Last year, Nintendo closed the eShop on the Wii U and 3DS, ending the ability to digitally buy new games on the platforms. The company had previously stated its intention to fully cease online ...

In April 2024, Nintendo will discontinue online services across its Wii U and 3DS consoles. While the eShops for both systems were shut down in March 2023, this will remove the online functionality of ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Online play for these games was suspended back in March 2023, Nintendo said, so it’s been just a ...

Nintendo agreed to keep the servers on for a while longer so that people could get some more rounds of Super Smash Bros. in. When Nintendo said when it was planning on shutting online play down, ...

Nintendo has restored online play for Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 on Wii U, and apologised to fans after taking the servers offline for five months to fix a security exploit. “In March 2023, Nintendo ...

If you’ve been planning on spending the tail-end of your holiday break revisiting the original Splatoon for Wii U or Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, you could be out of luck. It looks like ...

With Digital Spy landing a Wii U ahead of its launch in the UK this week (November 30), we asked you to submit any questions you had about the device. After a few dozen responses through our Level Up ...

Mykel has enjoyed video games for as long as she can remember. She would spend hours discussing, debating, and arguing about them with her older brother. Growing up, she read dozens of guides, lists, ...

Nintendo Japan has announced that it plans to cease repair support for the Wii U. First translated by VGC (and confirmed by IGN Japan), a new page on Nintendo Japan's official website reveals that ...

It’s been 10 years since the Wii U came out. On November 18, 2012, Nintendo launched the ill-fated console and began an era which is widely regarded to be one of the weakest of Nintendo’s long console ...