Here we go! Let’s take a look at the nominees for the 2024 Game Awards. While Nintendo doesn’t have an entry in the Game of the Year category this year, it currently holds three out of five nominees for Best Family Game, where the company has historically been the favorite…
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…
One of the most common talking points among video game circles is often the music that accompanies them. Yet for every award-winning soundtrack, there’s a handful of tracks that live on for more amusing reasons. Perhaps the most well-known song of this caliber is the notorious “DK Rap” from Donkey…
Ah, Golf Story. A game that seemed to spring up out of nowhere earlier this year, yet somehow it instantly had us interested. The mixture of golfing and RPG isn’t new to gaming, but it’s definitely been a while since we’ve seen it offered in a game. More…
Check out the opening cinematic from the Japanese version of Fire Emblem Warriors on the Nintendo Switch. New gameplay videos are coming soon, so stay tuned!
It all starts out with a dead body. You’ve heard this story before: a corpse lying in the middle of a field, near the sewer system. Yet, all in Thimbleweed Park is not as it seems at first glance. There’s much more going on here than just a simple murder….
It seemed like an inevitability that resident Fire Emblem quasi-mascot and money loving redhead Anna would make it into the Fire Emblem Warriors roster, but after months of wondering if she’d be playable (and after a leak seemed to confirm as such) Koei Tecmo has dropped a trailer a mere…
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…
Just in time for inevitable Halloween parties and to only a little late to celebrate the oddly appropriate Be Bald and Free Day (seriously, look it up), Jackbox Party Pack 4 will be coming to a system or stream near you. The group based, easy to get in on games…
Olly olly oxen free! Night School Studio just clarified what exactly an “October 2017” release means for Oxenfree’s port on the Nintendo Switch. How does the first Friday in October sound? You’ll want to save October 6th as the day to pick up a Switch controller (Joy-Con or Pro) and…
This is it, everyone. The final stretch. If you’re not getting seriously pumped up, then you’re probably not keeping track of dates very well. In exactly one month, those of us lucky enough to own a Switch (hopefully that’s everyone reading!) will be comfortably sitting in our gaming chairs with…
The first, in what we hope to be many, Arcade Archives is live and for sale in the Nintendo eShop. Announced during this month’s Nintendo Direct, Mario Bros. is making a jump to the Nintendo Switch under the Arcade Archives brand. For $7.99, up to two players can choose to…
SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains character spoilers for the upcoming New Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch title Fire Emblem Warriors. Do not continue reading unless you wish to be spoiled about yet-to-be-officially-revealed characters. Multiple unannounced Fire Emblem Warriors characters have been discovered thanks to an early Twitch stream of…
We’ve been chronicling the development and pending approval of Stardew Valley on the Nintendo Switch for some time now. Since the game was revealed for the system towards the beginning of the year, we’ve been eager to start farming, living and loving in its pixel pastures — and by the…
Just a few months to go now till the launch of Sonic Forces and in anticipation the official Sonic YouTube channel has unveiled a new Classic Sonic stage for the game – Casino Forest. According to the description it’s an ancient ruin being converted into a casino by…
