While the Switch 2 shows that Nintendo learned its lesson with the Wii U, the Wii U itself was a failure. 13.56 million Wii U units were sold throughout the console's lifetime. While that sounds like ...

Toward the end of April, the Wii Homebrew Channel – an essential tool for anybody who's ever modded their Wii – ceased development and had its GitHub repository archived. With accusations of stolen ...

Historically, efforts to create original games and tools, port over open source emulators, and explore a game console’s hardware and software have been generally lumped together under the banner of ...

TL;DR: The Homebrew Channel, essential for running custom Wii software, has ceased development due to potential copyright infringement involving stolen Nintendo SDK and RTEMS code within its core ...

I don't do Wii Homebrew/emulator stuff at all, but this is a terrible blow for the community. Seems like libogc that they depend on has stolen code directly from Nintendo SDK and RTEMS threading/os.

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and is sure he began doing so professionally in 2010 or thereabouts. If he was forced ...

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, ...

Facepalm: When Nintendo released the Wii U in 2012, gamers weren't exactly lining up to purchase the new console. Now, after 12 years, the device is exhibiting signs of hardware unreliability that ...

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It appears as if the Nintendo Wii U is a hardware failure waiting to happen, which is less than ideal now that Nintendo no longer repairs the console for customers. According to information posted on ...

Miguel "Migz" Llado started playing games and consoles in the early '90s. From the Famicom generation up to now with the Xbox Series S, he has enjoyed many years with different games and platforms. A ...

Nintendo fans have been warned to be careful with their Wii U consoles, which have been described, by some, as “a ticking time bomb.” Of course, the problem with video game consoles is their ...