintendo is all about Super Mario Maker 2. Featuring an…
