Following a release date leak earlier this week, a trailer for Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection has now officially confirmed that physical editions of the game will be available. Digital Eclipse and Atari also announced that Mortal Kombat Trilogy will be included in the collection. The Trilogy, originally released in 1996,…
The two month anniversary of the Switch 2 is almost here and Nintendo is likely ecstatic at the success of its latest console. For the latest financial report released this morning, Nintendo has revealed that the Switch 2 has moved more than 6 million units of its console since it…
Following reports earlier this week that the new Ho-Oh EX card in Pokémon TCG Pocket featured traced-over fan art, The Pokémon Company has asked players and fans to stop harassing the artist involved for the card as it takes full responsibility for the mishap. For anyone not up to speed,…
The crumbs have settled, the plates are licked, and all the leftovers have been packed away — the great cutlery calamity of Splatoon 2’s Splatfest has subsided. There appears to have been a shine towards Spoons based on popularity, but once again that’s not enough to secure the true victory….
December always feels so far away, and this year I place the blame firmly on Smash. The turnaround time on this game is incredible, but we still have to wait for it and all it’ll include for another three months. Judging by Amazon’s Best Sellers list though, we’re not the…
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,…
