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…
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle still stands as one of my favorite fighting games on Switch, what with its crossover nature and simplified, yet rewarding, gameplay. Things have been awfully quiet for it since the announcement at Evo 2018 that it would be receiving a fifth franchise, and the later reveal…
I’ve already called Wargroove one of the best Switch releases of the year so far, and as I’ve started to introduce the game to friends and read up on others’ takes, a few minor quibbles have come up here and there. Thankfully, Chucklefish has been listening and has recently detailed…
We’ve known about Crystal Crisis for what feels like a long time, and we even got a taste of it at PAX West this last year. The competitive puzzle-fighting action of this game that’s bringing characters from corners I’d never have expected is calling to me more and more every…
Another one of Masahiro Sakurai’s fabled Famitsu columns has dropped in weekly Famitsu, offering another round of profound insight and candid humor from one of the most famous Nintendo developers out there. Nintendo Everything has courteously provided the full translation, which we’ve summarized below: Sakurai celebrates Smash’s 20th birthday (which…
While the original Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island is an unmitigated classic, sequels starring everybody’s favorite tax-evading dinosaur have been of disputed quality. From the very simplistic Yoshi’s Story on N64 to the ear-screeching soundtrack of Yoshi’s New Island on 3DS, it wasn’t really until Yoshi’s Woolly World on…
While the initial boom of games has died down, the VR wars of the ’10s are still going, with Oculus, HTC, and Sony all competing for that potentially lucrative virtual reality pie; and while Nintendo has previously stated that they want to stay out of the virtual reality dogfight, a…
Best Buy will be including free steelbooks to those who purchase copies of Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! next week. The news comes from Cheap Ass Gamer, which also provided the following photo of the steelbook: According to the Cheap Ass Gamer forum post,…
A couple of days ago we brought you the news that the third wave of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate amiibo, consisting of Young Link, Ken, and Daisy, would be arriving in North America on April 12th, 2019. Now, the same date has been confirmed for Europe. More Super #SmashBros…
A super surprise from last year’s The Game Awards, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 was shown off in yesterday’s Nintendo Direct. Hot of the heels of Super Mario Maker 2’s reveal, we were treated to a few more details about this Switch exclusive. Characters absent from December’s trailer made brief appearances…
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is coming to the Nintendo Switch with a fresh look. We compare the Game Boy classic and the updated version, and we see just how true to the source material it will be! Support us on Patreon.
Here at Nintendo Wire, we always are pondering about amiibo support and functionality in upcoming Nintendo games. I even mentioned the idea when I covered what new tidbits we saw for Yoshi’s Crafted World in yesterday’s Nintendo Direct. Perhaps the amiibo overlords heard me and decided to give us a…
The Direct is over and done but one last surprise was waiting to make itself known. Team Cherry has announced and revealed not a DLC expansion for their debut game, but a fully fledged sequel starring Hornet instead. See for yourself in the first look at Hollow Knight: Silksong Everything…
