There's something immediately striking about Nintendo's Wii U proprietary disc format that's hard to notice in photos -- it's got rounded edges, both outside and in. It feels different than any other ...

Processor manufacturer AMD has confirmed it will be providing the graphics chip for Nintendo's newly-announced Wii U. A custom Radeon HD GPU promises "high-definition graphics support; rich multimedia ...

Nintendo’s next home console will read discs as large as 25 gigabytes of data, according to one of the firm’s chief game designers. Nintendo exec Katsuya Eguchi told Kotaku that Wii U’s proprietary ...

One of the abundant questions left after Nintendo's oddly empty Wii U announcement was the format. Pictures of the console released after the show clearly show an optical disc drive, and we now know ...

You must switch to Wii Mode to play Wii games on the Wii U. 1) Entering a Wii disc into your Wii U while starting it from the Wii U Disc will simply switch to Wii mode so it can launch the software. 2 ...

Yesterday, Nintendo officially announced the Switch, a hybrid home/portable games console that seems destined to replace both the Wii U and the 3DS. As such, one of the biggest questions to arise was ...

While it’s quote common for a succeeding system to get games from its predecessor, we don’t really see the reverse process happen. Well, it seems that nobody told one curious kid, who ended up giving ...

A new Wii U bundle featuring the Skylanders SWAP Force starter pack has been announced for November. The bundle comes with: a white Wii U Basic system; Skylanders SWAP Force starter pack with the game ...

As previously reported, when Rodea the Sky Soldier is published in the West, first-print copies of the Wii U version will include the original, unreleased Wii version as well. This week, NIS America ...