Alongside the myriad of announcements this morning from the Switch 2 Direct was the confirmation that certain Nintendo Switch titles would be getting enhanced Nintendo Switch 2 Editions. First up for the enhancement process are two of the Switch’s biggest titles, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and…
Not revealed in today’s Direct, Nintendo has a new wrinkle in store for publishers that opt to sell physical games without the physical component. For anyone looking to sell a “key-in-a-box,” Nintendo has a brand-new option: the Switch 2 Game-Key card. As the name suggests, this will be a Switch…
Mario Kart World, the newest entry in the Mario Kart franchise and the first new console game in over a decade, races on to Switch 2 in just two months! First teased back in January for the Switch 2 reveal, Mario Kart World was the first trailer shown off in…
Even though Super Mario Maker 2 is right around the corner, we’ve yet to really get a good look at its full suite of options. Thankfully, a new ad spotted in Japan features several never-before-seen screenshots. Let’s take a look, courtesy of higashi042 on Resetera: Right click and open in…
Giga Wrecker, Game Freak’s latest video game experiment outside of the world of Pokémon, will finally hit Switch later this week, and it’s gotten a new launch trailer to mark the occasion. Check out the adventures of the new heroine Reika below: Giga Wrecker Alt. launches May 2nd…
Welcome back to the Wire Weekly, where I, Ben “remember Miitomo?” Fruzzetti, run through the week’s assortment of Nintendo news with what could charitably be referred to as wit, sarcasm, and personality. It’s the most wonderful time of the (financial) year — when a bunch of corporate suits in Kyoto…
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…
We take Super Mario Odyssey’s free VR update for a spin! Check out the gameplay:
In early June, the first home console entry in the Yo-Kai Watch series will finally launch in Japan for the Nintendo Switch. While we’ve already seen quite a bit of gameplay, this latest trailer is the full opening cinematic that’ll presumably play before you start the game, and it highlights…
Yesterday saw the release of Nintendo’s Fiscal Year 2018 results, and late last night President Furukawa and other Nintendo execs sat down with investors for a presentation and Q&A. While the latter usually takes a while to be translated and uploaded, we have all of the slides from the former,…
After previously submitting a request to the Chinese government, Nintendo has officially announced its partnership with Chinese conglomerate Tencent to sell the Switch in China. In a very short PR release on its website, Nintendo stated (translated from Japanese) that “Nintendo Co., Ltd. is announcing that a collaboration is in…
Back in the days of the 3DS, BoxBoy! was a surprising delight developed by the wonderful people over at HAL Laboratory. Spanning three games, Qbby adventured through hundreds of puzzles using his ability to spawn boxes from his body. The last entry in the series was titled Bye-Bye BoxBoy!,…
Nintendo’s serving up another chance to try one of its online titles for free this weekend. Mario Tennis Aces will be hosting another Special Online Demo, giving players a chance to enter online singles tournament matches and earn a reward or two for the full game. Haven’t hit the…
You all ready for the hottest Ink and Octo duo to take the stage and make some noise?! Nintendo has uploaded a little something for all you fans of Splatoon 2 and cephalopod-based idol duos — a recording of the Off the Hook concert from this year’s live Tokaigi gaming…
It turns out the Switch is getting a Persona game, but it’s probably not the one you were expecting. Titled Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, another game from Koei Tecmo and Omega Force, with the trappings of the “musou”, or Warriors, genre. Check out the first trailer: …
