Any article based on Wii U titles, or Wii U-based eShop games.
Nintendo celebrated the 30th anniversary of Kirby with a special concert. If you haven’t heard, Kirby is turning 30 this year. Nintendo is celebrating with all kinds of Kirby-related games and events including the well-received Nintendo Switch game Kirby and the Forgotten Land. If you’re a regular reader of our site, you may have also … Read more
Ubisoft has announced that it shut down online multiplayer and services for a number of its games. Most of the games are legacy titles. Some of them – like the original Ghost Recon for PC – are over twenty years old now. They are also ending online support for games like Assassin’s Creed 2, Far … Read more
After closing services in Latin America, digital store closures are imminent worldwide. Nintendo of America announced the global discontinuation of the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShops on its Twitter account yesterday night. Nintendo has decided to shut down the services of buying and redeeming eShop vouchers for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. This comes … Read more
The Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant and the surrounding land will serve as a new museum for Nintendo products launched throughout its history. Nintendo has been talking about the possibility of constructing a gallery in the Uji Ogura Plant to share their product development history and philosophy with the public. The Japanese company has a long … Read more
Super Mario 3D World is the game that the Wii U needed at launch. Nintendo Land was a cool concept to show off the Wii U GamePad’s unique features, yet it wasn’t a full-fledged game as much as a collection of tech demos. Pikmin 3 was a fun distraction; it’s just not a system seller. … Read more
GameStop is giving away two limited edition posters with Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury pre-orders. Nintendo just announced the game for Switch. It includes the Wii U game and a new adventure called Bowser’s Fury. You can either play alone or with friends and family in local and online co-op. As for the … Read more
The video streaming giant Netflix is discontinuing service on two Nintendo platforms: the 3DS and Wii U. According to a Nintendo customer support page, the service ends on June 30, 2021: The Netflix app was removed from Nintendo eShop on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS Family systems on Dec 31st, 2020. They are no longer … Read more
If you’re a frequent site visitor and noticed that things looked a little different, first of all, good eye! Second, we have indeed made a few cosmetic changes to the site. If you are viewing the site on a desktop, you’ll notice that the category and platform navigation bar has changed. We’ve moved the alphabetized … Read more
Platinum Games is bringing The Wonderful 101: Remastered to PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch after smashing its crowdfunding goal. The fan-favorite superhero action-adventure game was originally released on the Nintendo Wii U. It came from Platinum Games, the same studio behind the cult classics MadWorld and Bayonetta. Hideki Kamiya acted as the game’s director. “In … Read more
Nintendo announced on Twitter that its popular Switch title Super Mario Maker 2 has seen users create over 10 million playable courses. The follow-up to the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U side-scrolling platformer and game creation toolset was released in June 2019 on the Switch. The sequel sold just shy of 4 million copies as of … Read more
Bayonetta has a loyal following. So when Sega confirmed last month that Vanquish and Bayonetta were getting re-released in a 10th-anniversary bundle, it no doubt got a lot of people excited. In a new interview with Scott Spatola, Jason Rau, and Dan Dussault of Weapons Van, the team behind the cover art for the Bayonetta & Vanquish 10th Anniversary Bundle … Read more
Assassin’s Creed: The Rebel Collection is out today on Nintendo Switch, bringing two Assassin’s Creed games to a portable device for the first time. The Switch-exclusive Rebel Collection includes Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Assassin’s Creed Rogue in one package. It was revealed during September’s Nintendo Direct. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Assassin’s Creed Rogue are now … Read more
Since it first released the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan in 1983, Nintendo has been one of the leading video game hardware manufacturers. Thanks to the success of the Nintendo Switch, the company just topped all-time hardware sales of 750 million units. The official tally of Nintendo hardware sales since the NES – both console … Read more
It’s fun to look back every once in a while at where we came from in video games. Few, if any, companies will be remembered as fondly as Nintendo. For a large percentage of us, Nintendo was our introduction to gaming. For many, the house of Mario remains their favorite to this day. A fan-made … Read more
Let’s say that one day you eat a psychedelic mushroom and – for a few hours only – you get to relive your childhood. You relish the memories of times with friends and experience harmless fun without a care in the world. If you grew up in the ’90s, Mario Kart probably feels a lot … Read more
Nintendo revealed that Super Mario Maker is coming to the Nintendo Switch in June during today’s Nintendo Direct. Super Mario Maker came out on the Wii U in 2015 and the Nintendo 3DS in 2016. Fans have wanted the Wii U version ported to the Switch, but Nintendo is releasing a sequel instead with new tools to … Read more
Armature Studios was more than willing to admit that it wanted to go with the Metroidvania theme when developing Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, the handheld tie-in to the console game Batman: Arkham Origins. Unfortunately, it might have been better off thinking about ways to make the Batman: Arkham series’ hand-to-hand combat system and gadget-based exploration … Read more
