The Wii U was a flop, but many of its ideas and games were ahead of their time. ...

Mario Kart 8 is, perhaps, the finest example of the supremely popular Mario Kart series. It’s also a deeply weird one – which ...

The Wii U and its games have gotten a bad rap over the years - but this overlooked game in the Star Fox series deserves more ...

The Nintendo Wii U emulator Cemu just got a new experimental update for Android. Based on our testing, it runs many games at full speed, but only on powerful devices. This is the first official ...

Facepalm: When Nintendo released the Wii U in 2012, gamers weren't exactly lining up to purchase the new console. Now, after 12 years, the device is exhibiting signs of hardware unreliability that ...

GTA 5 on Wii U would have become a reality if Rockstar Games had not dropped the idea and instead pursued the possibility of turning the alleged prototype into the full game. This was a huge rumor ...

Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. For years, the Wii U was largely ...

The Wii U was a critical and commercial failure, marking a dropoff for Nintendo as players flocked to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. While the firm has since righted the ship with the sales beast ...

Nintendo sold just one brand new Wii U unit in September, marking their first official sale of a Wii U system in over a year. That's according to Mat Piscatella, an industry analyst at the market ...

After closing its 3DS and Wii U eShops earlier this year, Nintendo will shut down online services for those consoles in "early April 2024," it announced. That will put a halt to multiplayer ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The Wii U isn’t dead, it’s just resting. Nintendo finally brought the console’s servers for Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 back online after a ...

Here’s how it works. Though it feels like a blip in the history books, 11 years ago Nintendo released a little console called the Wii U. It had a large controller with a screen in it so you ...