Nintendo unveiled its next home entertainment system Tuesday, a combined console and tablet controller that the company hopes will recapture the success of its best-selling Wii. Called the Wii U, the ...

The new Wii U console will debut in 2012. It combines motion control with a touchscreen game controller. Nintendo says "it will change the way we play games". Jeff is CNET Editor at Large and a host ...

Nintendo is working on bringing multiplayer touchscreen support to the Wii U, meaning more than one tablet can be used at once. Joe has been writing about consumer tech for nearly seven years now, but ...

At the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo unveiled the Wii U and the new tablet-like controller for the system. Many unknowns still linger about the system's functionality, but one question ...

Nintendo's Wii U system has struggled to keep up with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It has sold 9.5 million units as of May since its launch in late 2012, in contrast to the PS4's 22.3 million since ...

The image above shows a slightly redesigned Wii U tablet controller—the previous version (in the second image) sported "analog nubs" like the 3DS, whereas the new controller has legitimate control ...

Sitting down to play ZombiU at Comic-Con, I was basically already sold on the game. Ubisoft has been hitting it out of the park lately; it's been quite a while since they released anything that was ...

This is what the console itself looks like–it’s about 1.8 inches tall, supports 1080p Full HD video over HDMI and Component (or SD via composite/S-video), has internal flash memory as well as USB ...

Watch Dogs on Wii U will be feature comparable with other versions, Ubisoft Montreal has said. Senior producer Dominic Guay said all the game's "core" social features - such as allowing users to ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Overall game console shipments declined over 30% year-over-year through the first half of 2012; although these results do not signal the end of console gaming. The ...

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