One of the main distinguishing features the Wii U has from its predecessor is the gamepad. Nintendo seemed to have decided that two screen gaming was so successful on the DS (and later the 3DS) that ...

Forget Nintendo’s lackluster January console sales, forget worries about dwindling interest in game consoles in general — Shigeru Miyamoto clearly believes in the Wii U, and he’s thinking well beyond ...

It’s not hard to see where the problem comes from. Nintendo has always favoured first-party games and its own cheaper, if quirky, technology, making it all but impossible to play the latest ...

Nintendo’s rebranded Wii U GamePad is the best controller the company has ever designed, the CEO of Gearbox has claimed. In an interview with Gamasutra, Randy Pitchford said the pad was perfectly ...

This is a tale of controllers: the Wii U GamePad and the Wii U Pro Controller. For years, Nintendo gamers have wanted a hardcore game controller like those that come with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony ...

Shigeru Miyamoto has said the possibilities for Metroid using Wii U's GamePad "could be really fantastic." Speaking with IGN, Miyamoto said, hypothetically, with Metroid, it was easy to imagine ...

Nintendo unveiled a new Wii U GamePad today that sports a near-field communications reader and that can be used as a TV remote. The new game console tablet features a 6.2-inch touch-sensitive screen ...

Playing an emulated Wii U game can now be a much more authentic experience thanks to the existence of the Steam Deck and a team of dedicated fans. Some old gaming systems are harder to emulate than ...