On Sunday, Nintendo Co. is launching the Wii U, a game machine designed to appeal both to the original Wii's casual audience and the hardcore gamers who skip work to be among the first to play the ...

How hard would it be to clone the Wii U gamepad, the quirky controller with its unique embedded screen? This is the question ...

Remember the Wii U, the Nintendo home console that launched 10 years ago today? Avid video game fans probably do, but you might not if you’re part of the select group known as “most people,” because ...

Miguel "Migz" Llado started playing games and consoles in the early '90s. From the Famicom generation up to now with the Xbox Series S, he has enjoyed many years with different games and platforms. A ...

— -- The iPhone 5 isn't the only gadget that's racking up massive preorders, preorders of Nintendo's new Wii U console are already sold out at online retailers across the United States. The Wii U ...

Nintendo will soon be ceasing all sales through its eShop service for 3DS and Wii U consoles. Users will no longer be able to purchase new games digitally, although existing owners of those games will ...

The Wii U - Nintendo's successor to its ground-breaking and best-selling Wii console - is available across the UK and Europe from today (November 30). In the months up to release there been some ...

We rank the best Wii U games of all time. From Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario Maker to Splatoon and Breath of the Wild, these ...

Six months after its release, the Nintendo Switch 2 has already sold more consoles than the Wii U managed throughout its entire lifetime.

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In the six years since the last major video game system launched, Apple unveiled the iPhone and the iPad, "Angry Birds" invaded smartphones and Facebook reached a billion users. In the process, scores ...