Tag: Wii U
Xenoblade Chronicles X Offers A Lot To Explore
Traveling across planet Mira in Nintendo’s latest Xenoblade game may seem incredibly daunting at first. You’re given a lot of missions to keep you close to home and some pretty big, scary, aliens roam the plains around the city of New LA. Are they aliens if you’re on their home planet? I guess it’s all […]
This year was great, but when can I play all of these games?
Let’s be real, 2015 was a fantastic year for gaming. Of course, there were some misses like the monetization for Battlefront and EVOLVE, and… whatever the hell happened to the PC release of Arkham Knight. But, stepping away from those, it’s after Christmas, so let’s look at our definite hits that we have, and enjoy […]
Pokken Tournament Gets Its Own Controller In North America
Ninndo and Namco’s collaborative Pokemon themed fighting game, Pokken Tournament will be receiving its own official controller manufactured by long peripheral company Hori. The controller is based upon the arcade cabinet’s button layout and was previously announced for release in Japan. If you want to get your hands on the official Pokken Tournament Controller you […]
Minecraft Wii U Is Already Among The All Time Top 10 Downloads In Japan
Mojang’s smash hit about your struggle to survive the night all while hissing snake creatures try to blow up your home, Minecraft, has already cracked the top ten all time downloads in the Japanese Wii U E Shop. According to the all time download purchase rankings available on the Nintendo Japan website Microsoft’s latest acquisition […]
Nintendo Unveils The Miiverse’s Top 3 Games For Wii U / 3DS
Nintendo has unveiled the most popular games as measured via traffic on their Miiverse social media website / Wii U application. This year didn’t feature the two big marquee releases for Wii U – Star Fox: Zero and The Legend of Zelda Wii U, as both of those games got delayed into 2016. However, it […]
Comcept Unloads A Barrage of Mighty Number 9 Screenshots
Comcept the developer behind the Kickstarted Mega Man spiritual successor Mighty Number 9 has released a whole set of brand new screenshots for your viewing pleasure. We’ve got an entire gallery containing all of the high-rez colorful screnshots at the bottom of this post. Mighty Number 9 was originally revealed back in September 2013 and […]
Shovel Knight Amiibo To Be Released January 8th In North America
Yacht Club Game’s Shovel Knight will make his amiibo debut on January 8th in North America and December 11th in Europe the developers have announced via their blog. The reason for the almost month long gap between launches in the two territories stems from an issue with the figure’s production. Rather than only ship a […]
Super Smash Bros. U – Cloud storms into battle!
Some astounding news on the Smash Bros front today. In one heck of an unexpected move, Cloud from Final Fantasy VII has been added to their ever expanding roster!’
Wii U Emulator Cemu V 1.01 Update Brings Faster Game Loading
Wii U Emulator Cemu Update Brings Faster Game Loading A few weeks ago the world’s first Nintendo Wii U emulator Cemu hit the scene and now the program’s developer has released version 1.01 which brings with it enhanced loading times and graphical improvements. If you are expecting to play the latest Nintendo releases on your […]
Super Mario Maker Drives Wii U Sales Up 110% For September!
Sales of Nintendo’s current generation platform, the Wii U increased an impressive 110% when compared with August 2015. Nintendo attributes this absolutely impressive uptick in sales to the release of Super Mario Maker which has moved over 500,000 units in the U.S.A since launching on September 11th. To quote Nintendo’s press-release, since they put it […]
Hands on with Zen Pinball 2: Balls of Glory | Review
First off, I want to say that I’m a huge pinball fan since I got an Atari 2600 with Virtual Pinball back in 1995. I’d spend hours playing on it trying for a high score, so when I’m able to go to an arcade, I always hit up the pinball sections to see how high […]
Nintendo Launching Splatoon & Mario Kart 8 Bundle In Europe
Nintendo Europe has unveiled a brand new retail bundle for their latest console which includes a black 32GB Wii U, a digital copy of Splatoon and a pre-installed copy of last year’s surprise hit Mario Kart 8. According to their official press release the Marrio Kart + Splatoon Premium Bundle will see a limited release […]
Star Fox Zero Locks-On To A New Release Date
It looks like Star Fox fans will be waiting just a little bit longer before they can pilot their Arwings on Nintendo’s latest console as Star Fox Zero has slipped into the first quarter of 2016. This news comes via IGN.com which reports that legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto is quoted in the following statement regarding […]
Watch Nintendo’s XenoBlade Chronicles X Panel
Nintendo held an hour long presentation for their upcoming open world RPG Xenoblade Chronicles X at PAX Prime in Seattle this weekend and they’ve posted the entire presentation on YouTube for all to Enjoy. The majority of this presentation focused on the evolution of the game’s art style over the course of development. Members of […]
Star Fox Zero Targets a November Releas Date
Star Fox pilots prepare to scramble towards your Arwings for a November 20th launch date! That’s right Nintendo’s upcoming reimagining of Fox McCloud and friends – Star Fox Zero – arrives on the Wii U this winter. The game was revealed during this summer’s E3 Nintendo Direct and was also the focus of several lengthy […]