Almost ten years ago now, I hit save and publish on my review of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I'd beaten the game, but I wasn't done playing it. There was still Hero Mode to dig into, a few secrets to find, and other excuses to let t...

When WiiWare (and subsequently, portions of DSiWare) were shut down, a good chunk of gaming history was lost. It was such a shame, losing a ton of greats like Contra ReBirth, in an instant. This is why game preservation is so important...

Plenty of you still have your original Pokémon Snap cartridge, but for those of us who never bought the 1999 photo-snapping spin-off (or strictly experienced it as a weekend rental way back when), it's not too late to go back before ...

When we look back at the launch of the Nintendo Wii, there are a few titles that immediately come to mind. They're the ones that would go on to define the console throughout its lifespan. There’s Wii Sports, obviously, the pack-in tha...

Wii Sports was an utter phenomenon. Your grandma played it. Your neighbor probably played it. All in the before times of course: no I'm talking about when everyone's Wii was hooked up! 2006 was a wild year for Nintendo, when their plans for...

A lot of people here likely have fond memories of their Wii. But older generations can recall some of Nintendo's bygone systems, like the fantastic and time-tested Game Boy Color. This mod from creator GingerOfMods marries both worlds into ...

I admire the heck out of Vblank Entertainment's passion for porting games to outdated platforms. We got an early heads-up about the developer's latest experiment thanks to an ESRB listing, but now it's official: Shakedown: Hawaii, a free-ro...

With each passing day, with each horrific new milestone met in the COVID-19 pandemic, I wonder about how future generations will learn about this era in history. I think back to my education on the Spanish Flu and, outside of the monumental...

Japanese developer Sting has revealed plans to release classic first-person adventure Baroque on the Nintendo Switch later this year. As announced on the company's Twitter, Baroque: Original Version will be a port of the 1998 Sega Saturn re...

Technology has mostly funneled online identification systems down to a couple of options. On one hand, there's the approach of Xbox, PlayStation or Twitter which lets users sign up for a single account name that they own, but it can't be re...

The Nintendo Wii had a really good run. Released at the tail-end of 2006 the ripples of that little waggle machine can still be felt today, and the thing just refused to die. Remember, Ubisoft released Just Dance 2020 on the Wii just a few ...

After the launch of the Wii, Nintendo found itself up against multiple lawsuits, mostly regarding the design of its motion-sensing controller, the Wii Remote. iLife Technologies was one such plaintiff, claiming that the Wii Remote infringed...

Not to self: the next time you want to break out Wii Sports for an afternoon-long holiday tournament, remember to dig through the box and confirm there's a real, working, non-chewed-up Sensor Bar. It happened again, dang it all. I'm now on ...

Last week saw the release of a brand new game for Nintendo Wii, as Ubisoft dropped Just Dance 2020 on the seventh-gen console. Given the Wii's incredible saturation of the market, particularly among families, it has remained a go-to for Hol...

Does it feel like the PlayStation 4 is the second-most successful console of all time? Well it is! According to a new financial report released by Sony that goes through the fiscal quarter that ends on September 30, 2019, they've eclipsed t...

Back in 2015, folks were wary about the idea of a Super Smash Bros. convention basically popping up overnight. Some doubted that it would even get off the ground (it was announced right after the infamous DashCon ball pit incident, among ot...

Unless it was made by just one person, it's a bad idea to give all the credit for a game's success or failure to a single individual. Koji Igarashi has produced many of the best games in the Castlevania series, but he's far from the only re...

Fans of Travis Touchdown, particularly his earlier exploits, might soon have reason to dust off the old beam katana, that is if No More Heroes creator Suda51 gets his way. The esoteric game designer has teased that he is currently in talks ...

Donkey Kong Country Returns has shown up on Nvidia Shield devices in China with full HD support. What started a few years ago following the reversal of a console ban has led to a curious partnership between Nintendo and Nvidia that sees th...

Just Dance was originally released in 2009 on the Nintendo Wii. That's just "Just Dance," by the way, no year, no extra subtitle, just...you get it. From there Ubisoft moved to sequel naming conventions (2, 3, 4) and then years (2014-2020)....

Remember "Will it Blend?" Although it's still technically airing, the show took off in a viral fashion back at the tail end of 2006, when the Wii launched worldwide. Yes, the Wii is 13 years old now, and roughly the same age as Will it Blen...

The critically acclaimed puzzle game World of Goo is getting a free remaster on PC soon. Bringing the game up to the quality standards of the Switch port, PC owners will now be able to play the icky, gooey game at resolutions higher than 80...

Although Mario Kart was always a social affair, the game completely changed when I first played a giant Double Dash party using the GameCube's LAN functionality. If you were equipped for it, you could rock 16-player Mario Kart in the same s...

Sin and Punishment is one of the strangest cases in the history of the Wii's Virtual Console. This Treasure Co. project was a Japanese-only Nintendo 64 game set in Japan with Japanese protagonists voice acted entirely in English. It was onl...

[Update: A "Nintendo spokesperson" has confirmed to Eurogamer that "at this time, there are no plans to release Skyward Sword on Switch." I mean, it's a good way to calm the waters after Aonuma cannonballed into the pool, as it st...