Wii U

Nintendo’s new console combines the classic Wii motion controls experience with HD graphics and a tablet-like touchscreen controller. Better still, Nintendo is committed to making many of the games released for the console available as digital downloads on day one. Sorry, GameStop.

Nintendo Wii U gets November 18 release date with these launch titles

Nintendo Wii U gets November 18 release date with these launch titles

This morning, Nintendo announced that its new Wii U console’s U.S. release date is November 18, 2012. The game company also announced the price and the lineup of launch titles gamers can expect to see on store shelves within the first few months of the console’s release. Two versions of the Wii U will be sold at retail: A white, [...]

Hands-on with Rayman Legends for Wii U and its new take on multiplayer

Hands-on with Rayman Legends for Wii U and its new take on multiplayer

Ubisoft’s Rayman Legends for Wii U comes up with so many new ways for friends to play together in the same room, we can’t even list them all. We played the game with one of its designers at E3 in Los Angeles this week and we can safely say that if local multiplayer with friends is your thing, this is [...]

Preview: Assassin’s Creed 3 is literally a revolution

Preview: Assassin’s Creed 3 is literally a revolution

As we saw in the trailer, Assassin’s Creed III takes the popular video game franchise from Ubisoft into a fresh direction with a completely different setting and hero, naval battles, frontier exploration, and an arsenal of visceral new combat tools. Even though it’s called Assassin’s Creed III, it’s really the fifth game in the series — but it’s the first to [...]

New Super Mario Bros. U revives old-school platforming on Wii U

New Super Mario Bros. U revives old-school platforming on Wii U

There’s a new Mario game coming to the Wii U! It’s called New Super Mario Bros. U, and it’s a multi-player affair in the side-scrolling style of the Mario classics of yore. It’s a sequel of sorts to 2009′s New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Like its predecessor, it lets a bunch of friends (this time 5, four with Wii remotes [...]

Pikmin 3 brings strategic adorableness to Nintendo Wii U

Pikmin 3 brings strategic adorableness to Nintendo Wii U

This morning at the E3 2012 conference in Los Angeles, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto revealed Pikmin 3, a strategy game for the new Wii U console that hits store shelves later this year. Pikmin 3 will take advantage of the Wii U’s HD resolution (all previous consoles were standard definition or even less) to show more of the environments along with [...]