You can transfer most Wii data to a new Wii U. This is a good thing, but nearly as good a thing as the animation that plays when you do this. As soon as it started, I had to grab my camera and start shooting this. The first video shows what you see from the…
Was the Wii U’s first censored Miiverse message this cheeky description of Arkham City?
The Wii U is the first new video game console in six years and the sixth console Nintendo has ever made. It comes freighted with heavy expectations. It more or less starts the next generation of consoles, one that will see a new Xbox and PlayStation late next year, and therefore it needs to seem…
The Wii U’s eShop for downloading games just went live. This thing has a lot more games in it than I’d expected. You’ve got full-sized launch games, from New Super Mario Bros. Wii U to Assassin’s Creed III, several indies, including Little Inferno, Mighty Switch Force: Hyper Drive Edition, Nano Assault Neo and Chasing Aurora…
The Wii U firmware update that just went live and will be mandatory for any of the system’s online features has enabled me to start adding friends to my system. The system is pretty easy. You press the Home menu on the GamePad controller, tap the Friends List option, and then start typing in the…
A firmware update appears to have finally become available for the Wii U, a little later than Nintendo personnel had predicted. Pre-release Wii U systems are now able to at least begin downloading the update. I’m trying to download it right now and will let you all know how it goes and what features become…
Programming note: Our Wii U review will hit at midnight, ET. You can read our Mario and Nintendo Land reviews right now.
Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime did the Jimmy Fallon show on Friday, got some dinner and then… he took a stroll to the Nintendo World Store. He found more than 50 people camped out to pick up the Wii U at midnight Saturday night. I tagged along to see what happened. I walked the…
Amazon will be selling games on the cheap all next week. Here’s a list of their “lightning” deals which all last just a few hours. Expect even better deals for the Monday after Thanksgiving (that’s two Mondays from now—Cyber Monday!). Click the link below for all the deals. Video Games Holiday Lightning Deals
Ubisoft promised a big patch for Assassin’s Creed III and it looks like they’re delivering. The game’s huge “Thanksgiving” patch, set for release next week has a lot of fixes. Some of the fixes will be spoilers (there’s a boring non-spoiler version of the changes here). Read on at your own risk. But let me…
Nintendo’s impressive video streaming service for the Wii U will not be out for launch after all. Nintendo is now planning for it to debut in December, which represents at least a two week delay. Nintendo indirectly announced the delay today in a press release hyping the new system’s Sunday launch. Here’s their description of…
The Wii U’s second screen gets most of the press regarding Nintendo’s new console, but there’s another interesting oddity bolted into the new machine’s controller: a camera. The camera is front-facing and, in the launch games I’ve played, barely used. When it is used, it’s a reminder that there are lots of new possibilities available…
Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s free-to-play option is live now. Update the game; get a killer robot pal in the process.
Nintendo Land is no Wii Sports and it is no Super Mario 64. That’s the bad news for people who hope Nintendo has once again made a day-one masterpiece for its newest console. The good news is that Nintendo Land is a fun collection of surprisingly well-made smaller games. It’s a museum of beloved Nintendo…
How will future historians be sure that Call of Duty: Black Ops II was released in 2012 or thereabouts? Because its campaign had a shootout set to dubstep. It’s short. It’s a little silly. It’s also the perfect time capsule moment.
Enough about what we here at Kotaku think of the Wii U. What do other people in our parent company who don’t cover games for a living think of Nintendo’s new console? We had them play some Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U and asked for their snap judgments. Watch the video and…
The new Grand Theft Auto V trailer seems to have gone over pretty well. Fans are happy. Very happy. They’re reciting a favorite line from it on Twitter. They’re commenting with great passion on the YouTube page for the Stevie Wonder song that was used in the trailer (“GTA V BROUGHT ME HERE SO SUCK…
Wired explains why the world’s most popular first-person shooter doesn’t have a big pro gaming scene.
We’re playing the Wii U here at Kotaku. We’ve got this new Nintendo console. And as we play, we’re scribbling down a lot of thoughts, big and small, pro and con. We thought we’d just start keeping a running list of them. That’s what you’ll get here, with links to our larger impressions pieces. Check…
The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart digs up an old pun and applies it to the ongoing “Love Pentagon” fiasco. If they made a video game about the ongoing sex scandals revolving around former CIA director disgraced general David Petraeus, they could call it Call of Booty. Timely… though watch the full clip for the better…
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