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…
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…
Sure as Sub-Zero loves to rip spines out of people, more and more kharacters are being revealed for Mortal Kombat 11 before its April 23 release date. Just this week, we have had four konfirmations, including one amazing DLC addition. First, Jacqui Briggs, daughter of Jax, returns from her MKX…
Welcome back to the Wire Weekly, where I, Ben “my blood is 100% pasta” Fruzzetti, run through the week’s assortment of Nintendo news with what could charitably be referred to as wit, sarcasm, and personality. Well, we all know what the big news was this week — and no, I’m…
Nintendo and Microsoft have been getting pretty chummy as of late — from allowing crossplay in Minecraft to rumors of various Xbox exclusive software and features making their way to the Switch. Despite the massive mound of salt produced by that last statement, this week’s Nindies Showcase blew the rumor…
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle’s arcade update will be hitting Japan sometime this spring, with its four additional characters due on consoles at some point as DLC. We’ve seen BlazBlue’s Naoto Kurogane and Persona 4 Arena’s Teddie already, but stepping into the ring today we’ve got Under Night In-Birth’s Seth, as…
The marketing for AI: The Somnium Files, the latest game from Zero Escape mastermind Kotaro Uchikoshi, has been a bit of a trip so far, involving an elaborate V-tuber ARG unraveling week by week on a fictional(?) YouTube channel. While the internet detectives are still at work on that one,…
Indie Smash-esque games seem to be on a roll with guest characters lately. Brawlout just got a Dead Cells crossover, Shovel Knight is appearing in both Brawlout and Rivals of Aether, and now we have the Right Hand of Doom himself coming to Brawlhalla. Thanks to a deal between Ubisoft…
Nintendo has released a seven-minute video breaking down the upcoming kit as well as a brief look of what can be done. The full kit comes with six Toy-Cons – VR Goggles, Blaster, Camera, Elephant, Bird, and Wind Pedal. Each creation isn’t limited to one game and can be combined…
We play though five frantic minutes of Cuphead on Nintendo Switch. Watch it here:
Nintendo’s flagship store in America has had a busy month — Mar10 Day, the release of Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn, and now the upcoming release of Yoshi’s Crafted World. To close out this month’s jam-packed calendar, Nintendo NY is hosting a craft event themed after Yoshi’s Crafted World! Dubbed Yoshi’s…
Dragon Ball FighterZ has no shortage of Saiyans in its roster, but rather than bump it up further with some of Super’s additions a (very) familiar face from a different sequel series is coming along. I never expected Dragon Ball GT, the original anime only sequel to Dragon Ball Z,…
The initial year of the Nintendo Switch was filled with various partnerships and contests. One with Frito-Lay was a surprise, and given the demand for the console and the promise of giving one away each hour, the promotion was a success. So much so, you may have even seen the…
