Tag: Nintendo Wii U

January 24th Nintendo Download

The Cave finally lands on the Wii U this week as the highly anticipated game is released. Plus the Wii U Virtual Console Trial Campaign, just announced yesterday, also makes its debut with Balloon Fight. A few more Wii U and 3DS titles, but nothing for the Nintendo Wii or the Nintendo DSi. That’s a […]

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Wii U Direct – Two Zelda Games on the Horizon

Nintendo unveiled plans on Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct for not only a brand new Zelda game for the console but also the HD update and refreshing of GameCube Zelda game The Wind Waker. With the newest Zelda game not coming around for quite some time as it’s still in development, Nintendo released details of the Wind […]

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Wii U Direct – Other News and Notes

Nintendo will be releasig two updates to the Wii U which will alow software to launch faster and a quicker return to Wii U menu. The first update will happen in the spring with the second in the summer. VIRTUAL CONSOLE Nintendo is launching their Virtual Console for the Wii U and you’ll be able […]

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Wii U Direct – New Yoshi Game Coming

Nintendo revealed that the company is working on a new game staring Yoshi for the Nintendo Wii U. This will be the first game to feature the dino as the main character since Yoshi’s Story for the Nintendo 64. That game was released back in 1998! If you’ve played that game it was pretty fun, […]

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Wii U Direct – New Wonderful 101 Trailer

Nintendo showed off a new video for Platinum Games’ upcoming project The Wonderful 101 at the Nintendo Direct on Wednesday. No further details of the game were released and there is still no firm release date, but the new gameplay footage ramps up the excitement for the quirky title. With one hundred unique characters in […]

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Wii U Direct – New Xenoblade Game Coming Soon

Monolith Soft is working on a new title for the Nintendo Wii U and it looks like it’s going to be in the Xeno series of games, but what it is and when it will be released is still a mystery. Presumably it will be a direct followup to last year’s Xenoblade Chronicles for the […]

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Wii U Direct – Fire Emblem / Shin-Megami Tensei Crossover Planned

Nintendo revealed a teaser trailer for an upcoming collaboration title being developed by Intelligent Systems Co. Ltd, Atlus and Nintendo. The game is a crossover between Atlus’ Shin-Megami Tensi series and Nintendo’s Fire Emblem series, though no other details were revealed. Will this be a strategy game? Perhaps this will be a fighting game in […]

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Wii U Direct – Bayonetta 2 Development Progressing Well

Nintendo showed off a new developement video for Platinum Games’ upcoming title Bayonetta 2 via Nintendo Direct on Wednesday morning. While Iwata couldn’t give much detail to the in development project, he stated that the project is developing well and then showed off a video from the developers. There will be more locations in the […]

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Ubisoft’s U-Play App Now Available on Nintendo E-Shop

Yesterday, Ubisoft officially released the U-Play app and is now available through the Nintendo Wii-U’s EShop. When the user downloads and installs the application, the user will need to enter a username and password to access special features upon using the application. Some of the features the user has access to are information of games […]

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Wii U: The Next Generation is Here! Part One

It’s finally here. Nintendo finally launched its brand new console and I have spent a week drooling and playing on it for the last week now. It’s only been five days, but other than my day job, I have done nothing but use every bit of the console since its release on November 18, 2012. […]

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Satoru Iwata Unboxes the Nintendo Wii U

As a bonus, late last week, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata unboxed the Wii U to the delight of many others. Jokingly, he often compared himself to a shopping channel host. As a person who has unboxed things on camera before, let me say: he’s right…. Anyway, check out the unboxing for yourself here: [youtube id=”ECqpc6Ses4s” width=”600″ […]

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Nintendo Network Explained

On the minds of many gamers who may indeed be purchasing a Wii U this holiday is it’s online functionality. Many a gamer has been more or less worried about the Wii U’s online capabilities and many are considering this to be the make or break for the system. With that in mind, all of […]

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Report: Nintendo Wii U Pro Controller will Last 80 Hours?

As we all know, Nintendo will be launching the Wii U in just a few short weeks and with that comes a couple of cool controllers like the Wii U Gamepad. Nintendo will also be releasing another conventional controller with the system as well. Dubbed the Wii U Pro Controller, the control itself looks like […]

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Nintendo Wii U’s Launch Line-Up

We are counting down the next couple of months to the release of the Wii U and we have finally a firm Launch Line-Up to share.  A lot of the games are pretty much what I expected and probably what you expect as well, but I will let you be the judge of that. Note […]

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Nintendo Wii U is Region Locked

Oh, Nintendo. Why do you go and make something awesome and then decide to pull things like this. If you have been catching up on the latest and greatest news on the Nintendo Wii U, then you will know that Famitsu just put out an article regarding the Wii U. They have reported that Nintendo’s […]

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