This past weekend, Sega held a closed network test for their upcoming kart racer Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds on PlayStation 5. To say that I had fun would be an understatement. For the three days that the beta was online, my living room sounded like an arcade — character one-liners being…
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…
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…
UPDATE: You can pre-order the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Limited Edition at Best Buy for $139.99. Get a close-up look at the controller below: If you were hoping to play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with a Switch Pro Controller but haven’t gotten around to grabbing one yet, you’re in luck,…
It’s no secret that I’ve been a huge fan of both Metroidvanias and roguelikes ever since I was a old enough to coddle a controller. Like peanut butter and chocolate I’d always imagined the two could go together smoothly, despite their conflicting concepts around general progression and character growth. Games…
As we approach the end of August, many of us were starting to wonder just when the first wave of Sega Ages titles (Sonic the Hedgehog and Thunder Force IV) would hit Switch. Now, it’s been confirmed that the two titles have been pushed back into September for “quality improvement.”…
We already know Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is going to have a massive cast of unlockable characters – everyone besides the base members of the Nintendo 64 game needs to be unlocked, through methods unknown right now. That said, an alternative method may have just presented itself via Best…
In a surprise announcement that very few people could have seen coming, the first SNK Heroines DLC character has been announced and it’s Thief Arthur from Square Enix’s Million Arthur series. A freemium mobile series that started back in 2012, Million Arthur is somewhat unknown to western audiences, only being…
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…
Nintendo is just as excited as you are about Diablo III headed to Switch, according to a recent Game Informer interview. Blizzard associate producer Matthew Cederquist said that the team at Blizzard knew Diablo III would be perfect for Switch, and that Nintendo was just as excited as they were…
We never even got the Sanrio Splatfest here in America, but I still miss it. Seeing these cute characters done up in Splatoon style was a real treat, and even led to Splatoon 2 winning the number one collab spot in Sanrio’s annual poll. Looks like they’re not done yet…
Castlevania’s no stranger to a long lineage of slayers of the night, with the Belmont lineage comprising the majority of it. But for many a player, the most famous Castlevania lead is no human, but rather the offspring of the very evil they purge. In Castlevania: Symphony of the Night,…
Fans of kittens and the 3DS, gather ’round — have I got a treat for you! Bandai Namco announced today that cute kitty game Neko Tomo will be gracing the Nintendo Switch and 3DS in Japan sometime this year. This very chill life sim game will offer you the chance…
It’s time again at last for us to look at the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster, nod in approval, and then realize we’re greedy and want all our favorites front and center to join the fight. With ideas bouncing in our heads like sound waves that just won’t quit, join…
