The year of wild collaborations continues! Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble has revealed two new collaborations, featuring the iconic Kaiju Godzilla and the digital diva Hatsune Miku. Both collabs will be available on November 26th as a part of the big 2.0 update. While the update itself is free, Godzilla…
The history of the Fire Emblem franchise is one fraught with a lot of obscurity and uncertainty. With the franchise nearly being canceled entirely prior to the release of Fire Emblem: Awakening, it has been quite a winding path to get to where it is now. Despite these troubles, the…
Nintendo Switch Online is back with new icons, this time themed to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Celebrating the Shiny Rayquaza Tera Raid Battle event that will kick off in a few weeks, the icons are meant to get players excited for the battles ahead! In the meantime, you can enjoy…
Capcom’s Mega Man 30th Anniversary stream got off to a great start, revealing that all of the Mega Man X titles would be coming to Nintendo Switch and other platforms. After some fond words from members of those games’ staff, an 8-bit video began to run showing off where the…
The Nintendo Switch is quickly becoming my go-to place to feed my appetite for punishingly hard platformers. Back in August the boldly bouncy Slime-san wormed its way into my brain, followed more recently by the gravity defying visionary VVVVVV. Soon we’ll see legendary game designer Edmund McMillen’s meaty mascot beefing…
Warning: Minor spoilers regarding the main game and the Captured Memories quest are discussed below. The Champions’ Ballad DLC is almost upon us at this point, and after marathoning Super Mario Odyssey for the past month I know that, personally, I’m ready for a change of pace. The prospect of…
This Thursday 5pb. will be bringing its multiplayer beat ’em up Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds to the Nintendo Switch, which previously released for PC, PS4, Vita and Xbox 360. A chibi-filled spin-off of the fighting game Phantom Breaker, it has multiple modes and even four player co-op. If this interests…
Welcome to Speedrun Sunday: that sadistic time of the week when we dare to challenge both your D-pad’s durability and sanity’s stamina with the ultimate test in video game bragging rights. Hot off the mighty mountain of our twitchy TumbleSeed challenge comes yet another ruthless run that’s sure to result…
Third-party companies have been no stranger to Nintendo’s line of toys-to-life figures in the past, from Yacht Club Games with its Shovel Knight amiibo to Capcom with Monster Hunter Stories. According to a new interview with Famitsu, though, Capcom didn’t plan to stop at Monster Hunter: Apparently a line of…
Another month has arrived and that means it’s Splatfest season. While we’ve yet to hear about North America’s next bout, Nintendo UK has announced the next face-off for Europe: Film vs. Book. EU #Splatfest ink-coming! Are you a film fanatic or a book buff? Pick a side in-game and…
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…
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is finally here! We play through the first 20 minutes of the game and show you what’s waiting for you in the world of Alrest.
Are you ready to take a stance on corporate greed? Fight the powers at be by winning a Switch for free! That’s right, fellow freedom fighters: The good folks over at Zoink Games are celebrating the release of their wonderfully wacky puzzle platformer Stick It to The Man with an…
2017 is full of Nintendo goodies! A new Splatoon game was released, so naturally, a new art book has been in the works for some time. Those of us who are in North America only have the opportunity to get our hands on the translated version of the very first…
Indie developer Tequila Works has announced via Twitter today that its murder mystery title The Sexy Brutale is coming to the Nintendo Switch on December 7th. For those who are unfamiliar with this new addition, the game puts you in the role of Lafcadia Boone, a preacher who finds himself…
