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, [...]
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 [...]
You were probably expecting this, but now it’s been confirmed: The Nintendo Wii U will stream videos from Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Instant Video just like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 do. Specifics haven’t been revealed, but here’s hoping that all three video services will be supported by some of the Wii U’s Miiverse social features that we [...]
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 [...]
Nintendo took the first swing in the melee that is E3 2012, the biggest video game industry convention in the United States. The company held a live webcast tonight and revealed details about the final iteration of the Wii U’s new controller, the Wii U GamePad, plus a detailed outline of how multiplayer and social features will work on the [...]
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