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...

At one point a lot of folks I knew (the ones that bought into the Wii Fit craze and promptly quit) were only using their Wiis for video playback. It's a handy portable device for sure, especially if you don't buy a lot of devices to be...

This weekend, a real curio showed up on a Japanese Yahoo! auction. Prospective buyers were bidding on a rare prototype controller, originally designed for the Nintendo Gamecube, that is a Wiimote and Nunchuck in all but name.The "Wiimote" s...

Last year I started a new tradition where around Halloween, I would break out my collection of Wii games and play what I consider to be the greatest horror game in my collection. While I wouldn't say I'm the biggest horror fan -- and maybe ...

Dragon Quest X launched all the way back in 2012 in Japan, but it still makes its way into the gaming news-sphere every so often. As the first main series MMO it's a rather big deal, especially when you consider that it was never localized....

After being announced in September's Nintendo Direct video, Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn was listed on Nintendo of America's official website as a "New 3DS" exclusive game. Why a port of an eight-year-old Wii title would require the New 3DS is b...

Nintendo has announced that a port of 2011's Kirby's Epic Yarn is coming to Nintendo 3DS. It is sporting a whole bunch of additional content, including new abilities, mini-games, and a "Devilish Mode". The port is scheduled for some point i...

Dragon Quest has been one of my favorite RPG series for about a decade. Simple, idealistic fairy tales resonated with me in my childhood the same way colorful, idealistic shonen anime worlds did in my college years, so it’s little won...

Rhythm games have an amazing history of savagely standing up the Wii U. Last year Let's Sing 2018 released on Wii and Switch, completely skipping the Wii U, topped off with the inclusion of the song "I Hate U." Well, it's happening aga...

Fans of the Xenoblade Chronicles series have likely been ecstatic with the DLC for Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Not only have Shulk and Fiora from the Wii classic been added to the game, but now Elma from the Wii U's Chronicles X can join your p...

I'll seize any halfway relevant opportunity to gush about Endless Ocean for a bit, so here goes. The Arika-developed, Nintendo-published series of underwater exploration games was a real highlight of the Wii era for me. I enjoy learning abo...

With the first de Blob game already finding a home on Switch, it was only a matter of time that its sequel would splatter onto the platform. As spotted on Nintendo's official website, de Blob 2 will be heading to Switch on August 28 for $29...

After making a surprise splash on PC last year, de Blob got a pseudo-revival on consoles when it came to PS4 and Xbox One six months later. The game is now coming full circle and returning to a Nintendo platform when it launches on June 26 ...