Imagine you had a friend whose family made some pretty good… pants. They made one of your favourite pairs of pants that you wore a lot and then he told you they were updating the style and comfort of the pants design, but you’d only be able to buy them from a members-only store that you were probably going to join anyways. You wait in line to buy your membership to the store and are generally enjoying the other clothing it offers, but you wonder where the new pants you were promised are. You ask your friend what happened and he apologizes saying the pants weren’t perfect enough for the store’s launch and that they’ll be ready for sure in a couple of months. To tide you over, he lets you try the current model of the pants on and they’re just as good as you imagined so you figure you can wait.
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Saturday, February 9th, 2013Wii U Direct – Jan. 23, 2013 Summary
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013Nintendo streamed a Wii U Direct conference this morning promising to detail the things Nintendo’s been working on for the Wii U and what we can expect over the next few months. I think they gave us even more than we bargained for, so here is a summary on the information Nintendo shared today:
Official Word on Nuketown 2025 on Wii U
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012The day the Wii U came out I attempted to contact Activision regarding the Nuketown 2025 map that was promised for Wii U, but then unceremoniously pulled and swept under the rug at the very last second.
This evening I finally received official word from Activision’s tech support, and unfortunately it’s not great news, but I’m sure it’s what most of us expected:
Thank you for contacting Activision Customer Support. I can understand how annoying and confusing that must have been. We?re sorry but unfortunately we are not able to offer Nuketown 2025 on the Wii-U platform at this time. Sorry for the inconvenience and once anymore information about that comes out, it will be announced on our official channels ( like the support website or https://twitter.com/Treyarch ) so please check them out from time to time.
There you have it. It’s basically tough crap for Wii U owners for the foreseeable future and makes you wonder just what Nintendo’s doing behind the scenes that’s forcing all of the third parties to delay or cancel their Wii U DLC. Whatever it is, I hope they fix the situation soon, we’ll keep you posted if anything changes.
Wii U Impressions and Secrets
Friday, November 30th, 2012Well, it’s been almost a full two weeks since the Wii U came out and we’ve poured tons of time into playing around with many of the Wii U’s system features and launch games. It’s been a surprisingly great time overall, so check out our initial impressions and some secrets about the Wii U we discovered along the way after the jump.
Reminder About Scribblenauts Unlimited
Thursday, October 25th, 2012With the Wii U’s release growing ever nearer, we wanted to remind you about a cool thing that happened when we played Scribblenauts Unlimited at E3 this year.
A bunch of the devs were around including the red-shoed Jeremiah Slaczka, probably because he was doing his interview with Kotaku, and while I was playing the game I tried to skip through the dialogue using the “A” button, but nothing happened. I turned to one of the booth people and was like “Why can’t I use the ‘A’ button to skip through stuff?”. He was like, “Well, the devs are right here, why don’t you ask them?” So, I turned to one of the female devs and repeated my question. She was like “You want to use the ‘A’ button to skip stuff? Sure, we’ll put that in.”
So, if when Scribblenauts Unlimited launches alongside the Wii U on November 18th and you are able to use “A” to progress through dialogues in addition to tapping the check-mark button (which was the only option in the E3 version of the game), then you know who you have to thank for that.
In other news, the Wii U edition has been differentiated from the 3DS and PC versions of the game by the inclusion of some exclusive Nintendo characters that you can spawn (a small sampling of which are shown above), so we know what version we’re getting!
Nintendo.com Leaked NA Wii U Launch Day Lineup [UPDATE]
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012[UPDATE: With the addition of WARRIORS OROCHI 3 Hyper, the leaked list that we discovered a couple of weeks ago is now confirmed by a press release from Nintendo themselves. Time to start counting your pennies so you can choose from the Wii U’s admirable 23-game launch day line-up.]
The pages for Rayman Legends, Black Ops 2, Assassin’s Creed III, ZombiU, Mass Effect 3: Special Edition, Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition, TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, Rabbids Land, Just Dance 4, Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, MADDEN NFL 13, NBA 2K13, TRANSFORMERS PRIME, Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2013, Game Party Champions, and ESPN Sports Connection on Nintendo.com list their release dates as being the same as the launch date for the Wii U itself, November 18th, even though they were officially only announced for release during the “launch window” during today’s Wii U conference.
More Wii U News/Pictures
Thursday, September 13th, 2012
We now have some low-resolution official box shots from the North American versions of the Wii U, as well as some game boxes and additional game launch information:
- Darksiders II will be a Wii U launch title and include much of the game’s DLC ready to play on the disc
- Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for the Wii U and 3DS will be launching in North America and Europe in March 2013













