Bethesda ‘will support Wii U if it’s powerful enough’
Bethesda are well known for their beautiful open-world games like Fallout 3 and the Elder Scrolls series, and have many fans. I haven’t kept up much with them before, but I recently started playing Oblivion, and am loving every moment of it, so I’m definitely excited to see that they’re enthusiastic about the Wii U. Our […]
Activision sees “deep rich multiplayer experiences” possible on the Wii U
Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision, seems to be pretty confident in the Wii U’s online capabilities, even though he admits he doesn’t quite know their full potential yet. Well, without telling you our title plans, it’s now more possible to do deep rich multiplayer games – we need more clarity from Nintendo on the […]
Wii U won’t be plagued by 3DS launch woes
The 3DS’s launch was highly anticipated, but soon fell flat as there was quite literally only a single standout game (and even that was a port of a console title). But in a shareholder meeting today, Iwata dropped a reassuring tidbit that gives us hope for a much stronger Wii U launch. He said that […]
EA promises launch titles for the Wii U
The period of time surrounding a new console’s launch is often a great opportunity for publishers to make their support known, as a single gem in the sea of mediocrity that such launches usually constitute, can easily rise above it all. EA’s Frank Gibeau has pledged his company’s support for the Wii U’s launch, all […]
Nintendo looking to turn casual gamers into core gamers
Much of the Wii U already seems unusually daring for Nintendo, but a recent statement from Katsuya Eguchi reveals that they’re planning to do something which many would be quick to call downright impossible. With the Wii, we wanted to bring in as many new users as possible and have them experience the games, but […]
Valve is interested in the Wii U
Valve are known for their awesome multiplatform hits like the Half-Life and Portal series. They’re all about great games, so the news that they’re looking into the Wii U is probably going to be welcomed by just about everyone who reads this blog. Speaking to Joystiq, Gabe Newell (the head of Valve) had the following […]
Video: Wii 2 Blog on G4tv
G4tv, the world’s largest TV station dedicated to video games, was on the bleeding edge of E3 this year. As part of their coverage of Nintendo’s press conference, they put together a pre-show that aired before the conference began. Part of this pre-show focused on the Wii U – or as we called it then, […]
Miyamoto confirms that Zelda is coming to the Wii U
The stunning “Legend of Zelda HD Experience” demo Nintendo showed at E3 got many of us (including myself) drooling at the possibility of seeing the masterful gameplay of the Zelda series finally combine with some high-caliber hardware. However, Nintendo made it very clear that it was only a demo, and not necessarily a real game […]
Amazon.com lists the Wii U
Amazon’s US division has finally caught on to its German counterpart, and has opened a Wii U page of its own. You can now sign up to have them notify you as soon as the Wii U is available to pre-order. Are they jumping the gun? Maybe just a little, but it’s not as crazy as […]
Wii U games might cost over $50
Speaking to Gamasutra, Satoru Iwata dropped a few hints on what we can expect the pricing of Wii U games to be like. From the sound of it, there will be a much wider range than the $50 standard tag we’re used to, with the price of a game hanging on the value of […]